I want to thank all the contributors of @phosh for improving #softwarefreedom on mobile phones. Thank you so much for the steady progress during the last months!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ (Transparency note: I am one of the founding members of #Phosh#softwarefreedome.V which aims to provide a daily usable, robust and easy to […]

Today #Vim 9.2 has been released! In the announcement by the maintainer Christian Brabandt on Linkedin he mentioned #ilovefs 🥰 . A big thank you to Christian for maintaining #vim#ilovefs! 👏 👏 👏 👏 (careful link to proprietary platform […]

At the #Berlin #ilovefs I just learn in @Tobias 's presentation that @newpipe now also supports Bandcamp and SoundCloud next to #Youtube #Peertube https://media.CCC.de . Missed those new features before 🥰 ❤️ Big thanks to the #Newpipe#berlin#ilovefs#youtube#peertubetributors!! ❤️

Start of the Berlin #ilovefs event, with an intro by @fsfe#ilovefs's @Tobias . Currently with 26 other people at the public library 🥰

❤️ At the Berlin #ilovefs event I could give a small cake to @kde 's @AleixPol as a small sign of appreciation, thanking him and #KDE for their great work for #softwarefreedom. ❤️ ❤️ Today a special thanks to all the #KDE#ilovefs#kde#softwarefreedom#maintainers!! ❤️

❤️ When I started using #gnu / #linux one of the most important tools for me were the great books you got together with the #suse CDs and floppies. The documentation was really great for me as a beginner and enabled me to get deeper into the community for #softwarefreedom. Thanks to all […]

A big thank you to the @libreoffice community for enabling companies, public administrations, nonprofits and individuals to run a office suite that grants them the rights to use, study, share, and improve it. ❤️ How would we be able to open and edit all those proprietary doc, docx, xls, xlsx […]

❤️ Thank you to the #Archlinux Wiki maintainers! ❤️ #Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to #SoftwareFreedom. ArchWiki is one of the pearls of the internet! That's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

❤️ Thank you @bagder for maintaining #curl since 1998. What would we do without it, how long would it take us, and what code quality would those solutions have without you? Thank you so much! ❤️ ...and how on earth would people be able to check the weather […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

❤️ A big thank you to all the #maintainers of: @archlinux @centos @debian @elementary @fedora @FreeBSDFoundation @gentoo @linuxmint @manjarolinux @netbsd @nixos_org @openbsdnow @opensuse @tails @ubuntu#maintainers + other distributions who enable so many crucial aspects of our society. #ilovefs ❤️ […]

Please don't forget to say thank you to #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) contributors on 14 February's I love #freesoftware#opensourceday #ilovefs ❤️

[Told this joke today to some @fsfe co-workers. As they enjoyed it, but did not know about it before, I thought I'll share it here in the #Fediverse as well: How much does a hipster weight?] One #instagram

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/116023882888980036 I did not know about this amazing resource by Gene Sharp. Big thanks to @JMarkOckerbloom for the pointer!

Gene Sharp's "From #dictatorship to #democracy" is in my most important books list and I already gifted it many times. Better get this book now while it is available in your country and read it. Or at least own it to be able to read it when it is not available anymore.

❤️ Big thank you to @fosdem From "staff" to video team, volunteers taking care about the wardrobe, the food to volunteers cleaning toilets and many more! ♥️ ❤️ Thanks to DevRoom organisers, fellow speakers, the booth teams, and all the visitors who […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

One of the parts of #FOSDEM I also always love is meeting other participants you never met before on the train and hear about their experiences at #fosdem. After 1h we started talking about the #fediverse and #mastodon and decided to take a picture of this /dev/random table.

Excellent article by Bruce Schneier "#ai and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge". "The question is not simply whether #copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose." […]

Many disturbing things happen around the world. But I promise you that if you will feel better after attending @nicorikken 's and my #FOSDEM talk at 14:00 in K.1.105 (La Fontaine). If not you'll get every cent of your entrance fee back ;) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

So great to again dedicated people from the European Commission's #DMA enforcement team, civil society and researchers on the #FOSDEM panel "#Interoperability regulation in the EU: Opening #iOS and #Android for #FreeSoftware" […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Nice, there were at least 30 people who raised their hand in the #Fosdem Legal & Policy track when @neil asked who is following him, after he asked who is using #Mastodon . Great to see this change with so many more switching to the #Fediverse 😃 Thanks Neil […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

From Visio's install instruction: "If this errors out within the first few minutes simply run it again and it should work" In the #Fosdem talk "The story of the Vizio lawsuit - a historic case for user rights, nearly complete!" by @conservancy 's @ossguy […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Now Rosalind Liu with perspective from Taiwan: "Fork the Government: The Back and Forth #opensource Advocacy Road in #taiwan" in the #fosdem legal and policy devroom. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/9HAMJC-fork_the_government_the_back_and_forth_open_source_advocacy_road_in_taiwan/

For @Gina 's talk "From Policy To Practice; #opensource in The Dutch Government" we now had to switch the room status to "full" for the #fosdem Legal & Policy Devroom. Great tal ahead. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BNPJ7P-from-policy-to-practice-open-source-in-gov/

