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@fsf@hostux.social · 6d ago
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@libreoffice@fosstodon.org · Mar 06, 2026
Millions of students are getting locked into closed, proprietary software from Big Tech vendors. Here's how #LibreOffice can give them back their digital sovereignty: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/06/libreoffice-for-education-regaining-digital-sovereignty/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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In case people wanted a 2nd chance to object to a compulsory user account age recording + reporting law (the only people who objected in #California that I have found being only interested in 'gratis'
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026
Another 2nd chance to tell legislators that the mechanisms that we have inherited from #Unix, and used in loads of #FreeSoftware operating systems from #NetBSD to #Tribblix, do not have date of birth/age fields for user accounts, is #Illinois, where HB5511 is the very same text as #California's, too. https://my.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511&GAID=18&LegID=167486 It really does seem at this point that this is model legislation. Sponsors in Illionois are Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Margaret Croke, Janet Yang, Rohr, Kimberly Du Buclet, Natalie A. Manley, Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar, Rick Ryan, Michelle Mussman, Martha Deuter and Tracy Katz Muhl. The bill is in the judiciary–civil committee as of yesterday. It was introduced last month, 1 day after it was introduced in Colorado. I wonder in what other states it has just turned up. A lobby organization handing pre-drafted bills to multiple sets of legislators is not unknown. @nileane@nileane.fr @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw #IllinoisLaw #FreeSoftware #AgeVerification
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026
In case people wanted a 2nd chance to object to a compulsory user account age recording + reporting law (the only people who objected in #California that I have found being only interested in 'gratis' free software on the Google and Apple Stores), #Colorado has a bill going through its state legislature right now. It is much the same text, which seems on course to be model legislation, as #California's, and so will also apply to 'operating system's on 'general purpose computing device's that have 'software application's (package managers) with 'publicly available internet website's that 'facilitate the download of applications from third-party developers' . The sponsors of the bill are (state) senators Matt Ball & Larry Liston, and representatives Amy Paschal & Naquetta Ricks. It has already passed the committee stage and third senate reading. https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116174134208480252 https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051 @nileane@nileane.fr @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems #USLaw #CaliforniaLaw #ColoradoLaw #FreeSoftware #GDPR #Unix
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems It concerns #AlpineLinux the same as it concerns every other Linux-based operating system that has a package management utility that talks to a public WWW site. As I said at https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116156019252249071 and as @RunxiYu has also said, the statute as written covers all such systems. (It's an Act now, by the way, not a Bill.) Alpine Linux has a covered application store. Here, for example, is what 'publicly available internet website' apk as the 'software application' uses to 'facilitate the download' of the third-party rustc 'application' from the 'store' in Alpine Linux on the aforementioned #mainframes used by the aforementioned naughty 16-year-olds in #California: https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main/s390x/ Yes, #CaliforniaLaw as written is this expansive. Yes, the legislators did not even consider how the BSDs and Linux-based operating systems work. None of the objectors apparently even mentioned how these work. #rust #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR #FreeSoftware #Unix
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026
@bobulous@fosstodon.org See the widely publicized announcement by the developer of #MidnightBSD, which caused a lot of people, including me, into looking at the actual law. https://nitter.net/midnightbsd/status/2027101491211718765 The only people concerned with free software, apparently, as the bill made its way through the #California legislature, were Oakland Privacy, and they were only interested in 'gratis' free software on the Google and Apple Stores and the impacts on its development. The various committee analyses are on that legislature page, and they give the objectors's objections. I have yet to find a mention of BSDs, Linux-based operating systems, or even Unix. Goodness knows what #IBM is going to do about #RHEL and #RPM. Clearly they completely missed a very important lobbying opportunity. I wonder if the IBM legal people know about this even yet. @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems @reallyflygreg@mstdn.ca @toddalio@mstdn.ca #USLaw #CaliforniaLaw #FreeSoftware #RedHat
