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  I need the power of the #fediverse : For an upcoming presentation I am looking for examples many people will understand where the software caused consumer electronic devices not to work anymore. E.g. company decided not to update the software which caused the device to stop, company disappeared and e.g. servers not available and therefore the device did not start anymore, etc. Currently interested in some fresh examples I could use. Any pointers?

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  #fsfe25 pre get together starting with many @fsfe@mastodon.social contributors and friends 🤗🥰

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  On my way to #fsfe25 in Krakow. Currently showing my newly flashed #mobian phone running #phosh to my co-workers @Tobias and @anaghz@social.tchncs.de . @Tobias 's first check was, if you can install #doom (yes, you can 🤗)

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  Had many good discussions about #decentralization at #dwebcamp with so many interesting people. When arriving in sunny Berlin @evan@cosocial.ca (one of the fathers of the #fediverse 😉) and I realised we did not take a picture at camp 😱 Fixed that!! Wish all the fellow #dwebcamp folks a good travel!

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  For those of you in the US: until 10 July you can get "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" with a 40% discount directly at my publisher @nostarch@mastodon.social https://nostarch.com/ada-zangemann (including many other cool books about technology, #software, #hacking, #DIY, #Lego, and other #geek stuff)

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  So great to have @nicorikken@mastodon.nl spending a lot of his vacation time to make many improvements for the Ada & #Zangemann automation. For example we now have ODT files for doing readings with markers for when to turn the slides: here the English one https://download.fsfe.org/ada-zangemann/generated/Ada_Zangemann-reading.en.dbk.odt other auto generated files on https://download.fsfe.org/ada-zangemann/generated/ 🥰

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  On the picture I and @fsfe@mastodon.social 's vice president Heiki thank the @archlinux@fosstodon.org Project Lead @anthraxx@chaos.social (with one of the most awesome sweaters🥰 ) and #ArchWiki maintainer Ferdinand at #FOSDEM after handing over two bars of "hacker chocolate" to them. Thanks also to @Foxboron@chaos.social for ensuring we were able to met at #FOSDEM and introducing us there.

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  As a kid and teenage #Lego addict I had to get this!! The current #HumbleBundle with @nostarch 's Build it with #Lego books: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/best-of-humble-build-it-with-lego-books 🥰 (Transparency: #NoStarch is the publisher of the English edition of my book "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream.)

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  At the @fsfe we today discovered some cute guest in the flower box on our balcony 🥰

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  Big thanks to @Otherland-Bookshop (a beautiful bookstore in Berlin)for organising the event with @pluralistic about his German book #enshitification !

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  Almost missed that one ☺️ https://xkcd.com/3240/

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  Please today or over the weekend the nominate one or more candidates for the #European #SFSAward With the award @fsfe and #LUGBZ recognise European individuals who have made outstanding contributions to #SoftwareFreedom . We are looking forward to receive your suggestions! https://www.sfscon.it/award-nomination/ #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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  Prepare for the last day of the @fsfe 's Legal and Licencing workshop with the great team.

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  Despite being legally required by the EC, #Apple continues to obstruct effective interoperability. Out of 56 requests, not a single one has resulted in a new interoperability solution. Developers are denied access to Just-In-Time-Compilation, NFC, or Bluetooth Low Energy Audio with arguments contradicting Apple’s own documentation. And there is the constant fear for developers to lose their developer accounts.

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  "I was very impressed with myself to have the head of #Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass.’" [Tim Cook] makes this calls to me, I help him out". https://www.theverge.com/tech/915638/i-was-very-impressed-with-myself-to-have-the-head-of-apple-calling-to-kiss-my-ass If a president of the US behaves like this, it is even more important that the European Commission and other institutions, including NGOs balance the power of Apple. It at least encourages me to continue @fsfe...

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  Would be interested if you had or will have a look at the code: #Heise "Public Money, Public Code #PMPC: Federal government releases AI modules. With the Spark project, the BMDS is focusing on digital sovereignty: the #opensource AI tools for accelerating planning are now available on #OpenCode. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Public-Money-Public-Code-Federal-government-releases-AI-modules-11243619.html

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  Actor Hugh Grant "The presence even if it is switched off, of a telephone or an ipad in the room it makes me twitchy [...] I'm not there. And when [...] you've gone somewhere there is no phone. You can't fix the problem. [...] is bliss. And I want my children to have that. I want my children to know what it's like to be a human being." https://youtu.be/x_MATOD7Axs?si=WfXGQTei7wLvWlbS&t=2649 Sad how sick financial greed managed to trans...

