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Free Software Foundation EuropeAre you a familiar with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CRA</a> ?🔥 If you are a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> stewards, maintainers and manufactures, we want your input!We have a questionnaire to collect information that will help shape an informed response to the CRA's implementation and contribute in particular to guidance: <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250717-01.en.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250717-01.en.html</a>Answer it and share it!

Free Software Foundation Europe🏦 💰 Taxpayer money should fund public goods. When governments invest in software, it should be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a>: software that gives the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share.Sign the open letter to support this principle: 🔗 <a href="https://publiccode.eu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://publiccode.eu</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publiccode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publiccode</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

Aral BalkanSince Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.CC <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@EUCommission</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/corporateCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corporateCapture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/europeanSovereignTechFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#europeanSovereignTechFund</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#github</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/openSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openSource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a>

Free Software Foundation Europe🎧 New episode 🎧 Listen to our latest episode of the Software Freedom Podcast about the AI act!📻 <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-36.en.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-36.en.html</a>With the EU AI Act about to come into force, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@annabonnie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@annabonnie</a> and <a href="https://mstdn.io/@lexelas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@lexelas</a> discuss the current debate surrounding it and shed light on the arguments.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a>

KDE"This Week in Plasma" brings you windows with rounded corners (which can be made square again if you wish), adjustable sidebars for Discover and System Monitor, and the work in progress to improve KRunner's search results:<a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/19/this-week-in-plasma-rounded-bottom-corners/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/19/this-week-in-plasma-rounded-bottom-corners/</a><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Plasma6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plasma6</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freesoftware</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#desktop</a>

Peter N. M. Hansteenstdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque <a href="https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717103345" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717103345</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openbsd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stdio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stdio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/file" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#file</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libtls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libtls</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libtls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libtls</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libcrypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libcrypto</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#development</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/current" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#current</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freesoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libresoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libresoftware</a>

Free Software Foundation Europe📢 CRA: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> stewards, maintainers, and manufactures, share your input!To assess how the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CRA</a> may impact the Free Software ecosystem,we have developed a questionnaire:💻 <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250717-01.en.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250717-01.en.html</a>It will help shape an informed response to the CRA's implementation and contribute in particular to guidance.🔔 Stewards, maintainers, and manufactures: we are waiting for your answer !<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

Free Software Foundation Europe🤖⚖️ Locked bootloaders, forced app stores, and vendor lock-in? No thanks! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeviceNeutrality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeviceNeutrality</a> helps to break up digital monopolies and restore competition by giving back to end-users control of their devices! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://deviceneutrality.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://deviceneutrality.org/</a>

Free Software Foundation EuropeHave you realized that all your Internet traffic, encryption, backups, communications, shopping, writing, business interactions, and so on, go through your router?😟 Is your router free? If not, your digital freedom could be compromised. ✅ The good news: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RouterFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RouterFreedom</a> is secured by EU laws. ❌ The not so good ones: Router Freedom is still not a full reality in most of the EU countries.<a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.en.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.en.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

KDE"This week in Plasma" brings the news that you will be able to configure the rotatable dial on your drawing tablet in Plasma 6.5, the Welcome Center gets accessibility improvements, and automatic wallpaper transitions linked to you day/night cycle are coming soon:<a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/12/this-week-in-plasma-tablet-dials-and-day/night-cycles/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/12/this-week-in-plasma-tablet-dials-and-day/night-cycles/</a><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Plasma6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plasma6</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freesoftware</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#desktop</a><a href="https://lemmy.kde.social/c/kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kde@lemmy.kde.social</a>

Bojidar MarinovLibreOffice's codebase is absolutely massive (~50M lines according to cloc?), and it very much got me beat the other day, when I "speedran" a scant 2 bugfixes in 7 hours.So today, I'm going for a rematch! Let's see if better tools (rr, ctags) and better understanding of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> code is going to be enough for me to get a bugfix in under 2 hours for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BugsDoneQuick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BugsDoneQuick</a>! :joy:Watch me (in 1h 15min, at 8 UTC) at: <a href="https://watch.bojidar-bg.dev/w/8iSEAiZVLyqsh3Qgkos555?z=2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://watch.bojidar-bg.dev/w/8iSEAiZVLyqsh3Qgkos555?z=2</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livestreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#livestreaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freesoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a>

