There are 8 new versions of Linux-libre: 6.9.1-gnu, 6.8.10-gnu, 6.6.31-gnu, 6.1.91-gnu, 5.15.159-gnu, 5.10.217-gnu1, 5.4.276-gnu1, and 4.19.314-gnu1. But that's not all! 📢 6.8.10-gnu and 6.6.31-gnu include the change from 6.9-gnu for the i915 module to load and run some cards without needing proprietary firmware. I wrote more about that here: https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2024-May/003542.html 🚀 Stay free and happy hacking! ✨ #LinuxLibre#FreeSoftware#GNU#SoftwareFreedom
Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
Delightful 💕 to see that #EuropeanCommission now has an official #Mastodon instance. #EC loves Mastodon, as the image clearly shows.
I hope this love will expand further to not just extend to one #FreeSoftware microblogging application, but to become a full embrace of the #OpenStandards based decentralized #SocialNetworking environment and #SocialWeb technology ecosystems that have formed around its open protocols, such as #ActivityPub.
Une des difficultés dans la mise en oeuvre des logiciels libres à Échirolles : comment valoriser « cet argent que nous ne dépensons pas » ?
Je m'y suis attelé et j'ai commencé à évaluer la valeur de ce que nous avons mis en place sur la base de l'équivalent en logiciels propriétaires (Teams/BigBlueButton, Office365/LibreOffice, Sharepoint/Nextcloud etc).
→ L'économie est supérieure à 350 000 € par an et donc à 2M € à l'échelle du mandat.
We are all haunted by sometimes intrusive, obnoxious, and omnipresent ads on many of the websites we visit. Luckily, #adBlockers exist, but is it legal to for us use them? 🤔
ℹ️ In this article, we try to answer this question !
And with #Jabber you even have first class clients (i.e. not Electron) on systems which are neither Google Android nor Apple iOS (e.g. my mobile runs #Mobian).
Who should be software packaging is a tough problem, I can see the value in #linux distros pushing for better changes downstream, encouraging upstream to change (double click in #KDE) but then I see cases like KeepassXC where the Debian package is now by default broken, actively damaging the reputation of upstream but then I remember #XZ where upstream was left unchecked and hid bad code in plain sight and I go back around in a circle.
@BrodieOnLinux I strongly believe in distro packaged software.
But we have to move the culture so that users report their bugs to the software distributor, and not directly to the upstream github. Upstream "issues" should be reserved for the developers and their inner circle of people who test the latest versions, and maybe the distributors themselves.
Users of the distributors (i.e. #Linux distros) should encourage users reporting bugs to them, and they report up when needed.
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
For the 2nd year in a row, the Swedish city of Gothenburg hosted an edition of the #FreeSoftware Legal & Licensing Workshop, the annual conference for Legal Network members.
The 2024 edition brought new faces and great discussions and presentations on current legal and licensing issues related to technological developments such as AI: https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240506-01.html
Stallman intervened in the Q&A section of "AI in a Closed World", objecting to the term Artificial Intelligence
After a lengthy discussion, RMS said he'd rather call it "Machine Learning."
And there we are, once again reducing a technological revolution to a petty lexicological argument, just like the "Free Software" vs "Open Source Software" flamewars 20 years ago 🤦♀️
Bittersweet feelings on day 2 of the @fsf#LibrePlanet conference! So many amazing talks are waiting, and I am expecially looking forward to "Software enshittification or freedom? It's not a hard choice!" by @lxo but also sad that this event is almost over. Determined to make the most of it! #FSF#FreeSoftware#SoftwareFreedom#LibrePlanet2024