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  Great if you receive such nice feedback about an @fsfe event 🤗 “This is the one conference, which you just have to join. The one conference where everyone, everything the whole atmosphere reflects what a difference a community can make, the conference that lets us overcome the challenges we alle sometimes face [...] where history and experience count, where failure is okay, [...] all of this in one package, I couldn’t have wished for a better conference!" https://fsfe.org/news/2026/...

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  The @fsfe offers an easy way to share #FreeSoftware news within the #fediverse and other channels through the share buttons at the end of the pages. See e.g. https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260420-01.en.html Hope that helps to make it easy for your to share important work and balance the at least to a small degree the high budgets of those no the other side of our work.

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  A big thank you to everyone who supported the @fsfe in our work to prevent Radio Lockdown in EU legislation. We would not have been able to accomplish this victory without our FSFE supporters It took a long breath, patience, the expertise to spot the right time for action, and the resources to then actually act. With the help of our supporters we will continue to defend the right of users to install or remove any software on any of their devices!!! https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-2026043...

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  #NHS England should not hide #publiccode behind closed doors! Instead they should enlarge efforts that public money results in #PublicCode ! https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260504-01.en.html (thanks to @Edent for raising the issue).

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  When your payment provider cancelled you and now still sends you e-mails that they want to do security scans of your systems 🤔 (Background: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html )

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  The Austrian Ministry of Education created this great online course about "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream". Also as #OpenEducationalResources under #CreativeCommons CC-BY-SA. Cool exercises they implemented there. Love to see that translated into other languages as well. https://www.eduvidual.at/course/view.php?id=218862

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  Good write-up about the #OpenWRT One "A build system aimed at license compliance" based on @conservancy 's @ossguy 's talk https://lwn.net/Articles/1066103/

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  I recommend to listen to @techlore host 's new podcast with my @fsfe co-worker @llas about what the #DMA actually does, why big cooperations are fighting it in court, and what it means for #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) and digital freedom. Proud to hear @hen saying in the intro: "one of the most fascinating interviews I've done on this #podcast" 🤗 https://techlore.tv/w/ejsVWyFSWvNX25r5F2KGj2 (also one of the rare times I enjoyed reading the comments on #Youtub...

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  As the /dev/random talks are added later for #FOSDEM , don't forget to also check them out to create your schedule. E.g. I can highly recommend "Youth Hacking 4 Freedom 2026 - a programming competition for teenagers" on Sunday 15:20 by @annabonnie and @sofiaritz https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/TWAMGG-youth_hacking_4_freedom_2026_a_programming_competition_for_teenagers/

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  Congratulations to @Mastodon for receiving 614,000 Euros from the German Sovereign Tech Agency. Great planned improvements for the #Fediverse and #FreeSoftware #OpenSource and good outcome of Public Money? Public Code! #PMPC https://www.heise.de/en/news/Mastodon-Funding-for-work-on-encrypted-direct-messages-and-more-11267471.html

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  As many raise questions about #EuroOffice and the #AGPL license ( @nextcloud #Ionos...) my current recommendation is to read: * @fsf 's "You cannot use the #GNU (A)GPL to take #softwarefreedom away https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/agpl-is-not-a-tool-for-taking-freedom-away * and @bkuhn 's "#AGPL v3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart #Badgeware" https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/

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  ❤️ Thank you @bagder for maintaining #curl since 1998. What would we do without it, how long would it take us, and what code quality would those solutions have without you? Thank you so much! ❤️ ...and how on earth would people be able to check the weather forecast without curl? 😉 (Please join me in thanking Daniel, and let others here on the #Fediverse know about your favourite ways of using #curl )

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  Proud of my @fsfe co-workers who did a great job organising our Legal and Licensing Workshop so people from all around the world involved in legal topics around #FreeSoftware #OpenSource have a safe space for knowledge exchange 👏 https://fsfe.org/activities/ln/llw.en.html @llas @floriansnow @anaghz @dario @johas