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EU is calling for comments on open source strategies. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!

Even non-EU citizens have a voice here.

NOW is a time to stand up and stand out! YOU want to help the Fediverse? Here's just one way today that YOU can REALLY make a difference:

The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:

a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness
a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission, building on the results achieved under the 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Software Strategy.

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better...

#EU #open #foss #openSource #source #linux #activitypub #AP #fedi #fediverse

ozoned

@ozoned · 5 months ago

@_elena@mastodon.social @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe How do I say "I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!" in Italian?

ozoned

@ozoned · 5 months ago

@_elena@mastodon.social When you direct the movie, can I star as the legendary @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ?

JenJen :heart_sp_pan:

@JenJen@mastodon.art · 5 months ago

Oops

GIF

ozoned

@ozoned · 5 months ago

@JenJen@mastodon.art THIS IS HOW HAPPENS!

Step 1 a friend says they'll give you something free-er, better, more open.

Step 2 HACKED THE WORLD IN 2 SECONDS!

Step 3 can't figure out how the hell to close the terminal.

We've ALL been there.

Fireside Fedi

@firesidefedi · 5 months ago

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop

Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time. mastodon.social: 2017-2022

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 29 January 2026 at US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@elettrona@poliversity.it @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io u liked writefreely. It confused me at first, but I had never blogged either.

Community member also recommended write.as to me.

gnilleps

@gnilleps@mastodon.art · 6 months ago

@ozoned The file is just the layers I used for the Fediverse version of Be Not Afraid. Was thinking last night when I uploaded it that I’d like to double the frames on the icon only version to make it run more smoothly. But I’ll let you decide if you think that’s worth waiting for.
Given the converting Mastodon does, I could probably just DM you the original gif on Discord?

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GIF

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@gnilleps@mastodon.art @gabek@social.gabekangas.com anyway we can get the spinning Fediverse logo in the default Owncast? IDK about the "Be Not Afraid" as I know you have some groups that use Owncast that really might not be interested in that. lol

Fireside Fedi

@firesidefedi · 6 months ago

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br

Main interests: Free Software, Neurodivergence, Veganism, Marxism, Politics, Social Justice, Environment, Vocal/Choir Music; Affiliations: GNU, FSF, FSFLA, 0G, Linux-libre, GCC, glibc, Libre-SOC, AdaCore; Languages: Portugueas; English; Espaol; learning Esperanto, French, Ukrainian, Japanese;formerly @lxo@gnusocial.jp @lxo@gnusocial.net @lxoliva@diasporabr.com.br @lxoliva@identi.ca

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 28 January 2026 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

Or, even on #YouTube: youtube.com/@btfree_org

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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BT Free

At BT Free we're attempting to create a Non-Profit organization that can run social web (aka Fediverse) platforms to allow people that do not want to run their own software to still be able to take advantage of digital privacy. We are advocates for the social web and we will leverage out platform to easily and quickly on board people on to the social web. Finally we know we can not run all content, so we are willing to consult on helping individuals or businesses to set up their own platforms to help them come into the social web. Check https://links.btfree.org for links to other socials including Fediverse, Bluesky, Matrix, Discord, etc.

Fireside Fedi

@firesidefedi · 6 months ago

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @limebar@mastodon.social

Making electronic music:https://mastodon.social/tags/limebar He/Him/His and 100% OK with you being you. Hello new users best advice:write a short intro post, pin it to your profile and update your profile follow every interesting account you see you can and should follow interesting hashtags and use hashtags when posting home shows what you follow and what they boost follow @FediFollows & @FediTips

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 23 January 2026 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

Or, even on #YouTube: youtube.com/@btfree_org

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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autumn 🐾 hyper-fixated on dogs

@autumn@triangletoot.party · 6 months ago

@ozoned i’ll try and make it! i’ve got an agility trial with one of the dogs that weekend, but i’m usually back home in the early evening.

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@autumn@triangletoot.party AWESOME! 😄 Excited to meet you and others around Raleigh!

Fireside Fedi

@firesidefedi · 6 months ago

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @ellyxir@humanwords.cc

bio.site/ellyxir Programming languages enthusiast, choir, classical singing, video game creation, retro computers, languages

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 21 January 2026 at 10:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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Fireside Fedi

@firesidefedi · 6 months ago

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social

An open-source Linux-based creative commons experimental rock band. Using Ubuntu Studio, Ardour, and Github to make music.

