Strömmers samhällsfarliga bakdörrsdröm (Försvarsmakten varnar) bygger fortfarande på antagandet att kriminella inte byter till appar utan bakdörrar. Finns det någon slags hederskodex som förhindrar att kriminella använder otillåtna appar?
https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2025-07-23/sa-ska-eu-hjalpa-sverige-att-bekampa-gangkriminalitet/ (betalvägg)
Edit: this is a positive, pro Open Source post, not a "us" against "them". When an Open Source project makes progress, is a progress for all the Open Source world.
FreeBSD 15.0 will allow users to install KDE Desktop directly from the installer. This is great news. I'm reading the comments on various news sites: “It’s too late”, or “What’s the point? No one uses it”. Or even “We already have Linux, we don’t need another OS”.
I may sound repetitive, but I really don’t understand why, in the Open Source world, people aren’t happy to have more alternatives to consider. Whether it's social networks, operating systems, or software in general, many seem to get stuck on the most popular solution and almost ideologically reject alternatives.
Fear of change?
Maybe - which is why progress is welcome, because once they see what other solutions are capable of, I’m sure they'll start to give them a chance.
Just yesterday I was talking about this with a colleague, but I’ll write about it in another post.
Time for my coffee.
This is the heartwarming moment we need right now:
11-year-old Danish kid Jens Fogh made Easter decorations and sold them, thereby raising USD 5300 which he used to buy 270 school backpacks for Ukrainian children. So while in Denmark, Zelenskyy presented him with a medal for his friendship.
A hero meets a hero — I love it! ♥️
oops, I'm a few days late, but MS finally released a patch for the issue I reported last year - CVE-2025-26684
Defender for Linux can be tricked into executing arbitrary code as root. Writeup: https://astr.al/notes/2024-11-28_mdatp_privesc
some reboosts would be much appreciated <3
Elva grävchefer från Sveriges tyngsta redaktioner varnar för Chat Control 2.0 och Sveriges bakdörrsvurmande. https://www.dn.se/kultur/elva-gravchefer-en-farlig-riktning-for-den-granskande-journalistiken/
🏆 A huge congratulations to @bagder , founder of cURL , for receiving the first European Open Source Achievement Award! 🎉
The award was presented by Omar Mohsine, Open Source Coordinator at the UN, a key advocate for using open technologies !
👏 Daniel will take place in the EOSAcademy as its President! #EOSA2025 #FOSS #cURL
I don’t say this very often, but: I agree with Facebook. Fuck Deutsche Telekom and their poisonous peering politics.
Some people argue that Firefox should be able to survive on donations, if only Mozilla accepted them.
To which I say: prove it, you cowards; go set up your monthly donation to @servo.
If there's a project that can prove that that model works, it's Servo.
In this nice article, @cks writes "I feel that as system administrators, there's something we gain by having exposure to different Unixes that make different choices and have different tools than Ubuntu Linux”.
I feel him. When I ended up in a mono-culture 10 years ago, I decided to make a change.
These days we don't run Linux at all. We have OmniOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, even AIX, and I could not be happier.
Each piece does its job and it does well.
https://mastodon.social/@unix_discussions/113069587156059988
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor