Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

As you plan your week ahead, don't forget to get your #FOSSY talk proposal in by Monday, April 28 (anywhere on Earth)! You can do it at https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/ . We are a small team putting this big event together and greatly appreciate your help in making sure everyone in your #freesoftware and #opensource circles knows about the opportunity and deadline! #portland

A Mobile track at FOSSY was just added to the schedule! 🎉

If you have a talk about FOSS on mobile devices that you've always wanted to give, now is your chance 😁

The submission thing is open until April 28:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

#linuxmobile #fossy2025 #pdx

The #DMA is a step forward for #DeviceNeutrality, but Apple (one of the so-called gatekeeper) is taking it to court to protect its App Store monopoly.

The Free Software Foundation Europe is stepping in to defend our freedom and digital rights in this crucial EU antitrust case! 🚀

We are the only non-profit involved! Support us to continue our work! https://fsfe.org/donate

Lear more about the Apple litigation: https://fsfe.org/activities/apple-litigation/

#SoftwareFreedom

Wir suchen eine Person für unser Kommunikationsteam. ✍️
Du möchtest dich gerne Grund- und Freiheitsrechten im digitalen Zeitalter widmen und bist ein Kommunikationstalent: das ist deine Chance! Genaueres gibt es hier: https://epicenter.works/content/communication-mangerin
Bewerbungsfrist ist der 21.04⌛️

⚡ Meta’s toxic, profiling-based content feeds are affecting our lives and well-being – and today, @edri, @Freiheitsrechte, @bitsoffreedom, and Convocation Research + Design (CoRD Labs) filed a #DSA complaint against it.

Meta is violating the #DigitalServicesAct by making it hard for people to choose news feeds that are not based on #profiling.

We deserve to take back control over our own online experiences! ✊🏾

Read more about the complaint ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-files-dsa-complaint-against-meta-for-toxic-profiling-fueled-feeds/

Very excited to have filed a formal complaint against #Facebook & #Instagram today under the #DigitalServicesAct.

Together with @bitsoffreedom, @Freiheitsrechte & Convocation Design+Research, @edri represents an Irish user and found that #Meta uses #DeceptiveDesign patterns to discourage people from choosing the #newsfeed that's not based on #profiling.

That newsfeeds option is a key requirement under the DSA and deceptive design is prohibited. So there you go.

https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-files-dsa-complaint-against-meta-for-toxic-profiling-fueled-feeds/

We are not lawyers, nor our alter egos play as such on the Internet. Ergo in the face of legal challenges we are only rusticos.

If you feel ad idem and want to lend a hand, or head, to #FDroid pro bono and bona fide, you can help in our ongoing efforts ad infinitum.

Quaeritur right here: https://f-droid.org/2025/04/16/strengthening-foss-legal-resilience.html

#Mozilla #EFF #SFLC #OpenTechFund

Sovereign Tech Agency’s Technology Lead @tarakiyee wird nächsten Montag auf dem "Public Money? Public Code!" Fachtag, veranstaltet von @fsfe in Essen sprechen!

Taras Vortrag erörtert, wie öffentliche Investitionen, wie die der Sovereign Tech Agency, in essenzielle FOSS-Infrastruktur dazu beitragen, Vendor Lock-ins durch offene Standards und Interoperabilität zu vermeiden – ein Problem für viele öffentliche Verwaltungen und KMU.

Time flies when you're busy building apps, but not all #FDroid contributors need to wrangle Python, escape YAML or restart Gitlab pipelines.

If you want to have a saying in the betterment of F-Droid, from the inside, you are welcomed to nominate yourself or somebody else you find worthy for a Board of Directors seat.

You have time until April 14th, so head to: https://f-droid.org/2025/03/30/board-of-directors-nominations.html

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

“You don’t know what information a data broker has on you, who they’re selling it to, and what the people who buy your data are doing with it,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @Gizmodo. “There’s a real power/knowledge asymmetry.” https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762

The withdrawal of funding is an existential threat to the international digital rights community. “The scale and speed of the attacks on people’s rights is unprecedented. It’s breathtaking,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @technologyreview. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/04/1112773/at-rightscon-in-taipei-activists-reckon-with-a-us-retreat-from-promoting-digital-rights/

I can’t overstate how excited I am that @sovtechfund is investing in the core technology powering OpenStreetMap. Throughout my years in open source, OSM and its incredible global community of volunteers have always been close to me. It was one of the first profound examples of the power of openness and its impact on digital sovereignty and personal autonomy.

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.

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/open-source-funding-on-the-brink-delivering-whats-needed-to-make-europe-sovereign/