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 15 January 2026 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

Or, even on #YouTube: youtube.com/@btfree_org

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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Fireside Fedi

@firesidefedi · 6 months ago

@zleap@techhub.social correct.

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@ugxs@undergroundsocial.realworld.place we're not bringing music. I don't know if sir Walter coffee has music regularly or not.

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

Good day all! This is for folks around the Raleigh NC area.

@eric@mastodon.eom.dev and I are scheduling a meet up for any fedizens to join!

February 28th at Sir Walter Coffee, downtown Raleigh.

145 East Davie Street, Raleigh, NC 27601

Even if you have folks that are interested in Fedi, never heard of it, want to do a nerd night, come join us!

Please let me or Eric know if you're interested so we can get a proper count to Sir Walter

freestreamers.btfree.org/eve...

@dnpdame@mastodon.social will also be there.

I know @autumn@triangletoot.party just did a Raleigh meet up a few months ago, but I sadly missed that one. So Autumn if you're available, please join us! I'd love to meet the person behing Triangle Toot 😁

#raleigh #NC #northCarolina #meetUp #fediverse #fedi #fedizen

The Penguin of Evil

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social · 6 months ago

@revk you are behind the times. Current best practice is to ship it anyway and gaslight the customer

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @revk@toot.me.uk and thus docker was born!

RevK :verified_r:

@revk@toot.me.uk · 6 months ago

Computers do this on purpose, I am sure.

- Write a change to code.
- Test a lot. Decide it is all working.
- Test loading on half a dozen local devices, all different configs. All works.
- Issue as a proper beta, and re-test on all those devices.

Yay...

- Test on customer site set to load a beta. Exact same hardware as some of earlier test cases. Nothing special in config.
- Cry!
- Pull the beta.
- Work out how to reflash at customer site without having to drive there.
- Find a sacrifice.

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@revk@toot.me.uk tech Schadenfreude

JenJen :heart_sp_pan:

@JenJen@mastodon.art · 6 months ago

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@kianryan/115828017560130597

@feff will know more, but if I understood it all at the time, the TLDR was:

My gaming laptop was not a standard setup - it had "Raid" running whateverthatis, and like two different disks or something? My laptop is 10 years old and especially specced for Gamers(tm).

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@JenJen@mastodon.art @feff@comicscamp.club let's put it this way, there was Feff and about 40 IT nerds in chat. Idk about others, but I've been on Linux for 18 years, in Linux IT for 12, worked at Red Hat for 6, worked with the systemd devs reading C and finding bugs for 5 of that, and I had NO CLUE WTF was going on with that grub installation. It gave the most generic error message. And while I'm not saying I solved it, a bunch of folks there are definitely smarter than me and couldn't solve it either. Because at the end of the day Feff ran into something that almost never happens which is a corrupted USB INSTALLER.

I think I've hit that once maybe twice in 18+ years, installing Linux literally hundreds of times. Yes there's a check when you run the USB on boot, but no one does because this almost never happens.

This was NOT a Jenjen issue. This was NOT a Feff issue. The laptop was VERY nonstandard, which threw everyone off and made us think it was the laptop. It wasn't.

Feff you did AMAZING and we all learned a lot from your experience. Thank you for sharing. Especially thank you for sharing the difficulty it took.

And thank you Jenjen for having to deal with people like "just learn how it works". Because NO ONE knows it all. I can't draw for shit. Linus Torvalds doesn't know all of Linux.

Knowing how to troubleshoot and figure things out is far more important. And knowing when to ask for help is also important and something a LOT of people, especially in Linux, don't know how to do.

eltheanine

@eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja · 6 months ago

@ozoned@btfree.social omg I am so sorry, you are quite right!!!

So dumb, I must not have used it since reinstalling 😬
PTT does not work; will not recognise the keybind on my mouse I want to use.

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja No worries. I run Novara, which is GloriousEggroll's distro. The GloriousEggroll of Proton-GE. So it's definitely a gaming related distro. But with everything in computing sometimes there's just a toggle you need. 😄

eltheanine

@eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja · 6 months ago

I guess the better way is dont use flatpak?

ozoned

@ozoned · 6 months ago

@eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja pretty sure it's a wayland issue. At least I think it is?