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The March #GNU Spotlight by Amin Bandali is now available! Read it here: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-march-gnu-spotlight #FSF #PSPP #Autoconf
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@neil
Age verification has nothing to do with "using one's own computer", it's about running the software on a [your] computer (for any purpose; freedom 0).
Just to note that these kind of things have been predicted and warned for since 1983: If you don't [choose to] run free software, you don't own your "computer", the "computer" owns you.
Want to see your name on the #GNU #CopyrightAssignment list? Contribute to #GNU and assign your copyright to the #FSF today: u.fsf.org/xe
¿Te interesa el software libre? ¿No sabe que es GNU pero crees saber lo que es Linux? ¿Tal vez quieras saber más sobre UNIX?
Todo esto y mucho más en la próxima #LibreCan2026 que se celebrará el Sábado 30 de Mayo en Tenerife.
¡Apúntate Ya! 👇
https://librecan.com
#SoftwareLibre #GNU #Linux #UNIX #Canarias #Tenerife #GranCanaria #LibreCan
#Linux Weekly Roundup for March 22nd, 2026: #GNOME 50, #FFmpeg 8.1, #Blender 5.1, #KiCad 10.0, #OpenShot 3.5, #KDE Plasma 6.6.3, #antiX 26, Emmabuntüs #Debian Edition 6 1.01, #PipeWire 1.6.2, #Mageia 10 beta, #Fedora Asahi Remix 43, #SparkyLinux 2026.03, #GStreamer 1.30, new Linux computers, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup - March 22nd, 2026
A paper jam didn't just ruin his print job; it forced him to launch a global revolution about software freedom. He didn’t just write a text editor; he wrote a self-extending, Lisp-based universe disguised as one. He won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and used the money to fight proprietary software. He is The Most Free Man In The World. #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU #Linux #Emacs
I'm a newb with #GNU #binutils linker scripts, and am confused why
. = ALIGN((1<<LOG2CEIL(.-__logical_binary_start))/8);
.data : {
…
allows `.data` to be *before* the value that `.` gets set to; `ld --print-map` shows:
.rel.dyn 0x20007104 0x0
.rel.iplt 0x20007104 0x0 CMakeFiles/vpu_objs.dir/vpu.c.o
0x20008000 . = ALIGN (((0x1 << LOG2CEIL ((. - __logical_binary_start))) / 0x8))
.data 0x20007110 0x5dc
0x20007110 __data_start__ = .
I see how it gets 0x20007110 from 0x20007104--an input section in .data has alignment of 16. But I don't understand why it ignores the 0x20008000?
I can make it do what I want by doing
.data ALIGN((1<<LOG2CEIL(.-__logical_binary_start))/8) : {
but I'd like to understand why setting `.` doesn't do what I want.
GNU Health Hospital Information system 5.0.6 patchset released!
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10865
#GNUHealth #OpenScience #GNU #Health
GNU is working on AI usage policy for all GNU projects
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-03/msg00425.html
Termux
- platform: Android
- type: sh environment
- goal: have the power of linux sh in Android
- license: GNU GPL Open Source
- development: active
- users: more than I can imagine
Termux which is the powerful Linux sh environment for Android is constantly under attack by Google
I've installed it on many different Androids with different versions and classes of the Android operating system
The direct reaction of the Play Store daemon is the same.
Warning Termux is an unsafe program!
wtf?
Why does google lie and stay that Termux is a program that should not be trusted?
This is a false and blatant deceptive action of Google, who is snooping on the Android phone, your personal property, because Termux gives you the flexibility to look at things which Google tries to hide from you on your own phone!
The Termux distribution is regularly patched and updated just like any other regular Linux distribution which is properly maintained
Keep installing Termux it gives you freedom on your Androids
#termux #linux #OpenSource #google #false #malicious #Alphabet #flagging #GNU #GPL #programming #distro #technology
@bkuhn (The reason I don't care to fuss with tape archives rn is because my laptop fans already sound angry with me about the command that's been running all day to (hopefully) tell me which unixes kept prof(1) even after the clearly superior BSD gprof(1) was available)
(Relatedly, my mind is reeling that the "g" in "gprof" doesn't stand for #GNU; that it originated in BSD and stands for "graph")
Want to see your name on the #GNU #CopyrightAssignment list? Contribute to #GNU and assign your copyright to the #FSF today: u.fsf.org/xe
We just received this gift and dedication:
"I am sharing this with you in recognition of your vital work in defending digital freedoms." Dr. Ekbal.
