Notices by Delib (delib@floss.social)

"OSI election ends with unsatisfying results, LWN, By Joe Brockmeier March 21, 2025"

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1014603/c791efdd5a4ca47c/

#FOSS #politics

@nemobis

I should highlight federations. Cooperation between co-ops is too often a minimally defined obligation.

eg. Mastodon server-administrators would be great members for federated co-operatives. They might be encouraged to sell subscriptions to their individual instances, to be consumer-owned themselves, but regardless; together they could buy and share legal insurance, server support, tech-support, moderation time, or such things.

#coOp #federation

"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license."

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/

@conservancy
#tikTok #foss #law #policy #techPolicy

@nemobis @edsu @mirlo

I have noticed that communities of FOSS software-developers, are attracted to worker co-ops. This makes sense, because they are workers, and do not sell code. But a co-operative of artists could have different interests. They may prefer to coopertatively buy, own or sell something else than their labour.

#FOSS #artist #internet #coOp

Remember our friends at Software Heritage Foundation;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Heritage.

https://www.softwareheritage.org/people/

#OSS #FOSS #nonprofit #foundation

"I prefer open standard chat, not walled gardens, (TXTS, VM, pics, files, syncs devices etc.) You probably use it in some apps without knowing it. If you don't want to create an account, I can give you my tel# there, but it won't be end-to-end encrypted.

I would love it if you would get a public server account: https://xmpp.link/#user@example.com, or here is an invitation to my server [link]. I will prob have it for a year or two."

"The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 27th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium next year again! These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2025. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP in person and remote!"

https://xmpp.org/2024/11/xmpp-summit-27/

#FOSS #conference #XMPP

Geeky excitement here! Only a subset of linux apps serve small touch-screens. That set increased, because supposedly keyboard shortcuts will now work; like 'shift'-'command'-'s' for 'save as'. Isn't that exciting?! ;-)

Linux mobile phones, using squeekboard keyboard, now have a real shift-key; the kind that not only shifts letters, but also shifts command-key, and alt-key combinations and more.

Oh my. Is emacs org-mode really going to work now!?

#linux #mobile #foss #emacs #orgMode