Mastodawn

A trillion dollars wiped from software stocks. cURL forced to shut down its bug bounty over AI slop. Proxmox replacing VMware at enterprise scale.

The SaaS apocalypse is real, but it's not the end of software. It's the beginning of OpenSource's biggest era.

I wrote about what FOSDEM 2026 revealed, why maintainers need to embrace AI tools or risk being forked, and how even niche projects like https://www.thefreelantern.com now exist because creation costs collapsed.

https://hackernoon.com/the-saas-apocalypse-is-opensources-greatest-opportunity

#OpenSource #Linux #FOSDEM #SaaS #AI #FreeSoftware

The Free Lantern — Free by Design

Free by Design — Free and OpenSource inspired music.

Jasper - The Free Lantern Feb 22

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 21

In order to circumvent censorship, it's best to get an idea of what you're running into. Here's how to figure that out. https://ssd.eff.org/module/understanding-and-circumventing-network-censorship

How to: Understand and Circumvent Network Censorship

This is an overview of network censorship, but it is not comprehensive. Governments, companies, schools, and internet providers sometimes use software to prevent their users from accessing certain websites and services that are otherwise available on the open web. This is called internet filtering or blocking, and it is a...

Jasper - The Free Lantern Feb 1

Every last Friday of the month:
a new Linux-inspired song.

No ads.
No hype.
Just music about freedom, collaboration, and our - often invisible - work.

CC-BY. www.thefreelantern.com

#Linux

Jasper - The Free Lantern Jan 28

One day pre-release

The Free Lantern - Free by Design: 12 songs, 12 styles, already online at:
https://www.thefreelantern.com

Made to inspire, to experiment, and to enjoy the joy of hacking.

#Linux #OpenSource #CreativeCommons
#Fosdem