More than thirty days has passed and that means I’m over due in releasing a new issue of Little Bits. It’s this very introduction that held it back. I wasn’t really sure what to say. I try to not repeat myself and to create something fresh each time. This in itself is the challenge to not overthink it and just type something out. As one types the words will often turn into something you weren’t thinking of. It’s okay to repeat yourself, and it’s okay to not know what to say. I’ve also noticed that sometimes these introductions are good but should have been a dedicated post instead. I’m trying to work on reframing my thoughts away from this and to not put so much pressure on myself. The words I type right now can be more than enough and let’s be honest the true substance of this se…
More than thirty days has passed and that means I’m over due in releasing a new issue of Little Bits. It’s this very introduction that held it back. I wasn’t really sure what to say. I try to not repeat myself and to create something fresh each time. This in itself is the challenge to not overthink it and just type something out. As one types the words will often turn into something you weren’t thinking of. It’s okay to repeat yourself, and it’s okay to not know what to say. I’ve also noticed that sometimes these introductions are good but should have been a dedicated post instead. I’m trying to work on reframing my thoughts away from this and to not put so much pressure on myself. The words I type right now can be more than enough and let’s be honest the true substance of this series is the exploration of the little bits themselves and not the introduction. So I will stop my ramblings and let you get on with enjoying exploring the wonderful creative people that created all these discovered little bits over the past month.
Must See Issue Highlights
- A New Linux Distribution is Announced Called KDE Linux
- Abhinav Upadhyay Takes a Deep Dive Into What Makes System Calls Expensive
- Christine Brenneke Writes “Streaming: A Love Story, a Betrayal”
- David Revoy’s Comic Pokes Fun at Web Browser Cookies
- Marcprux Talks About F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree
- FloxPatches Offers Computer-related Embroidery Patches
- Hacking at Leaves Documentary Film Now Available on Internet Archive
- Jay Shetty Sits Down with Emma Watson for a Rare, Deep, Authentic and Intimate Discussion
- Kurzgesagt and Toukana Release Star Birds for Early Access
- Nantucket Lit Adds An IRC Server
- NPM Debug and Chalk Packages Compromised
- Phineas X. Jones Releases Destroy A.I. T-Shirt
- Watch “The Early Beginnings of Software Freedom Day”
Art
- 10 Vincent van Gogh Paintings You Should Know by Lisa Barham
Books / Magazines
Boys & Their Monsters by Matt MG Herron
A crowdfunding project of an explosive collection of sci-fi survival stories about the boys who survived an alien invasion—and the creatures who got left behind.
LibreOffice Expert 2025/26 Edition
Dive deep into the world’s greatest free office suite and learn to be a LibreOffice expert while protecting your privacy from big tech giants.
Table of Contents
- Introducing LibreOffice
- LibreOffice Writer
- LibreOffice Calc
- LibreOffice Impress
- LibreOffice Draw
- LibreOffice Base
- LibreOffice Math
- LibreOffice Extensions
- LibreOffice Templates
- LibreOffice Macros with ScriptForge
- Charts
- LibreOffice Calc Pivot Tables
- Tips & Tricks
- Linguist
- Open Source Fonts
- Writer Security
- Digital Signatures
- Hidden Gems of LibreOffic
- LibreOffice Community
Purchase in print or digitally as a PDF DRM free.
Luna Station Quarterly Issue 63 - September 2025
Short fiction by women-identified writers since 2010.
A free monthly publication of speculative fiction and poetry that is distributed electronically using an online viewer or download in PDF/ePub format for offline reading.
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
George Abbershaw has been invited to a party at the gloomy old English mansion of a friend, along with a few people he knows, a few he doesn’t, and one he is sweet on. A suspicious death means George has to determine who can be trusted and who can’t, including a bespectacled young man named Albert Campion who seems to have shown up at the party uninvited. When things take a decided turn for the worse, George and the rest of the guests have to band together in an effort to extricate themselves from an increasingly perilous situation.
Read this fiction/mystery for free online or download a DRM free copy.
The Server Room Newsletter by Jochen Lillich
DevOps know-how featuring Mentor Monologue, updates on courses/workshops/The Server Room, excerpts from the latest blog posts and reading recommendations.
