Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/

#cybersecurity #privacy

Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 are no longer receiving software updates, technical support, or bug and security fixes.

Consider migrating to LibreOffice.

Microsoft recommends migrating to a Microsoft 365 subnoscription.

LibreOffice supports the features that a majority of users need for free.

Website: https://www.libreoffice.org

Mastodon: @libreoffice@fosstodon.org

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#Microsoft #Office2016 #Office2019 #Office #LibreOffice #Privacy #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #Encryption #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

The FSF has shared details on the #Librephone project:

Announcement: https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project

Website: https://librephone.fsf.org/

FAQ: https://librephone.fsf.org/FAQ.html

Documentation: https://librephone.fsf.org/site/

And you can join an IRC channel at irc.libera.chat:6697, #librephone

Our #fundraiser is off to a flying start, and the fun has just begun! Next week we're releasing #Plasma6.5.

One of our #birthday wishes is to continue delivering quality #FreeSoftware for the whole world to enjoy. Help us make it happen with your #donation:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Microsoft wants 2025 to be the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." They want up to 400 million perfectly good computers running Windows 10 to become e-waste. Why? So Microsoft can have their cake ($140-$200 for a Windows 11 license) and eat it (your data) too

It's time to switch sides, and break away from this cycle of endless upgrades. Our new guide walks you through installing a Linux-based operating system—keeping your computer secure long after Microsoft walks away

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Install+Linux+on+a+Windows+PC/196722

@G33KatWork@infosec.exchange

#Windows 10 is now End of Life, which in itself is normal, but also, this is a very specific event, because, first Windows 10 is still huge, and second, the options are very, very limited, and all bad.

let's talk about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oox87gARjE

i maintain that the FSF are controlled opposition

> The initial work is funded by a donation from FSF board member John Gilmore

> I later discovered that the LineageOS distribution links in significant proprietary binary modules copied from the firmware of particular phones.

They're gonna find a phone to replace all the proprietary parts with foss replacements

everything here hints to them not even knowing about the "lineageOS mainline" efforts

but its wild to me that they say firmware but dont seem to understand what the fuck firmware is

https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project

La trappola del consumismo: quando comprare ci ha resi solo “schiavi felici”

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKwnP3wiY1Y

Non cadere nel meccanismo che alimenta il bisogno continuo di consumo ci ha spinto ad abbandonare tutti i social commerciali e i servizi Google. Certo, ricostruire tutto da zero ha avuto un costo e non è una strada per tutti ma per noi è un prezzo giusto per riconquistare un pezzo della nostra libertà.

➡️ I gruppi tematici liberi del @fediverso su diggita sono qui: @diggita@mastodon.uno

#YouTube is down.

#PeerTube

@fediverso@diggita.com

About the BLOBs in Ventoy

Link: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44810281

HUGE news from @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

Potentially a complete game changer that could actually dent the dominance of Google in the Android space!



https://reclaimthenet.org/grapheneos-expands-beyond-pixel-phones-with-new-android-partner

finally, a good opportunity to erase windows from my ssd

https://www.theverge.com/news/799768/microsoft-windows-ai-copilot-voice-vision-launch

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists

https://stallman.org/spotify.html

https://DefectiveByDesign.com

Musicians are starting to organize boycott of Spotify, mainly about how it doesn't pay most musicians. But they don't seem to recognize the injustice Spotify does to every listener: such as making them identify themselves (by payment systems) and imposing DRM. I won't submit to those injustices, so I have never used Spotify and never will. Out,

Can The FSF Really Make The Librephone? #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/mWMpfN9C-lI

I dream of a flip phone that can run postmarketOS and make calls over Wi-Fi and Jabber.

Why? Because flip phones aren't expected to be a place where you run "apps." If you say "I have a flip phone," your bank won't hassle you to get the app anymore.

postmarketOS does have some support for feature phones. It can run on the devices that come with KaiOS.

#XMPP #postmarketOS #dumbphone #FreeSoftware #KaiOS