keverets @keverets@librem.one

Hey, #canada !

Did you know that if you're in Canada, you can download free cybersecurity tools?

This sounds like an ad, I know.

I'm just a sysadmin who uses these products at home and a certain set of them even at work. They're provided by CIRA, and even though I get the occasional overzealous block that I have to fine-tune around, they're actually quite good.

I find that even most of the people I talk to in Canadian tech don't know about it, though.

You can find out more here:

https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/

(For people looking to protect households or businesses, they have a DNS product that's quite easy to set up to work in the background, in addition to the apps that you can get for individual devices.)

Protecting children online matters—but age verification is not how you do it. Read our analysis of the new EU Kids Act, which is a threat to the open internet and our privacy https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/eu-kids-act-wont-keep-internet-accountable-and-trustworthy

Not a fan of just how much information on your phone the new Siri has access to? Here's how to limit it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/how-limit-what-apples-new-siri-ai-can-access-ios-27

TIL https://sensor.community/en/ (via @MapComplete )

Sensor.Community is a contributors driven global sensor network that creates Open Environmental Data.

Now if someone asks me if they can add temperature or AQI data to #OpenStreetMap, I can point them to this 🙂

#OpenData #DigitalCommons #FreeSoftware #Libre #FOSS #contraLibre

Nice work Switzerland! 👏👏

European governments are starting to support alternative mobile app stores, such as @fdroidorg , for their government-built apps.

Next up, government issued (fair)phones for civil servants that come with an open OS and open app store? 🚀

https://www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20267146

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #foss #mobile #fdroid #eupolicy #switzerland

Petition to block MAGA PE scum from owning crucial Canadian payment infrastructure, namely Moneris: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7712

There remains no reliable, privacy-preserving method of verifying the age of every internet user. Yet, the UK is still going ahead with a social media ban for users under 16. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-it-prevents

@cwebber Write to the senator of the relevant committee. They are being pressured, but their role is to be the sober second look, and there's still a chance they push back. They've already had the first reading (see https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en/bill/45-1/c-22) so hurry.

🚨 Bill C-22 would force every Canadian internet provider, messaging app, and cloud service to build surveillance backdoors & store a year of your private data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US — compromising up to a million people. Tell your MP: https://openmedia.org/StopC22-mast #BillC22 #cdnpoli @OpenMediaOrg

SFC announces their **Recommendations When Using LLM-backed Generative AI Systems for FOSS Contributions**. A guide and set of best practices for using LLMs for creation and maintenance of FOSS projects. As we move into a new era of software development, thoughtful and ethical use of LLM tooling is critical for FOSS contributors to consider. This set of recommendations creates a framework for thinking and working with such tooling for the betterment of FOSS at large.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/jun/18/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations/

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