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems It concerns #AlpineLinux the same as it concerns every other Linux-based operating system that has a package management utility that talks to a public WWW site. As I said at https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116156019252249071 and as @RunxiYu has also said, the statute as written covers all such systems. (It's an Act now, by the way, not a Bill.) Alpine Linux has a covered application store. Here, for example, is what 'publicly available internet website' apk as the 'software application' uses to 'facilitate the download' of the third-party rustc 'application' from the 'store' in Alpine Linux on the aforementioned #mainframes used by the aforementioned naughty 16-year-olds in #California: https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main/s390x/ Yes, #CaliforniaLaw as written is this expansive. Yes, the legislators did not even consider how the BSDs and Linux-based operating systems work. None of the objectors apparently even mentioned how these work. #rust #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR #FreeSoftware #Unix
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 02, 2026
@reallyflygreg@mstdn.ca @toddalio@mstdn.ca I'm inclined to believe that it is indeed the people who don't understand technology (specifically: they think that everything works like their smart 'phone or Microsoft Windows 11 PC do) making policy; or that they did understand the technology and were just crap at drafting legislation such that it could distinguish the Microsoft Store, Google Play, the Apple App Store, et al. from #Ubuntu's package repository and #OpenBSD's ports tree. And that distinguishing criterion is not #FreeSoftware. Given the aims, the #California legislators would want #FDroid to be required to hand over #AgeVerification data to free-software apps that F-Droid allows, that themselves want to impose age restrictions (on, say, showing certain content to minors) via the route of getting the account holder's age (bracket) information from the operating system via a 'signal' from the 'store'. https://monitor.f-droid.org/anti-features #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Debian #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 02, 2026
@montyontherun@bitbang.social The definitions are broad, so to quite an extent they would. There are users, who have accounts, on general purpose computers, and run applications. The only hope for #mainframes seems to be that they likely don't have things that fit the definition of a 'covered application store'. But they might; especially if the mainframe is nowadays running a Linux-based operating system. http://linuxvm.org/info/distros.html #Debian and #Ubuntu have package repositories for s390x, for example. Such a repository is a 'publicly available internet website […] that distributes and facilitates the download of applications'. Here's one way how the naughty 16-year-olds in #California would download rustc onto such a mainframe with no #AgeVerification, for example: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/s390x/rustc/download #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw #FreeSoftware #rust
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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Feb 27, 2026
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@internet@social.linux.pizza · Feb 26, 2026
Different distros. Different opinions. Still building together. My new song “Penguins of the World, Unite!” is a small anthem for a global community that keeps choosing collaboration over control. Built on Linux. Inspired by OpenSource. CC-BY. https://www.thefreelantern.com/lyrics/our-story/01-penguins-of-the-world-unite #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #IndieMusic
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@arutaz@social.n2.mikronod.se · Feb 25, 2026
I'm back on GrapheneOS ☺️ I settled for an Google Pixel 10 Pro XL. Will try to keep that for two years but we'll see. I have a tendency to buy new hardware quite often. (way too often). And of course I started donating to GrapheneOS again. Today I found a great keyboard that has support for auto correct in many languages, my included (Swedish). The keyboard app is HeliBoard, an actively developed fork of OpenBoard. So far I've found one app that does not really work with GrapheneOS and that is a car parking app (Parkering Göteborg), but I haven't used that in ages and I've read that there should be other ways to pay for parking in Göteborg when / if I go there again. #GrapheneOS #Pixel #GooglePixel #GooglePixelProXL #Android #HeliBoard #Keyboard #AndroidKeyboard #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Swedish #Language #AutoCorrect
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@askubuntu@ubuntu.social · Feb 23, 2026
Easy way to open multiple MBOX files #softwarerecommendation #fileformat #freesoftware https://askubuntu.com/q/1564254/612
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@erua@hub.hubzilla.de · Feb 22, 2026
Касаемо всяких инициатив https://keepandroidopen.org/ru/ Так ведь Google никогда и не воспринимало Android как некий свободный софт или платформу. И в тот же open source вокруг Android играло более-менее честно, без попыток выставить это всё «свободным софтом». Хочешь смотреть? Пожалуйста, это такая прозрачность во имя доверия к платформе. Однако, не путай прозрачность с готовностью прислушиваться к твоему мнению — открытостью. Компания не была готов терпеть кого-либо в этом проекте и не нуждалась ни в чьём участии. Не побиралась в плане поиска ресурсов на разработку и реализацию, а оплачивала всё из своего кармана. Не было такого, чтобы компания взяла и приватизировала результат усилий некоего сообщества, занимавшегося несколько лет развитием open source проекта. Наоборот, она дала миру возможность взять AOSP как основу для создания других платформ. Так появилось множество форков, как и тот, что стал предшественником CyanogenMod, за десять лет превратившийся в LineageOS. Честность действий Google выражалась и в том, что она ставила однозначные условия для