Nicolas Christener

@nikslor
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Open Source and Free Software is what drives me, music is what I love.
CEO @adfinis, opinions are my own.
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
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just learned that my colleagues rotate VS Code by 1 degree when you leave your laptop unattended
once again I find myself debugging code written by a version of me who seems to have a superior intellect.
Die grossen Trauerweiden stehen heute Morgen leuchtend hellgrün am Ufer der ruhig fliessenden Aare. In der Bildmitte schaut das schneebedeckte Stockhorn auf unser Städtchen herunter. Ein Ort der Ruhe in dieser Welt, die ausser Rand und Band geraten ist.

🔎 Durch die Anfragen von @RebeccaLenhard kam ans Licht, wie stark die Kosten für Microsoft-Lizenzen bei der Bundesverwaltung ansteigen. 💰

Der Bundesregierung fehlt anscheinend die Willenskraft, sich aus dem Griff der Hyperscaler zu befreien.

Denn bisher fehlt eine konsequente Open-Source-Strategie für die Bundesverwaltung, mit der ein Umstieg auf digital souveräne Lösungen strategisch vorangetrieben werden kann.

https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_101137534/gruene-kritisieren-fehlendes-lagebild-digitale-souveraenitaet.html

#OpenSource

I've mapped the beautiful Spanish island of #Formentera on #OpenStreetMap. It was an exciting challenge to record street names, addresses, rural addresses, POIs, landcover and more. Formentera covers an area of approximately 83 km² (32 mi²).

Here's a #BeforeAndAfter impression:

It's Fuel Friday! 😎

Back in May 2019, we said goodbye to SVN and Bugzilla and migrated to Git and GitHub [1]. Since then, we accumulated 188 repositories. 🙀

We're now making a list to decide which ones we're moving to @Codeberg and which are going to be archived and left behind.

While we're doing that, we signed NLnet Labs up as a Codeberg e.V. member!

[1] https://lists.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/unbound-users/2019-April/006130.html

#OpenSource #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #DNS #BGP

#OpenSSL 4.0.0-alpha1 is released and current curl master builds and runs fine with it. Even doing ECH,

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.0.0-alpha1