I've been working really hard those past 3 months to deliver what I can consider to be the best android IPTV app; fully open-source, intuitive, bloat-free and ultra-fast. Today, I release Fred TV 2.0 on the playstore!

• Optimized to be the fastest IPTV app out there, with a fully re-written backend made in Rust.
• Full Android TV support, D-Pad support on every view
• New easy-to-use redesigned TV Home for Android TV
• Robust playback, even on shoddy streams and on low-end devices
• Full support for Xtream and M3U

Try it out! You won't regret giving it a shot if you're already using other IPTV apps.

If you had tried the app previously under 1.X.X, please try it again, 2.0 is a massive upgrade.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.fredol.open_tv

https://github.com/fredolx/fred-tv-mobile

Which is your preferred messaging app? I just want some insights about these two.

You may share other messaging apps too.

I have lost my TOTP key assigned to codeberg account. Recovering it won't help much, because TOTP is required, so I wrote an email to support in February. 5 months and 2 mails later I have still no response.

I will slowly trasnfer my repos to my gitea/forgejo repo I guess.

Their compatibility list notes 75.33% are Playable, 22.93% can go in-game but not be finished and only 1.69% can't get past the intro.

For me MPV is the best.

systab -e has very much become part of my workflow for dealing with systemd timers and services.

It now colors the output a little and there is a nvim syntax highlighing extra.

#linux #opensource

https://codeberg.org/opennomad/systab

So many people think open source games are a no-go. But there are many good FOSS games. Luanti CTF is one of those games I really enjoy. It is based on the open source voxel game engine Luanti which has similarities with the closed source Minecraft game.

I have been playing this game since youth years. And now I also develop the game :)

Server address: jmaminetest.mooo.com:30001

Some YT channels posting CTF vids:

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCijfes-g3g_gi3vYBUWCy0A
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClzNKLkV5ReEiUBSOp-nMXQ

Edit: See this post from rubenwardy on history of CTF. He started the game. And as he lost interest, he did a wise choice to hand it over to someone else.

Edit2: This server, and also other servers in the JMA network is strictly family friendly. Bear this in mind when playing on the server. This also means it could be a good playground for your kids, if you've got any :)

Does anyone here actually support Google's Developer Verification?

I don’t. I’ve put a warning about it in my repo because I’m against policies like sideloading restrictions, forced ID verification.

Curious what other devs here think. Is Play Store still worth the hassle?

A year of strong growth in income

Total income for 2025 reached € 2,175,997, a substantial increase on the € 1,387,589 recorded in 2024. The growth came from three distinct sources, and it is worth being precise about each.

🔴 Donations The largest share, € 1,976,825, came from donations — overwhelmingly from individual users and small businesses, mostly in Europe. Part of this increase was organic, reflecting the continued strength of LibreOffice downloads.

A further part can be attributed to a concrete change: in mid-2025 we introduced a new update notification on Windows, which periodically — after every major release and selected minor ones — informs users that an update is available, presents the new features, and invites them to support the project with a donation. The effect was immediately visible as a step-up in donations from the moment it was deployed, and it is keeping donations at a higher level into 2026.

🔴 Online stores The second source was income from the sale of LibreOffice through online stores, sponsoring and related commercial activity, which together generated € 168,975. The Apple App Store (€ 118,942) and the Microsoft Store (€ 35,393) accounted for most of this.

🔴 Securities The third source was € 30,197 in income from securities held under the foundation’s asset management.

How the money was spent

Total expenditure for 2025 was € 1,457,343.

The breakdown by category shows where donor money goes.

🟢 Staff and operations remained by far the largest commitment, at € 1,091,032. This covers salaries (€ 406,736), statutory social security contributions (€ 93,244) and freelancers (€ 591,052) — the people who keep infrastructure, communication, administration and project coordination running, in order to share knowledge, support the community in its activities, and enable contributors to do their work.

