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Software engineer, FLOSS advocate

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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Join in a virtual Software Freedom Day event (September 19, 2026 at 10 AM Eastern/2 PM GMT) on Jitsi: digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/event... #SFD2026
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PBSFG Virtual Software Freedom Day 2026 - Digital Freedom Foundation
PBSFG Virtual Software Freedom Day 2026 19.09.2026 14:00 I'll be hosting a virtual Software Freedom Day event for anyone who can't access a local event in...
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How do you explain #FreeSoftware to a group of soaked hikers? Sam explained it with three cakes. Listen to learn how. That story opens this year's SFD talk from the Digital Freedom Foundation, followed by a message from the teams in Nepal. videos.trom.tf/w/n49Fx8zyrF... #SFD2026
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Software Freedom Day 2026 - DFF opening talk
As every year, at the start of Software Freedom Day worldwide, we talk to all the teams organising Software Freedom Day. This year, I would like to bring some countries under the attention who coul...
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy Software Freedom Day. Find a local #SFDay2026 event at: digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archi... There are also virtual events anyone can attend. I'll be posting highlights & news as I get it: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/34921.html You can also join channel #SoftwareFreedomDay on matrix.
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#SoftwareFreedomDay2026 is this Saturday. How will you be celebrating? Join in on the fun: digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archi... #SFD2026 #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #event #FOSS #Retrocomputing #FreeBSD
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#SoftwareFreedomDay2026 is September 19th. There's still time to register your group or club or to sign yourself up to host a Software Freedom Day event in your area. Swag packs given on a first come, first served basis, so sign up ASAP. digitalfreedoms.org/en/ #SFD2026 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just got original MinGW 32 bit compiler with public domain mingwrt and w32api to build for gcc 6.3.0. I have been using original MinGW build with gcc 4.7.2 for all my FOSS builds on Windows. I also have build scripts for a large number of FOSS applications that have been ported to work on Windows.
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Are there are any fans of the original #MinGW 32 bit compiler project that was created before MinGW-w64. If so, let me know. #Windows #OpenSource #FOSS
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Just a reminder, #SoftwareFreedomDay is only two months away. If you could pick your favorite #FOSS to highlight on #SFD2026, which program or library would you choose? #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedomDay2026
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
1/2 Thought I'd share where I currently am with some of the #FOSS projects I build from #source: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/33313.html #permacomputing #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux #FreeBSD #Windows #C
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🗓️ Planning a Software Freedom Day event? Share your topics and schedule ideas. Let's inspire each other. #SFD2026 #SoftwareFreedomDay2026 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux #FOSS
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is a good reminder to keep trying to contact your local legislators about the age verification laws: system76.com/blog/post/co... Write and ask them to exempt FOSS. We can make a difference.
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Colorado and California Exempt Open Source from Age Attestation
System76 CEO Carl Richell shares how the open source community successfully worked with legislators in Colorado and California to secure exemptions from age attestation laws, and why the fight to prot...
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
@lemon.rip Someone on the Devuan Users Forum mentioned your article: lemon.rip/w/6-c-extens... I do a lot of cross-platform programming and porting of C programs to several OS. I have a growing collection of patches (including nano) if you ever need some. Patching upstream isn't always an option.
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On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
Anyone who's written C knows that full ISO C standard-adhering code is an impractical rarity. Most real world C code out there relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensi…
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
1/2 I sent letters to my government legislators regarding negative effects for operating systems from Age Verification laws. Two got no response & one was a generic email about how my elected official was pro child safety. #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #legal #Linux #FOSS
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Do you know of any groups that care about digital sustainability, legacy computing, avoiding update-churn treadmills or supporting a GNU fundamental freedom of modifying source code? Please share links. #RightToRepair #retrocomputing #permacomputing #FreeSoftware #FOSS #sustainabililty #IndieWeb
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#SoftwareFreedomDay is September 19, 2026. If you're planning an event, now’s the perfect time to register it on the #DFF map so people can find it: digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/event... #SoftwareFreedomDay2026 #SFD2026 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
If you're interested in #retro or lightweight computing, check out some of the #FOSS conversations on the Devuan Users Forum: devuanusers.com #RetroComputing #PermaComputing #programming
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
As someone who likes to see new life brought to legacy #FOSS software, I was happy to hear about a new fork of #GTK2: git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/... It includes patches from other forks. There are plans to test out classic #GTK software with it. #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RetroComputing #Linux #X11
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gtk2-ng
Unofficial community-maintained fork of historical GTK2. Not affiliated with GTK or GNOME.
