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Happy Software Freedom Day, 20th edition (wiki.softwarefreedomday.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Wanted to wish everyone a happy Software Freedom Day. Hope you'll check out the list of online SFD events and recordings from some of the events.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's why we specifically mentioned Fediverse and FOSS alternatives to get the word out about Software Freedom Day here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDMarketingSites The DFF board discussed this topic and wants to continue to reach out to people who don't know about FOSS and the Fediverse. So, we are trying to meet them where they are and let them know about the benefits of using FOSS. Also, one of the groups did a talk on switching from X to Mastodon: https://mobilizon.fr/events/1ab64af3-b99e-473d-87da-7ad07497ab41 If you have suggestions for the web site, please join the SFD discussion mailing list and add your input. The new DFF board will be redesigning the entire site for next year, but did not have time to do so for the 20th edition of Software Freedom Day. Their main goal was making sure that we still had a Software Freedom Day this year after the old board stepped down.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Software Freedom Day is trying to increase awareness about their annual worldwide event and about Free and Open Software in general through an original music competition. Please spread the word. Hope some of you will enter.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would love to find a cohousing project in my area. Have not found any good ones. Most of them seem like money making schemes. We had a group (not specifically ND) try to create a cohousing project locally. They went bankrupt and the developer bought out the property and made a profit selling regular homes. Most of the housing situations I've investigated geared to autistic people were very expensive. If there was a decent option in my area or anyone wanted to help put together a group to do this, I'd definitely want to get involved.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm also a programmer by profession. Haven't been as lucky as you with finding friends through programming even though I've probably been to every computer related Meetup or group in my area. Speaking of computer science, anyone doing anything for Software Freedom Day in September? I've tried the past few years to hold an event for it online and no one showed. Would love to do something for it, but it's really not much fun doing it alone.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Are you interested in attending or helping to organize a Software Freedom Day event? Software Freedom Day educates people about and promotes the benefits of Free, Libre and Open Source Software and Creative Commons multimedia. The Digital Freedom Foundation is currently planning this year's 20th anniversary in September. Please see the Software Freedom Day web site for details. You can join in the discussion on the Software Freedom Day mailing list or the SoftwareFreedomDay matrix channel. Volunteers are needed. Please spread the word about this event. Thank you.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I liked the Interlac alphabet Easter egg in the Legion of Super-Heroes TV series DVD. I also really like the cat game in certain versions of Android. Accidentally stumbled across it when looking through the Android code.

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sixel (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Would be curious to know if anyone's had any experience using sixel. I've only seen a few framebuffer based Linux distributions. Wondering if sixel could be used in a similar way to avoid X Windows or Wayland. I saw a port of libsdl that outputs in sixel. Also started experimenting with mlterm which displays sixel. Would be curious to hear of others experiences working with sixel or other graphics formats that could potentially display well in console mode.

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pdftxt (litcave.rudi.ir)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Thought I'd mention pdftxt. It translates pdf files to text using libmupdf. Haven't found anything more lightweight to do the same job. Would be curious if others have. There are some other interesting framebuffer and command line programs at the same site too.

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