Today on the international e-waste day, do the final move to update your computer from Microsoft #Windows10 to an operating system that respects your freedom to use, study, share, and improve the software you use, like: @archlinux @debian @elementary @fedora#windows10@FreeBSDFoundation @gentoo […]

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 […]

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html "If you own a computer, you should have the right to run whatever programs you want on it. This is just as true with the apps on your Android/iPhone mobile device as […]

congratulations and much gratitude to @[email protected] for taking up the position of president of the Free Software Foundation. and happy 40th to the @[email protected]

Decentered Podcast S2E3 – Rabble from Nos.Social. Rabble is someone who started using the Internet in the late 90s to organize protests and bolster independent media. He would go on to become a founding member of Twitter, before focusing his attention on next-generation communication systems […]

“A veces haces todo bien Y no pasa nada Y sí, duele Pero rendirse no cambia eso La vida no premia al que más quiere Premia al que resiste sin perderse”

«Javier Milei’s government’s punishing budget cuts have forced researchers to take up work as electricians, school teachers or Uber drivers» It's the speedrun of the decline that researchers are seeing eg in France, where salaries for researchers have been decimated over the years, just within […]

WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number

tarda mas não falha! IRPF-Livre 2025 v1.3 r19812 está finalmente pronto para quem quiser fazer sua declaração de imposto de renda usando software livre, com toda a transparência que a lei exige da Receita Federal, mas que ela continua se recusando em oferecer […]

So the user actually found a memory leak in #curl (using a fuzzer) and reported it correctly. All good. Then, in a follow up comment the user makes the ugly choice of trying to "help" us with this bug by asking an AI for help and proposing that as a solution. And again it broke horribly and […]

@sagemath 10.6 has been released on April 1, 2025. SageMath now supports RISC-V systems. A total of 75 people contributed to this release. Of those, 24 made their first contribution to Sage. More info about this release on https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/Sage-10.6-Release-Tour The […]

The Chaos Computer Club, Europe‘s largest community of #hackers, has released a declaration on what is incompatible with the club’s values: “Those who aim to destroy coexistence in society and work toward an alternative society with principles based on chauvinism and nationalism are working […]

C23 C language standard made a decision which breaks C functions with arbitrary number of arguments. How does one define an *arbitrary* function pointer in C23? (not only variadic, which is a special case) https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/775

I'm becoming more and more convinced that the best way forward for most OSS foundations is to become an e.V. like KDE. Things just work better when they are hosted in Europe under a more sane legal system and without having to worry about the weird public secrecy legal stuff that US […]

Plus, elections, CoC issues etc. are just so much more established in an e.V. and things like due process etc. can be legally enforced instead of nebulous decisions made behind closed doors with no consultation or options for appeal

Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among other #foss endorsed by French Government https://code.gouv.fr/sill/list

Eu, olhando o mercado amanhã, vendo a maior econômica taxando a segunda maior em mais de 100%.

After some hiatus, @Jami is back on #flathub, an easy way to have it on any Linux distro. If you miss the #p2p days of Skype, Jami is here - https://jami.net/jami-vs-skype-welcome-to-where-your-privacy-matters/ #gnu, #foss, #decentralization, #distributedsystems

There has been some controversy around naming of certain bodies of water in other map apps lately. So I thought about a possible solution to take a more neutral approach to this in Maps […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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New blog post: "Going for robustness" https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/03/05/going-for-robustness.html

Ok, então há um vcs software chmado jujutsu.

Dear astro folks, with the current crackdown on science in the US, we probably cannot rely on all services provided to the scientific community from the US to function properly in the future and we may need to think about moving them elsewhere. What services would you think of that are […]

Ok, so I’m trying #gnu #guix for the first time, let’s see how it goes :)

The moderation policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling and should be a concern to anyone with a conscience. While the fediverse is a decentralized platform where different service providers have different moderation policies, at mastodon.social, hate speech is prohibited, and we will take […]

Why don't #fedora have magnet links on the download page, therefore BitTorrent for its ISO? Some random CDN that takes years to download...

The SuperComputing Conference for Astronomers: A lead student volunteer‘s take on #SC24 astrobites.org/2024/12/27/s... #HPC #AI

Today the #gnome stack got updated on my laptop, the wallpaper that I was using disappeared, so I realized that I don’t like abrupt changes. Maybe I’m getting old.

My Logitech just started to misbehave, too sensitive to the clicks and no idea why, cleaned and nothing. Just took my #system76 back, I have forgotten how much I love this keyboard.

Hey #Astrodon: Four #postdoc #job positions in #Extragalactic #astronomy and the Epoch of Reionization are open in my department at Stockholm University. Come be my colleague! Or share this post to all the great candidates you know! https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/0660cbe1

"Zoom is now an AI-first work platform" Mostly academics use Zoom, however there are plenty of better alternatives, one can use #signal, #matrix using element web for example (I have been using for years with my collaborators). Would be easy for universities to implement a #jitsi#matrix#signalnstance or a […]

I know that today people's mind will be focused on the US elections, but I just got news that my very first PhD student has just signed a contract for a permanent position in academia, and I couldn't be happier for her 🥰 #AcademicChatter

Charla sobre los retos computacionales de grandes observatorios astronómicos: el ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade Ayer tuve el gusto de dar la charla inaugural en el evento Applied ReseaRch dAY (ARRAY) 2024 del Departamento de Informática de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH). Las […]

As we welcome the #brasil mastodon users, it does feel like now would be a great time to help them realize they can use services like this to bridge to engage with friends on #bluesky here, too. https://fed.brid.gy/ #bridgy #bridgyfed

Zotero just received a major upgrade with a modern GUI: https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-7/ #zotero #opensource #science #academic

"Julian is just one decision away from extradition" -- Stella Assange RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@rms/112451036340221641