Good story why permissive licenses like MIT should not be encouraged, especially for larger projects: https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/

Edit: seems microsoft even breaks the permissive licenses. Anyway, muting the convo, have fun i guess

Follow-up: Two weeks ago I asked about how Firefox' new AI chatbot integration fares regarding privacy.

By accident I found information on it in Mozilla's knowledge base [1] and a related article by them on privacy and chatbots [2].

Short answer: Mozilla does not read conversations, but some metadata is collected. Chatting with chatbots has the usual implications.

Some answers in the FAQ [1] I found particularly helpful, see screenshot.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot

[2] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/how-to-protect-your-privacy-from-chatgpt-and-other-ai-chatbots/

We're not far off from "I use Free Software because I don't have time to fiddle with computers" and most proprietary tools will be seen as the make-work exercises in futility they are.



RE: https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/users/surfhosting/statuses/114379020672804571

Oh no no no no no...

@slashdot@mastodon.cloud
https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/114383894955845979

"Sempre più ragazzi ritengono che i social media siano dannosi, secondo un nuovo rapporto del Pew, centro studi statunitense che fornisce informazioni su problemi sociali e non solo. Infatti, un numero crescente di giovani afferma che i social media siano nocivi e occupino troppo del loro tempo. Il tutto avviene proprio mentre legislatori e regolatori richiedono alle piattaforme social di fare di più per tutelare la salute mentale dei loro utenti più giovani."

https://www.hdblog.it/applicazioni/articoli/n616009/adolescenti-preoccupati-effetti-social/#:~:text=Gli%20adolescenti%20sono%20sempre%20pi%C3%B9%20preoccupati%20per%20gli%20effetti%20dei%20social,-22%20Aprile%202025&text=Sempre%20pi%C3%B9%20ragazzi%20ritengono%20che,problemi%20sociali%20e%20non%20solo.

I encourage everyone to please sign this petition that asks #OpenSource Initiative to release the election results for #OSI's 2025 Board of Directors Election.

3 methods available to sign:

* email <sign@osi-petition.org>

* Pull request on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

* Pull request on Github: https://github.com/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

I thank @wolftune@social.coop & @iank@hostux.social's leadership in shepherding the drafting of this petition.

OSI's work impacts everyone involved in #FOSS, so everyone is welcomed to sign.

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Drop the 78s lawsuit.

https://chng.it/d4D8XjN6zG

Liebe #CCC #chaos #38c3 Community: TEILEN ⚠️ EXPLIZIT ⚠️ GEWÜNSCHT

#GoEuropean: mailbox(dot)org offer for switching to the European alternative

https://mailbox.org/en/post/goeuropean-offer

#privacy #cybersecurity #email

Fra esattamente 6 mesi sarà la fine di #Windows10 (#endOf10)

Cercasi aiuto per tradurre l'apposito sito per passare al #SoftwareLibero!

https://endof10.org/

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)



She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).



So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

🎮 Today, we filed a complaint against the video game company Ubisoft!

👉 Ubisoft forces its customers to connect to the internet when they launch a single-player game, which allows it to collect their gaming behaviour.

Find out more here 👇

https://noyb.eu/en/play-alone-ubisoft-still-watching-you

@signalapp@mastodon.world As a supporter of #Signal, it is important to point out a key detail: Signal's own code is #OpenSource, but Signal uses multiple #proprietary libraries from #Google. Those cannot be scrutinized since the source code is not open. We believe Signal should offer an actual open source version, and are ready to help. This exists already in the fork @MollyIM@fosstodon.org Also, apps like #Element #Threema #Wire are #FOSS, and have #ReproducibleBuilds on fdroidorg@floss.social #FDroid

NutriScore for phones is coming :floofWoozy_256: it will be a smashing success

Oggigiorno questa è la sintesi della Rubrica, con 800 numeri bloccati.

Altro che Registro Opposizioni, Garante Privacy o tutela dei consumatori.

Surprising to see Youtuber PewDiePie (110M subscribers) publishing a video last night , "I installed Linux (so should you)" with a call to his community to join the platform, underlining the fun of customisation and DIY, in opposition to all the enshitification of Windows. His main point of friction for moving was Photoshop, and he explained how he made the effort to adapt GIMP to his needs. Always good to see initiatives like that shared to large audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0

The government wants you to get paid not to use #Google search

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/22/google-trial-search-dominance-alternatives/

#privacy

Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/

#privacy #surveillance

#3:42aminvention

yup. The downsides of Linux are, at most, equivalent to the downsides of using windows (as far as annoyance factor) and after using Linux for even a few weeks, well, going back to windows is.... horrible.



Anyone that isn't forced to use Microsoft products should not be using Windows; It's just a better experience to not.