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edit: originally by @kevin , inadvertently copied https://mastodon.km6g.us/@kevin/113724524588964200

Kevin P. Fleming (@[email protected])

A - DNS record AA - battery AAA - battery AAAA - DNS record #DNS #Battery #Confusion

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Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.

We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.

We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.

To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):

We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).

The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)

We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.

Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...

If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!

#decentralization #opensource #freesoftware #foss

postmarketOS // Who makes postmarketOS?

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

postmarketOS

@alpinelinux truly is the most lightweight, versatile, and reliable distros I have used. Almost all of my linux computers are Alpine. My laptop, old home server, new home server, containers, minipc router, and even a 16 year old NAS (32 bit intel atom with 1gb ddr2)!

Honorable mention to @CachyOS for carrying my nvidia gaming pc.

Tempus is an open-source and lightweight music client for Subsonic.

* fix: give user feedback when trying to add podcast/radio on unsupported backends
* fix: instant mix gets a big refactor, with cascading fallbacks to produce a larger queue
* chore(i18n): add missing keys, update Chinese translation and alphabetize
* chore(i18n): Update Polish translation
* feat: Ability to toggle visibility of artist biography

https://github.com/eddyizm/tempus/releases/tag/v4.6.3
#opensource #android #foss #software #subsonicapi #libre

Windows sees Ventoy + Linux ISO and knows itโ€™s over. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

#linux #windows

Oh btw, f*ck you google.
emacs users are a protected group under federal law and as such you cannot be mean to them

Windows 10 users... itโ€™s time. The penguin is calling! ๐Ÿง

#windows #linux

Today's popular browser engines have deep roots in KHTML, which was originally built for the open-source software KDE. I guess we all own a big thank you to the KDE project.

More @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#Descendants

We've just fought #ChatControl - now Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช wants its own backdoor law. ๐Ÿ”“

But we, together with ~40 orgs, are saying no.

#NoToBackdoors ๐Ÿ’ช

Read our open letter to Ireland: ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://www.globalencryption.org/2025/10/open-letter-irish-communications-interception-and-lawful-access-bill/

#backdoor #encryption #privacy #security