Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@danialbehzadi that would be great! Here are two examples of how people did that:

* https://f-droid.org/2022/04/25/from-user-to-contributor-and-beyond.html
* https://cketti.de/2021/01/14/my-first-year-as-a-full-time-open-source-developer/

Sadly, in Europe/US, I think most people believe they can't donate to someone in Iran because of sanctions. It would help if you explained the details of that. I don't know the answer. One thing to check would be if you are eligable for NLnet grants. They don't fund work on Debian directly, but they do fund work bootstrapping key tools like Android SDK or Gradle

@lehtimaeki At this point, Thunderbird is maintained by a tiny team for the size of the project. And it seems really hard to maintain FOSS email clients these days, since there aren't really any better options, although many have tried. I hope some digital sovereignty money flows towards desktop email clients in a big way. We need them to reclaim email from Google, and it isn't _that_ hard.

@pixelschubsi @Antti98 @Gina I fully agree, we need to build real free software so that all users get software freedom. One thing that is happening in Europe right now is that the idea "EU Tech" and "digital sovereignty" is coalescing around FOSS as a hard requirement. Some politicians needs to use nationalist language to communicate things. As long as we agree on what we are concretely working on, and that is FOSS, I can tolerate the various ways people are selling FOSS.

@gildilinie @IzzyOnDroid VT aka Virustotal is a company owned by Google.

@neil It is clear that lots of people expect a clear answer on LLM code from F-Droid, and I think it is always good to get our user-first perspective out there. At the very least, we should be discussing this more. I would love to engage fully in this discussion. I'm pretty buried these days keeping other parts of F-Droid going, so for the time being, I'll have to mostly cheer from the sidelines.

Hey Northern #Europe, welcome to #hot summers! Here are some simple things that I do which really help, which are common practice in hot climates:

* Drink lots of water, really, lots. Careful, alcohol will work against you.
* Close all your windows and curtains in the midday heat. Insulation works both ways, keeping the heat in or out.
* Open all the windows and curtains at night, if its cooler outside.

This is probably enough to avoid buying #AirConditioning, and helps keep cool even with AC

One good outcome of all this #AI #hype, particularly around #Anthropic #Mythos, is that it is establishing the idea the #technology can be harmful and there are times when society should control its release. We should build on this precedent and work towards firmly establishing the idea that our communities should be able to manage the technology they use, and work towards minimizing the harms.

@openalt is there another Central European Open Source Policy Forum planned for 2026? I'd love to join. I couldn't find any info about future editions.

It seems somehow perfectly fitting that #influencers are being replaced by #AI. I guess those who want to be plugged into #TheMatrix are taking the next logical step on that path.

The #LLM approach to #AI is famous for needing vast amounts of data. Web programming is where LLMs excel because #bots can scrape all the websites out there, on top of ingesting all the code in #GitHub, etc. This vast pool of web code that has fed the big AI companies #models includes the 95% of startups that have failed, the supply chain #security nightmare that is #npm, and other gems. For other key dev platforms, there isn't this vast pool available to LLMs

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/16/0316228/wheres-the-evidence-that-ai-increases-productivity#comment_link_65991658