I'm pretty certain I saw a post some time last year about an #OpenSource alternative to MAXQDA. I thought I had bookmarked it, but evidently not. Can someone help me out? Thanks!

Von #Microsoft zu #OpenSource: Wie Schleswig-Holstein den Wechsel schaffen will (€)

Während viele andere Bundesländer weiter auf Microsoft setzen, schlägt Schleswig-Holstein einen eigenen Weg ein und entscheidet sich für Open-Source-Software.

Read this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates

👀 at this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

Some red flags: 🚩

🚩"Mozilla grants you a personal, non-exclusive license to install and use the “Executable Code" version of the Firefox web browser, which is the ready-to-run version of Firefox from an authorized source that you can open and use right away."

I wonder:
For how long will Mozilla Firefox stay Open Source? It seems the ToS apply only to the executable of an authorized source. Anyone compiling their own seems out of scope of these ToS?

2/N

Well, that was quick!

I wrote about about my disappointment with @mozillaofficial changes:

https://mastodon.social/@BjornW/114032743031437841

Seems they were just starting 🙄

Read
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-terms-of-use/

Check
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice

Consider other Open Source apps you may use: aren't you sad that these lack ToS & Privacy legalese?

My advise: move away from Mozilla.

They have lost my trust.

1/N

Read this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates

👀 at this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

#Firefox #Mozilla #Thunderbird #Tech #OpenSource

Codeberg.org is under attack by right wing trolls over diversity, equity and inclusion. This is what you get when you enable the goons. They will spoil public resources.

This is a good illustration of Popper's paradox on why one should not tolerate intolerance.

https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

😪 Tired: “Perl, aka write-only code”, “Perl is write-only language”, et al.

🤓 Wired: I can produce write-only code in any language, not just #Perl 😅 However I choose not to 🤷­ Because best case I have to read it again, and worst case my employers and customers know where I live 🙃

🚀 Inspired: Maintaining an inherited large #opensource Perl project with 120+ contributors since 12 years, and intending to continue for the next 12 years too.

A big battle on Lemmy about why I prefer Chrome/ium instead of Firefox on the old laptops I rescue from the landfills: https://lemmy.ml/post/24202956/15809331

People need to stop thinking with GNU glasses on, and become more objective. The reality is, Chrome is FASTER and uses less RAM than Firefox. This has a HUGE IMPACT on the desktop experience on OLD Pcs (not on your modern PCs, no).

But noooo... we have to support Firefox no matter what. Cultists.

See also this for contributing to #beaconDB via #geoclue:

https://fosstodon.org/@kop316/113592275375591725

With the help of @beacondb , I was able to fix geoclue not being able to submit new locations to beaconDB! The MR is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/192

With that fixed, I made a Linux mobile stumbler that works with geoclue to submit data! You can find it here: https://gitlab.com/kop316/geoclue-stumbler

(Note that you'll need that patch for the stumbler to actually submit data).

To all #FOSS supporting people traveling these days: Please consider collecting wireless geolocation information for the #publicdomain #geolocation database #beaconDB.

https://beacondb.net/

Check the map via the link above to see how it is filling up with more and more points. Amazing and very interesting to see.

Also note the differences per continent.

SAME STATS, DIFFERENT IMPROVEMENTS...

@programming

After 12 months of managing bugs developers A, B, and C changed their approach.

Whose change is an improvement❓ What's your answer❓

Boosts appreciated! :boost_no: 🙂

More generally, the problem is domain independent.

Linux kernel 6.12 is coming. Please help us test from Dec 1-8!

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-linux-test-week-for-kernel-6-12/

Catch the next episode of the Fedora Podcast live now! We're talking about EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)!

Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g74NhDuajUs

And back to testing! Please help us test @Podman_io 5.3.

Test Days are happening from today, Nov 1 to Fri, Nov 8.

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-podman-5-3-test-days/

Bluefin and Aurora 41 are now available on the stable channel! If you've been thinking about trying an atomic Linux, these custom images are a great sweet spot for enthusiasts in terms of new features and stability.

Bluefin 41: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bluefin-stable-stream-is-now-based-on-fedora-41/5061

Aurora 41: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/aurora-stable-stream-goes-fedora-41/5074

Fedora 41 did not see big changes for Fedora Atomic Desktops, but we are certainly ramping up for the switch to bootc and being fully image-based!

Learn more about what's new for Fedora Atomic Desktops and what is coming for Fedora 42!
https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-for-fedora-atomic-desktops-in-fedora-41/

Ooo this #opensource project on github looks interesting. Oh wait the dev hasn't released a new APK in almost 2 years

'Please add my matrix and telegram channel for info and beta release updates'

Pass

Look who’s made it all the way to Mexico City and straight to networking at the #Nerdearla2024 conference!

[NEW PAPER ALERT!] Our grantees
@A__W______O
new paper puts forward a vision for balancing the benefits and risks of #opensource #GenAI (funded by
@DigInfFund
). Drafted by NickBotton
& Mathias Vermeulen
- a short thread on

All Qtriots in control #QAnon #Conspiracy #photography #dogs #nature #camping #anime #music #BSD #cycling #DOS #fedi22 #fitness #FOSS #GNU #infosec #Lego #linux #MOC #MSDOS #OpenSource #OpSec #OSINT #pinball #privacy #RightToRepair #security #StarTrek #Unix #believeinfilm #fedi22 #photography #filmphotography #35mm #filmisnotdead #Politics #Fediblock #Trump #Caturday #Dutch #English #LGBTQIA #Minecraft #Programming

Vim turned 33 today! 🥳
Happy birthday Vim!

Bert Hubert zegt: Open Source is op zich geen alternatief voor Big Tech, lees het nu op https://opensourcewerken.nl/blog/view/406fb623-2101-42e5-8781-7a1672d9ae85/bert-hubert-open-source-is-geen-alternatief-voor-big-tech #OpenSource #BigTech #AppelsEnPeren #Blog

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.61 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26287

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are progressing (3 out of 4 passed, which is a good sign; I guess MacPorts recently started checking 4 OS versions on GitHub automatically instead of 3 so this is taking a bit longer than I am accustomed to, it seems as if the macos-15 checks in particular are sluggish, maybe that system is overloaded?).

Regardless, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Neat to see more Mastodon migration improvements! I think I saw one person already boast of successes of migrating their followers to a snac instance!

Thank you for your hard work and continuing to make my favorite ActivityPub implementation even better!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

OK, finally on some different WiFi that isn't blocking SSH.

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' Got (Game Of Trees) to -portable 0.104 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26286

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are taking a bit longer, because it seems as if they've added more checks (now testing macos-12, 13, 14, 15; previously it only tested 3 OS versions automatically) but 3 out of 4 are OK, which is a good sign all 4 will be OK (usually if one fails they all fail and if one passes they all pass).

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#Got #GameOfTrees #MacPorts #VersionControl #OpenBSD #macOS #Git #OpenSource

Here's the last "Bazzite Buzz"! This newsletter will go away, but we will continue to share big updates as we have them.
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-buzz-19-the-last-buzz/4491