New on // foss.events: Drupal EU Government Day 2026 on 29 January 2026 in Rue de la Loi 107 in #Brussels, #Belgium

Find out more on
https://foss.events/2026/01-29-drupal-eu-government-day-2026.html

Call for participation is running until 15.10.2025

>>> "Never forget that maps are power".

This month we're talking to @zverik about @everydoor #FLOSS on contributing to #OpenStreetMap, map maintenance & mapping points of interest.

Every Door is an #NGI0 @NGIZero grantee

----> Read the full interview:

https://www.apc.org/en/news/every-door-going-map-user-open-source-map-creator #NextGenerationInternet

Sammanfattning av öppet möte 34 om att bygga egen e-leg-lösning, 4 aug 2025

https://mailman.dfri.se/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/eleg-projekt@lists.dfri.se/thread/KZHRQTC7HXZE5TDRTDYLJENRB2EDMN5E/

Fri och öppen programvara, öppen specifikation, tillgänglighet, decentralisering.

Mer om projektet: https://www.dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation/

Nästa möte är 2025-08-25 kl 18. Välkomna att vara med då oavsett om du varit med tidigare eller ej, alla välkomna!

https://play.dfri.se/w/iqBpKaUzKpG3BCLqEg5Vhh #PeerTube

#DFRI #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #FriProgramvara #eID #EIDAS #MyData #eleg #elegitimation #demokrati

@dfri @fps_gbg

Testing to install #openSUSE #Leap16 #RC. First impressions:

The new installer has no #Finnish localization, and as far as I can see, the installer is not included in #Weblate #L10N so that I could translate it myself.

The storage setup is a disaster. Unless one blindly accepts whatever is suggested, things turn either difficult or downright impossible. Eg. setting up a dedicated /usr/local or a custom mountpoint like my /local is a no-go. #linux #floss 1/2

As part of #FDroid announced #OTF funded work, we are doing a little research into #FLOSS #FOSS donations management best practices and preferences and want to hear from you!

If you have time, check out our 5 minute survey: https://framaforms.org/foss-developer-and-project-maintainer-survey-on-donations-campaigns-and-fund-management-1753633511

Thanks

Hello fedi! This is Drawpile, the collaborative drawing program. It's public software under GPLv3.

It lets multiple people draw and animate on the same canvas together. Also usable offline, it's fast and runs pretty much everywhere.

Get it at https://drawpile.net/

Donate at https://donate.drawpile.org/

Feel free to shoot suggestions, feature requests or bug reports here on fedi, but for faster responses use the channels listed on https://drawpile.net/help/

In short, GPL uses copyright law to protect you, as an author of software, from exploitation better than MIT or BSD software licenses do. Here we have a case of the Anthropic corporation using MIT-licensed code in one of their software products, which is of course a for-profit product. The original author of that code received no compensation, as it is not required by the license. So the author applied for a job at Anthropic, and ironically, Anthropic responded with an AI-generated rejection letter. Corporations like Anthropic seem to have an allergy to GPL-licensed code however, due to the nature of how the GPL license grants much more specific rights and restrictions, both to the authors of the code, and the companies who use it.

Of course, nowadays LLMs can ingest GPL and MIT/BSD licensed code and spit it back out in altered form, essentially letting the makers of the LLM profit from your work without compensating you, so the GPL is probably due for an “upgrade” to prevent use for AI training. Unfortunately thanks to regulatory capture, and not-so-impartial courts of law mostly ignoring copyright law nowadays, it might not even be possible to use GPL or copyright to protect authors of software anymore. Probably a whole new legal framework is required first, and I don’t think this will be happening any time soon.

I'm two days late, because of my shoulder issue ...

Anyway, here it is!

#OverUnder 031 with @ctietze !

It's the last of the season! The next one will be in September!

He shared his views on:

- #Obsidian
- #Rust
- #Zettelkasten
- #DIY
- #Tiramisu

#blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #notes #pkm #editor #FLOSS

#100DaysToOffload : 082/100

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-031

Oh FFS.

"This decision undermines software freedom principles that have defined Android's open ecosystem since its inception. Privacy-focused users who specifically avoid Google services now face forced participation in Google's verification infrastructure."

EU Age Verification App sparks ban on non-Google licensed Android apps:

https://www.talkandroid.com/512861-eu-age-verification-app-google/

How on earth can @EUCommission possibly justify this in any way?

I would pay someone to walk me through setting up Obsidian on Linux for novel writing. I know FOSS Law says I'm supposed to "just figure it out," but I wasn't able to, and I believe teaching is labour and labour deserves to be paid.