Any recommendations for a good cheap/free and easy #FOSS alternative to DocuSign type stuff? In this case specifically for image/audio releases. Thanks! #AskFedi

@stringz FOSS developer work unpaid because they prefer social good over profit.

We must stop to treat the work #FOSS developer as gratis, that can be used by freeloader profit making software corporate.

@stringz Blockchain is a #FOSS community. It will be most beneficial to #FOSS funding. It will take some time to overcome the bottleneck with more research and decentralized algorithms.

@mastodonusercount Congratulations to Mastodon for growing to over 14 million users! ❤️

#mastodon #fediverse #foss #opensource #freesoftware #community #distributedsocialnetwork #socialnetwork #democracy #freedom #freedomofspeech #journalism #education

Linux News: Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 “Faye” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-debian-edition-6-faye-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing #news #FOSS #linux

Yesterday I Jerry-rigged a calendar solution that doesn't involve Google Calendar, but stays synced between my phone app (Business Calendar 2) and Thunderbird on my laptop. #google #foss

FOSS News: openSUSE Wants to Replace Leap With a New Offering https://news.itsfoss.com/opensuse-leap-replacement/ #news #FOSS

#Linux Weekly Roundup for September 10th, 2023: Linux 6.6 RC, #Fedora Asahi #KDE switching to Calamares, #GNOME 45 RC, Linux Lite 6.6, Manjaro 23, DXVK 2.3, KDE Frameworks 5.110, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-september-10th-2023

#OpenSource #FOSS

Linux News: Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.6 Release Candidate https://9to5linux.com/linus-torvalds-announces-first-linux-kernel-6-6-release-candidate #news #FOSS #linux

So a few people have wanted me to show them what Emacspeak sounds like, and what it gives over other speech systems. So I made this example. First is a book, a novel (Resident Evil), so be aware of that when listening. The second is a book introducing Linux. The third is a simple Markdown file, showing how company-mode can help a bit with auto-complete, and how Emacspeak makes font-lock (different fonts for different item types in any text), accessible through voice changes. Along the way, you'll hear how Emacspeak handles punctuation, switching buffers, closing buffers, and other such dialogs. I do have typing echo set to speak nothing as I type, because it's distracting to me.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o99g4p7kf6y66ioh8l5eu/emacspeak-example.mkv?rlkey=wyjaln3byef3to1cumvpexmg0&dl=1

#emacs #emacspeak #tts #foss

I'm also open to contributions to my Chocolatey AU repo. Currently it auto-updates ~50 packages. I can commit to maintaining new packages for #FOSS projects if a working initial package and update script is added via PR.

Most notably, I could use PR's for the #multipass chocolatey package to add additional languages to the windows version/edition check that occurs when using HyperV as the hypervisor.

https://github.com/digitalcoyote/chocolatey-packages

TOSS Conf 2023

Online talks are free to attend on September 10

Language:  #tamil

#foss #opensource #chennai #conference

https://tossconf23.kaniyam.com/

Linux News: GNOME 45 Release Candidate Arrives with Last-Minute Changes https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-release-candidate-arrives-with-last-minute-changes #news #FOSS #linux

I've been raising issues with the phrases "non-code contributor" or "non-technical contributor" for at least a couple of years now.

And yet to this day I continue to see people of good will giving presentations and writing blog posts using that framing.

When will we learn that defining people by what they are not* is not a valid pathway to inclusion?

(* caveat because "non-technical contributors" are absolutely technical. It's a BS phrase.)

#OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS

#AndroidAppRain arrived here today with 96 updated and 3 added apps:

* LogFox: LogCat reader
* Open Stable Diffusion: app for generating images using AI
* Squawker: anonymous Twitter/X client

Enjoy your #free and #FOSS #Android #apps with #FDroid :awesome:

Ab Oktober gibt es von der @LUG_VS spannende Vorträge an der Volkshochschule Baar:

* #DigitaleSelbstverteidigung
* Warum auf #Linux umsteigen und wie fange ich damit an
* Richtiges Linux auswählen + Praxis: USB-Stick mit Linux erstellen und Nutzen
* Freie Anwendungen nicht nur für Linux (#foss bzw #floss)
* #LibreOffice (die freie Alternative zu Microsoft Office)
* Linux professionell benutzen

Am besten schon mal im Kalender vormerken und kommt gerne vorbei 😊

https://vhs-baar.de/Suche?cmxelementid=web4e15b88472a73&seite=Suche&s=Linux+Session&mf_objekt=Programm&f=&autowert=

"Did any user in the world want a #UserTracking and ad platform baked directly into their #browser? Probably not, but this is #Google, and they control #Chrome, and this probably still won't make people switch to #Firefox."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

#privacy #tracking #FOSS #fosstodon

Do you know that you can learn how to easily graph functions with the FREE and open-source LabPlot in less than 5 minutes?

@labplot@lemmy.kde.social

➡️ https://labplot.kde.org/download

👉 Just watch this short video tutorial
👉 Like, Comment, Share and Subscribe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMmQmExjbU8

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #GNU #KDE #Software #Graph #Plot #Math #Function #Visualization #STEM #Education #Tutorial

@TheQuinbox Update to the prerelease WSL2. Install Ubuntu (this is the thing I got it to work with the best). Install Emacs 29: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/08/gnu-emacs-29-1-ubuntu-ppa/

Now, apt install ffmpeg, tcl*, tk*, mplayer, libasound*, sox, mpg123, and make sure tclx is installed too, apt install tclx. Oh also install build-essential

Now, git clone https://www.github.com/tvraman/emacspeak

cd emacspeak

make

Install Voxin if you have it.

make outloud

If it doesn't work, make sure build-essential is installed. If it still doesn't work, look at whatever it's failing with, and install the dev package of whatever it's failing with.

Now, go to the home directory:

cd ~/

nano .emacs.el

(load-file "~/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
(outloud)

and it should be working. If not, make sure you're on Win11, have WS2, and WSLG installed, and make sure packages are up to date with sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade. the stars in package names (*), mean a wildcard character. I do this because I honestly don't know the exact dependencies of all this bullcrap just to get one thing to work. And if I try just the essentials, it doesn't work. So maybe someone smarter than me can make some kind of nix environment that works 100% of the time. Or just a script.

#emacspeak #emacs #wsl #wslg #foss #linux

TOSS Conf 2023

We online talks are free to attend

Language:  #tamil

#foss #opensource #chennai #conference

https://tossconf23.kaniyam.com/

September 9 2023 talks