We've told many of users to "stay tuned" for news on our #Android app - well, here it is!
Quad9 Connect is now available on F-Droid! If you're new to #FDroid check out our blog post for more information!
https://www.quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-connect-now-on-f-droid/
More about the Baltic Ruby conference and our lineup here: https://balticruby.org/lineup
Morgen is er weer een interessante kennissessie ism @opensource en @codefornl in Utrecht.
Tijdens de kennisessie nemen Esmeralda Tijhoff en Bas van der Ven (DICTU Web&App) je mee in hun ervaring met de community rondom het generieke Drupal Intranet. Dit intranet is open source ontwikkeld en wordt binnen de rijksoverheid breed ingezet.
Aanmelden kan via:
https://opensourcewerken.nl/events/view/4501d8d5-93d1-4cd3-88be-795264ff64d0/opensource-communitybouwen-hoe-werkt-dat-bij-drupal
Zou leuk zijn daar wat van jullie te zien!
More about the Baltic Ruby conference and our lineup here: https://balticruby.org/lineup
Shower thought I had today: If you want to prevent your software from being used against your wishes by large companies or government agencies, it would probably be far more effective to call it something rude or politically charged rather than applying a dual license on a source available software. Like naming it the "DEI-LGBTQ-Cocksucker-Tiananmen-1989" v1.3.2-rc.1. I bet you wouldn't see that used much in the U.S., Russia, or China no matter how great the software is. Those that do use it still would probably honor the license. #showerthoughts #oss #opensource #licensing
If you're using #Serverless Framework, and you really don't want to move to v4 because they've now made it pay to play, you can use this Open Source version:
https://github.com/oss-serverless/serverless
Pretty much a drop in replacement
Introducing sub-issues: Enhancing issue management on GitHub.
Did you know that I'm co-organizing a supply-chain security mini-track at the #PyConUS2025 open spaces?
Open source users and maintainers are invited to attend for short talks and discussions with security-interested Pythonistas.
The RYPE mission was successful in its goal to sever the Nordland Railway & prevent 150,000 SS mountain troops evacuating to Germany where they could continue to fight the Allies. Operation was led by St Paul native William Colby. (2/2)
#OSS #WW2 #NORSO #Norway #StPaul #MN
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1383&context=studentwork
April 14/15, 1945: On this date, the disaster plagued Office of Strategic Services’ NORSO Group that had been inserted into Nazi occupied Norway for Operation RYPE destroyed the Tangen Bridge. 8 days later, the team destroyed 2 1/2 km of nearby railroad track. (1/2)
Noch bis zum 30.06. suchen wir wegweisende Projekte, die auf #OpenSource setzen und ganzheitliche #OSS-Strategien verfolgen.
Alle Infos zur Teilnahme gibt's hier: https://open-source-wettbewerb.de/wettbewerb/
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die Digitale Souveränität stärken
Innovationen in europäischen Softwareprojekten fördern
die Rolle von #OSS für Modernisierung und Resilienz der Öffentlichen Verwaltung hervorheben
die Wahrnehmung und Sichtbarkeit von #OpenSource-Projekten erhöhen
den Austausch zwischen Entscheider:innen, Fachleuten und Open-Source-Communities intensivieren
eine nachhaltige Open-Source-Kultur in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung etablieren
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Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.
For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon
In oktober komt Windows met een nieuwe versie en. 1 op de 5 computers en laptops die nu nog goed draaien op Windows 10 dreigen dan onbruikbaar te worden.
Wereldwijd gaat het om 240 miljoen laptops en computers. Repair Café International wil voorkomen dat al die pparaten worden weggegooid en biedt hulp bij het installeren van een alternatief.
Luister het NPO Radio 1 ragment van vanochtend hierover terug op https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/nieuwsweekend/01962907-9cce-7007-95eb-031cd13e9588/2025-04-12-repair-cafe-heeft-list-om-250-miljoen-computers-van-de-schroot-te-redden
“Jedburgh Team AMMONIA under American Captain Benton McDonald (“Mac”) Austin, <French 2nd Lt Verneuil>, and American radioman Sergeant Jacob B. (“Jack”) Berlin, were able to slow down, through blasted bridges and railroad lines, a crack German armored division, the 2nd SS Panzer (“Das Reich”) Division, as it struggled to reach the invasion beachhead from southwestern France.” (2/2)
https://www.nps.gov/articles/oss-in-action-the-mediterranean-and-european-theaters.htm
April 12, 1917: On this date, Benton McDonald Austin was born. Operator in the Office of Strategic Services, he parachuted into France near Sarlat at St Nathalene on June 9, 1944 as part of Jedburgh Team AMMONIA. (1/2)
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/austin-benton-mcdonald.35856/
The way @mailcow is built and has thought about protecting users is amazing. All my accounts have been constantly under attack for several weeks now and not having to think about fail2ban on the mail server is amazing because it’s just built in. Thank you #oss #opensource
Belangstellenden kunnen op 23 april en 14 mei komen ‘aanwaaien’ om de 51e editie van de opgraving door #Leidse studenten #archeologie in #Oss te bezichtigen.
https://www.kliknieuwsoss.nl/nieuws/historie/235367/neem-een-kijkje-bij-een-archeologisch-onderzoek-in-oss
