Free, Libre, and Open Source Software / Digital Sovereignty

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2026

• Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ EmacsConf 2026 community panel comments I made

  It is the potential of interconnectedness. With Emacs I can draw linkages between different parts of my workflow, such as from the email client or RSS feed reader to the agenda. It also is the transferability of skills: when I write a custom function that works, say, for programming then that same function can be used while writing emails (e.g. a “focus mode” that also enlarges the font size and switches the cursor from a box to a bar shape). Software freedom is another important consideration because it empowers me to do my personal computing as I want and Emacs is by far the best in this regard.

• Dr Ivan Čukić ☛ Building ghostty (for Kwi) with kde-builder

  Ghostty is written in Zig, but it supports cmake and is, therefore, buildable by kde-builder, just add the following lines to your kde-builder.yaml: [...]

• FOSS Force ☛ Office Suites: Cheaper Isn’t Necessarily Freer

  As office suites compete on price and features, the bigger question is who controls the software—and the documents you create.

• Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers

  • MJ Fransen ☛ Addition of an Atom feed

    Every time the site generator builds the website, it also builds the RSS feed. Now the site generator is extended with the building of an Atom feed..

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • PostgreSQL ☛ Dasha 1.10: Patroni auto-discovery, wait analysis and replication slot forecasts for PostgreSQL

    Dasha is an open source performance dashboard for PostgreSQL fleets. It connects to your clusters with a read-only role, shows what the databases are doing right now, and explains what to do about it. Nothing is installed on the database hosts: no agent, and no extension beyond the ones you already have.

• Digital Sovereignty

  • Mathieu Aumont ☛ I set up a tiny private IRC server, because why not

    It seems that some people take the time to stop by here. Worse: they take the time to read, and even to write to me by email.

    I've been thinking for a long time about a way to bring people together. Sure, there's Discord, Matrix, and all that... but they aren't self-hosted, and there are so many different channels and tools that, well... It just doesn't work for me.

    What if I host an instance of something...