V02460 @v02460@librem.one

We've preliminary found that TikTok is in breach of the DSA for its addictive design.

There are important indicators of compulsive use of the app that TikTok has disregarded in its risk assessment.

Key features of the addictive design:
🔹Infinite scroll
🔹Autoplay
🔹Push notifications
🔹Highly personalised recommender system

We consider that TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service.

TikTok can now exercise its right to examine and reply to the finding.

https://link.europa.eu/9fTwmJ

I wrote about our transition as my wife and I leave the US for France soon.

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/

This will mean major disruptions to a huge amount of GNOME code as I will be unable to continue in such a capacity as an unemployed long-stay visitor.

These are the tools powered us during the complete internet shutdown of Iran. I don't know how to appreciate you guys. Thank you:

- @matrix
- @element
- @delta
- @nextcloud
- @ntfy
- SchildiChat
- @torproject
- Psiphon
- a huge number of VPN and Proxy apps I can't name one by one.

#Iran #Iran2026Protests

Talk online for streaming:
FOSDEM 2026 - EU OS: learnings from 1 year advocating for a common Desktop Linux for the public sector

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DTE3NX-eu-os-1-year-after-with-feedback-and-wishlist/

#fosdem #fosdem26 #EU_OS #DigitalSovereignty

📣 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗲𝗿𝘄ü𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘁: 𝗭𝗮𝗣𝘂𝗞

Die Zielarchitektur für Postfach- und Kommunikationslösungen (#ZaPuK) ist in ihrer ersten Version auf OpenCode einsehbar. Bis zum 25. März freuen wir uns über fundiertes Feedback dazu aus der technischen Fachöffentlichkeit. Ein Infotermin zum Feedbackprozess findet am 10. Februar von 10 - 10:30 Uhr über Webex statt.

Mehr dazu: https://gitlab.opencode.de/it-planungsrat/fit-ab/zapuk/-/blob/main/Konsultationen/Phase-2_Architektur-v1.0_21-01-2026/README.md

Welcome to Mastodon, @HennaVirkkunen !

As Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, you have highlighted how the Fediverse plays an important part in protecting the EU's #DigitalSovereignty and supporting European alternatives.

#NewHere

@Armavica @EUCommission in many cases, long distance transport is pretty marginal in the total footprint of what you consume. E.g. for food there's much more to be gained based on *what* you eat then where your food comes from (especially if freight is by boat or train) https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

Moderne Software heute: Du zahlst eine Lizenz, besitzt aber nichts. Ohne Konto startet sie nicht, ohne Internet »unerwarteter Fehler«. Sie sammelt Daten – natürlich nur für »Sicherheit«, »Qualität« und dein »Erlebnis«. Updates kommen automatisch, Funktionen verschwinden automatisch. Und irgendwann wird dein Gerät Elektroschrott, weil der Dienst abgeschaltet wird. Kein Bug, sondern Geschäftsmodell.

#software #ms #microsoft #bullshit

VECTO is an #OpenSource software used to calculate the energy consumption and CO₂ emissions of trucks and buses, to ensure they meet the EU's environmental standards. ✅

It is created by a team of engineers and developers from the Commission's Joint Research Centre in Italy. Each year it certifies about 300 000 new trucks. 🚚

Read more in the latest article by @EC_OSPO and find it's code on code.europa.eu 👉 https://link.europa.eu/7MBFNN

The presumption that free software is sufficient or necessary to ensure all software you depend on is trustworthy is simultaneously naive and ignorant of what software is capable of. The only realistic way to develop trust in software is to trust the people who write it, and development processes associated with free software make that trust easier.

Noch mehr Massenüberwachung durch den BND geplant, auch Pressefreiheit in großer Gefahr: Schutzstatus von Journalistinnen und Journalisten soll gelockert werden https://www.djv.de/news/pressemitteilungen/press-detail/redaktionsgeheimnis-in-gefahr/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rmader/115848078184253958

gpuISP just got merged to libcamera, so now we can achieve 30FPS on platforms even where we can't control the hardware ISP.

Next up ... Colour tuning!

Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:

- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains

As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:

"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."

In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.

For years I have been hoping for a FLOSS alternative to "Adobe Scan", the Android app to scan receipts (essentially) with automatic cropping + deskewing + cleanups + OCR, and there was nothing… until three months ago, where #FairScan just materialized out of the blue, and I discovered it today: https://www.fairscan.org

Your turn, #LinuxMobile, time to make #GNOME's "Simple Scan" application "camera-ready" 😉 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/344

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an das Land Berlin zu seiner Open-Source-Strategie 🎉

Das Land Berlin hat eine eigene Open-Source-Strategie beschlossen. Nach Gründung des eigenen Open-Source-Kompetenzzentrums ist das der nächste konsequente Schritt in Richtung Digitaler Souveränität. Mit Schleswig-Holstein und Thüringen ist Berlin nun das dritte Land, das seine digitale Infrastruktur auf offenen Standards aufbauen will.

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Hey, I've been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I can't find a permanent job that allows me to function, I'm not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find. Essentially, I have no stable monthly income that allows me to sustain myself.

Nowadays, I work mostly on accessibility throughout GNOME as a volunteer, improving the experience of people with disabilities. I helped make the majority of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader — still an ongoing effort with !564 and !598 —which is an effort no company ever contributed financially. These merge requests take thousands (literally) of hours to research, develop, and test, which would have been enough to sustain myself for a couple of years if I had been working under a salary.

I would really appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to bump my monthly income.

These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to continue working on accessibility throughout GNOME, potentially even 'crowdfunding' development without doing it on the behalf of the Foundation.

I accept donations through the following platforms:

- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheEvilSkeleton/donate (free and open-source platform)
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSkeleton

Boosts welcome and appreciated.

#Accessibility #a11y #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid

I wrote a blogpost about an automatic phone call testing PoC I did recently.
The setup can detect a failed phone call. When properly integrated into the postmarketOS Hardware CI setup, it will automatically detect phone call reliability/quality issues.

Hopefully this can take away the fear of the phone not working when you need it and remove a roadblock for daily driving #linuxmobile.

https://izzo.pro/blog/phone-call-testing/

#postmarketOS #hardwareci

Vielen Dank für den Besuch im ZenDiS, Ralph Brinkhaus! Der Vorsitzende der Arbeitsgruppe „Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung“ der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion ist in Bochum vorbeigekommen, um sich über den Stand unserer Office- und Kollaborationssuite #openDesk zu informieren.

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#WirMachenSouverän

New:

http://em-dash-appreciation.org/

The Em Dash Appreciation Society
for Humans.

by @elysdir .