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BASE Search

This academic search engine relies on #libxml2 in several places. After harvesting bibliographic metadata (mostly OAI XML) from thousands of publication repositories, we process it using libxml2 and #libxslt.

We are operating on a tiny budget, so all we can do is to hope that the maintainer of libxslt will be able to cope with maintaining libxml2 as well (as he just offered) – and extend our gratitude to the #FreeSoftware community on whose shoulders we are standing.

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Sean O'Brien

Our anti-surveillance apps may be new to the #opensource scene, but our code is 100% #FreeSoftware and we owe a *lot* to the philosophy of the @fsf and their hard work over the past 40 years! 🤓

Pilot our @privacysafe apps NOW or check out our code repos and contribute! psafe.ly/nvuZCf

We support our project via donations or enterprise services. All that and more at 👇

privacysafe.app

#privacy #privacymatters #privacysafe

cc @pluralistic

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contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

I know many people who are aware of the importance of #FreedomRespecting software, data, and culture - and the related issues of digital sovereignty and privacy.

Paradoxically, a lot of these people also participate in, or even maintain, communities hosted on #nonfree / #proprietary / #restricted or #centralized platforms like #Telegram, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Signal, #Instagram, #Facebook, #Twitter, #LinkedIn, #Bluesky, #GitHub, and others.

To state the obvious, each community which chooses a proprietary platform - or bridges to it - is also giving another reason for others to be on that platform. It’s reinforcing network effect.

Conversely, if these communities chose to move to free platforms, their members would be forced to move as well. In other words, these communities have the opportunity to push for change on a massive scale.

Sure, you have to reach out to people on proprietary platforms, if that’s where the majority are. But you cannot be stopping there - you must have a strategy to move people away from proprietary platforms to free platforms.

To give the example of #OpenStreetMap -

  • I announce events on free platforms sooner
  • I remind people on proprietary platforms that they should join the free platforms to get notified earlier
  • After each event, we invite people to our #XMPP channel, which is not bridged to any other platform.
  • All organizational talk takes place on our XMPP channel, which is not bridged to any other platform.
  • I minimize my participation on proprietary platforms, and communities which bridge to them. The bulk of my activity happens on free platforms.
  • I have never submitted data to Mapillary or KartaView, because their clients and servers are proprietary. All my contributions go to #WikimediaCommons and #Panoramax.

So to the people who are choosing - and therefore promoting - proprietary platforms, I ask…

How do you think things are going to change, if everyone keeps choosing what is easiest for them, and keeps choosing, supporting, and promoting proprietary platforms?

What part are you playing in making things better? Or are you just going to go with the flow of the world, even if you know it to be wrong?

They don’t like answering these questions.

Instead, I invite them to find the integrity and courage to answer them.

Or, to find the integrity and courage to make the obvious change and do the obvious right thing.

People hate it when I bring this up. Sorry, but my conscience dictates that I speak up for what is right. Silence is complicity, and it gets us nowhere.

#FreeSoftware#Libre#OpenSource
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jfmblinux :jeditux:

2,2 millions d’utilisateurs de Linux sur ordinateur en France.

Un communiqué du CNLL commente cette dynamique et appelle à l’amplifier. La fin de support annoncée de Windows 10 en octobre 2025 agit comme un catalyseur, menaçant de transformer des millions d’ordinateurs parfaitement fonctionnels en déchets électroniques.

lsdm.live/2025/09/26/22-millio

#Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #RegainPrivacy
#NoSpy #Debian #Fedora #LinuxMint #Solus #Ubuntu #Gnome #KDE #Xfce #openSUSE #LibreOffice #Environnement #FreeSoftware #EndOf10 #Windows #BanWindows #BanMicrosoft #BanGAFAM #NoGAFAM

2,2 millions d’utilisateurs de Linux sur ordinateur en France. Un communiqué du CNLL commente cette dynamique et appelle à l’amplifier. La fin de support annoncée de Windows 10 en octobre 2025 agit comme un catalyseur, menaçant de transformer des millions d’ordinateurs parfaitement fonctionnels en déchets électroniques.
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Diego Córdoba 🇦🇷

2/2

🔴 set variable comando

El comando set en Bash cambia o establece variables de entorno, pero, por si solo, no sirve para asignar la salida de un comando a una variable.

🔴 let variable comando

let se usa para evaluaciones aritméticas, no para capturar salidas de comandos. Ejemplo válido sería:

let x=2+3
echo $x # 5

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Espero que les haya servido para aprender un poquito más! O para repasar conceptos 😉 :gnu: :linux:

#gnu#linux#learning
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Mission:Libre

Are you 13 to 17? Come join us online in November and share your thoughts on free software's future!

Mission:Libre will be hosting a pair of live online meetings for 13 to 17-year-olds where you can discuss your thoughts on how the free software movement can suit you better, how Mission:Libre can help, and what you wish you'd see in the community.

Register to participate here: https://missionlibre.org/blog-entry/join-us-and-help-shape-the-future-of-free-software

#freesoftware #opensource #foss

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