Matthias Kirschner @kirschner@mastodon.social

Happy 50th birthday to "Die Sendung #MitDerMaus" (The Show with the Mouse), the German television show that really earned to be called "the school of the nation". Big thank you to all involved! #Maus50 https://www.wdrmaus.de/

Reinhard Müller contributes to the @fsfe since 2002. Everyone who did not yet have the joy of working with him; learn more about a key contributor of us in the #FSFE20 interview:

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210305-01.en.html #nt

(I know that all those who know him, will directly read it.)

Historisches Urteil in Italien: Wie Lenovo 20.000€ an einen Ehrenamtlicher der @fsfe bezahlen musste, weil sie ihm die #Microsoft Windows Lizenz nicht erstattet haben: https://gnulinux.ch/historisches-urteil-lenovo-muss-schadenersatz-zahlen #nt

I’ll be speaking at the online #LibrePlanet 2021 conference on 20 March about "'Public Money? #PublicCode!' A campaign framework to promote #SoftwareFreedom". See https://libreplanet.org/2021 and register at https://u.fsf.org/lp21-sp

The @fsfe's update #FreeSoftware page is now available in 7 languages. Thanks to our volunteer translators who enable people to learn about #FreeSoftware in their native language.

https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/freesoftware.html#translations #nt

Big thank you to Luca Bonissi who did not give up about his #Microsoft #WindowsTaxRefund

Now #Lenovo must pay 20,000 euros in damages. Great example what one dedicated person can achieve for #SoftwareFreedom! https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.html

I need to get one of those post #pandemic hats https://xkcd.com/2430/ + the t-shirt mentioned in the mouse over.

This morning I quickly noted down a few points from the panel discussion on "#FreeSoftware development for the #PublicAdministration" including a few thoughts on a technological distribution of powers for a 21st century #democracy https://k7r.eu/panel-free-software-development-for-the-public-administration/ #PMPC

At least some hope: "The ratio of commits by female authors has grown steadily over the past 50 years, reaching in 2019 for the first time 10% of all contributions to public code." Thanks @zacchiro for your work here.

https://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/ieee-sw-gender-swh.pdf #nt

Schönes Beispiel wie ein Schüler sich gegen #MicrosoftTeams gewehrt hat und jetzt zumindest schon mal #BigBlueButton und #Jitsi angeboten werden. Aber auch schon kleinere Proteste bezüglich proprietärer Software an Schulen können kleine Dinge ändern: https://netzpolitik.org/2021/microsoft-teams-oder-nichts/

Summary of Cory @doctorow@quitter.no 's talk
tackling the monopoly problem:
https://lwn.net/Articles/844102/ #nt

#Heise Artikel zur Pandeldiskussion beim #Behördenspiegel "Abhängigkeit der öffentlichen Verwaltung von Microsoft & Co ist "gigantisch". Einigkeit zu Public Money? #PublicCode !

https://www.heise.de/news/Abhaengigkeit-der-oeffentlichen-Verwaltung-von-Microsoft-Co-ist-gigantisch-5058500.html Volles Video auf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCUBGeuPnlI

Have you heard about #Gemini - positioned in between #Gopher and #HTTP/#HTML? Interesting read: "Visiting another world" #LWN https://lwn.net/Articles/845446/ #nt

#LWN about the efforts to avoid "#supercookie" tracking https://lwn.net/Articles/844960/

How mRNA #vaccines work explained in #Starwars terms: https://xkcd.com/2425/ #xkcd

After #FOSDEM "[o]ur community will not accept a backslide to #Zoom or any of the many other proprietary solutions." https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/feb/08/just-say-no-to-zoom/ full agreement with @conservancy #nt

#LWN article about the discussions @debian what should go into the default #Debian installation https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/846405/3ce944968da466da/ #nt

If you are an @fsfe supporter, can you now also use those graphics to show your support for #FreeSoftware and #SoftwareFreedom:

https://fsfe.org/about/graphics/sponsoring/sponsoring.html#id-supporter-buttons #nt

And a big thank you to all the #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) contributors out there, whom I was not able to mention specicially yet.

Thank you for your work for #softwarefreedom ! And I hope you will receive some explicit #ilovefs thank you messages from others today.

Thanks to all the #XMPP contributors for allowing me to chat with colleagues, friends, and family without depending on one single entity -- and all of that with #FreeSoftware. #ilovefs