Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.

This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.

What being a Windows user is like in 2025

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/in-3-5-years-notepad-exe-has-gone-from-barely-maintained-to-it-writes-for-you/?comments=1&post=43746095

If your industry (AI) can only exist by ripping the work of others without credit, then it shouldn't exist.

The big companies are just steamrolling over the rights of everyone because they're getting away with it. Governments have been cowardly to act on this.

💥 Refund4Freedom is here! 💥

The FSFE and @ItaLinuxSociety are happy to announce the launch of Refund4Freedom!

👀 This initiative promotes the right to choose your operating system and get a refund for pre-installed software that you don’t want.

Check out its website for more information - https://refund4freedom.org/

📆 And save the date! Join our launch event on 29th May (in Italian).

Registration for the event: https://pretix.eu/fsfeItaly/refund4freedom/

#SoftwareFreedom #DeviceNeutrality #FreeSoftware

Many have asked how to avoid Google AI search results. Here are some suggestions:

1. Use other search engine like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, or Qwant instead of Google.

2. If you must use Google search, avoid Google Chrome. Use Ungoogled Chromium or LibreWolf instead.

3. If you still want to use Google Chrome, append &udm=14 to your search queries.

4. If you find steps 1-3 too complicated, visit https://udm14.org.

Regardless of your approach, enhance your privacy by using tracker blockers, Tor, VPNs, AdGuard, uBlock Origin, or other DNS-level blockers. Combining several of these tools is even more effective.

#Privacy #AI #Google #GoogleAI #GoogleSearch

Why old games never die, but new ones do

Link: https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083917

Per chi ha qualcosa su #Meta oggi è l'ultimo giorno per dirgli che non possono usare i nostri contenuti per la loro #AI https://youtu.be/vrmJqcnWbo4

The #EuropeanCommission has published an "Impact Assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings". It is open for comment until 18 June: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-_en

This is a terrible proposal which will seriously weaken the fundamental #privacy rights of #European #citizens. Please take the time to read it and add your comments. You don't have to be an #EU citizen to comment.

#ec #politics #democracy #freedom

@strangequark@dice.camp plus it has been written by a mysterious "High Level Group" to which @echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social asked their names but only got a blacked out list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1kvmguc/comment/muanbqa/

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/going-dark-expert-group-eus-surveillance-forge/

🇬🇧 Have you heard about the #EUGoingDark plan to reintroduce blanket #DataRetention & undermine #encryption 🔓?

Intransparent 🇪🇺 work on what the new EU Parliament & Commission should implement after the #EUelections will be finalised in Mai & June.

#Pirates

⚠️ Avviata dal 21 maggio al 18 giugno la consultazione pubblica con cui la UE vorrebbe chiedere di conservare i dati per MOOOLTO tempo⚠️

Il quesito sembrerebbe posto per far credere che la polizia E I SUOI FORNITORI non riescono a combattere il crimine a causa di normative di #DataRetention troppo eterogenee (=cioè "troppo restrittive" 😈)

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-_it

@privacypride

Grazie a f00l@mastodon.bida.im per la segnalazione

"Windows Was The Problem All Along" - Review of Lenovo Legion Go S by Dave2D, comparing the same hardware with Windows and SteamOS. https://youtu.be/CJXp3UYj50Q?feature=shared #linux #gamingonlinux

Happy 50th birthday, cron! Thanks for remembering all of our jobs for us 😎

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

#cron #unix #linux #birthday

Given GitHub's hostile push for AI, I desperately want to move Bottles's code to GNOME GitLab and keep the Codeberg mirror up.

I'm legit so fucking tired of it. It makes it hard for me to develop Bottles without Copilot spams demotivating me. Their hostile push has gotten like Discord where everything is Nitro COPILOT THIS Nitro COPILOT THAT. I'm stuck here playing the opposite of Where's Wally: as in "try not to find any mentions of Copilot".

It's been bothering me so much that it has become more and more difficult to contribute to projects hosted on GitHub. I also get uncomfortable when I contribute to software mirrored to GitHub, which includes GNOME apps.

We're thrilled to announce we're launching a crowdfunding campaign for our #PeerTube mobile app!

With your help, our aim is to put PeerTube in everyone's pocket!

To do so, we want to focus on 4 goals that you can discover on our dedicated website: https://support.joinpeertube.org

⚠️ATTENZIONE: 184 mln di dati: tra i più grandi dataleak recenti. Le password di Google, PayPal e Netflix trapelate online⚠️

Trovato un ampio database di dati di accesso e password contenente oltre 184 milioni di record. Ha menzionato la scoperta in un articolo su Website Planet .

I dati non erano crittografati in alcun modo e venivano archiviati pubblicamente, il che significava che chiunque fosse a conoscenza della loro esistenza poteva scaricarli.

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/05/26/184-million-records-data-leak-google-paypal-and-netflix-passwords-discovered/

@informatica

The End (of Windows 10) is nigh!

On 14 October, #Microsoft will end support for #Win10.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

Yours may be one of them!

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Learn more: https://endof10.org/press

Saved a device from the bin? Tell the world with the hashtag: #EndOf10

#Linux #GNU #GNUlinux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows

Ma davvero, davvero vuoi comprare un altro computer?

Fai il grande salto: passa a Linux. Ti aiutiamo noi!

Perché, come diceva Giorgio Gaber «libertà è partecipazione».

Ma soprattutto, perché la libertà che abbiamo, ce la siamo presa.

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@Endof10@floss.social @fsfe@mastodon.social @ItaLinuxSociety@mastodon.uno

È aperta la raccolta fondi per PeerTube!

Dopo sette anni di sviluppo Framasoft ha aperto ufficialmente una raccolta fondi per continuare e migliorare lo sviluppo di PeerTube.

https://www.lealternative.net/2025/05/28/e-aperta-la-raccolta-fondi-per-peertube/

The more updates come to #Telegram, the worse it gets, now with #AI! Let me remind you of the #alternatives: see where I'm on at gianmarco.gg/contact. They might not be perfect, but they're the only way out of this hellscape for now.

Also, I'm starting to work with some friends on an alternative #chat of our own, trying to avoid the shortcomings of existing #FOSS messengers (but we're still in early stages of development, so I can't guarantee anything.)

#FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #OpenSource

AI: Accelerated Incompetence

Link: https://www.slater.dev/accelerated-incompetence/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44114631