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.
2D puzzle game "Trans Neuronica" was released recently. It has a native Linux Version and is availble DRM free at GOG. It has a 30% discount until November 5, 2024.
We’re continuing to see a large number of businesses picking up Framework Laptops. With that, we’re scaling up the team with a new B2B Support Specialist role. You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/framework/59bddfe6-9944-414d-aafa-695fb38d0c5f
Need to know whether a piece of hardware is supported by free software? #hNode has you covered! Its search engine will help you verify #freesoftware compatibility. https://u.fsf.org/3uj
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
🚨💡 Learn smart, #opensource techniques to monitor your #Linux systems & avoid unnecessary outages! Discover how to get quick alerts using #XMPP Messaging. Set up processes to catch CPU spikes, low memory, disk failures & more! 🖥️📱 #sysadmin https://youtu.be/ic_xrqooBvM?si=sLeu2jtiCijZJED2
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