Thank you dear Dr. Ekbal for your new book "Free Software Philosophy: Concepts and Applications – Freedom, Cooperation and Sharing".
It reinforces our fight for freedom and equity in healthcare around the globe ❤️
#OpenScience #GNU #Freedom #privacy
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Cover of the book "Free Software Philosophy. Concepts and applications. Freedom, cooperation and sharing."
The cover has drawings of the GNU head, Tux (the Linux mascot), an open lock in the middle.
Dr. B. Ekbal as the author
Keep Android Open
Because Android is open, for now, till 01 September 2K26, I have been able to install this wonderful tool set of which you see a screen cap below.
If all of you who read this toot, please boost for visibility, make your voices heard as it is explained in the first link, you will be able to stop Google from closing Android worse than Apple
We all need to unite to stop google cold in their tracks
EU users have enormous power in this, remember USB-C on apple
Don't think you don't have power to stop google
UNITE!
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html
#GNU #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #keepandroidopen #keep #android #open #UNIX #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes
Die zerbrechlichen Ketten der Bequemlichkeit
Ein Plädoyer für die digitale Emanzipation Europas
Wir haben unsere digitale Freiheit gegen Komfort eingetauscht. Microsoft, Amazon, Google und Meta bestimmen, wie wir kommunizieren, arbeiten und denken. Der CrowdStrike-Schock war kein Unglück, er war eine Ansage. Es ist Zeit, die Ketten zu sprengen. Ein Plädoyer für die digitale Emanzipation Europas. [Mehr lesen...]
https://www.christin-loehner.de/blog/die-zerbrechlichen-ketten-der-bequemlichkeit
#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FreieSoftware #Datenschutz #Privacy #BigTech #FuckBigTech #DeGoogle #DeleteGoogle #DeleteFacebook #BoycottAmazon #BoycottMicrosoft #BoycottApple #Überwachungskapitalismus #SurveillanceCapitalism #Fediverse #Mastodon #Dezentralisierung #Decentralization #PublicMoneyPublicCode #ÖffentlichesGeld #RightToRepair #Fairphone #Framework #SelfHosted #Nextcloud #Signal #Tor #VPN #CrowdStrike #CloudAct #DSGVO #GDPR #Hetzner #EuropeFirst #TechSovereignty #DigitalRights #DigitaleRechte #Netzpolitik #CCC #ChaosComputerClub #ByeByeElon #QuitX #LeaveX #SaveSocial #Ecosia #Startpage #uBlockOrigin #LibreWolf #Firefox #FediTips #EuropäischeWerte #EuropeanValues #TechEthics #Nachhaltigkeit #Sustainability #GeplantéObsoleszenz #PlannedObsolescence #KaufLokal #LocalFirst #Widerstand #DigitalResistance #PolitischeTech #TechForGood #KI #AI #OpenSourceAI #ZenDiS #PublicCode #Libre #GNU #Debian #Fedora #PopOS #ZorinOS #NixOS #AntiColonialism #DigitalerKolonialismus #Cloudflare #AWS #AzureAlternative #EUTech #MadeInEurope
Stop memorizing your passwords. Seriously.
Your brain is designed for patterns, not encryption. If you can remember your password, it is weak.
In the next video, we are fixing your digital hygiene. No closed source "just trust me, bro" apps. No browser saving. FOSS digital sovereignty.
Which side are you on right now?
