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TL;DR FSFans is moving to a federated forum to make discussions more open and participant-driven. Join at fedi.fsfans.club or !fsfans@fedi.fsfans.club. Everyone follows simple community rules and can manage their own interactions—there are no traditional “members,” only participants.

Gentoo News [Apr 1, 2026]: We are proud to announce that Gentoo plans to switch to GNU Hurd as its primary kernel. Our crack team of boffins has been working hard to port Gentoo to the Hurd and can now share that that they’ve succeeded, though it remains still in a heavily experimental stage.

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

The 64-bit Hurd is now an option in the Guix System installer.

Convert CAJ (China Academic Journals) files to PDF. 转换中国知网 CAJ 格式文献为 PDF。佛系转换，成功与否，皆是玄学。 - caj2pdf/caj2pdf

If you have that feeling about your code…

《骑道托邦》是Tristan Nitot所作短篇小说，讲述「一个成功实现气候转变的世界」。

Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley.

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0. Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.

On a systemd-based distro.

Search with SearXNG natively on Android.

以前我一直都想学习草书，但苦于没有资料，很难拆解草书规律。

L’autocomplétion de nos intentions par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

Xonotic 是尊重计算自由、快节奏的竞技场射击游戏。https://xonotic.org/

Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.

This is insane!

The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.

Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download, compile and run all the software you need to use your Pebble. We just published the source code for the new Pebble mobile app!

CP16 是一种 AFSK 调制方法，通过 16 路的正弦波信号在瀑布图画图。因为手机上没有相关软件所以野架玩起来很麻烦，就写了这个软件。目前还是个 Demo 的状态，但收发功能是齐全的。计划 Release 后上架 F-Droid ;-)

「通知管理员有关举报，而不仅仅是管理员」搁这搁这呢（

The GrapheneOS project has announced on X that they are ceasing all operations in France, asserting that the country is no longer safe for “open source privacy projects”.