Time Sensitive #1: Sci-Fi Comic by Joshua Rubin, Jorge Coelho
A crowdfunding project of a mind-bending new time travel thriller from the writer behind video games assassin’s creed 2, destiny and telltale’s walking dead.
Blog
- A bike ride to reset by Jan-Lukas Else
- Ah, blogging by Jack Baty
- AGPL Or Not: Do Investors Care by Kevin Korte
- An Open-Source Maintainer’s Guide to Saying No by Jeremiah
- Apple’s Assault on Standards by Alex Russell
- Artificial Condition by Joel
- August 2025 by Hyde Stevenson
- August 2025 Summary by Joel
- A word about complexity by Rodrigo Arias Mallo
- But, but, Omarchy! by Jack Baty
- CalDAV to my Emacs Diary by Jack Baty
- Car boot sale by Sylvia
- Clarifying Creative Commons and “Free Culture” by Nicholas Bernhard
- Deepening Into Fall by Chris Miller
- Diffing Word and Writer documents with Git by Oto Šťáva
- Digital hygiene: use USB tethering to connect your laptop by Michael Opdenacker
- Finding home by Gina
- From QEMU Headache to Headless by Andrea Manzini
- Happy with the Framework 12 Laptop by Halla Rempt
- Hollow Knight by Joel
- How I built an off-grid, solar powered webserver and exposed it to the Internet by STFN
- How to have only one blog by Jack Baty
- IRC Added to Nantucket Lit Again by Nicholas Bernhard
- I wanted to try Linux so I bought 2 computers by Jack Baty
- Is NixOS the Perfect Linux Distribution for You? by DontBlameMe
- Is the ability to think going to become a rare and valuable skill? by Andreas
- It’s all upside-down (computer-wise) by Jack Baty
- It’s just that I prefer film by Jack Baty
- Linkdump No 72 by Andreas
- Making family IT support effortless (and free) by Garrit Franke
- Making Some Website Changes by Kev Quirk
- Migrating from docker to podman by Arun
- My neovim setup two years later by Mark Pitblado
- My vfx pipeline with syncthing by Sören Schmidt-Clausen
- Nantucket Lit, now in Gopher space by Nicholas Bernhard
- On Subscriptions (Fall 2025) by Joel
- Open Source is one person by Josh Bressers
- Over/Under #32 with Kevin Gimbel by Hyde Stevenson
- Over/Under #33 with Marisabel Munoz by Hyde Stevenson
- Over/Under #34 with Thorsten Zöller by Hyde Stevenson
- Over/Under #35 with BinaryDigit by Hyde Stevenson
- Photography things on Linux by Michael Gale
- Random updates by R.L. Dane
- Response to The Worst Community Report Podcast: Blogging by Naty
- Running an Accurate 80×25 DOS-Style Console on Modern Linux Is Possible After All by John Goerzen
- Sansui AU-6900 Integrated Amplifier by Jack Baty
- Seeking quiet in busy cities by Sylvia
- September 2025 by Hyde Stevenson
- Streaming: A Love Story, a Betrayal by Christine Brenneke
- Switching Back to Jekyll & Building My Own CMS by Kev Quirk
- Thinking About Simplification by Kev Quirk
- This post was written in a notebook by Joel
- This Week in GNOME: #215 Turn On by Felix
- This Week in GNOME: #216 Growing Community by Felix
- Understanding AI Goes Beyond the Chatbots by Kevin Korte
- Vim Carnival September 2025: How do you use Vim? by Hyde Stevenson
- Vim Carnival - October 2025 by Hyde Stevenson
- What Happens After I’m Gone? The Future of the Online Me by Brad Taunt
- Where to now? by R.L. Dane
- Writing about what brings you joy by Joel
- You Have to Feel It by Mitchell Hashimoto
Design
A web based Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) gradient generator. Available as a free hosted service or self-host.
All logos of the world, history and meaning of signs.
A collection of retro magazines in PDF format.
The History of Themeable User Interfaces by Brad Frost
Victor Mono by Rune Bjørnerås
A free programming font with cursive italics and ligatures. Available in twenty-one styles with the following file formats, EOT, OTF, OTF, TTF, WOFF and WOFF2.
License: SIL Open Font License v1.1
Free and Open Source Software
A flexible and efficient framework for running test cases or suites defined in YAML files or specified via command-line arguments.
Language: Python, License: GNU GPL v2.0
Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text with synchronized captions.