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Petition to exempt Linux and BSD from age verification laws: www.change.org/p/exempt-lin...
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Exempt Linux and BSDs from age verification laws
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
What ultra-lightweight cross-platform #C/C++ GUI do you use? Some nice ones are: #RayGUI github.com/raysan5/raygui #nuklear github.com/immediate-mo... #OTK otk.sourceforge.net #pdcurses pdcurses.org + libform/menu #stfl clifford.at/stfl #TurboVision tvision.sourceforge.net #fltk www.fltk.org
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GitHub - raysan5/raygui: A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library
A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library - raysan5/raygui
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Wishing everyone a #HappyHardwareFreedomDay2026 digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd #HFD2026
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About Hardware Freedom Day
HFD is a global celebration of Free and Open Source Hardware (FOSH). Our mission for this celebration is to enlighten the public worldwide about the...
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
If you've written a post, article or blog entry about #HardwareFreedomDay2026 or you're holding or attending an event, please share the information on social media with the tag: #HFD2026 How are you celebrating today?
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
What are you doing #HardwareFreedomDay2026 this Saturday?  Please share your posts about Hardware Freedom Day on your favorite social media channels and blogs and include #HFD2026
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About Hardware Freedom Day
HFD is a global celebration of Free and Open Source Hardware (FOSH). Our mission for this celebration is to enlighten the public worldwide about the...
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
#HFD2026 is a great time to get together with people in your neighborhood and discuss topics such as Right to Repair, creating Makerspaces, reducing electronic waste and reusing old computers and/or what to do when there's an emergency like a power outage or the Internet goes down.
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Happy #HardwareFreedomDay2026. Hope you'll join us in celebrating by sharing your favorite #OpenHardware and #FreeSoftware Here's a list of #3Dprinting and #CAD programs: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/13927.html #HFD2026
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Free and Open Source CAD and 3D Printing Software
FLOSS CAD software:<br /><br /><a href="https://brlcad.org/">https://brlcad.org/</a><br />BRL-CAD is a constructive solid geometry (CSG) solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) system<br /><br /><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/</a><br
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If you're in the US, please contact your Senators and Representatives and let them know how you feel about age verification laws for operating systems and bill HR 8250: www.house.gov/representati... www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
For those in the US, bill HR 8250 would require age verification for operating systems on a national level: linuxiac.com/federal-bill...
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Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.
A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Please join us for a virtual meeting celebrating Document Freedom Day 2026 today, Saturday March 28 at 10 AM EST: digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd/archi... #DFD2026
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
4/4 I used #nanosvg with my #Tuxmath patches and with a GPL version of mupdf I've experimented with to add lighter & better #SVG support. The #ggwm fork of #jwm used nanosvg to add SVG support to a lightweight, low dependency window manager. Know of any other fun SVG projects? #DFD2026
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
3/4 #Imagemagick & #graphicsmagick have support for #SVG. Last I tested, imagemagick had better support. Adding better SVG support to graphicsmagick would be a useful project. Programs like #abcm2ps can output to SVG and imagemagick can convert that to a viewable #PNG format. #DFD2026
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
2/4 #librsvg is a popular #C/C++ SVG library. For years, I searched for a lighter option. #sdl_svg was good but not perfect. #nanosvg makes a great alternative. It's used by #SDL_image & #FLTK projects & others. I would love to combine the best patches from the nanosvg forks. #DFD2026
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
1/4 This week's #DocumentFreedomDay2026 #OpenDocument format is SVG. Check out editors such as #Inkscape inkscape.org and SVG-Edit github.com/SVG-Edit/svg... for ways to create your own SVG vector #graphics. What SVG projects do you like?
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Inkscape - Draw Freely. | Inkscape
Inkscape is professional vector graphics software which runs on Linux, macOS and Windows desktop computers.
