Call for testing: Improved 802.11g AP compatibility check https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250731111632 #openbsd #wifi #80211 #wireless #networking #callfortesting #freesoftware #libresoftware
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Developed by the FSFE,
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help us reaching out to representatives in Parliaments across Europe.
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parliament!
Are you a developer? Have you ever have problems when reusing software from different projects that are released under different licenses? Do you want to focus on programming and not on licensing? Then REUSE is for you! 
Started by the , REUSE provides a set of recommendations to make licensing your #FreeSoftware projects easy, comprehensive, unambiguous, and machine-readable.
Are you a familiar with #CRA ?
If you are a #FreeSoftware 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:
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250717-01.en.html
Answer it and share it!
Taxpayer money should fund public goods.
When governments invest in software, it should be #FreeSoftware: software that gives the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share.
Sign the open letter to support this principle:
https://publiccode.eu
Since 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.
New episode
Listen to our latest episode of the Software Freedom Podcast about the AI act!
https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-36.en.html
With the EU AI Act about to come into force, @annabonnie and @lexelas discuss the current debate surrounding it and shed light on the arguments.
"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:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/19/this-week-in-plasma-rounded-bottom-corners/
CRA: #FreeSoftware stewards, maintainers, and manufactures, share your input!
To assess how the #CRA may impact the Free Software ecosystem,we have developed a questionnaire:
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250717-01.en.html
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 !
Locked bootloaders, forced app stores, and vendor lock-in? No thanks!
#DeviceNeutrality helps to break up digital monopolies and restore competition by giving back to end-users control of their devices! #FreeSoftware
Have 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: #RouterFreedom is secured by EU laws. 
The not so good ones: Router Freedom is still not a full reality in most of the EU countries.
"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:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/12/this-week-in-plasma-tablet-dials-and-day/night-cycles/
LibreOffice'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 #LibreOffice code is going to be enough for me to get a bugfix in under 2 hours for #BugsDoneQuick! :joy:
Watch me (in 1h 15min, at 8 UTC) at: https://watch.bojidar-bg.dev/w/8iSEAiZVLyqsh3Qgkos555?z=2
Do you think publicly funded software should be #FreeSoftware?
Make your voice heard!
sign our open letter and help push for fair, transparent, and accessible digital infrastructure!
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 #DMA
Take a few minutes to share your perspective in our Interoperability Survey
Listen to the newest episode of our podcast...
and more!
Der Stand der @fsfe auf der @tuebix ist bereit für Besucher! Kommt vorbei, holt euch Sticker und sagt hallo zu @schnitzelmonster und mir! #FreeSoftware #conference #booth
Developers: have you tried to get interoperability from a gatekeeper under the #DMA?
Big Tech is still making it hard, especially for #FreeSoftware and small developers.
Help us push back. 
Take the FSFE’s Interoperability Survey and make your voice heard
Our colleague @llas is participating in this year's #DMA compliance workshops, organized by @EUCommission.
Since last week, the EC is receiving stakeholders views on specific issues in relation to the specific implementing measures presented by gatekeepers. The #DMA can open doors for #FreeSoftware 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.
Talking 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.
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0_release_announcement/
