@giacomo @tiotasram @skjeggtroll @freshstart @neil

Btw. if you believe, that everyone working on #Debian and has an employment, does align their Debian work with their employer, than only #freeSoftware made by #jobless people and #pensioneers is acceptable for you? Shall we all give ourselves to #breatharianism?

@giacomo @tiotasram @skjeggtroll @freshstart @neil

I wonder, why you say, that #Debian does not focus on #freedom and #stability anymore.

The only decision, that admittedly went away from #freeSoftware principles was the inclusion of #nonfree #firmware in the default installer. I'm OK with that.

The only thing not as #stable as it used to be, are the exemptions for Chromium, Firefox, and Thunderbird, i.e. allow new versions during stable. I don't like that, but can't change it.

I urge all to follow debate re: (so-called) #OpenMDW License on OSI's license-review ML¹.

If you're 😡 at BigTech's behavior on #LLM-gen-AI & seek activism where you can make an impact, join that ML thread¹ re: #OpenSource Initiative approval of #LInuxFoundation's new license.

Decisions are made by those who show up. NB: when #OSI certifies a license, it's forever: ∄ any appeal &/or reevaluation process!

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089251/1f2c4f7aa561ecf8/ has a quick primer.

¹ https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2026-August/006125.html

#FreeSoftware #AI

#Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@daniel

Yes, "#European solutions" are no universal solutions.

In #LatinAmerica, #Africa, and #Asia they have their experience with that.

#FreeSoftware and #OpenStandards enable independent development.

At this point abra[zç]os to my #Jabber/#XMPP friends in #Argentina, #Brazil, and #Uruguay 🫂

#digitalSovreignty #digitalIndependence #digitalColonialism

It was great to see some familiar and new faces and even some people from the fedi too 🙂

#GLLUG #FreeSoftware #Meetup #FSFE #London #ShotOnLibrem5

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Photo showing the lid of a laptop, which is filled with stickers. There are so many overlapping over each other that barely 10% of the laptop lid itself is visible. The newest / highest are an "I Love Free Software" and "This Computer is not old" stickers from the FSFE, as well as a sticker of the orange OMEMO fish logo. Other stickers include a couple of rows of NLnet hex stickers, Open Rights Group stickers on the laptop hinge, a variety of XMPP stickers including Monal, Conversations, XMPP network graph, big OpenStreetMap and FSF stickers, as well as sourceware and Software Freedom Conservancy stickers in the bottom left corner. Below these free software related stickers, some Formula 1 related stickers, with some helmets, race cars and team logos, can be barely seen peeking through.

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A close-up photo of the same laptop, focused on the FSFE's "This Computer is not old" sticker. It shows a retro-looking grey pop-up box on a blue background, which looks like it comes from a boot screen or non-graphical linux install. The title of the popup box is "fsfe.org". Inside, the box says: "This computer is not old, it is sustainable." There are two buttons at the bottom of the box, the left (selected) one says "OK" and the right one says "Cancel". Also visible in frame, surrounding/underneath the sticker, are the edges of an OpenStreetMap sticker, a McLaren F1 car sticker, a Phosh sticker, a GNU sticker and an IndyCar sticker.

I hope to be there once I finish with work, probably a couple of hours after it starts.

• Date: Saturday 8th August 2026


• Time: 1pm onwards


• Location: The Metropolitan Bar (OpenStreetMap)


• RSVP: not required.

GLLUG post.

It's not a reserved venue, so look for a table with lots of stickers, and Polarian wearing the EuroBSDCon 2024 (Dublin) tshirt (with artwork like this).

#GLLUG #FreeSoftware #Meetup #London

We'll be here for a few hours and possibly heading to a pub afterwards.

Come join us if you're in London and fancy a casual chat about #FreeSoftware!

#LibreLocal #GLLUG #FreeSoftware #Meetup #London

• Date: Saturday 16th May 2026


• Time: midday - 4pm (London time)


• Location: Canada Water Library Meeting Room 1 (OpenStreetMap)


• RSVP: Reply to this message, email me, or message me here on the fediverse, so we know rough numbers.

• LibreLocal wiki entry


• GLLUG post

#GLLUG #FreeSoftware #Meetup #London

Another year to make a #CyborgMonday joke! For your future cyborg self, invest in #software freedom!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Also check out the hot deals on #freesoftware! Dozens of software projects available at deep discount prices. Act now!

I started migrating from #NextCloud to #Radicale, but iOS threw a spanner in the works (turns out accountsd only checks for A and not AAAA DNS records!) I decided to go into a "half-migrated" state: pointing myself to the new instance to continue testing while leaving my partner pointing to the old one.

That caused a problem: any events we created in the meantime wouldn't be synced to the other's devices.

vdirsyncer came in super handy and enabled a three-way sync between NextCloud, Radicale and my laptop! So, despite being on two completely different #CalDAV servers, we both see exactly the same state and all updates flow through seamlessly. And, when they switch instance, it will be like nothing ever happened, despite being on different servers for a few weeks.

Thank you #openStandards and #freeSoftware!