The Serial Port made this lovely IRC documentary

(and yes, I got a "thanks" in the ending credits as I contributed with facts)

https://youtu.be/6UbKenFipjo?si=IPDJKfm9FHpao_-u

È davvero FOSS?

@lealternative

Segnalo questo sito, che mi sembra fatto discretamente bene, che permette di capire se alcuni progetti possono realmente essere considerati FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) oppure se hanno alcune parti di licenza non completamente libera.

https://isitreallyfoss.com/

Sorry, but it's bad news: we haven't been able to restore the DB primary filesystem to a state we're confident in running as a primary (especially given our experiences with slow-burning postgres db corruption). So we're having to do a full 55TB DB snapshot restore from last night, which will take >10h to recover the data, and then >4h to actually restore, and then >3h to catch up on missing traffic. Huge apologies for the outage. Again, folks using their own homeservers are not impacted.

BREAKING: Federal judge delivers mixed verdict in Google antitrust case: They get to keep their browser and Android, but face new restrictions on exclusive contracts.

What's changing for Google:

- Cannot have exclusive contracts that condition payments or licensing

- Gets to keep Chrome browser

- Keeps Android operating system

- Advertising data stays protected

Judge said DOJ "overreached" on forced sales.

The markets loved this...Google's stock jumped 8% and Apple's rose 4% as investors celebrated what they saw as minimal consequences for a company that was found to illegally monopolize internet search.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html

Element users on the default http://matrix.org homeserver are currently impacted by a serious database outage (@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org)which will take at least 12 hours to recover - many apologies to everyone impacted. Users on their own deployments are of course unaffected.

PSA: If you are experiencing intermittent network failures on Fedora with kernel 6.16.3 you should rollback to previous kernel.

Details:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kernel-6-16-3-causes-intermittent-network-failures/163310

#Fedora #FedoraLinux

Firefox is getting native support for playing Matroska videos. Yay! 🎉 🥳 https://windowsreport.com/mozilla-firefox-is-officially-getting-mkv-video-support/ #Matroska #mkv

🇬🇧Public pressure works: Belgium, Finland & Czechia will NOT approve the #ChatControl mass surveillance law in October. But other governments whose vote is crucial are still on the fence. Urge them to protect our digital privacy and encryption now: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is open source. https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/

⚠️ The GDPR is under pressure.

🗓️ At the EU’s high-level dialogue, industry called for “simplification” & reforms, while, with others, we warned: don’t reopen the Regulation.

✅ The Commission’s own evaluation shows the GDPR works. What’s missing is enforcement & resources, not backsliding.

🚨 Proposals to “simplify” Article 30(5) risk opening the window to erosion of hard-won protections.

Read our post-meeting recap ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-warns-against-gdpr-simplification-at-eu-commission-dialogue/

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released!

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4881

A big Fairphone welcome to Framework!

Framework Team at Fairphone HQ in Amsterdam

@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org

@fairphone

@iFixit@mastodon.social

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/posts/fairphone_a-big-fairphone-welcome-to-framework-were-activity-7369290126222393367-0bAx/

#Framework #FairPhone #DIY #iFixIt #R2R #RightToRepair #OpenSource #FOSS #Tech #Hardware #Smartphone #Laptop #Desktop #PC

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement https://www.theverge.com/anthropic/773087/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-billion-to-authors-in-landmark-ai-settlement

PSA: If you haven't updated #K9Mail to 12.0, please don't update it. It will crash on start if you use the unified inbox. The bug has been fixed in 12.1 and will be available in the next #FDroid update. #Thunderbird is not affected, kind reminder to consider switching as K-9 will go away in the future anyway.

Workaround for now: Make a widget for a single mailbox, then you can open K-9, you can change accounts and disable unified inbox.

"But #Bluesky is also federated, decentralised!1!!" Well, no. https://arewedecentralizedyet.online by @ricci@discuss.systems