Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
Delightful 💕 to see that #EuropeanCommission now has an official #Mastodon instance. #EC loves Mastodon, as the image clearly shows.
I hope this love will expand further to not just extend to one #FreeSoftware microblogging application, but to become a full embrace of the #OpenStandards based decentralized #SocialNetworking environment and #SocialWeb technology ecosystems that have formed around its open protocols, such as #ActivityPub.
I got SO frustrated at one point at #amaze2024. There was a great panel about how we don't have control over the engines and tools we use. About how small, open source engines are the way to do that.
They lamented the closure of walled gardens like Flash (I fear for Dreams in a hopefully far future), and how much culture is lost to the whims of the market.
They mentioned the contradiction of user vs corporate interests. They mentioned open source as an example to follow.
Anyhow maybe I should do a little hyper talk about liberating your games at the next A MAZE.? It's an interesting discussion and there's so many myths and misunderstandings.
I've been interested in this for over a decade and I haven't seen the revolution I expected where indie games would be Libre and open source. And I think it's mostly due to misinformation.
I mentioned Pico-8 as an example. I LOVE the thing. And yet, isn't it susceptible to oblivion, being proprietary? Isn't it another walled garden that one day will close?
I guess those games published as HTML or binary will still be playable but how about the ones playable only through splore?
As long as we keep making games in proprietary walled gardens, those games, those engines, won't belong to us and could (and will) disappear.
Don't let #Apple's new products distract you from their global antitrust claims battle to maintain its subjugation over users globally. Fight for the right to install #freesoftware and put Apple Inc. in its place! https://u.fsf.org/3gf
Who should be software packaging is a tough problem, I can see the value in #linux distros pushing for better changes downstream, encouraging upstream to change (double click in #KDE) but then I see cases like KeepassXC where the Debian package is now by default broken, actively damaging the reputation of upstream but then I remember #XZ where upstream was left unchecked and hid bad code in plain sight and I go back around in a circle.
@BrodieOnLinux I strongly believe in distro packaged software.
But we have to move the culture so that users report their bugs to the software distributor, and not directly to the upstream github. Upstream "issues" should be reserved for the developers and their inner circle of people who test the latest versions, and maybe the distributors themselves.
Users of the distributors (i.e. #Linux distros) should encourage users reporting bugs to them, and they report up when needed.
Papa qui achète un mac dernier modèle pour remplacer son ancien mac qui marche plus.
"C'est plus la même connectique, je peux plus brancher mes anciens périphériques sur le nouveau modèle."
Papa qui bloque le démarrage après avoir saisi trop de fois le mauvais mot de passe.
"J'ai appelé la hotline ils devaient me rappeler, ils ont jamais rappelé. Du coup je suis allez chez un revendeur agréé, ça fait une semaine qu'ils ont la machine pour la débloquer."
Fiston récupère un PC à la cave (AMD Sempron) avec écran clavier souris. installation de Debian, openbox,VLC, gthumb, firefox.
Papa peut en quelques clics sauvegarder ses photos, voir ses films, allez sur le web, bref faire tout comme sur le mac sauf que là ça marche et ça lui a rien coûté.
"C'est génial !"
📣 Did you know that my Follow Friday posts I call "Discover The Fediverse" includes a thoughtful message and further details on each software highlight on the website? Why not check out one right now?
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
Wishing everyone a great time at Drupal Iberia by Spanish Drupal Association and Portuguese Drupal Association on 10-11 May 2024 in #PACT - Parque do Alentejo de Ciência e Tecnologia in #Évora, #Portugal
Longish post that I've been meaning to post for a few weeks now. I tried to run only #FreeSoftware for work for a month and the result was amazing. Here's a few tips on how I did it in case you want to try it too.
Needless to say, I have zero intentions on going back. Long live Free Software: Liberate your Hardware today!