#Bitwarden #Vaultwarden #Proton #ProtonPass #KeePassXC #Firefox #Chrome #Edge #Safari #Passwords #Password #Cybersecurity #Security #Privacy #FOSS #OpenSource #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #NoAI #DigitalSovereignty
| Team Cloud (Bitwarden/Proton): | 74 |
| Team Local (KeePassXC): | 79 |
| I still use my Browser 😬: | 8 |
| I use a sticky note... 🤦: | 2 |
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Prompted by a news item that #GNU #Guix now supports 64-bit Hurd, I went back and checked the debian-hurd mailing list archives—it looks like it was about a month shy of 22 years ago that I got #Debian GNU/Hurd installed on some spare hardware. (This is the only documentation I checked, anything below is from memory, so the timeline/details may be wrong. Forgive me.)
At the time, the installation guide was a 10–15 page document of a series of commands that had to be typed in correctly, and which it was recommended to print out so that you'd have them in front of you; unfortunately, there was a "bug" in the document: if you printed it out, at least one very important command was too long for the page and got truncated. (This one bit me, but the mailing list set me right fairly quickly.) I installed it partly out of a whim to run a system that was as purely "GNU" as I could make it, and partly because my other project, a eBay-acquired Sun #SparcStation 5, was on hold while I waited for delivery of a Sun keyboard.
The thing that I remember most about the Hurd was that while it was mostly—as expected—Unix-like, you could also login as guest without a password and do some things. I thought this was very strange at the time, but having learned more since then about the history of computing, I now realize that it's very much in the vein of older systems and the culture surrounding them. The culture of communities around computer systems (both OSs and hardware) and software is still around—witness @stefano's efforts with bsd.cafe and illumos.cafe for a great example—but I think what's gone away, or at least become greatly attenuated, over the decades is the experience of community around literally using those systems.
I am, just, old enough to remember telnetting into the university mailserver (which ran #IRIX for some reason I can't fathom) both to check my mail and to run who to see who was around to talk to. Everything was local. In that sort of environment—to which GNU's history is heir—it absolutely makes sense to me to have a guest user: because I might have a guest, who, I don't know, wants to play nethack or something. That sort of shared use by a local community was already on the decline when I experienced it, and it quickly became less and less of the norm to the point it's now mostly nonexistent, at least statistically; but as I've noted elsewhere, we still see the relics of it in software and systems like vestigial appendices—has literally anyone ever actually used the talkd(8)/talk(1) that still comes installed (or is at least available) in 2026 with Unix-like systems, not excluding macOS?
Don't misunderstand me: I'm not complaining or being grumpy! Things change, the world changes, the way we interact with the world changes. That's life. If I have any point at all, it's that the sort of intentional communities we make on the internet are even more important when the default interaction is no longer with someone we might bump into on the way to class or work, or can easily buy a cup of coffee. Just remember that behind every post or chat message is a real person, with a family, with friends, with hopes and dreams—and yes, faults to deal with and forgive, just like us (just like me, for sure).
Not what I expected to write when I started out with the Hurd, but take it for what it's worth.
The February #GNU Spotlight by Amin Bandali is now available! Read it here: https://u.fsf.org/4aj #FSF #Nano #Pies
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#Linux Weekly Roundup for March 1st, 2026: #Firefox 148, #GNU Octave 11, #Ardour 9.2, #KDE Plasma 6.6.1, #Clonezilla Live 3.3.1, #Thunderbird 148, #Wireshark 4.6.4, #LibreOffice 26.2.1, #Tails 7.5, #Shotcut 26.2, BunsenLabs Carbon, #AerynOS 2026.02, #fwupd 2.0.20, #PorteuX 2.6, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-1st-2026
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup - March 1st, 2026
Acabo de tener una conversación con nuestros amigos de @volla . Les he transmitido que Europa necesita una plataforma de hardware y software libre, sostenible, respete nuestra privacidad e sea independiente de los gigantes tecnológicos.
El primer paso será portar el sistema de gestión de Salud personal #MyGNUHealth a la #Volla tablet, para que pueda ser usado por ciudadanos y profesionales de salud. En breve nos llegarán los dispositivos para desarrollo. ❤️
#privacidad #GNU #GNUHealth
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A picture showing the Volla Tablet, both back and front sides, with the logo of MyGNUHealth Personal Health Record superimposed.
