📱 Switzerland is thinking about a drastic tightening of its surveillance law!
With the BÜPF revision, email providers could be forced to supply metadata to authorities in real time. Particularly affected: services that previously advertised strict data protection. End-to-end encryption remains protected, but your IP addresses, recipient data and locations would be monitored.
Learn more about this worrying development: https://mailbox.org/en/post/buepf-revision-2025-en
The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and #LibreOffice: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/11/the-end-of-windows-10/ @Endof10 #foss #OpenSource
Michał Żygowski (aka miczyg) is returning with bleeding-edge topics, and we are all looking forward to what his 🧙🪄 skills will bring to the future of Dasharo. Want to know where open-source firmware for AMD platforms is going? Is OpenSIL a real thing that can be used outside of server PoCs? Tune in on Thursday, grab your free ticket:
https://events.dasharo.com/event/5/dasharo-user-group-dug-10-and-dasharo-developers-vpub-0xf
I see more adult material on Bluesky in 10 minutes than a year on X.
🚀 Rocky Linux 10 is officially here!
With support for RISC-V, updated toolchains, modern defaults like Wayland + RDP, and the latest dev stacks, it's ready to power your next generation of systems.
Learn more and get started: https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-10-0-ga-release
A #ThankGNU! to Dario Armani and David Klann for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedogm and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
🎬 Final touches before Dasharo User Group #10! Here’s a behind-the-scenes sneak peek in OBS Studio as we are getting ready to go live.
🗓️ Join us on Thursday, June 12 at 6 PM!
https://events.dasharo.com/event/5/dasharo-user-group-10
Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you to Yuta Urano for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: https://u.fsf.org/463 #Emacs #CopyrightAssignments
The spring #Bulletin will be hitting mailboxes worldwide in just a few weeks! You can catch up (or re-read) older issues here: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin
Improved in v0.14.20250420: bastille setup automates PF, loopback, VNET, ZFS/UFS in one command. One-time config simplifies initial setup. #FreeBSD #BastilleBSD
Create colour wheels in #LibreOffice Calc, to make "doughnut" charts for representing data: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/12/create-a-colour-wheel-in-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource
Microsoft to end support for Exchange Server 2016/2019 on 14 October 2025
Without updates, security vulnerabilities will rise sharply — and Exchange Online may block emails from legacy servers. A critical moment for businesses.
Why you should think carefully before migrating to Microsoft 365 — and how this could be the start of genuine data sovereignty — is explained in our blog:
Maintenance updates for Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.12) and 10 (31.0.6) are now available 🚀
Upgrade to a new version for a better and even more secure Nextcloud experience.
The updating process is designed to be smooth. Please upgrade now and keep your server up to date.
👉 nextcloud.com/blog/june-maintenance-updates-are-here-nextcloud-hub-9-and-10/
Unless it's to Israel right Glenn ?
A weight filter would be absolute hilarity.
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