Language: Python, License: MIT
Discover your hardware on macOS with this simple, user-friendly hardware info app that retains the beloved design language of the classic ‘About This Mac’ interface, while gaining access to a wealth of additional features.
Language: Swift, License: MIT
Cross-platform, local, simple, fast, and distraction free Text User Interface (TUI) application to listen to your music library.
Language: Rust, License: MIT
All-in-one business platform that helps you manage your business, from invoicing to contracts, and more.
Language: PHP, License: GNU AGPL v3.0
A Text User Interface (TUI) feed reader (RSS/Atom) with the ability to read offline and having all the data locally stored.
Language: Rust, License: MIT
A cute and powerful offline music player for Android.
Language: Kotlin, License: GNU GPL v3.0
X11 wrapper library.
Language: C, License: Unknown
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer and thumbnails++ all in one file with optional dependencies.
Language: Python, License: MIT
SQL-like query language for CSV.
Language: Go, License: MIT
A simple tool to prepare PDFs for professional print quality with accurate colours.
Language: C++, License: GNU AGPL v3.0
A terminal user interface for exploring data.
Language: Rust, License: Apache v2.0
Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers.
Language: C++, License: GNU GPL v2.0
A desktop environment without graphics.
Language: Rust, License: MIT
Domain is a free and open Small Web hosting platform.
Language: JavaScript, License: GNUG AGPL v3.0
Terminal user interface to test if your PlayStation 4 DualShock controller is working properly.
Language: Rust, License: MIT
A powerful and secure environment variable manager for developers, featuring an intuitive Terminal User Interface (TUI) and comprehensive command-line interface.
Language: Rust, License: MIT
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you.
Language: PHP, License: MIT
A CLI tool for managing RSS/Atom feeds with SQLite storage and static website generation.
Language: Go, License: MIT
Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices.
Language: JavaScript, License: MPL v2.0
Probes for hallucination, data leakage, prompt injection, misinformation, toxicity generation, jailbreaks, and many other weaknesses using Large Language Models (LLMs).
Language: Python, License: Apache v2.0
An Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client application.
Language: Rust, License: GNU GPL v3.0
A tiny tool which turns your terminal into a fake Hollywood style real time hacking scene that runs in a Docker container.
License: MIT
A modern, automated RSS feed generator for Humble Bundle deals, built with Go and hosted on GitHub Pages.
Language: Go, License: Apache v2.0
A free, Linux-based, immutable1 operating system built on Buildroot and fully modelled in YANG using sysrepo.
Language: Python, License: GNU GPL v2.0
Find, organize and reuse complex shell commands without ever leaving your terminal using a command-line tool that acts as a smart bookmark manager.
Language: Rust, License: Apache v2.0
A Small Web development kit using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Language: JavaScript, License: GNU AGPL v3.0
Document intelligence framework for Python to Extract text, metadata, and structured data from PDFs, images, office documents, and more. Built on Pandoc, PDFium, and Tesseract.
Language: Python, License: MIT
Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager.
Language: C, License:
A Python package to search for files and move them to a directory structure based on date.
Language: Python, License: GNU GPL v3.0
A natural painting program featuring an infinite canvas, opaque and transparencies at the same time, true pigment, flexible lighting, node based brush engine and accurate colour management.
Language: C++, License: GNU GPL v3.0
A PDF analysis tool for visualizing the inner tree-like data structure1 of a PDF in spectacularly large and colourful diagrams as well as scanning the binary streams embedded in the PDF for hidden potentially malicious content.
Language: YARA, License: GNU GPL v3.0
Build terminal-themed web applications with Rust and WebAssembly.
Language: Rust, License: Apache v2.0/MIT
A focus stacking application for microscopy, macrophotography, and computational imaging.
Language: Python, License: GNU LGPL v3.0
A remote system monitor with a rich Text User Interface (TUI), inspired by top and btop, that communicates with a lightweight remote agent over WebSockets.
Language: Rust, License: MIT
Introducing a portfolio as a Text User Interface (TUI) app served over Secure Shell (SSH).
Language: Rust, License: GNU AGPL v3.0
A minimal pastebin.
Language: Rust, License: MIT
Privacy-first voice-to-text with local AI enhanced processing for macOS.
Language: Swift, License: MIT
Gaming
A port of Diablo and Hellfire that strives to make it simple to run the game on modern operating systems while providing engine improvements, bug fixes, and some optional quality of life features.
