Was haben Skateboards und Himbeereis mit Digitaler Souveränität zu tun?

Genau das erfährst du im Film „Ada & Zangemann: Ein Märchen über Software, Skateboards und Himbeereis“ – einem zauberhaften, cleveren Kinderfilm, der überraschend tiefgründige Fragen aufwirft:
https://media.fsfe.org/w/4d14d23e-8968-4aad-a966-0d84b22aaa65

#DIday #DIdayNeuss #didit #peertube #fsf #freesoftware

The “It’s Inevitable” Mindset Considered Harmful

I really don’t like the mindset of “if X Corp hadn’t gone evil, someone else would have.”

If you want a freer world - in software, hardware, or society in general - you have to act against whoever tries to go down the restricted path. Who did it first, second, or fiftieth, doesn’t matter. Whether someone else would have, doesn’t matter. Your “it’s inevitable” mindset is a self-defeating tactic and self-fulfilling prophecy.

Would you also justify, I don’t know, murder or sexual assault the same way? “If I hadn’t done it, someone else would have”? 🤦‍♀️

Just because “normies” don’t know or care about monopolistic practices (yet), doesn’t make those practices acceptable. If people don’t understand or care, it’s your failure to communicate and convince.

Instead of adopting defeatist ideologies that benefit the capitalists, improve your messaging and community till software/hardware/data freedom becomes a worldwide ideology, and monopolistic practices (like proprietary software, centralized services, etc) are either outlawed, and/or become grounds for mass shunning and boycotts, if not worse.

#contraLibre #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FOSS #OpenSource #OpenHardware #Privacy

FSFE: NHS England should not hide public code behind closed doors
https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260504-01.html

- Taking already public repositories offline does not prevent attackers from analysing deployed systems, dependencies, interfaces, or binaries.

- Depublishing does not make code unseen, nor does it remove existing copies, and it is not an effective security measure.

- Instead, it removes a fundamental pillar for security: the ability of independent experts, researchers, and other public bodies to inspect, reuse, and improve the code, and to report on security issues.

#freesoftware #opensource

The bright #LLM future, next part.

git.gentoo.org is now effectively dead, being DDoS-ed by almost a million different IPs every day. Most of them are just performing a single request at a totally random URL. How are people supposed to deal with that? How can we distinguish a legitimate user who hit some URL from a scraper that distributes its operations over thousands of IP addresses?

If you use LLM crap, you're part of the problem. You support these bastards. You should be ashamed of yourself.

#Gentoo #NoAI #NoLLM #AI

We kinda settled on talking about "enshittification" a lot because it maps to our experience of the world: Everything slowly collapsing.

But what we need is a push towards first "unshittification" and then "antishittification": Digging us out of the ditch and then building political and economic infrastructures and policies that make sure it does not happen again.

So many people don't understand how good the AGPLv3 license is designed. The latest piece from Bradley M. Kühn of the @conservancy is a piece of art to explain the great mechanisms within the license to avoid crappy exception around a well-designed free software license.

#opensource #freesoftware #community #copyleft

🔗 https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/