Akhil Varkey

@akhilvarkey
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Believes in inclusiveness. Freedom and equality for all who respects the ideal of freedom and equality for all.

Likes to play with and promote Free/Libre software, hardware and other things that level the platform for every one.

Spends time learning about, tinkering with and fixing stuff while fussing about minimalism and tidiness which doesn't really go together always.

Interested in a lot of things since this pale blue dot has a lot of things in and out of it.

FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released

After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amounts of improvements and new features.

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/03/25/freecad-version-1-1-released/

#FreeCAD #CAD #CAM #BIM #opensource #fc3d

FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released

After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amo…

FreeCAD News

Krita 6 (and 5.3) released! Two top-tier #art #apps for the price of one!

Look forward to Wayland color management (for Krita 6); an overhauled text tool with direct on-canvas editing, wrapped text and text-on-path capacity; a new #comic panel assistant; and so much more 🖌️.

https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.0-released/

@Krita

#design #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #painting #Mastoart

Krita 5.3.0 Released!

Today is the simultaneous release of Krita 5.3.0 and Krita 6.0.0! Depending which version of Qt and KDE Frameworks you build, the same source will result in one of the other. Both versions are almost functionally identical, with 6.0.0 having more Wayland functionality.

Krita
Huge win for open standards and freedom from vendor lock-in! Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack mandates ODF, the Open Document Format: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/19/germanys-sovereign-digital-stack-mandates-odf/

The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board has submitted a comment on the OGC's proposal to make the Overture Map Foundation's Global Entity Reference System (GERS) a standard.

https://github.com/opengeospatial/requests/issues/3#issuecomment-3988672794
#OpenStreetMap #gischat #Overture #OGC #GERS

Today we released GIMP 3.2 with major new features, including vector layers, link layers (smart objects), DDS BC7 export, better PSD import including PSB for large images, MyPaint 2.0 brushes, and much more!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/

#GIMP #imageEditor #GPL #openSource #libreGraphics #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2 #GEGL #news #release

GIMP - GIMP 3.2 Released

Release notes for GIMP 3.2

New blog post: "Forbidding generative AI and LLMs on Pepper&Carrot"
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1129/forbidding-generative-ai-and-llms-on-peppercarrot

Don't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence...

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

worked with the tcpdump folks on an updated set of examples for the tcpdump man page https://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html#lbAF

the idea is that if you've forgotten how tcpdump's basic flags work, you can find a quick reference in the man page!

tcpdump(1) man page | TCPDUMP & LIBPCAP

I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
matduggan.com

It's JSON all the way down

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