Missa inte hackträffen imorgon lördag med Uppsala Linux User Group @ulug när @samuel från @konstellationen ska berätta om bland annat "plattformar, verktyg och sociala rum på nätet där det är användarna som har makten och inte företagen"!

https://www.ulug.se/post/2024-04-20-hacktraff-april/

Har vi tur kanske @jonarvid dyker upp också 🙂 #ULUG #linux #foss #floss #hackmeeting #uppsala

A stylishly late blog post for the first two weeks of the #30DayFOSSChallenge: https://nullarch.com/blog/posts/30DayFOSSChallengeYear2Weeks1&2.html

#foss #opensource #degoogle #organicmaps #openstreetmap #osm #matrix #maps #floss #blog

"You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project."

— a national government who relies on #Matrix when being asked to support it financially

Read more about the problem and some initiatives that are responding to it:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #funding #xz #sustainability

Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service.

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)}

DO NOT USE OVIA,
a snitching #ovulation #tracker

https://mastodon.social/@rayckeith@techhub.social/112220467133808067

if you are an #android user, do yourselves the favor of installing F-Droid, the #FLOSS and anti-surveillance app store. any apps that connect you to upstream surveillance services (like Google Search) are clearly marked as anti-privacy.

there is one ovulation tracker in the store
https://search.f-droid.org/?q=ovulation&lang=en

h/t @rayckeith
https://mastodon.social/@rayckeith@techhub.social/112220467133808067

#privacy #health

Ray C. Keith

2024-04-05 20:20:34

https://www.tumblr.com/jackalgirl/746950270545739776

(I will delete this post later today, as I do with other posts that have >100 reposts)

God Prefers Steak

Jackalgirl, Orthodox Kemetic, sat Yinepu, Freemason, generally interested in just about anything.  www.jackalgirl.net (home).

^Tumblr

»Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to #Linux and #LibreOffice (and other free and open source software)«

#FLOSS #Germany

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in…

^{Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)}