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And the #Oscar for Best #OpenSource animation software goes to .... @Blender

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Leaders of the Free World: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/02/ukraine-war-volodymyr-zelenskyy-keir-starmer-donald-trump-us-europe-eu-russia-defence-latest-live-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67c4709c8f08707b9b4059c7#block-67c4709c8f08707b9b4059c7

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"The free world must confront evil": Czech President Petr Pavel calls for a coalition of countries seeking justice for Ukraine In his opinion, peace should be established on terms that suit Kyiv. "Peace on the terms of the aggressor is called capitulation and […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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On encryption backdoors: Emergent Harms in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge have put out of a researcher paper around how over half of all cybercrime court cases in the UK are prosecuting UK police officers for abusing systems access […] [Original post on cyberplace.social]

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Why am I utterly unsurprised by this? Not by cops abusing access privileges, or even by other cops busting them, but by their dismal failure to tackle cybercrime that isn't right under their collective nose while the Home Office idiotically does the equivalent of trying to ban lockable front […]

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While this is framed as push-back against extraterritorial demands, it seems very much like a move to impose American norms on the rest of the world: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-information-foreign-censorship-american?source=mastodon

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Practice Safe Text https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/save-encryption/

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The ISO/IEC lawsuit against the @EUCommission to undo the finding that we have a right to know all of the law that binds us is a threat to digital human rights. #Standards should serve humanity, not enrich private corporations […]

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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I was never keen on the "COSS" monicker because it harmfully abuses the term #OpenSource , so I actually prefer this "fair source" alternative even if I have no idea why anyone would want source code that they can't use for any purpose, improve and share. https://keygen.sh/blog/whither-open-source/

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Meta may have announced LlamaCon but the real Llama con is them continuing to call it #OpenSource. https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not-open-source

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Firmata dal vignettista portoghese Zez Vaz. Signed by Portuguese cartoonist Zez Vaz.

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Bruce Schneier David Ottenheimer have written a tremendous piece for Foreign Policy that everyone should read called "DOGE is Hacking America." It clearly explains why what DOGE is doing has to be stopped, and what's at stake here […]

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Wonderful to see people doing the experimentation that will make Peer-to-Peer #LibreOffice eventually emerge so we can federate instead of gifting control to cloud centralisers. https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/ #OpenSource

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Useful new paper from @OSBA gives guidance on how to select a support organisation for #OpenSource in your business (or agency). https://osb-alliance.de/english/selection-criteria-for-the-sustainable-procurement-of-open-source-software-press-release It basically boils down to checking whether […]

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The Register has gone all allegorical on us https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/microcode_attack_trump_musk/

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

In move that is presumably performative and for the benefit of JD Vance, the European Commission has also cancelled the AI Liability Act. Far from being "more regulation" this small law was going to harmonise AI liability across Europe and make it _more_ competitive, as Axel Voss eloquently […]

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The #EU Commission has withdrawn the #AI Liability Directive, a law that would have simplified liability claims concerning AI and empowered citizens to fight back against discriminatory AI. It would have made businesses lives easier, and guaranteed citizens' rights. To quote rapporteur Axel […]

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Dear Elon, We have strong regulation in the #EU, and built 2744 km of #highspeedrail in 10 years. Our network is now 8556 km long. In the same period, the US built 0 km of High-Speed Rail. Perhaps it's not about regulation.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

The patent-telecoms-complex has been granted its wish and the move by the EU to regulate #patents embedded in #standards (#SEPs) has been killed. SEP holders prefer expensive and obscure litigation instead and were afraid the transparentcy would harm them so lobbied Council into submission […]

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An international political summit meeting does not stand alone. It is the culmination of weeks and months of pre-meeting diplomacy. To not sign the summary communique indicates either you didn't bother participating in the prep work, or that your position was impossibly isolated. Either way […]

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Extra-quotable statement by ISO: "In the interests of our respective members, IEC and ISO have taken measures to protect international standards from unauthorized disclosure." Because of course it is important for #standards to remain secret to all but the Inner Circle […]

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Today #Bandcamp are donating 100% of their proceeds to LA fire relief. From my #BandcampFriday queue I have picked out: * Great new-ish album by BADBADNOTGOOD, "Mid Spiral" https://badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/album/mid-spiral #jazz * Re-issue of Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works […]

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No, #Deepseek is not #OpenSourceAI. The training data is not available, nore is the code used for training the model. Nore is the Data Information.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Are you coming to @fosdem? My colleagues @jmaris @gijs @webmink … and I are looking for #volunteers to support the EU Policy Devroom on Sunday! Please reach out here or [email protected] #fosdem #fosdem2025

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"Trump Just Broke the Law. Blatantly. And He Might Get Away With It. How is this not a major political scandal already? Hello, Democrats?" https://newrepublic.com/article/190704/trump-fires-inspectors-general-broke-law-blatantly My sympathies to news editors who will have to think of new ways […]

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Not a lot in the news about the protests across Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, or even about the "elections" happening today in Belarus.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Is #OpenSource ever written with a hyphen? Not when it's used in connection with #SoftwareFreedom https://opensource.org/blog/is-open-source-ever-hyphenated

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Will Trump cause the EU to declare use of US #cloud services illegal for #privacy reasons? https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal

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Among many problems with Trump's citizenship executive order (such as its obvious conflict with the constitution) is a practical one: birth certificates, which are currently the primary proof of citizenship for those born in the US, are issued by state and local authorities. These agencies do […]

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All #OpenSource licenses are permissive. https://meshedinsights.com/2021/01/27/all-open-source-licenses-are-permissive/

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Code is only speech if compilers are sentient.

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Whatever you do, don't say Lizz Truss "crashed the economy" as she claims saying it harms her reputation. Whatever that is... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/09/liz-truss-sends-legal-letter-ordering-starmer-to-stop-saying-she-crashed-economy

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Heads up parents: want a remote controlled bomb disposal robot but for a teenager’s bedroom?

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Do I have any UK followers who use #Octopus energy, are on the Agile tariff and access it via the REST API? It seems to be returning no new data since 11pm last night […]

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From today, consumer electronics sold in #Europe must use USB-C connectors https://commission.europa.eu/news/eu-common-charger-rules-power-all-your-devices-single-charger-2024-12-28_en Thanks @EUCommission - now time to fix the inherent patent problems in rules like this […]

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Great to see all the improvements @CollaboraOffice are putting into the @libreoffice project. https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/what-we-achieved-together-in-2024/ #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LibreOffice

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If you would like to join the Expert Group advising the @EUCommission on the .eu domain, see this document. Deadline is Jan 14. https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/core/api/front/calls-application/112178/download

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A significant change of objective has quietly happened to the #standards system in #Europe, with the transformation of standards from a tool to promote #interoperability to a mechanism to comply with the law. Yet the toleration of #patents in standards remains, meaning complying with the law […]

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While Public Resource.Org pushes to open up the law and the #standards that implement it, ISO/IEC are devising new ways to lock it all up https://www.iso.org/smart

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There is still time to apply for inclusion in the EU #Policy Devroom at #FOSDEM - the application deadline is December 1st. This is our second instance of a workspace for #OpenSource community members to engage with EU lawmakers to ensure new law reflects the realities of open source and […]

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A basic human right, access to the #law in #Europe includes access to the harmonised #standards it predicates. But is it right that those standards can include royalty-due #patents (#SEPs), making compliance subject to payment to the private companies that wrote the standards? […]

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We have @carlmalamud to thank for making the European Commission admit that harmonised standards form part of the public law. Now we need to make sure everyone can legally comply without paying royalties to the companies who write the standards […]

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