- Irving Gould and Commodore by David L. Farquhar
Jurl: Commodore Amiga Edition by Tonsomo Entertainment
Enjoy this early access release that blends Asteroids and Pacman together where the player has to collect all the space diamonds while avoiding various aliens.
Download available for free or name your own price.
- It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal by Kyle Orland
- Kazeta: The Linux OS That Makes Modern Games Feel Like ’90s Consoles by PerfectDark
Star Birds by Toukana, kurzgesagt
Star Birds is a relaxing asteroid base-building and resource management game. Discover and mine countless asteroids, create production networks and guide your flock of spacefaring birds to new interstellar horizons!
Super Star Trek 1978 meets 25th Anniversary by emabolo
This free fan made game is a remake and conversion of the 1978 strategy game Super Star Trek reimagined with the User Interface (UI) of Star Trek 25th Anniversary. The goal is to find and destroy the Klingon invasion fleet before the time expires, generally around 30 days.
Available on web browser (online), GNU/Linux, macOS, Steam Deck and Windows.
- The making of Super Star Trek 1978 meets 25th Anniversary by Emanuele Bolognesi
- The Norwegian silverball surprise: A visit at Bergen Pinball Club by Robert Glashüttner
- Top 25 Games Of All Time by Joel
Hardware / Accessories
Build Your Own 3D Printed Arcade Wall Cabinet (video) by Artifextron
A stylish wall mounted 3D printable arcade cabinet with all the necessary files and documentation including introduction, build, design and parts to source that will guide you along the entire build process.
DIY Dual-Screen Cyberdeck: Sleek Design, Ultimate Functionality (video) by Sector 07
A dual-screen cyberdeck called RPI DEV that was built around a Raspberry Pi 5 made from 3D printable parts and free & open source software. For further details refer the documentation, files and resources.
An open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld, with support for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games.
Language: Scala, License: GNU GPL v3.0
ipod Classic (5th Gen - 7th Gen) by Boxy Pixel
Upgrade your iPod Classic to the modern age with new buttons, Bluetooth/USB-C charging, case, click wheel, screen, front glass and rear inlay.
A video demonstration is available by Macho Nacho Productions
WiFi Retromodem V4 by TattlerSolutions
The Wi-Fi Retromodem is a non-destructive replacement of the PCB in an external Hayes Smartmodem 1200 or 2400 with simulated audio dialing and SSH support.
Knowledge
- Surveillance Self-Defense: Choosing the VPN That’s Right for You
- Docker Volume and Mounts by Kanishk Pachauri
- Jujutsu Tutorial by Steve Klabnik
- Learning web development: Authenticating users with plain Node.js by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky
- What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive by Abhinav Upadhyay
Misc
Blondie Movies (videos)
Watch for free this American comedy film series (1938 - 1950) based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young.
- Cat Feed Calculator by Dr. Mowinckel
- Computer-related Embroidery Patches by FloxPatches
- Destroy “A.I.” T-Shirt by Phineas X. Jones
File Upload Scripts Collection
A collection of enhanced bash scripts for uploading files to popular temporary file hosting services. Each script features an interactive file browser using fzf, automatic clipboard integration, and service-specific optimizations.
Hacking at Leaves (2024, video)
An Austrian documentary film explores various themes including the United States’ colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement, through the lens of the story of a hackerspace in Durango, Colorado, during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Directed/Written by Johannes Grenzfurthner
- Produced by monochrom
- Available to freely stream or download.
Stream or download for free on Internet Archive.
- How to thrive as an adult with ADHD by Lidia Zylowska, Joohee Seo
- How to Stop Automatically Switching to New Outlook by Edi Wang
Learn about KDE’s mascot Konqi, family and backstory.
A free and open database of mostly all the software licenses, in particular all the open source software licenses, with over 2000 curated licenses texts and their metadata.
An independent open source Internet search engine operating out of Sweden.
Mini Fantasy Theater - 16. Cookies - Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy
A comic strip taking a poke at the truth about web browser cookies.
- On Purpose Podcast: Emma Watson’s TRUTH Behind Why I Walked Away From Frame… (video) by Jay Shetty
Open AGB Display by DerTobi
An open source IPS display mod for the Game Boy Advance.
