@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyBy 2027, 2.5 million French civil servants will stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — and switch to Visio, a homegrown service.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deZahlungsanbieter Nexi kündigt Free Software Foundation Europe
Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) arbeitet mit Spenden durch Unterstützer. Der Zahlungsanbieter Nexi hat nun gekündigt.
https://www.
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgGood to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary ai-scraping microsoft github platform to codeberg etc.
I think it's fair to say that projects left behind there aren't really free/open source.. Many aren't able to contribute to projects there for ethical reasons (e.g. microsoft's association with genocide, epstein, extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE etc), and github now exists to strip software of free/open source licenses.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAh, yes, scale and market penetration, the two founding pillars of open source.
(Actually, I’m not even being sarcastic. Don’t confuse free software and open source. Open source is open as in “open for business” and “open for enclosure”. Free software is about free as in “freedom”. Very different things, even if, in both cases, the source is readily available.) @…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialIt really is time to see if the Free Software Foundation has any mettle I guess or if they're just too busy eating toe cheese.
@adulau@infosec.exchangeGCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
So if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything related to vulnerabilities, join us.
#gcve #opensource
@frankel@mastodon.top
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaIt feels obvious that llm's have no place in free and open source software. Apparently it isn't, at least not to everyone. I recently became interested in exploring the scope of the problem after finding out that both Vim and Neovim not only don't have policies banning llm contribution, but already contain fairly significant amounts of llm generated code.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoThis looks nice! Sometimes we get really cool things posted when folks show up at Maker Forums to make their first post, and AxioCNC looks modern and has some potentially really helpful features. 🎉
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/made-a-free-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Zahlungsanbieter Nexi kündigt Free Software Foundation Europe
@daehne@muenster.imOpen-Source-Tools, die wir lieben | Digitalcourage
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2026/i-love-free-software-day
"Freie Software ist aus unserem Alltag nicht wegzudenken. Anlässlich des „I ♥ Free Software Day“ möchten wir die Arbeit der überwiegend ehrenamtl…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialI knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of legalism. At the same time, copyright law itself has been extended to be near-immortal copyrights rather than brief monopolies to spur creation by enabling profit from creating works.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWhoa, Veritasium has made a video about Free Software (what I call #Libre software). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ - naturally there're also dark 'hackers' (I prefer 'crac…
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza
@jackie@social.linux.pizzame in 2021 considering Drew to be too much of a free software purist but deciding to use sourcehut anyways
me now and where sourcehut and codeberg are the two best slop-free git hosters
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $19.7B, vs. $19.2B est., and projects 2026 revenue growth and free cash flow above estimates; IBM jumps 8% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/ib…
@johl@mastodon.xyzThe #Enclosure feedback loop or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good:
“[…]something has been taken from the public. Not just the training data, but the public forums and practices that created this training data in the first place. […] LLM companies are now selling back to us something that used to be available for free.”
@stsquad@mastodon.org.ukThis is an excellent video from #veritasium touches in the history of free software, #compression #algorithms and the dangers of supply chain attacks in open source projects.
How One Ha…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOpen Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI
@compfu@mograph.socialI love #Thunderbird but I can‘t believe how stuck in the past it seems. No conversation view (a slow plugin exists), no warning for emails that have a sender outside your company (not even a plugin?), no warning when you’re addressing somebody outside your org, no way to define which address books should not be used to auto-complete.
I know it’s free software and I don’t donate every ti…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsNew on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"
"""
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.
While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.
But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
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#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaTutti i motivi per abbandonare #GitHub e quali sono le possibili alternative. Il post di @…
Sappiamo che non è un compito facile; GitHub è onnipresente. Grazie al suo marketing efficace, GitHub ha convinto gli sviluppatori di software li…
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialDamals, als die iX noch eine Sonderpublikation der c't war: #vintagecomputing
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itan attack on free software maintainers... https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaKeep Android Open https://keepandroidopen.org/
"You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, as of September 2026, they will be non-consensually pushing an update…
@makeratschool@kanoa.deRE: https://social.medienzentrum.rocks/@mzffm/116068864299971074
Genau das Thema des 'I love free software' Tags.
'Free' übrigens wie 'Frei' in Freiheit. Nicht kostenlos. 😃
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… There are at least two other options: VMWare Workstation Pro and KVM/QEMU. Both are free and I've tried them, as well as VirtualBox. VMWare isn't a nice company, but so far I'm happiest with WorkStation Pro. I use the VM to run Windows 11 to sync my Kobo Reader and iPhone and also to run Dragon speech recognition software. I found that WorkStationPro was bes…
@a@paperbay.org
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldSmall business owners: You didn’t start your small business to have an opportunity to do bookkeeping or accounting. If you've lost control of your accounting, turn to someone with 20 years experience in risk management & accounting/payroll software.
https://www.awjbookkeeping.com/
@piger@mastodon.socialbought a jabra to give ears and mouth to home assistant and after a remarkable amount of cursing I got it working.
It's amazing considering that this whole stack is basically a caesar salad of free software
@adulau@infosec.exchangeI’ll be at @… next Saturday and Sunday. If you’d like to chat, feel free to find me to talk about:
@candidexmedia@mastodon.design@0xdjdev@mastodon.art Here are my recs:
General design principles: https://baselinehq.com/course.html
For learning software tools: If you can access Lynda.com / LinkedIn Learning through your public library, I highly recommend it.
Additional Learning Resources:
- Extra Bold:
@rmdes@mstdn.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al
@bogo@hapyyr.comI submitted a small talk proposal to our local event called installfest.cz.
It's about @…. Any feedback on it? https://pretalx.ins…
@ber@social.tchncs.deRE: https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/116204774021832197
When reading the newsletter, I remember why I wrote
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIs Apple going Adobe?
Say it isn't so!
Update:
It looks like they have gone to subscription model to access the “Pro” apps (FCP, Motion, Logic, Mainstage, Compressor, Pixelmator)
But the original “iWork" apps are still free. Pages, Keynote, Numbers (and by extension iMovie though it is not included in the "Creator Studio” presumably because it ships with every Mac)
That said... and yes... this is how they get you… the annual subscription for everything is "only” $180/yr or $18/mo plus Family Sharing privleges.
That goes down to $40/yr and $4/mo if you do the Educational license, but no family provisions.
#AppleCreatorStudio #Subscription #OwnAThing #Apple #Adobe #Software
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaI've been playing around with GNU Octave in the terminal while taking my Linear algebra course. So far it's run everything I've thrown at it in Matlab syntax without question, and it's really been helpful grinding through assignments.
Yet another reminder of how awesome Free Software is, what a perfect match it is for academic use and what a terrible shame it is that almost no universities take advantage of such resources, always seeming to prefer proprietary crap.
@adulau@infosec.exchangeReminder: under GPL/AGPL, “Corresponding Source” includes everything needed to build and modify the work. That means AI prompts, generated scripts, and config files as well. Don’t leave them out.
"The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities."
@stf@chaos.socialso i just learned, that #RocketChat although #free #software (#MIT), does have an
@pre@boing.worldOne of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers
@cic_podcast@hostsharing.coopGreat news. We are on #YouTube now as well. Feel free to like, and subscribe to feed the algorithm.
https://www.youtube.com/@CodeisCommunication
Episode 0x01:
@pre@boing.world
