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House Overwhelmingly Passes “Take It Down Act” Mandating Rapid Online Deepfake, Non-Consensual Imagery Takedowns

https://reclaimthenet.org/take-it-down-act-nonconsensual-ai-imagery-censorship-issue

The April edition of your FOSSphones News Roundup is here!

As usual, the same roundup will be mirrored on our Gemini capsule shortly.

https://fossphones.com/04-29-2025.html

More than 15 free software meetups around the world have been announced for LibreLocal month: https://u.fsf.org/46k #FSF40 #FreeSoftware #LibreLocal

In April, we in the #LibreOffice community attended events in-person (giving away cool merchandise!). We also gave talks online, and announced the location of 2025's conference: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/30/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-april-2025/ #foss #OpenSource

Update time: #LibreOffice 25.2.3 is now available. This is the third update to our latest stable branch, and all users are recommended to get it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/30/announcing-libreoffice-25-2-3/ #foss #OpenSource

"Privacy on Trial: Meta’s DOJ Battle vs. Purism’s User-Centric Philosophy"

Meta claims it’s not a monopoly.

The FTC disagrees.

At the center of the case: Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp—moves the FTC argues were calculated to "neutralize competitive threats" and consolidate power across the digital landscape.

For those who reject Surveillance Capitalism—where your data is the product—Purism offers a bold alternative.

Full Article at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/privacy-on-trial-metas-doj-battle-vs-purisms-user-centric-philosophy/

selfh.st/icons - a curated collection of 4,400+ icons - now supports custom colors (bring your own)! I've developed a (self-hostable) lightweight proxy server that can intercept icon requests and apply custom colors based on a hex color code in the URL parameters.

Check out the post below for more details and be gentle as this is my first public #development project...ever.

https://selfh.st/post/selfh-st-icons-custom-colors/

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #dashboard #privacy #homeserver

To Kurt Kremitzki "The importance of the Free Software movement is highlighted again and again by stories in the news," is more than enough reason to support the #FSF. Consider becoming an associate member and funding our work in #FreeSoftware today: https://my.fsf.org/join

#Milwaukee police consider trade: 2.5 million mugshots for free #FacialRecognition access

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2025/04/25/milwaukee-police-considering-trading-mugshots-for-facial-recognition-tech/83084223007/

#privacy #politics #Biometrica

London Mayor Sadiq Khan Cites Southport Stabbing to Justify Targeting Online “Conspiracy Theories” and “Misinformation”

https://reclaimthenet.org/sadiq-khan-uses-southport-tragedy-to-expand-online-speech-campaign

A #ThankGNU! to Christos Kalkanis, Dwayne Dever, and František Kučera for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

Nextcloud Talk hits 15,000 issues and pull requests!

In the name of the Nextclouders team and all the happy users, a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this milestone — reporting issues, fixing bugs, adding features, and improving documentation and translations.

https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/15000

To Ignacio Randazzo, #FreeSoftware is worth supporting because "I want to contribute to the people that help ensure the future I believe we deserve." If you think free software is a key part of our future, too, consider becoming an #FSF associate member: https://my.fsf.org/join

If Privacy and Security Matter—Choose the Librem 5, Powered by PureOS

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That’s why professionals who demand digital sovereignty choose the Librem 5 from Purism.

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2024 was another big year for AlmaLinux, made possible by all of you!

Releases:
AlmaLinux 9.4
AlmaLinux 9.5
AlmaLinux 8.10
AlmaLinux OS Kitten

Other highlights:
Increased security, compliance, and independence
3 more OSes for ELevate
Infrastructure improvement
Community growth
Expanded platform support

Read more: https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-04-09-2024-recap/

The beacons are lit, @osuosl calls for aid: Oregon State University Open Source Lab will shut down this year if funding is not met.

Among countless other open source projects, OSL supports Rocky Linux by hosting our ppc64le and s390x build environments.

Please consider donating to #OSUOSL. Talk to your organizations about the open source software they depend on that in turn depends on OSL, and ask them to consider donating.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

Updated "screenfetch" (https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch) to the version 3.9.9 and "sshguard" (https://sshguard.net/) to the version 2.5.1 in GNU Guix.

#guix #guix_patches

Updated another four packages from "admin" module in GNU Guix:
- gnu: fastfetch: Update to 2.42.0.
- gnu: dool: Update to 1.3.4.
- gnu: htop: Update to 3.4.1.
- gnu: atop: Update to 2.11.1.

#guix #guix_patches

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