In a startup context, do more #demos.

It helps you:
- get good at presenting,
- refine your pitch,
- get more confident about your product.

And it helps others too:
- they learn what you're working on,
- easier for them to understand,
- they get less bored.

#Demo your work folks! ;)

🎉 Registrations for SoCraTes Crete 2025 are now open!! 🎉 🥳 📆

👉 Join us here (https://socrates-crete.org/registrationform.html).

💥 Free cancellation if you book till end of June (see FAQ for details), so you can book now and change your mind later!

🎁 Bonus: The first 30 people to pay will also receive a special gift at the event!

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#Socrates #Crete

New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/

@Mer__edith Maybe add a feature to Signal that marks conversations with non-official Signal (re-)builds? As a user I should be informed/warned, I think.

Listen to an audiobook. https://librivox.org/ has free, public domain books recorded by volunteers.

:OSI: 181 #OpenSource community members have called upon #OSI to reveal the full election results they've been hiding from voters and the public.

🖋️ Will you join in? The organizers are still accepting pull request and email signatures.

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated

Get the details and the process here:

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

#FLOSS #FreeSoftware #FOSS

So now both Elastic and Redis have backtracked on their license changes and gone open-source again under AGPL... interesting.

For the next few days I'll post a daily 📣 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS 📣 on #Fosstodon, also via @fosstodon .

We'll need:
- a team of mods, 6 to 8 people.
- 1 to 2 technical admins, sysadmin things, no mod duties.
- a Kev to my Mike and vice versa. One person who would be interested in sharing the overall coordination.

We've already seen a few offers from our amazing community, more are always welcome! After the weekend I'll gather everyone who has offered to volunteer, and we'll build a team 😊

Well played #DavidWalliams ! 😆

Great start to #Spaceboy - looking forward to the rest!

@davad good question!

But, no, the position is not just open to EU applicants.

If this sounds like you, or someone you know, I'd appreciate if you could point them to this and have them contact me on here or - better - the Radicle #Zulip : radicle.zulipchat.com

Once again: boosts, for reach, are very welcome!!

This role is fully #remote. The whole team is fully distributed, across Europe (for now). Timezone is flexible (we've had ppl working from Mexico / Argentina / Thailand for months, without issues).

I'm in Europe/Athens timezone, but #async is the default way of working.

#OpenSource #ForTheWin !

Radicle itself is written in #rust, but the tech stack for what you'd be working on is largely negotiable and you'd have a big say in what goes.

You'll probably find the onboarding easier if you already know some: #rust #Tauri #svelte .

So, I'm now working on #Radicle full-time, and I'm looking for someone to join my team and work directly with me.

I'm looking for someone with experience in more #frontend oriented roles, a #product builder mindset and a desire to scratch their own itch and create a better #DeveloperExperience.

#Radicle is a peer-to-peer code forge, based on git.

It's a decentralised GitHub. Because #Git was always meant to be decentralised.

True to those principles, Radicle is #localFirst: you can work on issues and patches even with no internet - and there's lots more to get excited about!

Let's #workTogether !

No job description yet, but, hear me out:

I've recently left #RedHat, to do something I feel is more meaningful: help build a better home for #OpenSource: @radicle

We're now looking for someone with experience in the #frontend world and a #UserExperience focus and #product builder mindset to join my team!

( A thread 🧵👇 )

Boosts, to help this get to the right person without an algorithm in the way, are highly appreciated!

#FediHire #HiringAlert #Jobs

Where to start with: Terry Pratchett

With more than 75m copies of his books sold around the world, Terry Pratchett is one of the most loved British writers, best known for his comic fantasy novels set on a fictional planet, #Discworld. Ten years on from the author’s death, and just before what would have been his 77th birthday, Pratchett’s biographer Marc Burrows has put together a guide to his hero’s work

#GNUTerryPratchett

https://www.dumptheguardian.com/books/2025/apr/25/where-to-start-with-terry-pratchett

GNU Terry Pratchett. 10 years gone but never forgotten. Looking around this corner of the internet I see people starting their Discworld journeys for the first time. I see long time readers finding each other. I see friends who started as fellow fans. He changed so many lives. Thank you Terry. I'll raise a toast today on your birthday. A man is not dead while his name is still spoken, or until the ripples he left in the world fade.
#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld #Pratchett #TerryPratchett #GNU

Happy Terry Pratchett Day, on what would have been his 77th birthday.
#GNUTerryPratchett #SpeakHisName

Le projet #Radicle (forge en P2P) a publié une interface desktop
https://www.radworks.garden
https://radicle.xyz