"To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing."
- Raymond Williams #quotes
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing."
- Raymond Williams #quotes
Here's a taster of what people can expect at OPEN 2018 next week - Toot Toot! https://open.coop/2018/07/19/open-2018-preview/ #opencoop #platformcoop #opensource #p2p
Last month a large number of full price commercial #games (including big names such as Civilization and Elder Scrolls) were revealed to contain the tracking software Red Shell:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/20/17485762/red-shell-spyware-pc-games-controversy-steam
If games were #OpenSource, it would be easier to avoid spyware 😟
But though they're rarer, open source games do exist 🕹️ 👾 👍
Some lists:
https://gitlab.com/Ashpex/Linux_Games (via @Ashpex)
https://libregamewiki.org/List_of_games
#FOSS #OSS #LibreGaming #Gaming #VideoGaming #PCGaming #VideoGames
@nmashton
Neil Ashton. Our aim is exactly that.
However, we have a ways to go as a technology.
Openwords will be entirely #opensource #OER .. we hope to exit as a #workercoop or benefit Corp. We're watching platform coops closely.
You can support us in different ways, feel free to contact us directly.
@charlyblack "good tech" is a pretty broad brief. I was responding specifically to #datafarm corporations being a) tempting targets because they aggregate loads of data they don't need to run their service and store it when they don't need to, and b) easy to hack because of security-by-obscurity approaches. #OpenSource alone doesn't fix that, but I'm saying #SoftwareFreedom, in the broadest sense of the term, mandates fixing it.
Big FLOSS-creation update today boys! https://flosscreation.neocities.org/
Still more work to be done as currently most of the pages are just lists of software, I'm planning to have more information and stuff in the future. But for now it should be sufficient.
If you don't know what it is: FLOSS-Creation is a resource for creators making art, videos and music with free, libre & open-source software.
Make sure to support me on Patreon if you like the work I do! 😁
#flosscreation #FLOSS #FOSS #opensource
In case you missed it:
#GetTogether, the open source federated alternative to Meetup.com, now has its own Mastodon account:
CryptPad has a #Roadmap, https://blog.cryptpad.fr/2018/07/13/CryptPad-Roadmap/ and we need 60,000€ to fund it. Will you help ? #OpenSource #Privacy
Can someone remind me why I should be disappointed in the World Wide Web Foundation & Tim Berners-Lee? (Or should I not be?)
It's getting hard to remember & keep track of all of the betrayals to freedom etc. these days.
Hey eveyone! We're having a #Nextcloud Conference on August 23-30 in #Berlin! Join us for the hackweek or for the talks only on August 25-26 🙂
Cfp is open, more info about speakers soon!
https://eventyay.com/e/77d26f89/
The tickets are free, if you need travel support please read this: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-conference-2018-contributor-travel-support-program/
The Nextcloud community will get together at the TU Berlin from August 23 to 30 for a week of talks and coding around the next generation private cloud technology. Talks will be on Saturday and Sunday.
The conference is focused on making Nextcloud better through discussions, coding, packaging, designing, translating and more, all with the participation of our amazing community. If you want to get involved and can't wait for the conference, see our contribution pages on how to get started with being a Nextcloud contributor!
Learn more about the conference, like the program and what kind of sessions to expect on the conference information page: https://nextcloud.com/conf In the meantime, feel free to book the date in your calendars and register here!
Ok, so this is the coolest thing I've seen this morning...
@deerbard It's free and privacy minded, so "safe" in that regard, up to 5Gb. Then it's "pay to play": https://cozy.io/en/pricing/
I tend to use it for files that are in transit which I eventually store in local drives to free up the transitional space.
Of course, there are other (#OpenSource) options: https://alternativeto.net/software/cozy/?license=opensource ...but I can't attest as to their privacy-mindedness.
Good luck!
No, I'm not going to install some proprietary ZoomUS software to join your live, voice-based #OpenSource project meeting. Not when Jitsi or so many other #FLOSS alternatives are available.
Open Source Action Figure with 70 Points of Articulation (aka Dexter)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:116571
There's an #ActivityPub federated calendar/events site in development called Calendar.social at @calendar_social
It's still very early days, but if you're interested or want to help out, have a look:
https://social.polonkai.eu/@calendar_social
https://gitea.polonkai.eu/gergely/calendar-social
The developer is @gergely
Developers of proprietary development tools who are giving it away t no cost to #OpenSource software developers try to help #FreeSoftware and are often valuable community members, but we have to reject their offering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY
This #opensource e-commerce marketplace seems like a strange mashup of etsy and the silk road...
"I wish I could tell you that the #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource community learned their lesson 13 years ago (the #Linux - #BitKeeper blunder), but in many ways we haven't", said Benjamin @mako Hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY
Open source project XOREOS released version 0.0.5 "Dawn Star".
The purpose of xoreos is enabling to play RPGs from Bioware's golden age natively on Linux, such as Jade Empire & The Knights of the Old Republic (Lucasarts).
They desperately need more hands on board though!
More developers are required to reimplement those 3D BioWare RPGs. If you can help, please contact 'em:
https://wiki.xoreos.org/index.php?title=Contact_us
-> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-open-source-project-xoreos-released-version-005-dawn-star.12075
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#xoreos #gaming #Linux #Bioware #KOTOR #opensource #LinuxGaming
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