Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

🇪🇺When Germany's leading network of support centers for victims of violence warns against #ChatControl, governments should listen. 📢

Their verdict: It fails to protect children but endangers the confidential counseling that victims rely on!

https://www.frauen-gegen-gewalt.de/de/studien-und-positionspapiere/positionspapier-zus-verordnung-zur-pr%C3%A4vention-und-bek%C3%A4mpfung-des-sexuellen-missbrauchs-von-kindern-chatkontrolle.html?file=files/userdata/downloads/stellungnahmen/stellungnahmen_positionspapiere_ab_09_2025/bff-positionspapier_zu_chatkontrolle.pdf&cid=iso-6-351

a #ChatControl update (shared on the ISOC GE mailing list):

"The good news is that the blocking minority held. Members states raised concerns about privacy and cybersecurity as reasons for their opposition. Even countries that are officially in support of the proposal asked questions along these lines for the first time – showing that they are facing increased pressure back home.

The bad news is that #Denmark is moving forward even though they did not receive full support. They are keeping their plan to take this proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.

After discussing with partners, we understand this as a strategy from Denmark. They are not making progress at the working level (the meeting today) and therefore will try directly at the political level (justice and home affairs). During these coming four weeks they will try to convince some of the blocking member states to reconsider their position.

What this means for us is that we need to keep up the pressure. We should be thanking the blocking countries for their position and encouraging the undecided or supportive countries to reconsider. We should keep up pressure in the media at the same time."

The Filmbook app has been lacking a proper icon for too long, but @nido@troet.cafe has stepped up to tackle this challenge! He's created two fantastic design options, and I honestly can't decide between them.

That's where you come in – I'd love your help in choosing the best one! Please boost this post and vote for whichever icon you think works best for the app.

Your feedback means a lot! 📱✨

More about the Filmbook app can be found here: https://flathub.org/en/apps/page.codeberg.bjawebos.Filmbook

#filmbook #linux #linuxmobile #libadwaita

Going to protests works ✊

Contacting your representatives works 📬

Building alternative platforms works

Creating supportive networks works

Advocating on social media works 🗣️

Stop telling people their action doesn't work, and pick one that works for you.

We need all of this and more to win.
Learn to fight together 💚

#HumanRights #Democracy #Protest #NoKings #USpol #UKpol #EUpol #CanPoli

@hacks4pancakes

The amount of stupid you need to be in order to be called a journalist today has gone up.

This stamp has probably been the source of the speculation.

Before and after it's revealed that the alleged shooter is a white male right-winger:

Reposted with alt text

#flexibleWork #remoteWork #ReturnToOffice https://mastodon.social/@mklopez/115187361052628583

Droidian 101 released!

Get it while it's hot... https://github.com/droidian-images/droidian/releases/tag/droidian%2F101.20250906

OTA update pushed to everyone tracking the `current` update channel.

Have fun! #MobileLinux #Droidian #phosh #gtk #plasma #plasmamobile

and they wonder why we don’t Google anymore.

I am the owner of Minifree Ltd: https://minifree.org/

Minifree sells Libreboot computers to fund development of Libreboot; I'm Libreboot's founder and lead developer.

Libreboot is a free software project, replacing the proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on supported computers. It offers many security and performance benefits compared to most proprietary firmware, and it's highly configurable.

Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD.

tll;dr I selll LIbreboot, and Libreboot accessories.

We ordered a cake

Hell yes!

NYT: Russian drones are monitoring US and NATO weapon supply routes in eastern Germany. In response, Berlin is preparing legal changes to authorize the military to shoot down drones near bases.

Legal changes to shoot down hostile drones 🤷‍♂️

Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him.

https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/scientist-exposes-anti-wind-groups-as-oil-funded-now-they-want-to-silence-him/

<- just as tobacco companies sponsored anti-anti-smoking legislation, now fossil-fuel companies are sponsoring global warming denial. The denialists are mostly not smart enough to know this.

Must-read:

So-called "age verification" laws are spreading.

They will not protect kids.

They are grossly insecure.

They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression.

They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read.

We have to stop this.

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

Bloomberg reports that Xi Jinping has, for the first time, publicly congratulated Ukraine on its Independence Day. The move comes just days before Putin’s planned visit to China. For decades, Beijing has never extended such greetings to former Soviet republics—except Russia.

issues i'd never thought i have to deal with: we used some dip switches that have two markings: 1 and ON. that's already confusing for computer people because in their mind, "1" also means "on" (binary on/active/high). now we have a new batch of keyboards where these got mounted upside down. people read the ON as NO. so they think it's 1 (on) and NO (off). everything goes wrong. i'm so tired and need to sleep. sirens in the distance

Update zu unserer Vertieblerin mit Linux:

Ihr #windows10 Heim PC fällt aus dem Support, sie möchte da jetzt ein #debian 13 mit #kdeplasma drauf. Nachdem sie sich damit beschäftigt hat, findet sie #debian die beste Wahl für sich. Verständlich, nicht jeder hat Bock sich beständig mit seiner IT auseinander zu setzen.

Selbstverständlich findet diese Umstellung während der Arbeitszeit statt, aus Gründen 😂

Jackpot, wieder jemanden bekehrt! 🤓

#endof10 #opensourcewin #opensource

"mRNA is one of the most promising technologies for preventing and treating any kind of disease that you can imagine.

Stopping development of mRNA vaccines could put cures of the world’s most common and debilitating chronic diseases, such as cancer and HIV, out of reach.

We need to stay engaged and push back."

My comments on the defunding of mRNA research in
@maskblocabq https://prismreports.org/2025/08/21/mrna-vaccine-rfk-jr-cancer-hiv/