France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.
Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses
Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.
About open source and âwhale fallâ, or when community restarts projects from forks.
What happens when a large open source project dies.
Konform Browser v140.7.1-100 released
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Offdem Browser Extension
Open-source browser extension that helps you stay focused by temporarily blocking distracting websites. Available for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. 100% free and privacy-focused.
The best cracked Minecraft launcher I know of, hope you are already aware. Have fun in any case!
UltimMC Launcher is a Minecraft launcher that helps to run and organise different versions of the game. You can create separate profiles for normal Minecraft,
Watch YouTube privately - Materialious
Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is ...
#UnplugBigTech: Your roadmap to a freer digital life - Part 1
#UnplugBigTech: Eine Einsteiger-Serie mit klaren, machbaren Schritten, um Alternativen zu nutzen und sich schrittweise von Big-Tech-AbhÀngigkeiten zu lösen.
EmmabuntĂŒs DE 6: A Linux to help those in need
: A distro aimed at helping people, reducing e-waste â and helping a charity, too
An open source repairable printer.
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade
Privacy Shamir Secret New tool (PWA or .apk needed)
Simple and secure secret sharing in the browser . Contribute to numago/diceslice development by creating an account on GitHub.
What You Don't Know About SAINSBURY'S and the AI BIOMETRIC PANOPTICON
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Can we share change.org links?
Remove FLOCK cameras from Illinois
Weâre pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2 đ„ł
Weâre pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2, the newest version of the free and open source office suite trusted by millions of users around the world. This release makes it easier than ever for users to câŠ
A manifesto for open source, from Mercedes-Benz
by Dr. Wolfgang Gehring, August 02, 2021
Boomers here?
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US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal
Section 230, passed in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, has become the centre of a intense political debate in the recent years.
Page views for "Zulip" Wikipedia article skyrocket after Discord announces its age verification nonsense
Your settings will be remembered on the same browser and computer.
Christiano Ronaldo and Messi Dancing Challenge đ why they look too good
Nobody did it better than them so far đ
The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics
The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics - shorepine/tulipcc
Haraltd v0.0.2 - A cross-platform Bluetooth daemon with JSON-RPC
A cross-platform daemon that provides a JSON-based RPC to interact with the native OS Bluetooth stack. - bluetuith-org/haraltd
Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper.
Paul Romer: Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millioâŠ
Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
FOSDEM 2026: One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing â the open protocol handles them all
Securely erase empty space on Android
A free space eraser
Bunnings Australia wins legal fight to use AI facial recognition in stores
Bunnings was reasonably entitled to use AI facial recognition technology to combat crime and staff abuse in its stores, the Administrative Review Tribunal finds.
GeorgeClensy/Escape-Launcher: A minimalist android launcher to help you quit your phone addiction
A minimalist android launcher to help you quit your phone addiction - GeorgeClensy/Escape-Launcher
All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt
All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1âŠ
Hate It Or Rate It | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Track and decide: Love it or leave it with every purchase.
OpenSplitDeck - An open source steam controller
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Hey that OS alot of people care about righ now is hiring, please consider & share to other
GrapheneOS job opportunities.
Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters witâŠ
Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code. - originalankur/maptoposter
24H CAKE TIMER for Deep Work
A minimalist 24-hour focus tracker to log sessions, tag slices, track streaks, and review progress â all stored locally in your browser.
You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainersâ Turf Now
For quite some time, I have felt some unease at the public discourse around OpenSource. In the past few years, we have seen a growing discourse around the sustainability and security of the large body of OpenSource softâŠ
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source softwareâŠ
UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence
ANALYSIS: Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EUâs roll-back of digital rights
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administratioâŠ
The rise of ID/face scanning to access bars & clubs
Privacy advocates and cybersecurity experts say the growing use of ID scanning at venues raises the risk of personal data breaches. They argue a more ambitious overhaul of privacy laws is needed.
Battle Over Facial Recognition in New Orleans Will Shape Future of Surveillance
Edith Romero, an organizer in New Orleans, discusses the dangers of the growing surveillance state.
EDRi launches new resource to document abuses and support a full ban on spyware in Europe
EDRi is launching a document pool to centralise resources that tracks abuse and support the growing push for a full EU-wide ban of spyware.
Ireland is updating it's laws to get more surveillance powers(including using spyware and intercepting communication encrypted or not encryâŠ
From: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out
Have police looked up your travel history? Search Flock Safety audit logs for your license plate
Inside Denmarkâs struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
From a media blockade to ânationalizingâ government software, Denmark has become a laboratory for resisting U.S. Big Tech. But is the price of sovereignty too high?
European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
The European Commission has opened a 'call for evidence' to help shape its European Open Digita [...]
GenAI has started to kill open source projects
Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind CSS posted that he had to let go of 75% of his engineering team because of AI. He said traffic to the Tailwind help documentation is down 40% and that is where most people learn aboutâŠ
SMS2Email: app that forwards SMS messages to SMTP Email serverâhas anyone tried this?
Android app that forwards SMS messages to SMTP (Email) server - SMS2Email/SMS2Email
Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Wonât Say How Theyâve Used It.
One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps âdevelop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.â Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.
Is DeleteMe.org real? Looks too good to not be a data stealing scam.
Your Personal Data is Yours Again.
What's up with FUTO?
Some time ago, I noticed some new organization called FUTO popping up here and there. Iâm always interested in seeing new organizations that fund open source popping up, and seeing as they claim several notable projectsâŠ