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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷<p>We need a free/libre fork of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> for the public commons. Google cannot be trusted.</p><p>Maybe that could be <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lineageos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lineageos</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Graphene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Graphene</span></a>, but given that they build on top of Android rather than driving the core development, I'm not certain they would be enough as it stands.</p><p><a href="https://9to5google.com/2025/03/26/google-android-aosp-developement-private/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5google.com/2025/03/26/goog</span><span class="invisible">le-android-aosp-developement-private/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/eupol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eupol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nlnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nlnet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SovereignTechAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SovereignTechAgency</span></a></p>
N-gated Hacker News<p>Marginalia scores a second <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nlnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nlnet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grant</span></a> for 2025, because who doesn't love a search engine that nobody asked for? 🤷‍♂️ The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roadmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roadmap</span></a> is as clear as a toddler's scribble, but hey, at least it secures more time for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Viktor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viktor</span></a> to "work" on it full-time. 🕒💸<br><a href="https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_116_grant_2.0/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marginalia.nu/log/a_116_grant_</span><span class="invisible">2.0/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Marginalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marginalia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/searchengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>searchengine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
Perrick<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@maeool" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>maeool</span></a></span> Je découvre que <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Cartes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cartes</span></a> va être financé via <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> : Bravo ! <a href="https://nlnet.nl/project/Cartes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nlnet.nl/project/Cartes/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
hamish campbell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mato.social/@josemurilo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>josemurilo</span></a></span> Good points :)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://qoto.org/@volkris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>volkris</span></a></span> the issue with your comment is that the Fediverse comes from a long history, and it embodies this history which is where the value comes from.</p><p>Yes, it comes from meany sub cultures, these are better described as communities rather than users. </p><p>Keeping mess is grassroots cultural, allowing it to be messy is neoliberal <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mainstreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mainstreaming</span></a> </p><p>I agree with your point about the devs and funding from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGI</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> an on rolling mess.</p>
Overte<p>Overte's V8 script engine is very versatile. Can it run Doom though? Thanks to Ada's recent work on Canvas API and script-accessible textures grant from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> foundation, on feature/canvas-entity branch it's now possible to paint directly to textures from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>javascript</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/webassembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webassembly</span></a> . <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/wasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wasm</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vr</span></a></p>
witchescauldron<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGIzero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGIzero</span></a> – Will We Get It Right This Time? <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/nlnet-eu-ngi-ngizero-will-we-get-it-right-this-time/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/nlnet-eu-ng</span><span class="invisible">i-ngizero-will-we-get-it-right-this-time/</span></a> let’s ask again: Has <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> stepped up this time? Are we funding the future, or are we just shuffling papers while the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deathcult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deathcult</span></a> eats our humanistic heritage and the last remains of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a>?</p>
HoldMyType<p>the good folks over at <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGI</span></a> seem to be set on IPFS a solution to all trust-less p2p data distribution problems. However I’ll try and convince them that alternative solutions are probably healthy to try out.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> is definitely not dead-set on IPFS.</p><p>&gt; I just want the simple parts (connecting and exchange) to be layered separately from the routing parts. IPFS does actually do a lot of layering. I don’t follow hypercore and other stuff very much, but I don’t recall seeing much layering.<br><a href="https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-ipfs-be-used-as-a-source-for-fetchurl-in-nixpkgs/16312/21" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">discourse.nixos.org/t/should-i</span><span class="invisible">pfs-be-used-as-a-source-for-fetchurl-in-nixpkgs/16312/21</span></a></p>
witchescauldron<p>Way late, but better than never <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/way-late-but-better-than-never/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/way-late-bu</span><span class="invisible">t-better-than-never/</span></a> We are the ones with the lived experience. Now, where are the resources? <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGI</span></a></p>
🍒🌳 Hartmut Goebel<p>My proposal for integrating <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/GNUTaler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTaler</span></a> with <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Tryton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tryton</span></a>/#GNUHealth was accepted by <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/NGITaler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGITaler</span></a>. 💯 🎉 </p><p>I will develop a Tryton module which would allows users to integrate payments with Taler into their webshops, businesses.</p><p>Tryton is a popular libre business management system written in Python, used for operating webshops and enterprise resource planning - there are many modules for financial accounting, sales, inventory and stock, CRM, shipping, subscription management, etc. Existing payment provider integrations within Tryton are limited to specific proprietary payment providers, having a Taler based option would allow organisations to deal with Taler based payments (incoming as well as outgoing).</p><p>This includes the users of GNU Health (which is built on Tryton) and which provides libre alternatives for Hospital Management software, Health Information Systems and Electronic Health Records.</p><p><a href="https://nlnet.nl/project/TALER-Tryton/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nlnet.nl/project/TALER-Tryton/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nlnet</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ps.s10y.eu/@NGI_Taler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NGI_Taler</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@Taler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Taler</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@tryton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tryton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gnuhealth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gnuhealth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://todon.eu/@meanmicio" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>meanmicio</span></a></span></p>