Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 42

If they love it so much where is the Windows 7 source code that was asked for? :)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-Pres-On-Open-Source

https://www.fsf.org/windows/upcycle-windows-7

If your DNS service is stopping you from accessing a site, how do you know that it's been blocked by them? How can you find out why they are blocking it? Maybe services like this need to restrict themselves to blocking only Javascript (to prevent attacks using JS) and popping up a malware warning, like NoScript does when it detects cross-site scripting. That way, the user can review the HTML/CSS page (if any) and choose to block the site for them, or allow JS and continue to browse it normally.

Need to send encrypted emails? #Nextcloud mail uses browser add-in Mailvelope for this, and the latest Mail release improves the integration of this add-in.
https://blog.wuc.me/2020/05/18/nextcloud-mail-mailvelope-refined.html

The PeerTube content bootstrap fund:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-05-15-peertube-bootstrap-fund/

Please boost!

An odd sight: A golden number 5 just floated by within view of my window. It was a balloon. Someone must have lost it. Number 5 is alive?

LibreOffice en tu mano

I think my partner has learned that if I am working in/with javascript, all of the chocolate chips in the house will mysteriously "disappear"

"Can we please stop doing ridiculous nonsense with websites that don't need it? You don't need JS to make a button press or JS to make a link work or JS to type text or JS to load all content on a page or... just no.

Developers, stop breaking the web, please."

https://nitter.net/geekygirlsarah/status/1260409688413306882#m

Related: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

:-/ I almost did a "well, actually..." in a reply to a blog post. Stopped myself, because I felt I was rude to burst in like that. The article is fine, I just felt like people need to know that NOT all #opensourcesoftware is #freesoftware or #libresoftware or #freeasinfreedom

Take Unity engine for example. Parts of it are open source, but other parts are not. The license is not free as you're not permitted to modify the code, and the source code is a "trade secret" that can't be freely distributed/shared.

The source is open, but the license is not free.

"you may not: (a) copy (except in the course of loading or installing) or modify or create derivative works of the Unity Software"

"portions of the Unity Software, including but not limited to the source code [...] are confidential and constitute or contain trade secrets of Unity and its licensors. "

#fourfreedoms
0) Run it as you like
1) See and modify the code
2) Share the original program
3) Share your modified version of the program

If you can't open it, you don't own it
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012/10/if-you-cant-open-it-you-dont-own-it/

The FSFE #Newsletter May is out including our demand to publish the results of publicly financed #hackathons as #FreeSoftware +++ #Munich supporting #publiccode +++ new #podcasts +++ Corona tracing apps under a FreeSoftware licence

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202005.html

green owl gives depressing facts about american education while whistling joyfully