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
2/2 If you don't want to learn #HTML and #XML coding, you can use #FreeSoftware like #Scribus to design and generate #EPUB formats for you. #Calibre can organize your #ebook #library. Bard incorporates #FLite #TextToSpeech to read ebooks aloud to you. #DFD2026
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
1/2 Welcome to today's #DFD2026 countdown. The #Free format for this week is #EPUB, the #OpenStandard for #ebooks. It's very easy to create your own ebooks. All it takes is a text editor to produce #HTML and #XML files and a zip tool to store them. #DFD2026
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
3/3 #BSD offers libcitrus. #musl C library includes support and gettext-tiny makes use of musl to provide a lightweight alternative for embedded systems. There are #C, #Perl and #Python versions of msgfmt. I'm learning more about the format by writing my own msgfmt utility. #DFD2026
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
2/3 Projects don't have to reinvent the wheel to provide language support. A msgfmt program converts po files (human readable) to mo format for use with libintl which is part of #GNU gettext. There are other compatible implementations too. #DFD2026
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
1/3 We're officially counting down to #DocumentFreedomDay2026 on March 25th. One Free format I've been investigating is the mo file used by gettext. This format is a great way to provide #internationalization in a standardized manner to programs. #DFD2026
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Some recent videos regarding AI protections for AI usage seem worth noting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTN... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3YH... Science fiction has warned us about dystopian situations for decades. It would be nice if we thought those warnings through instead of following the sf scripts.
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Full interview: Anthropic CEO responds to Trump order, Pentagon clash
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The #Consumer #Rights Wiki is looking for #volunteers to help document corporate overreach from anti-repair policies to forced subscriptions. Please see: consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page This sounds like a worthwhile project for people concerned about #FreeSoftware and #OpenHardware. #RightToRepair
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
2/2 Seeking attendees & short (~15 minute) talks on favorite #OpenFormats or #FreeSoftware projects that use them. Let me know if you want to present. #DFD2026 #OpenSource #ebook #OER #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData #Libraries
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
1/2 Virtual #DocumentFreedomDay2026 event: March 28th, 10-11:30 AM EST (2 PM GMT). Discuss #Free formats, #FOSS tools and sharing #CreativeCommons & #PublicDomain #multimedia in #Open formats. We need #volunteers. #DFD2026
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
1/5 I'd like to put together a demo of lightweight #FOSS. Looking for an #OS to target. My goal is a minimal environment for low resource machines showcasing useful software with reproducible builds. If you have suggestions for lightweight platforms for sharing custom applications, let me know.
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy #PublicDomainDay. Hope you enjoy using public domain source code in your own projects. See sites like Open Culture or Internet Archive for #PublicDomain #multimedia. Please encourage use of Public Domain and #CreativeCommons works. Help us spread the word, #DocumentFreedomDay2026 is in March.
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
What are your favorite #FOSS programs to run for the #NewYear? One of my favorites any time I want to watch #fireworks is xfireworks: packages.debian.org/sid/games/xf... I even wrote a compatibility layer so I could run it with #SDL and #X11 was no longer a hard requirement.
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy #holidays! Wanted to share my #PublicDomain #code list: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/10325.html I'm still maintaining my own fork of a public domain #w32api. If you have suggestions to add to the list or want to chat about w32api or #coding a #C runtime library, feel free to respond to this post.
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy #solstice. The #FOSS countdown continues. Let's light the night with astronomy #software: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/32095.html #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Welcome to my holiday countdown of #Free, #Libre & #OpenSource #Software This is an older list, but it has several of the #audio programs I've built from source: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/4794.html If you want to make your holidays sing, try some of these #programs. Please share your favorite #FOSS.
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Happy #Holidays & thanks for joining the #countdown. Today I'm sharing #FOSS #graphics & #CAD #software: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/13927.html If I've missed your favorite, post about it. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Thought it would be fun to count down to the #holidays by sharing #Free, #Libre & #OpenSource #software. Here's my list of educational #FLOSS #games codeberg.org/lmemsm/delig... Feel free to share your #FOSS favorites. Merry #Christmas & #Kwanzaa, happy #Hanukkah, #Yule & #Solstice. #FreeSoftware
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delightful-educational-games
A curated list of of Free, Libre and Open Source educational games.
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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If you were to put together a list of #FOSS to share or give to someone for the holidays, what programs or #FreeSoftware projects would be on that list? #DFF #FLOSS
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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Does anyone know of any #recipe books or forums for #supertasters? Are you a #supertaster? I'm unable to find much in the way of resources. I'm considering trying to create a recipe swap for supertasters so we can share tried and true recipes for the holidays. Anyone else interested? #ARFID #SPD
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