Mastodawn

It's Trans Day of Visibility everybody! We cannot even begin to stress how important our trans contributors are in pushing KDE's project forward.

Thanks 🏳️‍⚧️folks!

#transgenderdayofvisibility #TDOV

Volt4ire 1d ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2d ago

📺 HAPPENING TONIGHT 📺

EFF's Cindy Cohn will be on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart at 10 PM Central and 11 PM Eastern and Pacific! Make sure you tune in!

Volt4ire 1d ago

skittles 2d ago

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ONLYOFFICE/116317711474615441

So, #onlyoffice think they found a legal loophole in #AGPLv3 by mandating „the obligation to retain the original product logo“ while at the same time denying any rights to use said (trademarked) logo 🤡

#IANAL but I doubt any judge will agree to this interpretation of „requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions“ (section 7b), but hey, feel free to bring this to court, good luck! 😂

#NextCloud #eurooffice #opensource

Volt4ire 2d ago

Catalin Cimpanu 3d ago

Security firm Cybereason has open-sourced owLSM, an EDR-like agent for Linux, an eBPF LSM agent to run Sigma rules

https://github.com/Cybereason-Public/owLSM

GitHub - Cybereason-Public/owLSM: Sigma Rules Engine inside the Linux Kernel using eBPF. Focusing on prevention capabilities

Sigma Rules Engine inside the Linux Kernel using eBPF. Focusing on prevention capabilities - Cybereason-Public/owLSM

GitHub

Volt4ire 3d ago

Mike

5d ago

For many people, the #Linux vs #Windows vs #Mac debate is a privilege — it assumes you can choose. But working with the Computer Upcycle Project, I've seen the real choice is often Linux vs no computer at all.

~95% of donated computers are "too old" for Windows 11 or macOS. Linux installs on them anyway, adding 10+ years of life to machines #Microsoft and #Apple called trash.

This isn't Linux vs Windows. It's Linux vs e-waste.

Volt4ire 3d ago

Paul Cantrell 6d ago

Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

J.K. Rowling uses personal wealth to fund anti-trans org

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

Advocate.com

Volt4ire Mar 24

nixCraft 🐧Mar 23

Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward - TDF Community Blog

Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement. The official document has been published by the IT-Planungsrat, the central political steering body comprising the federal government and state governments, which promotes and develops common, user-oriented IT solutions for efficient and secure digital administration in Germany: https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/b-2026-03-it. At this point, the question for all other European governments is clear: what are you waiting for? With this decision, the distinction between those who care about digital sovereignty and those who do not becomes stark. There are no more excuses Over the years, public administrations in Europe have accumulated a series of tired excuses, long since overtaken by the facts, for not making standard and open document formats mandatory. Let’s examine them one by one. ODF isn’t mature enough. ODF has been an ISO standard since 2006. It is now at version 1.4, with active development,

TDF Community Blog

Volt4ire Mar 23

Simon Phipps Mar 23

Thanks to the huge effort we all have put in to help the @EUCommission understand the value of open source and the role it plays in cyber security they are taking care to include it in all their thinking around the #CRA. For example, this page explains why they created a new legal category of #stewards in the CRA: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cra-open-source

Cyber Resilience Act - Open source

The Cyber Resilience Act has a special approach to free and open-source software, given its central role in ensuring the cybersecurity of products with digital elements and its contributions to the European Union’s economy.

Shaping Europe’s digital future

Volt4ire Mar 21

Dave Anderson Mar 19

Canadian friends who drive: Transport Canada is soliciting feedback on ultra-bright vehicle headlights and headlight glare at night.

I encourage you to give them data on your experience, so that they might update the regulations to stop SUVs from routinely blinding me with their factory-fitted Nuclear Fireball 9000 LED Darkness Devastators Shock And Awe Edition headlights aimed directly into my face and eyes.

https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night

Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night

Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.

Transport Canada

Volt4ire Mar 21

Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺Mar 21

Signal Boost: If you are willing to fix any of the #Wayland related issues I describe in https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/, I am willing to sponsor the hardware you need for it, e.g. high-res monitor, GPU, PC, etc. and/or pay a bounty for the fix itself.

See https://lobste.rs/s/5pkjai/wayland_set_linux_desktop_back_by_10_years#c_4cpf8q for details and reach out; thanks in advance.

My goal is that #Linux works better, but I can’t do it alone. Let’s improve it together!

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