Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2026

• Jan-Lukas Else ☛ Struggling with music selfhosting

  I mostly listen to music on my phone, rarely on my PC. Usually with Bluetooth headphones. Thanks to the multipoint connection, it’s no longer a problem to listen to music on your phone and then make a call on your work computer.

• It's FOSS ☛ DigitalOcean Quietly Ends Open Source Credits Program

  Some project maintainers have received emails that they will no longer get any more free credits from Digital Ocean.

• FOSS Force ☛ Nextcloud Launches Academy to Help Developers Build Apps

  As Nextcloud increasingly positions itself as a software platform, its new Academy aims to bring more developers into the fold.

• Education

  • Rafael Sadowski ☛ Everything is dying: EuroBSDCon, w2k26 Hackathon and KDE on OpenBSD

    The first thing I noticed was how many people already knew each other compared to how many were new. I can’t judge this objectively. But the opening was a good hint: “Welcome family” – henning@. I would say 90% of the attendees are repeat offenders, and as Henning said, the event sees itself as a family reunion.

    On one hand, this is really nice. On the other hand, it shows that BSD is a mature community that has probably seen its peak. I joined long after that peak, and I’m very happy to be part of it, so I hope I’m allowed to ask: is BSD is Dying, the title of Jason Dixon’s talk at NYCBSDCon 2007, true? If you only look at growth numbers and compare them with other technologies in IT, then yes. But growth was never the point of BSD (Or maybe it was a different time after all). We don’t scale to infinity, we just keep going. And in the end, everything that has lived will die anyway. So instead of “dying”, I would give BSD this label: “resilient”.

• FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty

  • Simon Safar ☛ Your Phone Is Not Your Computer

    Well, this statement is, depending on where you view it from, either trivially true, trivially false, or... at least mildly interesting.

    Is a phone a computer, even? Whose computer is it?

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Data

    • Joost de Valk ☛ Why your customers are scraping you

      Neither vendor offers an API for the data we need. Both now have a headless browser logging in to their app several times a day, clicking through screens and pulling data out. That’s not a complaint about my code. It’s a question for the vendors: why make your customers do this?

• Standards/Consortia

  • NDTV ☛ 'LoRa' A New Security Challenge In Kashmir: Terrorists Using Advanced Tech

    It is LoRa - Long Range, Low Power - which is almost impossible to trace.