@torvalds happy holidays! One floss.social post won't have space to discuss all the inaccuracies in your post.
This lawsuit isn't primarily about Linux, which is just 1 of 26 copyleft projects on the TVs; there's both GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1 binaries; Vizio's sources remain non-compliant on various issues. I think maybe you didn't read what we've actually said?
Lots of Linux developers care about this and have different views, so maybe take some time to talk to them or me about it? Could be fun!
After lengthy discussions with some experts, I start to see a way to define and measure #DigitalSovereignty as a combination of three vectors:
- Ownership
- Control
- Trust
Ownership can focus on data, hardware, software. Control flows from ownership. Who has authority to grant and limit access, use? Trust should obviously flow from ownership and control as the final checkpoint. With this I can start to sort different approaches and proposals in the DigSov discussion. Maybe it helps you too?
Beautiful words of wisdom from @taymaz translated into English:
Fuck iPhone, Apple and everyone else making life piss-hard regarding interoperability.
The yearly x-mas/new year's blog post:
https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/12/xmas-new-years-maps.html
According to Timothy Snyder's "On Freedom" (2024) there are these five forms of freedom:
- Sovereignty
- Unpredictability
- Mobility
- Factuality
- Solidarity
We need all of them. #freedom #sovereignty #unpredictability #mobility #factuality #solidarity
If you want to help seed the Certificate Transparency archive (https://github.com/geomys/ct-archive), there is now an RSS feed for your BitTorrent client! Don't forget to set unlimited seed ratio ✨
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geomys/ct-archive/main/torrents.rss
Hereby officially confirmed, I'll be speaking at @fosdem in 2026! 🥳🥳
If you want to be late to lunch and you'd like to listen to a lighting fast talk about open source in the Dutch government, come to the Legal and Policy Devroom from 12:00 to 12:25 on Saturday!
#FOSDEM #fosdem2026 #foss #opensource #eupolicy #digitalsovereignty
DFRI Send är här!
#AskFedi #Debian developers, how do I get the Vcs- field updated in a package?
unicode-data is hosted at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/unicode-data
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/unicode-data shows "unknown".
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion #DepecheMode #InternetArchive
Depeche Mode Live at Aragon Ballroom 1985-03-22 https://archive.org/details/ajc02258_dm1985-03-22
Just watched The Blues Brothers. Wonderful movie!
Random quotes:
"I hate Illinois Nazis"
"We're on a mission from God."
"You gotta understand, this is a lot bigger than any domestic problems you might be experiencing."
It has great music. I guess that happens when you have names like Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles in the cast. 🤩
Oh and also Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia!) as the Mystery Woman.
As much as I like paper and computers, I hate printers. Perhaps because printer manufacturers were the first really obvious enshittifiers?
But this one gets me excited: https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer
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Everything is politics.