🟢 Tenders. As in 2024, no development tenders were funded in 2025. Tenders related to LibreOffice development remain on hold, and will be resumed based on the development strategy currently under discussion according to the new Procurement Policy.

🟢 Events and community support amounted to roughly € 87,000, including the LibreOffice Conference (developer conference, € 51,184), community projects (€ 15,014) and student scholarships (€ 17,368), together with marketing initiatives.

🟢 Infrastructure and hosting came to € 51,420, covering the hosting, virtual machines, services and domains that underpin the project’s technical independence — a foundational asset we continue to prioritise.

🟢 Legal and administrative expenses totalled roughly € 92,000, including accounting and the preparation of financial statements (€ 34,164), legal advice and counselling (€ 36,597 across project and general legal work), and insurances (€ 4,626).

🟢 Cost of fundraising Receiving donations is not free. In 2025, payment-processing and banking fees came to roughly € 98,000 — Stripe fees of € 46,446 and bank transfer and money-transfer fees of € 51,190. These are simply the cost of doing business: they scale with the volume of donations we receive. It is worth adding that these figures do not capture the full picture, because PayPal’s currency-conversion costs are embedded in the transactions and not separately visible — though they are comparable in scale to the Stripe fees. We report this plainly so that no reader underestimates what it costs to collect the donations that fund our work.

Results and transparence

After expenses, we closed the year with a result of € 554,476, asset management contributed €21,263, and the commercial business operations returned a profit of € 142,916.

Our accounting is handled by a professional accountant, and our complete ledgers, listing all income and spending broken down by project, are published on our public wiki

To everyone who contributed time, skills, resources and money in 2025: thank you. The foundation’s strength is your achievement.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/13/financials-and-budget-tdf-annual-report-2025/

As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired.

The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in FreeBSD's base system. The FreeBSD installer previously transitioned to using bsddialog in place of dialog and then dpv was the last user of dialog but itself since turned off and now retired.

This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for what will become FreeBSD 16.0.

With dialog removed, the latest FreeBSD code now retires the GNU sub-tree of the FreeBSD base system now that no more GNU code remains.

FreeBSD 16.0 is working its way toward release that is expected to happen in December 2027.

URL for the crowdfunding: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

Specs:

• Display: 4.26" e-paper touchscreen, 480 × 800 px, warm + cool frontlight
• Processor: ESP32-S3 dual-core, Wi-Fi + Bluetooth LE
• Memory: 16 MB flash, 8 MB PSRAM
• Formats: EPUB and plain text, no DRM
• Storage: microSD card slot
• Interface: USB-C with integrated LiPo charging
• Dimension: 78 × 120 × 10 mm, about 85 g
• Open source: MIT-licensed firmware, open hardware (to be released at shipping)

It also has a replaceable 800 mAh battery, I found it cool :)

Hello everyone.

I'm developing an open-source visual novel engine. And I'm struggling to choose between the two licenses: MIT and BSD 3-Clause. I wasn't much about licenses until this moment, so I have to ask someone else. Which one should I pick and why, if someone knows?

Thank you in advance.

Die Macht der #Apps #Stores

Have you ever wondered why everything always has to go through the Play Store or App Stores

https://tube.the-morpheus.de/w/5KSf1DtsL6MwNgM94qLfgu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhTPHlPyDI

#AppStores

@diday
@TheMorpheus
@fdroidorg
@opensource
#DiDay
#Apple
#Google
#IOS

I'm trying to help out one of many collectives stuck on Crabgrass (https://we.riseup.net/), but most tools I can see don't really seem like a much better option. If not that the software is really ageing and is very much not adjusted to mobiles - it would still serve pretty well.

In this case it's some 40 users, with mostly very little computer skill and old hardware and many years of notes and documentation to be moved. Some of it could be public or semi public (think volunteers), some is for the collective eyes only or an even smaller internal group.

