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The EU is paying a fortune for broken commercial software, criticizes Michiel Leenaars of the Dutch NLnet Foundation in an interview with netzpolitik.org. Together with his team, he supports open-source, free solutions — funded by the EU. But that could soon come to an end.

netzpolitik.org/2025/open-sour

@fdroidorg It's a shame that FUTO Keyboard is under a custom noncommercial use license rather than a proper free software license.

@EUCommission Monitoring is huge. So many policies are introduced without ever monitoring their effects.

@davidrevoy I still use Firefox, but I disabled sending any data to Mozilla.

Thanks for not contributing to Chromium monopoly. :)

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28 February 1920 | A Polish woman Anna Smoleńska was born. She was a scout, a student of art history, and the author or co-author of the 'Fighting Poland' sign.

In #Auschwitz from 27 November 1942.
No. 26008
She perished in the camp on 19 March 1943.

@Gurre @noelreports Russians are decreasing their use of armored vehicles because their stocks are dwindling. They are also building two new armies, so plenty of vehicles were diverted there.

If you look at personnel losses, 1150 is still a lot.

@noelreports That's great! Those glide bombs had a huge impact.

@7sleepersmusic @EUCommission I'm not too upset. Leaders are temporary and change often.

@GrapheneOS Good thing that US does not recognize database "rights". EU and UK do, for example.

@noelreports His words mean nothing to him, it should have been obvious for many years now. It's a deliberate tactic.

@eighthave @kriom Most of the time language will be heavily correlated with IP address, so I'm not sure how much sense it makes to hide it when you can deduce it from IP.

@itsfoss They can't install it. But when I gave people devices with Linux on it, they were perfectly happy. They only use Firefox and LibreOffice anyway.

@rafal_s @EUCommission Considering recent statements coming from the US, perhaps power plants are not the only nuclear thing we should build?

@slavistapl @panoptykon @icd @Watchdog_Polska Akurat prawdą jest, że większość internautów nie ma zielonego pojęcia, co to jest RSS. Natomiast większość internautów nie wchodzi na strony rządowe, a jeśli już to nie w celu czytania bieżących wiadomości. Ci, którzy chcą subskrybować te wiadomości, mają zapewne więcej wiedzy.

Koszt wprowadzenia RSS oczywiście *powinien* być niski, ale biorąc pod uwagę jak urzędy radzą sobie z obsługą i zamawianiem oprogramowania, może on wcale nie być niski.

@eff But that's what privacy means. It's not just a warm feeling, it has real implications for people's lives.

@RuiCarneiro@mastodon.bida.im @EUCommission Ah, yes, the evil nazi Ukraine attacked poor defenseless Russia to topple its government, steal its territory and prevent it from drifting towards China. Is this how it went?

@Edizionilazio @noelreports But this is kinda true. Peacekeepers only work if they have enough firepower to defeat Russia. Simply stationing a small amount of soldiers in Ukraine will not deter Russia. Only the threat of a powerful counteroffensive will work.

The peacekeepers will also need the approval to destroy any Russian unit that shoots at them. Otherwise Russia is going to constantly harass them with small attacks and then deny anything happened.

@rzeta0 @itsfoss Normally you can disable Secure Boot and then any OS will boot.

A more secure solution would be to get a distro signed by MS (or a distro which signs everything using its own key and then add that key to your allowed key list in UEFI).

For most security, you could get a distro which signs everything using its own key, and then set UEFI to allow only this key and no other. This would prevent dual-boot with Windows though.

@jonpsp @eff Third, as EFF says, the publishers already eat most of the profits, while creators get pittance. The same would happen with any money from AI companies. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually the publishers would be the ones trying to replace creators with AI.

AI is the new face of old problems, a distraction. Instead of narrowly focusing on AI, we should focus on creators directly. Also on the environment directly, on privacy directly, etc. Strike hydra's body, not its newest head.

@jonpsp @eff First of all, we shouldn't treat the AI models (their design, training data, weights, etc.) as property of the companies. Those models should be public, so everyone can benefit, including authors.

Second, don't create new copyright, apply existing one. If you train AI on a million books, pay for a million books. Buying a book should cost money (so authors get paid), reading a book that you own (or training a model on it) should be free.

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