вендоров мобильных устройств: всегда пихать Google Services и определённый набор софта, предустановленным и неудаляемым на устройствах с Android. Честность тут в том, что это однозначно показывало меры по предотвращению фрагментации платформы Android как ОС для мобильных устройств. И в тоже время явно демонстрировало модель финансирования и окупания затрат на развитие ОС — пользователи являются товаром, но за это получают бесплатно набор служб с сервисами. И вся эта мобильная ОС выступает лишь терминалом для доступа людей к подобным сервисам, завязанным на инфраструктуру Google, сродни того же GCM. Кто-нибудь запрещал на Android'е при этом использовать UnifiedPush вместо push-back'ов через GCM и Google Services? Может кто-нибудь из Google не давал развиваться форкам типа LineageOS. В техническом плане или же преследуя различным образом через суды и госрегуляторы? Честность компании в том, что она платила из своего кармана за развитие Android в ту сторону, в которую считала нужным его развивать. И всегда в явно виде декларировала как модель получения доходов, так и долю участия всех желающих в развитии AOSP («спасибо за ваше мнение, мы обязательно его обсудим и осмыслим»). И никак не преследовало тех, кто брал на холяву готовое из AOSP, желая развивать свои варианты Android как ОС или платформы. Инициативы сродни https://keepandroidopen.org/ru/ хороши, но эксплуатируют набор заблуждений. И говорят о якобы имевших место быть ожиданиях, возникших на ровном месте, отнюдь не исходя из обещаний от компании управлявшей и финансировавшей AOSP. Т.е. стрёмно предъявлять кому-то, кто всё сделал за свой счёт, но при этом ни в какой форме не декларировал всего того, что ему приписывают авторы подобных петиций. Не забываем, что «free» бывает как «бесплатное пиво», а бывает и как свобода от кого-либо и чьего-либо контроля. И тот факт, что нечто имеет open source модель развития, предоставляясь как «бесплатное пиво» пользователям, отнюдь не означает, что оно должно соответствовать «free» в другом контексте и понимании. #android #privacy #free-software #freesoftware #freedom #lineageos #aosp #lang_ru @@Russia@3zi.ru #rur
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@jfmblinux@mastodon.jfmblinux.fr · Feb 21, 2026
L'IA est-elle vraiment au service de l'humain ? (Tristan @nitot@framapiaf.org OCTO Technology) Un article très intéressant à lire : https://www.ia4business.info/blog/lia-est-elle-vraiment-au-service-de-lhumain-tristan-nitot-octo-technology #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux #Privacy #RegainPrivacy #LogicielsLibres #Environnement #SouveraineteNumerique #NoGAFAM #BanGAFAM
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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Feb 21, 2026
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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Feb 21, 2026
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/5NygNLC3kbKVv3uaE9Apc6 🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_Z8LITED2/1) 🔗 [ℹ️](https://video.echirolles.fr/w/2TLxXUjaNS7biN2Yn1yzVk") Verschiedene Organisationen demonstrieren erfolgreich, dass eine verantwortungsvolle digitale Transformation durch Open-Source-Migration machbar und notwendig ist. #opensource #software #war #freesoftware #logicielslibres
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@unixviking@social.linux.pizza · Feb 18, 2026
Unfortunately, my experiment with CachyOS is over, even though I gave the system a fair chance this time. First of all, I really liked CachyOS. The speed is phenomenal, and everything would have been perfect except for one tiny detail that is essential for me: Localsend didn't work. And I couldn't figure out why. I was able to install the program easily, and my computer recognized all the devices around it. Except for the devices around my computer with CachyOS on it... and it was also not possible to send files from the computer to the recognized devices or mark them as favorites. Not even a firewall was activated or anything else in the network settings as usual. With all the other distributions I usually use—Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Zorin OS, FreeBSD, even a “real” Arch—there are no problems at all. And since I'm constantly sending files and photos back and forth between my smartphone and computers and don't want to be constantly plugging and unplugging cables, CachyOS is not for my everyday use. I find that very unfortunate. But it's usually little things like this that make you less happy with a distribution or Linux in general than others might be. 😧 #linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #cachyos #fedora #debian #zorinos #arch #archlinux #freebsd #localsend
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@souwill@bolha.us · Feb 16, 2026
Ontem testei a interface Qtile no debian 13, ja estava usando o i3 e achando muito rapido e muito bom, mas o Qtile me surpreendeu demais! Agora e aprender o dicionario de comandos! #linux #qtile #debian #freesoftware #bash #lenovothinkpad
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@jdb@birdon.social · Feb 13, 2026
@tinker@infosec.exchange @cybervegan@autistics.life @NTOY@mstdn.social Hi, this thread deserves a #freesoftware Thank you for sharing. When the recycle site i'm gonna contribute starts, I'm gonna use it ! https://mstdn.social/@NTOY/116060342226917836
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@Crell@phpc.social · Feb 12, 2026
I'm finally trying out some local LLM models. Ollama just told me that it's trained on GPL software, so any code it produces needs to be GPL. Then in a second chat, it said the opposite. #AiIsGoingGreat #LLM #AI #GPL #FreeSoftware
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