A new search engine powered by Google, Bing and Mojeek with focused on privacy, security and ecology.
A non-profit whose main objective is to stop Big Tech spying on us and monetizing our personal data.
RightsCon or a right con? (or How I learned to stop worrying and love corporate surveillance.) by Aral Balkan
Privacy empowers. Surveillance weakens. Learn what this is all about (video).
- The early beginnings of Software Freedom Day (video) by Digital Freedom Foundation
Music
Brain Hack by Caspro, LukHash
A new chiptune, synthwave and cyberpunk track collab with Caspro and LukHash.
A cooperatively owned music store, 100% run by and for the benefit of musicians, fans and the people who work here.
A British music web zine and quarterly magazine that primarily covers rock, punk and heavy metal music since 2017.
An independent user-friendly space to help artists sell digital music, receive financial support, manage mailing lists, and share with their supporters.
Nu Delhi (album) by Bloodywood
The second studio album released March 21, 2025 by the Indian heavy metal band is a tribute to the musical scene of Delhi from which the band originates.
Patch It! by LukHash
An upbeat retro mix song made with styles of chiptune, synthwave and cyberpunk is a sure way to get you moving and grooving.
Stream for free or purchase this song for download DRM free.
The Return of the Cassette Tape? How Analog Music Is Making a Comeback by Will Mari
News
- Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux by Nate Graham
- Bluesky: Our Approach to Age Assurance by The Bluesky Team
- EFF Urges Virgina Court of Appeals to Require Search Warrants to Access ALPR Databases by Jennifer Lynch
- F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree by marcprux
- Form and Function: Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald by Allan Day
- Introducing The ASF’s New Logo by The ASF
- Malicious npm Packages Impersonate Flashbots SDKs, Targeting… by Kush Pandya
- Maps and GNOME 49 by Marcus Lundblad
- Mastodon: Trunk & Tidbits, August 2025 by The Mastodon Team
- Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC by Scott Hanselman, Stacey Haffner
- Robert Munsch MAID: Canadian children’s author gets approval by Tammy Ibrahimpoor
- Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads by Aamir Siddiqui
- Service offerings from Mastodon by The Mastodon Team
- The Everyone Environment: So short, and thanks for all the flinch by Steven Deobald
Open Source Intelligence
OSINT Tools and Resources Handbook by i-Intelligence GmbH
An index of OSINT tools and resources.
Privacy
- Flo app controversy: Jury rules Meta stole users’ menstrual data by Lena
- Is France finally standing up for encryption and privacy? by Hanna
- Privacy and Security Tips for the Average Person by Phillip
- Surveillance Self-Defense How to: Use Tor
- Tell the EU: Don’t Break Encryption with “Chat Control” by Mozilla Foundation
Security
- Avoiding Activation Scams this Football Season by Julia Ibinson
- CISA warns of critical Linux Sudo flaw exploited in attacks by Ionut Ilascu
- Cybersecurity Reading List - Week of 2025-09-29 by Ian Campbell
- Deepfakes are rewriting the rules of geopolitics by Sinisa Markovic
- How attackers weaponize communications networks by Mirko Zorz
- Inside Salt Typhoon: China’s State-Corporate Advanced Persistent Threat by DomainTools Investigations
- Inside the Kimsuky Leak: How the “Kim” Dump Exposed North Korea’s Credential Theft Playbook by DomainTools Investigations
- Interview Behind the scenes of cURL with its founder: Releases, updates, and security by Mirko Zorz
- Kroah-Hartman explains Cyber Resilience Act for open source by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
- Microsoft and Cloudflare disrupt massive RaccoonO365 phishing service by Sergiu Gatlan
- Nearly 50,000 Cisco firewalls vulnerable to actively exploited flaws by Bill Toulas
- npm debug and chalk packages compromised by Charlie Eriksen
- Plex tells users to reset passwords after new data breach by Lawrence Abrams
- Samsung patches actively exploited zero-day reported by WhatsApp by Sergiu Gatlan
- San Francisco Gets An Invasive Billionaire-Bought Surveillance HQ by Josh Richman, Matthew Guariglia
- SystemBC malware turns infected VPS systems into proxy highway by Ionut Ilascu
- ‘WhiteCobra’ floods VSCode market with crypto-stealing extensions by Bill Toulas
- WestJet confirms recent breach exposed customers’ passports by Bill Toulas
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