#EFF to #Massachusetts’ Highest Court: Pretrial Electronic Monitoring Should Not Eviscerate #Privacy Rights
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#SEC charges tech companies for downplaying #SolarWinds breaches
Thank you from the bottom of our GNU little heart! #ThankGNU to Neil Banerjee, Ramana Kumar, Richard Ellwood, Stéphane Bortzmeyer, and Zacchae for their generous contribution to the #fsf Let's fight for freedom together! https://u.fsf.org/3vy
Looking for answers about our copyright assignment program? Check out our Contributor's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) guide, which is meant to help contributors to FSF copyrighted packages: https://u.fsf.org/3f3
The FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab is curious to learn more about current practices of those who advise projects to accept LLM-generated source code contributions. Please participate in and share our survey: https://my.fsf.org/llm-contributions
Register your Software Freedom Day event to be part of the worldwide celebration of free software on September 21: https://digitalfreedoms.org/sfd
Have you ever considered the work that goes into sending an email to gnu.org? The FSF tech team makes sure millions of emails get delivered each year, and has taken the time to explain the road your email travels in freedom. http://u.fsf.org/3gz
Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Alekseev Nikita, Edgar Vincent, and Toshihiro Umehara for assigning their copyright to the FSF! More: https://u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments
Curious how to get started contributing to #emacs? Colin Woodbury has written a helpful blog post on just that topic, including instructions for copyright assignment: https://u.fsf.org/3fr
Looking for free software applications for primary school education? We've got you covered! Check out Category/Education/elementary on the #FreeSoftwareDirectory https://u.fsf.org/3u1 #FreeSoftware #FreeSoftwareInEducation
Encrypted Chat App ‘#Session’ Leaves #Australia After Visit From Police
https://www.404media.co/encrypted-chat-app-session-leaves-australia-after-visit-from-police-2/
FOSS init "SysVinit" has been updated to version 3.11. This update adds the ability to chain together multiple commands in the inittab file as well as updates to the inittab, halt, and fstab-decode manual pages. The code to SysVinit is licensed using GPLV2. You can find some distros shipping iso's with SysVinit as an option or the sole init such as Artix; PCLinuxOS; Deuvan; and more.
The source code can be found on Github:
https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit
Release notes for this update can be found here:
#ThankGNU! to Matomo.org for helping the FSF to promote #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/3vy
First person horror puzzle game "The Patient" was released recently. It has a native Linux version and is available DRM free at Itch. It was made using the FOSS Godot engine.
🎙️ A decade of open source: German state Schleswig-Holstein's path to digital sovereignty 🇩🇪
In this Nextcloud Podcast: Sven Thomsen, Schleswig-Holstein's @CIO shares their journey to #opensource adoption: from lessons learned in Munich, to Nextcloud's central role in collaboration, AI, and OZG adoption. And wise words of advice for IT in the Public Sector...
European digital sovereignty: from #opensource to Nextcloud!
2D platformer "Speedollama" was released recently. It has a native Linux version and is available DRM free at GOG. It has a 10% discount on until October 28, 2024.
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
Many FOSS projects rely on donations. If you have money to spare but don't know which to donate to take a look at the above links on Ko-fi, Github, and Open Collective. Anything on there that I have sponsered or contributed to is something I have found to be worthy.