Max Mehl @mxmehl@mastodon.social

Interesting project by the Danish #FreeSoftware company Magenta: #OS2datascanner spots sensitive #GDPR related data in organisations' emails, files and other sources. It's already used by administrations in Denmark, Greece and Sweden 👍

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/sensitive-records

#OpenSource #publiccode

You have 25 minutes and want to explore the greater scope of our political and social system, #freesoftware, copyright, lobbying, democracy and regulation? Listen to this inspiring podcast episode of the @fsfe with Lawrence @Lessig!

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-5.html

Before anyone wastes more time: the standard #Debian 10 image of #Hetzner virtual servers (CX..) is somehow incompatible with @nextcloud's high-performance backend, as we found out at @fsfe. Install from the Debian10 netinstall ISO instead. Thx @bjoern for debug help!

#Nextcloud #freesoftware #opensource

More than ever, it is important to choose your tools wisely. Do not fall for gratis offers and what "everyone" is using. Check whether the applications and services actually empower or rather restrict you!

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200330-01.html
#freesoftware #ChooseWisely

The Czech #Ferznamka toll system had quite a few scandals, now the next: ACTUM Digital, the company behind it, confuses gratis with #FreeSoftware: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/gratis-not-free

The Czech transport ministry must ensure to release it under a Free Software license! #publiccode

Thanks to #LWN, #Golem.de , #pro-linux, #heise, #Joinup and the many other journalists, writers and platforms that keep me up-to-date about the latest news around #FreeSoftware!

#ilovefs

Who are the hidden #FreeSoftware champions on your computer? For this year's #ILoveFS day I've digged into my system and thank the ones who enable my daily self-determined work:
https://mehl.mx/blog/2020/i-love-the-hidden-champions/

Thanks to everyone who contributes to software freedom!

Developing #FreeSoftware is fun, providing #licensing and #copyright information is not. Join my 15min talk today at 13:20 in H.2215 to see how #REUSE can fix this – simple guidelines, nice tooling, everyone's happy (at least a bit more)!

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/reuse_code_licensing/ #FOSDEM

A short break, then the @fsfe pre-#FOSDEM event will continue with exciting topics like #FreeSoftware in the health sector, Albania, France, a court case in the Netherlands, and in education in Switzerland. Not to mention all the interesting informal chats!

The situation of #FreeSoftware in #Greece is not ideal, but slowly improving especially thanks to the continuous work by #GFOSS. It's great to know that communities all over Europe care about fostering software freedom! @fsfe pre-#FOSDEM

The #FreeSoftware / @fsfe community meeting starts with an introduction by @PiratKolaja to the state of Free Software in Europe and the #EuroParl. Crowded room!

On my way to the #FreeSoftware community meeting organised by @fsfe. Join us at Mundo-b, starting in 15 minutes until 19:00
https://osmand.net/go?lat=50.83787&lon=4.3642545&z=1 pre-#FOSDEM

Off to a long journey to #FOSDEM, equipped with this both enjoyable and horrifying masterpiece by #Snowden. I keep thinking about how the #FreeSoftware community can contribute to improving the whole situation

Success of the day: my insurance broker sent me sensible private information via a proprietary "cloud" provider the other day. I told them why this is bad, and recommended better alternatives. Today I learnt that they will migrate to #Nextcloud 🎉
@nextcloud #FreeSoftware

#REUSE adoption increases every day. Today I learnt that Jens Lechtenbörger made his #OER presentations REUSE compliant. Yet another small but important step towards making #FreeSoftware licensing easier to understand for everyone.

https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2020/01/03/support-for-reuse-spdx-headers-in-emacs-reveal/
https://reuse.software

Make sure to make yourself heard when regulators decide whether your router belongs to you - or to your internet service provider 😱

The @fsfe shared their response to the current #BEREC draft, so it's easier for you to write your own statement. But hurry, only 22 hours left!

https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191120-01.html

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #policy #PublicConsultation #RouterFreedom #network

You are at #ossummit and interested in license compliance? Join my talk about #REUSE in 15 minutes (16:20) in room Rhône 1! It's a project by the @fsfe to make #FreeSoftware licensing easier for everyone.

https://osseu19.sched.com/event/05a3272287d3def1bcb0a62ace00b730

Community is power! It's so great to see what we together achieved during the past 12 months at @fsfe to boost #FreeSoftware, and that's only a small fraction: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191022-01.html

Thanks to everyone who contributes as volunteer, supporter or donor and enables our work!

A small team of volunteers takes care that @fsfe's infrastructure keeps running and continuously evolves. Read about their most recent #hackathon and their roadmap for a large organisation's systems.

https://mehl.mx/blog/2019/the-3rd-fsfe-system-hackers-hackathon/

#report #fsfe #freesoftware #sysadmin

Which browser is consuming much more power than competitive ones? @3rik presenting interesting numbers and thoughts on #digital #sustainability in connection with #FreeSoftware at the @fsfe GA.

So, what's your guess?