Nextcloud with the Collectives plugin would be the most obvious choice... But from what I understand/tested there's no way to stop anyone with access to the notes from ie. downloading or deleting them all. I'd expect that to at least be impossible by mistake, and preferably somewhat more complicated to do for anyone.

Most other tools I've seen are either crypto-, esoteric language based maintenance nightmares which will be a overkill, or a pure wiki, which tends to be confusing for non-tech's or a niche French software for associations.

I'm interested in what would be a actually 'battle tested' software for internal use and how if fares against an old drunk punkrocker or in another extreme a deliberate sabotage attempt.

Hi everyone,

I’m happy to share that Portabase now supports backup and restore for Docker volume!

Portabase is an open-source, self-hosted backup and restore platform, currently supporting 9 databases including PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, and more.

We’re now expanding it to cover Docker volumes too, because many self-hosted apps do not store critical data only in databases.

Typical use cases include WordPress uploads, Nextcloud user files, media libraries, app configuration data, and more generally any self-hosted service where critical data lives in Docker volumes.

The goal is still the same: make backup and restore simple, reliable, and easy to operate. Portabase uses a central server with lightweight agents running close to your workloads.

If you find bugs, please open an issue on GitHub, we’re actively looking for feedback.

Thanks!

#Forgejo keeps impressing. Migrating a larger repo with lots of issues etc, only took the creation of an access token. Once again, i'm super happy with my decision to selfhost my #git.

#selfhosted #opensource #devops

https://docs.codeberg.org/advanced/migrating-repos/#migrating-from-services

We are currently in Beta, but the core features are built and ready for testing!

Here is what you can do in this release:

• Connections: Add contacts with their notes, social links, and relationship context.
• Custom Reminders: Set your own check-in frequencies and get daily notifications so you never accidentally let a relationship drift.
• Important Dates: Track birthdays and anniversaries with annual reminders.
• Home Dashboard: See exactly who is due for a check-in at a single glance.
• QR Sharing: Share and import connection profiles completely offline via QR code.
• Data Backup: Full JSON export and import backups. Your data is yours.
• Organization: Search by name and archive connections you don't need in your main view.

Beta Notice: This is an early release, so please use the Data Management -> Export Backup feature regularly to keep your data safe between updates!

If you want to give it a try, report a bug, or help shape the roadmap, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Community & Feedback: Telegram

Download: Github Releases Codeberg Releases

I've been building a project to preserve family voices, stories, photos, and history, and one question has influenced almost every design decision:

Should something this personal ever require people to trust someone else's servers?

That's what pushed me toward making it open source and fully self-hostable. If someone wants to keep their family's memories on hardware they own, they should be able to.

That said, I know not everyone wants to run a server, so I'm also offering a managed hosted version. The idea isn't to lock anyone into a platform or build another big cloud service—it simply helps fund the project for people who'd rather not manage the infrastructure themselves.

For those of you who self-host, I'm curious:

Would you actually self-host something this personal?

What would make you trust (or distrust) a project like this?

What are some mistakes you've seen developers make when they say they support self-hosting?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing how this community thinks about it before I finish everything up.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.9.6.4/

https://web.archive.org/web/20260708160424/https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.9.6.4/

Since fable 5 went down just some time ago(although this is no longer the case), a lot of fable or Mythos related content including models and datasets were completely killed from HF, it seemed like such a blow to the local development community to lose such important files, this is what inspired me to work on my project, it's a p2p decentralized distribution network (aka a torrent site) that pulls files from HF and verifies them through sha256, I've been making slow and steady progress but so far I haven't made a single public post about it. I'm genuinely scared of a number of things happening, that the project won't gain traction, ridicule from more experienced developers, I'm also worried about security vulnerabilities which I'm sure I haven't fully patched yet...

How do I get over this fear of talking about my project? How do I gain stars on GitHub, and community engagement? After all, a decentralized distribution network is nothing without its peers...