Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF4bLKd4

Well spent 4:42 minutes. ❤️

Hi! We're #newHere on floss.social. Thank you for harboring us on your ship!

Follow us for jobs *at* open source projects. And please submit any that you come across!

#getFediHired #freeSoftware

We are at the Qt World Summit. Come and talk to us, we have very nice stickers and you can participate in our contest to win a lifetime supply of KDE software! #kde #qtws25

Nachdem heuer mein Geburtstag wieder mit den @linuxtage zusammen gefallen ist, habe ich gestern nachgefeiert 🥳

Und da bekomme ich doch glatt ein Portrait von der "Staffelei" von https://www.annamariajung.com/

Which of these organizations do you have a positive opinion of?

#poll #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PublicGoods #Mozilla #Firefox

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000267831/oesterreich-beim-bahnfahren-nummer-eins-in-der-eu

Wenn Koralmstrecke und Semmering Tunnel in Betrieb gehen kommen wir hoffentlich noch weiter an die Schweiz heran 💪

Open Source Software Lizenzen has been released on media.ccc.de #glt25 #Community #HSi7 #glt25deu https://media.ccc.de/v/glt25-598-open-source-software-lizenzen https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt25/talk/FRMHAG/

The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;

- 5 years of software updates (AFTER they stop selling the device in the EU)

- providing important hardware parts (during sale and for 7 years after), including free software (if needed), to every repair shop, within 5-10 business days

- batteries have to make 800 charging cycles and still be above 80% original capacity

And on top of that, phones and tablets need this energy label (which also includes a fall damage durability and repairability score), and abide by the above requirements, from 20 June 2025.

(https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en)

Lessons learnt aus 20 Jahren Grml has been released on media.ccc.de #glt25 #Admin #HSi13 #glt25deu https://media.ccc.de/v/glt25-538-lessons-learnt-aus-20-jahren-grml https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt25/talk/N7STVM/

Psst, hey: HACKERS ARE NOT TECH BROS. The vast majority of hackers never become tech bros. The ethics of hacking runs completely counter to that of tech bros.

Hackers make hardware do things they weren’t intended to do. They circumvent barriers. They string together contraptions that repurpose old stuff to do new things. Hackers aren’t that interested in money; they’re more interested in showing off their skills. They love to learn and make demos and create and share free tech that other hackers then build upon. All they want is acknoweledgement and the respect of their peers.

Tech bros are parasites. They’re greedy bastards who love to erect barriers between people and tech. They extract, addict, monetize. They turn everything fun and useful into a transaction, a dopamine trap, a subscription, a surveillance tool, an advertising outlet, and a vector to extract money from labor and suppliers.

Please don’t get them mixed up.

#hackers #hacking #techbros

@publicvoit Ah, ok. Bei mir ist sowohl in Firefox und Chrome nur ein Bild und darunter Sponsorenlogos.

Ein vermeindlicher Link zu einem Blog führt zu einer Login-Maske.

@publicvoit Woher beziehst du deine Info?
Die Webseite ist ja leider ohne Inhalt

Another installment of my blog + a recap of my very first Plasma Sprint!

https://lprod.dev/blog/monthly_2025_04.html

Thanks to some studious bugfixing at the sprint I'm now finally able to daily drive Plasma Mobile longer-term.

#KDE #PlasmaMobile #LinuxMobile

Here's some of the things we did at #KDE's #GLT25-adjacent Plasma (Mobile) Sprint last week at TU Graz: https://volkerkrause.eu/2025/05/01/kde-plasma-mobile-sprint-graz-2025.html

Das #Spektral #Graz braucht Mikrokredite von uns!

https://zukunft.spektral.at/

Hilf' uns, den Freiraum zu kaufen, damit diese Einrichtung für die Gesellschaft bestehen bleibt!

TIL: The European Union Public License.

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

Looks pretty decent actually!

• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity

#EUPL #EuropeanUnion #software #license #FLOSS #OpenSource #licensing

Obwohl nur 40% der Menschen dafür waren, machte Ljubljana 2007 die Innenstadt autofrei. Ladenbesitzer protestierten, Anwohner fürchteten um Parkplätze. Heute unterstützen 97% der Menschen das Vorhaben. Sie haben gesehen, wie schön es ohne Autos ist und wollen nicht mehr zurück❤️

Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/

Huge respect 🫡

#opensource