Free Software Foundation EuropeDo you think publicly funded software should be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a>? Make your voice heard!📢 ✍️ sign our open letter and help push for fair, transparent, and accessible digital infrastructure! 🔗 <a href="https://publiccode.eu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://publiccode.eu</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publiccode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publiccode</a>

Free Software Foundation Europe:fsfe: July Newsletter 🗞️ Summer has arrived, and with it came our annual Summer Meeting, where we spent time with our community!🔸 Learn more about the latest developments surrounding the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DMA</a>🔹 Take a few minutes to share your perspective in our Interoperability Survey🔸Listen to the newest episode of our podcast...and more!<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202507.en.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202507.en.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarefreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarefreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freesoftware</a>

Florian SnowDer Stand der <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fsfe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fsfe</a> auf der <a href="https://troet.cafe/@tuebix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tuebix</a> ist bereit für Besucher! Kommt vorbei, holt euch Sticker und sagt hallo zu <a href="https://fairmove.net/@schnitzelmonster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@schnitzelmonster</a> und mir! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conference</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/booth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#booth</a>

Free Software Foundation Europe🚨 Developers: have you tried to get interoperability from a gatekeeper under the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DMA</a>?Big Tech is still making it hard, especially for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> and small developers.Help us push back. 💪🛠️ Take the FSFE’s Interoperability Survey and make your voice heard👉 <a href="https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/699938?lang=en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/699938?lang=en</a>

Free Software Foundation EuropeOur colleague <a href="https://defcon.social/@llas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@llas</a> is participating in this year's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DMA</a> compliance workshops, organized by <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@EUCommission</a>. Since last week, the EC is receiving stakeholders views on specific issues in relation to the specific implementing measures presented by gatekeepers. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DMA</a> can open doors for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> alternatives, but gatekeepers are still throwing up roadblocks. We are there to highlight those and make sure the DMA is implemented in a developer friendly-way.<a href="https://deviceneutrality.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://deviceneutrality.org/</a>

KDETalking of awesome KDE apps, digiKam 8.7.0 has just been released!KDE's full-featured image and photo managing software enhances its face detection and recognition feature, improves support for GPU actions, and updates its RAW decoder, G'MIC plugin, and more.<a href="https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0_release_announcement/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0_release_announcement/</a><a href="https://floss.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://lemmy.kde.social/c/kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kde@lemmy.kde.social</a>

KDE"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that Dolphin gets new looks, and its connectivity to Samba shares improves; Photos, the image viewer that works both on desktops and mobiles, can share photos again; and KRetro, the app for retro gaming, gets one step closer to being incubated as an official KDE app, among many other things.<a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/29/this-week-in-kde-apps/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/29/this-week-in-kde-apps/</a><a href="https://floss.social/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#apps</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://lemmy.kde.social/c/kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kde@lemmy.kde.social</a>

Free Software Foundation EuropeThe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DMA</a> can open doors for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a>: alternative app stores, browsers, emulators, and much more!But right now, gatekeepers are throwing up roadblocks.We need your help to hold them accountable.🛠️ Developers: have you requested interoperability under the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DMA</a>?Share your story by taking this survey 👉 <a href="https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/699938?lang=en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/699938?lang=en</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

KDE"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that QtQuick-based KDE software acquires inertial scrolling using touchpads, the inbuilt RDP service supports syncing clipboard text between client and server, and session restore (Plasma remembering the position and size of windows) is coming to Wayland, among many other things:<a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/28/this-week-in-plasma-inertial-scrolling-rdp-clipboard-syncing-and-more-session-restore/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/28/this-week-in-plasma-inertial-scrolling-rdp-clipboard-syncing-and-more-session-restore/</a><a href="https://floss.social/tags/desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#desktop</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Plasma6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plasma6</a> <a href="https://lemmy.kde.social/c/kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kde@lemmy.kde.social</a>

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