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New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Better templates – Several bundled templates are now available in both 16:9 and 4:3 formats, making it easier to start presentations in the right aspect ratio. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware

#GnuPG v2.5.24 has some security fixes, so #Gpg4win 5.1.1 is available for download as well.

Some support for RFC9980: "Post-Quantum Cryptography" is new, for those who need it because of governmental regulations. All others please stay on LibrePGP Kyber for some resistance against quantum computing based attacks.

https://dev.gnupg.org/T8425.html

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q3/000516.html

https://gpg4win.org/get-gpg4win.html

(There was GnuPG 2.5.23 for a blink, but 2.5.24 fixed a regression. ;))

#FreeSoftware #EndtoEndCrypto

We've added 15 more videos from the #LibreOffice Conference 2026 to the playlist! Check it out: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/24/second-batch-of-videos-from-the-libreoffice-conference-2026/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

The @gcompris team has released version 26.2.

KDE's suite of #educational activities for #children is now available in 28 languages, and partially translated to 19 more. GCompris comes with more than 100 activities and games that cover a wide range of subjects. GCompris works on Linux, Windows, macOS and Android.

https://gcompris.net/news/2026-09-23-en.html

#education #fun #apps #games #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Software Freedom Day: Celebrate and Protect Our Freedoms

Join in the celebration of Software Freedom Day and learn about Free Software and its virtues along with how to host or attend this worldwide event.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/software-freedom-day-2026/

#blog #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #tech #technology @dff

Just upgraded to 120€/year voluntary payment for this service via https://liberapay.com/mstdn , after seeing the 2026-09-24 announcement of rising costs.

(For those that also want to pick up the occasion: Other ways to pay exist at https://stux.me/donate/)

@stux thanks for running this Fediverse node with #FreeSoftware! And for keeping it open for people and organisations that may not be in the position to help funding it - yet.

New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Relative font sizes – Calc cell styles can now use relative font sizes, making style management more flexible across large spreadsheets. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware

0:59 What Does the 'K' in KDE Stand For? Who put the K in KDE? What does it stand for? Is it the original meme? Catch the full KDE documentary on our channel on October 14th. Thanks Railway, our channel sponsor, for making all of our films possible: Railway is the all-in-one intelligent cloud provider ➡️ https://railway.com/?referralCode=cultrepo Follow us: X: https://www.x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: https://www.cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cult.repo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cult-repo Video · tube.kockatoo.org Who put the K in KDE? What does it stand for? Is it the original meme? Catch the full KDE documentary on our channel on October 14th. Thanks Railway, our channel sponsor, for making all of our films possible: Railway is the all-in-one intelligent cloud provider ➡️ https://railway.com/?referralCode=cultrepo Follow us: X: https://www.x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: https://www.cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cult.repo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cult-repo

What Does the 'K' in KDE Stand For?

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/htQQUPxNbc7Aybzv1122yU

Learn about #encryption at #EncryptFest online, in Boston, or New Haven on October 25: https://u.fsf.org/4ck #FreeSoftware #surveillance #FSF

What does the future hold for KDE?

As KDE nears its 30th #anniversary, Nate Graham and @AleixPol join @MichaelTunnell to discuss #Plasma6.8, the shift to Wayland, and the community that has shaped KDE over thirty years.

Watch the interview: https://youtu.be/qBAsX0SRhqI

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Support KDE’s next thirty years: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

#KDEat30 #Plasma #FOSS #FreeSoftware #desktop #openSource

Welcome Tamás Zolnai, who joins the @tdforg team to work on #LibreOffice Online! (Of course, the desktop app will stay our main focus.) https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/26/welcome-tamas-zolnai-new-libreoffice-online-developer/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Sixteen years of #LibreOffice: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/28/sixteen-years-of-libreoffices/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Conferences don't end when the talks are over.

The conversations and connections that emerge continue long after the event, and we'd like this account to be part of that.

We'll share speaker insights, emerging topics in #FreeSoftware, behind-the-scenes, discussions and updates from the #OpenSource community.

🤝If you have projects, questions or perspectives to share, we'd love to hear from you. We hope this can be a space for exchange between people who care about #SoftwareFreedom.

#SFSCON

Increased productivity, decreased costs, when Italian logistics company moved from #Windows to @kubuntu.

https://itsfoss.com/linux-stories/italian-logistics-company-migration/

Mišo Oroz, founder of @zerolock : "The company has not called me for a single ordinary technical issue since the migration."

#KDE #DigitalSovereignty #migration #Plasma6 #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Presentation Sections – Large slide decks become easier to manage with the new Presentation Sections feature, allowing slides to be organised into logical groups. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware

#askFedi Do you know of speech-to-text live transcription models that:
1. perform OK for lightly technical English speech, in near-real-time,
2. have available (ideally libre/open-source) training data, libre/open-source training code, libre/open-source inference code, and/or libre/open-source weights (ideally some amount of freedom to use/study/modify/distribute; e.g. the Open Source AI Definition)

Glanced at:
april-asr: probably best candidate so far; somewhat below quality expectations on my laptop (tested with https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.sapples.LiveCaptions; quality/performance is configurable; maybe I should run it on a more powerful server and check if it's better?)
OpenAI Whisper: no training data/code
Vosk official model: not sure about training data/code, not sure about weights
Mozilla DeepSpeech: Archived
CoquiSTT: Looks abandoned

#Transcription #NeuralNetworks #NN #MachineLearning #ML #SpeechToText #STT #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #OSAID #OpenSourceAI #CommonVoice

Zrythm v2.0.0-alpha.6 is out!

Highlights: import MIDI and audio files by dropping them onto the timeline or via the new "Import File…" dialog, recording changes the playhead color and shows an indicator, and the mixer & track buttons are more compact.

Also fixes LV2 plugin scanning in packaged macOS/Windows builds.

More info:
https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-v2-0-0-alpha-6-released

#Zrythm #DAW #FreeSoftware #MusicProduction

Linux Magazine talked to us about how and why we build Bonfire.

What we want next is "not a bigger Bonfire, but a network of cooperatives covering the whole supply chain of a community's digital space", who "do it together" rather than leave you to "do it yourself".

Because "federation, we don't see it as just a technical thing. We see it as a social, economic, and political tool as well."

Link: Supporting the Social Web: How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms

Also happy to spread the love for @coopcloud, @coquest, @SocialCoop and more, check out the links at the end of the article! Thanks to @horncologne@fosstodon.org for a lovely conversation, and @linuxmagazine for publishing it, in a piece that also features the great @cwebber and @tsyesika from @spritely.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #opensource #freesoftware #OpenCooperativeEcosystem #OpenScienceNetwork

We are happy to announce 47 free and open source projects have been selected for the 12th round of the NGI0 Commons Fund.

The efforts of these teams all go toward strengthening the digital commons, and we thank them for their contribution to more digital autonomy for everyone.

Commons Fund will provide them with practical and financial support, kindly made possible by @EC_NGI

Here's an overview of all 47. Come and meet the projects!
https://nlnet.nl/news/2026/20261015-47-new-projects.html

#NGI #NGI0 #freesoftware #FOSS

📰 Little Bits: Issue #41 For September 2026

Uncover the evolution of how this blog series started long before I thought of it along with a fresh new supply of shiny bits to explore.

❣️ Show appreciation with BOOSTS!

👉️ https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-41/

#blog #Fediverse #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #tech #LinkDump