Just a reminder, #SoftwareFreedomDay is only two months away. If you could pick your favorite #FOSS to highlight on #SFD2026, which program or library would you choose? #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedomDay2026

1/2 Thought I'd share where I currently am with some of the #FOSS projects I build from #source: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/33313.html #permacomputing #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux #FreeBSD #Windows #C

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🗓️ Planning a Software Freedom Day event? Share your topics and schedule ideas. Let's inspire each other. #SFD2026 #SoftwareFreedomDay2026 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux #FOSS

This is a good reminder to keep trying to contact your local legislators about the age verification laws: system76.com/blog/post/co... Write and ask them to exempt FOSS. We can make a difference.

Colorado and California Exempt Open Source from Age Attestation

System76 CEO Carl Richell shares how the open source community successfully worked with legislators in Colorado and California to secure exemptions from age attestation laws, and why the fight to prot...

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@lemon.rip Someone on the Devuan Users Forum mentioned your article: lemon.rip/w/6-c-extens... I do a lot of cross-platform programming and porting of C programs to several OS. I have a growing collection of patches (including nano) if you ever need some. Patching upstream isn't always an option.

1/2 I sent letters to my government legislators regarding negative effects for operating systems from Age Verification laws. Two got no response & one was a generic email about how my elected official was pro child safety. #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #legal #Linux #FOSS

Do you know of any groups that care about digital sustainability, legacy computing, avoiding update-churn treadmills or supporting a GNU fundamental freedom of modifying source code? Please share links. #RightToRepair #retrocomputing #permacomputing #FreeSoftware #FOSS #sustainabililty #IndieWeb

#SoftwareFreedomDay is September 19, 2026. If you're planning an event, now’s the perfect time to register it on the #DFF map so people can find it: digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/event... #SoftwareFreedomDay2026 #SFD2026 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS

If you're interested in #retro or lightweight computing, check out some of the #FOSS conversations on the Devuan Users Forum: devuanusers.com #RetroComputing #PermaComputing #programming

As someone who likes to see new life brought to legacy #FOSS software, I was happy to hear about a new fork of #GTK2: git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/... It includes patches from other forks. There are plans to test out classic #GTK software with it. #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RetroComputing #Linux #X11

gtk2-ng

Unofficial community-maintained fork of historical GTK2. Not affiliated with GTK or GNOME.

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Petition to exempt Linux and BSD from age verification laws: www.change.org/p/exempt-lin...

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What ultra-lightweight cross-platform #C/C++ GUI do you use? Some nice ones are: #RayGUI github.com/raysan5/raygui #nuklear github.com/immediate-mo... #OTK otk.sourceforge.net #pdcurses pdcurses.org + libform/menu #stfl clifford.at/stfl #TurboVision tvision.sourceforge.net #fltk www.fltk.org

GitHub - raysan5/raygui: A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library

A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library - raysan5/raygui

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Wishing everyone a #HappyHardwareFreedomDay2026 digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd #HFD2026

If you've written a post, article or blog entry about #HardwareFreedomDay2026 or you're holding or attending an event, please share the information on social media with the tag: #HFD2026 How are you celebrating today?

What are you doing #HardwareFreedomDay2026 this Saturday?  Please share your posts about Hardware Freedom Day on your favorite social media channels and blogs and include #HFD2026

#HFD2026 is a great time to get together with people in your neighborhood and discuss topics such as Right to Repair, creating Makerspaces, reducing electronic waste and reusing old computers and/or what to do when there's an emergency like a power outage or the Internet goes down.

Happy #HardwareFreedomDay2026. Hope you'll join us in celebrating by sharing your favorite #OpenHardware and #FreeSoftware Here's a list of #3Dprinting and #CAD programs: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/13927.html #HFD2026

If you're in the US, please contact your Senators and Representatives and let them know how you feel about age verification laws for operating systems and bill HR 8250: www.house.gov/representati... www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

For those in the US, bill HR 8250 would require age verification for operating systems on a national level: linuxiac.com/federal-bill...

Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.

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Please join us for a virtual meeting celebrating Document Freedom Day 2026 today, Saturday March 28 at 10 AM EST: digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd/archi... #DFD2026

4/4 I used #nanosvg with my #Tuxmath patches and with a GPL version of mupdf I've experimented with to add lighter & better #SVG support. The #ggwm fork of #jwm used nanosvg to add SVG support to a lightweight, low dependency window manager. Know of any other fun SVG projects? #DFD2026

3/4 #Imagemagick & #graphicsmagick have support for #SVG. Last I tested, imagemagick had better support. Adding better SVG support to graphicsmagick would be a useful project. Programs like #abcm2ps can output to SVG and imagemagick can convert that to a viewable #PNG format. #DFD2026

2/4 #librsvg is a popular #C/C++ SVG library. For years, I searched for a lighter option. #sdl_svg was good but not perfect. #nanosvg makes a great alternative. It's used by #SDL_image & #FLTK projects & others. I would love to combine the best patches from the nanosvg forks. #DFD2026

1/4 This week's #DocumentFreedomDay2026 #OpenDocument format is SVG. Check out editors such as #Inkscape inkscape.org and SVG-Edit github.com/SVG-Edit/svg... for ways to create your own SVG vector #graphics. What SVG projects do you like?

2/2 If you don't want to learn #HTML and #XML coding, you can use #FreeSoftware like #Scribus to design and generate #EPUB formats for you. #Calibre can organize your #ebook #library. Bard incorporates #FLite #TextToSpeech to read ebooks aloud to you. #DFD2026

1/2 Welcome to today's #DFD2026 countdown. The #Free format for this week is #EPUB, the #OpenStandard for #ebooks. It's very easy to create your own ebooks. All it takes is a text editor to produce #HTML and #XML files and a zip tool to store them. #DFD2026

3/3 #BSD offers libcitrus. #musl C library includes support and gettext-tiny makes use of musl to provide a lightweight alternative for embedded systems. There are #C, #Perl and #Python versions of msgfmt. I'm learning more about the format by writing my own msgfmt utility. #DFD2026

2/3 Projects don't have to reinvent the wheel to provide language support. A msgfmt program converts po files (human readable) to mo format for use with libintl which is part of #GNU gettext. There are other compatible implementations too. #DFD2026

1/3 We're officially counting down to #DocumentFreedomDay2026 on March 25th. One Free format I've been investigating is the mo file used by gettext. This format is a great way to provide #internationalization in a standardized manner to programs. #DFD2026

Some recent videos regarding AI protections for AI usage seem worth noting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTN... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3YH... Science fiction has warned us about dystopian situations for decades. It would be nice if we thought those warnings through instead of following the sf scripts.

Full interview: Anthropic CEO responds to Trump order, Pentagon clash

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