Started the #FOSDEM #Legal & #Policy devroom now with our first speaker, @fsfe#fosdem#legal#policyGabriel Ku Wei Bin: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/legal/

Official #FOSDEM did not even start yet, and I had so many great conversations with people who make an important impact in society. Again realised, while we have many challenges, the awareness on our topics raised significantly. E.g. on "Public Money? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

As the /dev/random talks are added later for #FOSDEM , don't forget to also check them out to create your schedule. E.g. I can highly recommend "Youth Hacking 4 Freedom 2026 - a programming competition for teenagers" on Sunday 15:20 by @annabonnie and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

OMG @braillerap just gifted us an English and a German #Braille version of "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards and Raspberry Ice Cream". 🤗 It is the first complete book printed this way with #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) and #Openhardware 🥰 We […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#fosdem vibes already in the air. By chance met @AleixPol on the ICE to Brussels already. 🤗

Nice overview article of #LWN about @postmarketOS#lwna The #freesoftware distribution for mobile phones and beyond... based on @z3ntu recent talk. Great to see how fast #postmarketos is proceeding with their limited resources. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1055391/bac1b456afe91d5c/ #freeyourandroid

☑ Get all slides for the talks in #FOSDEM 's Legal & Policy DevRoom by our speakers: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/legal/ Together with other co-organisers @richardfontana @tmarble and @conservancy 's @bkuhn @karen and @fsfe#fosdem's @lexelas I am looking forward to welcome you!! 😊 Big […]

In today's time the Stockholm syndrome might have ended up being called the "#meta #x -Syndrome". 😉 "Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition to explain why hostages occasionally develop a psychological bond with their captors." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome #fediverse […]

About banning companies from countries for infrastructure in Europe. See @fsfe 's former publication: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190205-01.en.html The software should be #freesoftware (#opensource ) and "in order to verify code integrity – so that the provided source code corresponds to […]

Got the book on Saturday and it was hard to put it down before I finished reading it. The title is an excellent description - it even would be if just half of what is written in the book would be true. Unfortunately the patterns of behaviour towards other […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This evening @fsfe 's great @nicorikken will talk in the Angry Nerds Podcast ( @angrynerdspodcast ) about the launch of the Dutch "Ada & #Zangemann" book, plus the #braille version. He did an amazing work during the last months to automate the production process for many different outputs of the […]

I recommend to listen to @techlore host 's new podcast with my @fsfe co-worker @llas about what the #dma actually does, why big cooperations are fighting it in court, and what it means for #freesoftware (#opensource) and digital freedom. Proud to hear @hen saying in the intro: "one of the most […]

Yeah!!! Ada & #Zangemann is available to pre-order in #Dutch thank to our superhero @nicorikken there is also the option to inform @fsfe#Zangemann#dutchnd pick it up at #fosdem !! https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260108-01.en.html

First time I receive an actual warning with #CellBroadcasting: https://warnung.bund.de/m/T5yRG5SHSNxS

Sad to see this happening: #google will now publish #aosp only in Q2 and Q4, instead of every quarter before. See the note on https://source.android.com (thanks to @grote for the ping) #freesoftware #opensource

🙏 🙏 🙏🙏 If you care about #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) in Europe, please support the @fsfe#freesoftware#opensourceith a donation now: https://fsfe.org/donate 🙏 🙏 🙏🙏

After several years, I finally found a #FreeSoftware workout timer for #Android which is comparable to my standalone timer I used for ages. Here the @fdroidorg link: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.deweyreed.timer.other/ It is simple, fast to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The vacation period is a great time to share the @fsfe's movie "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" with others around you on the #fediverse or by #email. Please help to reach many people, especially children: Danish […]

For #fosdem @nicorikken 's and my main track talk about "Automating translation of a bestseller to spark children's interest in coding" is scheduled for Sunday 1 February 14:00-14:50 🤗 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/

My co-workers @llas @dario and the @fsfe volunteer Jithendra wrote an article for Tech Policy Press "Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly" https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/ "We must listen to small developers and community projects […]

We are proud to share with you the schedule for the #fosdem #legal & #policy DevRoom where hackers, developers, contributors, lawyers, and decision-makers alike will share their knowledge with the #freesoftware #opensource community: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/legal/ (We = […]

And then there are those scammers who make your team and yourself laugh out loud... Powered by #Microsoft 😂... (received by an @fsfe#microsoftvolunteer). #scam #freesoftware #opensource

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/115661347143283604 In connection with the news from below, I forgot to mention it at the time: in October I also completely removed my #twitter (currently called X) account.

A child who already read "Ada & #Zangemann" 7 times attended my reading today to hear me reading it and told me how great the book is. My reaction oscillated between ☺️, 🤗, and 🥰.

Completed the first of two Ada & #Zangemann readings today for school classes at #nano in Potsdam, which is a great place to do experiments https://nano-potsdam.de/

Prepared with the tattoo and on my way to two "Ada & Zangemann" (the first story tale about #digitalsovereignty 😉) readings in #Potsdam. (you can get the tattoos at @fsfe#digitalsovereigntybooths or online here https://fsfe.org/order/index.en.html#other ).