Video tutorial in italiano su come usare Mumble.

Peertube: https://videos.gianmarco.gg/w/hHHELEsxQX21ShGrFe3hGu
Odysee: gianmarcogg03@odysee.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK-p8xXfF0I

I recently learned that the Italian government is only allowed to buy proprietary software after it has determined that there isn't a free software option. IIUC they're also required to publish any code they write (or commission to be written) under a free license.

https://www.agid.gov.it/it/design-servizi/riuso-open-source/linee-guida-acquisizione-riuso-software-pa

However, at least as far as I know Windows, Office, et al are being used everywhere in public administration, and even e.g. public transport apps are proprietary. What gives?

omg they finally made vertical tabs an official feature

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/

Breaking: Brother not evil after all https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

Reboost ♻️ plz: In light of increased uncertainty on the reliability on the US, European democracies should strengthen their strategic autonomy: this also includes autonomy from #Microsoft #Windows in the public and private sector.

https://eu-os.gitlab.io proposes to develop together a Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a free/libre replacement of Windows. Follow us on Mastodon and join the Matrix chat at https://matrix.to/#/#eu-os:kde.org to receive updates and help.

/cc EC_OSPO@ec.social-network.europa.eu

#Linux #Trump #Endof10

tbernard@mastodon.social gubi@sociale.network maymage@sociale.network

There’s this but AFAIK it’s not for public institutions. For sure dario@pan.rent, llas@defcon.social, and the fsfe@mastodon.social know more!

https://www.sfscon.it/talks/state-of-microsoft-windows-refund-2024/

#EvilLoader: Unpatched #Telegram for #Android Vulnerability Disclosed

https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2025/03/05/evilloader-unpatched-telegram-for-android-vulnerability-disclosed/

#cybersecurity

Discord reportedly exploring an IPO. Hold onto your hat, dear user!

Great opportunity for FOSS alternatives to prepare to roll out the welcome mats. (And not to scold. We know that doesn't work.)

https://kotaku.com/discord-reddit-ipo-gaming-server-gta-6-enshitification-1851768033

Look at this code of how to run a Peertube instance on Nixos.

This is the bits I like from Nix. It can pretty much be used as an orchestrating tool. No docker, no kubernetes.

https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/PeerTube

#nixos #peertube

#Tails and the torproject@mastodon.social no longer recommend using #balenaEtcher to create bootable USB sticks:

> "However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties. While we have not experienced or heard of any attacks against Tails users stemming from this change, we believe it introduces potential for abuse."

https://tails.net/news/rufus/index.en.html

To those taking place in the reddit exodus you may already have everything you need in Mastodon - Using Lemmy from your existing Mastodon account

https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/

#fediverse #lemmy #mastodon #reddit

I work with cool people who do cool things: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

Вроде как паника с бэкдором в esp32 отменяется

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndM369oJ0tk

The fact that this is what Microsoft calls it's Office App on mobile now is absolutely hilarious to me. No sane person would look at this name and conclude it's office