Our health can not be in the hands of tech giants or proprietary code. That is why we have joined forces with @volla to deliver a sustainable, privacy oriented hardware and Free/Libre software platform for our health professionals and citizens in #Europe and around the world. Stay tuned! ❤️
#OpenScience #GNUHealth #GNU #privacy #MyGNUHealth
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A picture showing the Volla Tablet, both back and front sides, with the logo of MyGNUHealth Personal Health Record superimposed.
Want to see your name on the #GNU #CopyrightAssignment list? Contribute to #GNU and assign your copyright to the #FSF today: u.fsf.org/xe
Happy thirty-sixth birthday to the #GNU #GPL, the fourth most-popular software license as of December 2025! https://u.fsf.org/1t2 #FreeSoftware
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@fdroidorg @marcprux At this point it would be crazy to develop any Free/Libre application for Android. Don't care what Google says tomorrow, we can NOT trust Big Tech. We need to be in control of our computing resources, both at software and hardware level.
PS: @EUCommission please take note.
#Google #Android #Freedom #GNU
Utilitários de Teclado/Mouse/Touch🖱️
xfce4-mouse-settings Na primeira vez, basta-me abri-lo, aba Touchpad, e ativar Tap touchpad to click (Tocar no touchpad para clicar). O resto das definições de apontador (mouse/touchpad ou o que seja) já vem, por padrão, do jeitinho que prefiro.
#TerSoftware #Xfce #FreeDesktop #XWindowSystem #GNU #software #softwareLivre
#GNU #Octave 11 Open-Source Scientific #Programming Language Officially Released, Here's What's New https://9to5linux.com/gnu-octave-11-open-source-scientific-programming-language-officially-released
#OpenSource #Linux #FReeSoftware
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Screenshot of GNU Octave showing the main window with the File Browser, Workspace, Command History, and Command Window panels.
Good morning, community! We just updated documentation chapter about the GNU Health HIS installation on virtual machines 📚
https://docs.gnuhealth.org
#OpenScience #GNU #GNUHealth
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Screenshot of a XFCE desktop running a virtual machine displaying the GNU Health client login and the gnuhealth-control manager .
#Linux Weekly Roundup for February 22nd, 2026: #KDE talks about Plasma's dependency on #systemd, Linux 7.0 enters public testing, #KDE Plasma 6.6, #PipeWire 1.6, #Xubuntu 26.04 LTS wallpaper contest, #Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.2, #Calibre 9.3, #Transmission 4.1.1, #LibreOffice 25.8.5, #Lutris 0.5.20, #SparkyLinux 8.2, #Blender 5.1 beta, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-february-22nd-2026
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup - February 22nd, 2026
https://web.archive.org/web/20140203134408/http://lists.autistici.org/message/20080221.002845.467ba592.en.html
before that, every distro that wanted to respect its users' freedom had to remove itself all of the binary blobs that were distributed as part of the kernel Linux's so-called sources
it took a little while for Linux to react to being so called out, by first making those binary blobs loadable separately, and then moving most of them to a separate subproject.
that didn't really solve any freedom issues, given that the drivers still demanded users to install and run those blobs.
Linux-libre joined the #GNU Project a few years later.
the set of blobs demanded by Linux has grown out of control, much faster than Linux itself. nowadays there are even binary blobs that contain a binary copy of Linux!
you might think that, after the split, the kernel Linux became entirely Free, and that the only remaining problem are the demands for binary blobs and the documentation that directs users to install them.
unfortunately, not even that is true. Linux still carries a few binary blobs disguised as arrays of bytes in what was supposed to be source files. there have even been recent additions to this wall of shame.
so it doesn't look like we'll be able to retire GNU Linux-libre any time soon.
when you're ready to try software freedom for real, we'll be here for you
https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/
One of the greatest mysteries of our time is how folks still use proprietary software. We'll scrutinize our kale, our news, even the foam on our lattes - yet hand our data to an app we're forbidden to study, change, or share. Freedom isn't a bug, it's the feature! Grab the #GNU, and move into the world of #FreeSoftware.
#SoftwareLivre #GNU #tecnopolítica #resistência #privacidade #BigTech
All I know is I often create AppImages for LibreOffice, and they're fortunately a stable single file, not some mutating monstrosity. I hope they stay behaving 🤞 Heheheh