🇬🇧 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.

--

@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

the son of profit

A new tool has scraped YouTube comments, lets harassers or anyone else search for a specific user, use AI to approximate where the person might be from based on their comments. Developer says it's for cops, but there are no checks. We signed up and used it https://www.404media.co/developer-builds-tool-that-scrapes-youtube-comments-uses-ai-to-predict-where-users-live/

The latest invite-spam-blocking technologies, Matrix Community Summit 2025 announced, and the custom emotes MSC has been proposed for final comment period – this and more happened This Week in Matrix! https://matrix.org/blog/2025/05/30/this-week-in-matrix-2025-05-30/

Here's another #animation I made with @friction@floss.social today.

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #OpenSource #Creative #Art #DigitalArt #MotionGraphics #Y2K

This floating AI turd button in Excel has been genuinely infuriating. It's distracting, laggy and only turns off temporarily.

What are the best / worst AI product integrations you've seen? I'm making a list for a future video.

Dear restaurant owners, do not link to Facebook. Otherwise, your customers see:

- Error message: Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.

- A big login prompt, that cannot be dismissed.

What your customers don’t see:

- Your menu

- Your location

- Your opening hours

Wolfgang Messner, writing in @TheConversationUS@newsie.social on how generative AI could homogenize culture:

"The danger is not that AI will fail us, but that people will accept the mediocrity of its outputs as the norm. When everything is fast, frictionless and “good enough,” there’s the risk of losing the depth, nuance and intellectual richness that define exceptional human work."

https://theconversation.com/is-ai-sparking-a-cognitive-revolution-that-will-lead-to-mediocrity-and-conformity-256940

This is my PhD thesis

I did not ask for this

I did not consent to this

I did not approve of this

I was not compensated for this

I would not have advised this

I do not like this

And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer

https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/

#HackerNews #KDE #Windows10 #Upgrade #Software #Exiles #OpenSource