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

Nate Graham take on the KDE Linux release.

https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/

The network may stay down for several minutes due to an ISP issue.

The outage has been resolved and the server is online again.

È possibile provare la VPN ufficiale di Tor in versione beta

È da poco disponibile in versione Beta una vera e propria VPN sviluppata dal The Tor Project che sfrutta la rete Tor.

https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/08/e-possibile-provare-la-vpn-ufficiale-di-tor-in-versione-beta/

I'm writing this post here today in hopes to bring some attention to something that is near and dear to my heart, and that's an update to the current situation with Nova Launcher, that I worked for and with for nine years up until August of 2024.

For those that haven't seen the news, Kevin Barry, the founder and developer of Nova has left Branch which in turn means he's now no longer involved with Nova Launcher in any way going forward.

https://teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.html

For the past year or so Kevin has stated that he was working on the open source version of Nova Launcher so that if/when this time came, it would be out in the open and the community could take it over and contribute to it and have it continue being developed.

However, it seems that Harish Thimmappa and others at Branch had told him to stop working on that effort as they didn't want him to continue doing that for unknown reasons. This is sad news because this was something that former CEO, Alex Austin, h ...

...ad promised both via a contract and publicly that if Kevin were to ever leave Branch, Nova Launcher would become open source. You can find that quote here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/w2q6al/comment/igzoniu/

and another very similar quote with similar conversation here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/w2q6al/comment/ih25ntz/

The reason for this post is to try and draw some attention to the folks at Branch, specifically folks like Harish Thimmappa to do the right thing and honor these promises and any writings in the contracts from 2022 and to fully focus on releasing Nova Launcher as an open source app.

The community deserves this more than anything, since that was something that Kevin was very adamant about when he allowed Branch to acquire Nova Launcher back in 2022. Plus, this is just something that Branch should do since it is something that has been promised.

There is currently a petition on Change.org to try and get Branch to do this as well. After only 3 days of it being posted to Change.org, it sits at almost 1,500 signatures, and that's with very little to no press coverage at this time, which is something that would be super useful to bring full attention to this situation. You can find the petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/make-nova-launcher-open-source-let-the-community-continue-its-development

I ask that everyone who sees this post can share it with their followers as I would love to see Branch do the right thing and follow through with their promises that were made back in 2022 when they acquired Nova Launcher and release it fully as an open source app now that Kevin is no longer working for Branch and not involved in Nova Launcher.

I'm going to tag some folks below that I worked with at Branch in hopes of getting this post seen by as many folks there as possible.

#NovaLauncher #Nova #Branch #BranchMetrics #OpenSource #OpenSourceNova #Petition #Android #Apps #Google

Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left https://www.theverge.com/news/773937/nova-launcher-founder-left-kevin-barry-branch-open-source-android

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.