keverets @keverets@librem.one

The United Nations opts for @CryptPad, an open source alternative to #GoogleForms.

https://news.itsfoss.com/un-ditches-google-form/

#OpenSource #CryptPad #UN #UnitedNations #foss

At Fairphone, we believe that true ownership isn't just about hardware, it's also about code 💚
We're proud to be one of the few brands offering the necessary resources for users to develop and run their own software. We publish kernel sources, device trees, and work hard to maintain buildable code for our devices. We also published this week our detox feature Moments of our Gen 6.
https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/12/04/were-big-fans-of-open-source-buildable-code-at-fairphone-heres-why/?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on how to criticise AI.

I love his writing style and the way he provides clear, understandable explanations of everything he write about. (And I love his sense of humour)

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

Seeing family for the holidays? Remember to help your loved ones install Privacy Badger to stop online trackers from following them around the web. https://privacybadger.org

Remember how every December your CD player did not confess that it had been spying on what you listened to all year

We are thankful for the help from Consumer Reports on our #OptOutOctober project. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/opt-out-october-daily-tips-protect-your-privacy-and-security

If you are concerned about this remember to address directly it with the person wearing the Meta glasses, rotating with your hips and core for power and aiming through their face rather than at it

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vk7rduhvom3rq6dyluce5wzf/post/3m3ug5d4gv22o

Security conference talks fall into two categories
* we designed a distributed entropy siphon to perform a black-box hypervisor side channel escape and chain-load a persistent rootkit into the CPU cache
* we looked behind the sofa and found an entire industry of products/services that have made no attempt at security at all and are therefore vulnerable to the most basic issues that we've been finding in everything for the past 30 years, and no-one else had bothered to look.

This is maybe the biggest FINALLY in my career as a purveyor of Oddly Specific Objects: The Open Book is in prelaunch at Crowd Supply! But it's not the same old Open Book; we're launching the all-new, completely reimagined Open Book Touch with WiFi and Bluetooth support, a higher-resolution display, capacitive touchscreen, and frontlight with adjustable color temperature. Subscribe for updates here! https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

Software people will laugh while scrolling this. They won’t admit it’s to keep them from crying: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge

It's official! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.

🔗 Learn more & celebrate with us tonight ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/happy-internet-archive-day/

It's important to know what search results are out there about you, so you understand what people see when they look for you. #OptOutOctober https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/opt-out-october-daily-tips-protect-your-privacy-and-security#tip11

@LadyNeuroFunk I use #XMPP as my primary medium of communication, be it chat or audio/video calls.

I ask non-geek contacts to install #Quicksy or #Prāv. For the more privacy conscious, I suggest regular XMPP clients and servers.

I also wrote a user’s guide to XMPP.

Down with proprietary and centralized platforms! ✊

Today the Support of Windows 10 is over

💡As an user, you should have the right to choose your operating system

🖥️ If you buy a computer with a pre-installed Windows license that you don’t want to use, you can request a refund💸.

“You should not have to pay for software you do not want. Manufacturers and vendors have no right to impose specific operating systems on users” Lucas, Refund4Freedom co-coordinator.

👉 https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.en.html

How to request a refund 👉 https://en.refund4freedom.org/

"Instead of sending public money to distant corporations, funds stay local and support IT jobs for regional developers and entrepreneurs. The use of open-source #Linux distributions also extends the life of existing hardware and reduces e-waste, which proprietary models can exploit for unnecessary spending."

*Cantillon Lessons Guide Shift to Open-Source*

https://news.opensuse.org/2025/09/15/cantillon-lessons-guide-shift-to-open-source/

@opensuse supports #EndOf10!

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Windows #Windows10 #Microsoft #FOSS #FLOSS #GNU #GNUlinux

People, please don't use #SubStack

Please use #Ghost
https://ghost.org

You can let your site be hosted by Ghost or even better..

..self-host!

Setting up a site is super easy and you can even use membership features like I do here: https://stux.me/membership/

For every platform with a shady CEO there is a self-hosted alternative that is waaay better

#FOSS FTW!

Signal and Matrix were founded in popular opposition to the email system but End-to-End encrypted instant messaging via emails works now, and reliably, with #deltachat V2 app releases, and with #chatmail relays forming a growing secure email network that minimizes metadata and enforces TLS and E2EE messaging.

You can't really argue with working code, can you?

Contrary to popular belief SMTP and DKIM and IMAP are no holy ingredients and can be improved upon btw. See eg https://github.com/chatmail/relay/issues/487