Really great dual-plot Veritasium video using the XZ backdoor exploit--that could have done immense damage to global communication and data--to provide a history of GNU, Linux, opensource, and the philosophy behind the free opensource software (FOSS) movement.

I had no idea it started with Stallman trying to fix a printer. (Go figure, a printer malfunction changed the world!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

#FOSS #Linux #GNU #OpenSource

Really great dual-plot Veritasium video using the XZ backdoor exploit--that could have done immense damage to global communication and data--to provide a history of GNU, Linux, opensource, and the philosophy behind the free opensource software (FOSS) movement.

I had no idea it started with Stallman trying to fix a printer. (Go figure, a printer malfunction changed the world!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

#FOSS #Linux #GNU #OpenSource

Want to see your name on the #GNU #CopyrightAssignment list? Contribute to #GNU and assign your copyright to the #FSF today: u.fsf.org/xe

Happy thirty-sixth birthday to the #GNU #GPL, the fourth most-popular software license as of December 2025! https://u.fsf.org/1t2 #FreeSoftware

surely if it were up to me, I'd become a #GNU, but a sarcastic and disgruntled wizard would probably prank me by turning me into a penguin

CC: @akousanet@mastodon.social

So in October this year it will have been 30 years since I started my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Lancaster University.

It got me to thinking that I've been using vim and it's ancestors since around that time and it's something I still reach for every single work day even now in 2026.

Some 30 years on, I can probably count on one hand the technology things I still use every day, Linux, Vim, assorted GNU tools. For an industry that moves at break neck speed to jump at the next thing, that there's anything I'm still using is a mild surprise!

Do you have tools from your undergrad days you're still using now? Top five?

#ComputerScience #OldTimer #UndergradTools #Linux #Vim #GNU

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So in October this year it will have been 30 years since I started my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Lancaster University.

It got me to thinking that I've been using vim and it's ancestors since around that time and it's something I still reach for every single work day even now in 2026.

Some 30 years on, I can probably count on one hand the technology things I still use every day, Linux, Vim, assorted GNU tools. For an industry that moves at break neck speed to jump at the next thing, that there's anything I'm still using is a mild surprise!

Do you have tools from your undergrad days you're still using now? Top five?

#ComputerScience #OldTimer #UndergradTools #Linux #Vim #GNU

Good morning, community! We just updated documentation chapter about the GNU Health HIS installation on virtual machines 📚
https://docs.gnuhealth.org
#OpenScience #GNU #GNUHealth

Good morning, community! We just updated documentation chapter about the GNU Health HIS installation on virtual machines 📚
https://docs.gnuhealth.org
#OpenScience #GNU #GNUHealth

on this evening, 18 years ago, the #Linux-libre project was launched.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140203134408/http://lists.autistici.org/message/20080221.002845.467ba592.en.html

before that, every distro that wanted to respect its users' freedom had to remove itself all of the binary blobs that were distributed as part of the kernel Linux's so-called sources

it took a little while for Linux to react to being so called out, by first making those binary blobs loadable separately, and then moving most of them to a separate subproject.

that didn't really solve any freedom issues, given that the drivers still demanded users to install and run those blobs.

Linux-libre joined the #GNU Project a few years later.

the set of blobs demanded by Linux has grown out of control, much faster than Linux itself. nowadays there are even binary blobs that contain a binary copy of Linux!

you might think that, after the split, the kernel Linux became entirely Free, and that the only remaining problem are the demands for binary blobs and the documentation that directs users to install them.

unfortunately, not even that is true. Linux still carries a few binary blobs disguised as arrays of bytes in what was supposed to be source files. there have even been recent additions to this wall of shame.

so it doesn't look like we'll be able to retire GNU Linux-libre any time soon.

when you're ready to try software freedom for real, we'll be here for you
https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/

The political and personal case for Linux

https://www.johnstoniannews.com/columns/the-political-and-personal-case-for-linux-c331e850

#Gnu #Linux

The political and personal case for Linux

https://www.johnstoniannews.com/columns/the-political-and-personal-case-for-linux-c331e850

#Gnu #Linux

Ainda que, por falta de hábito, talvez seja preciso algum esforço adicional para usar mais, nesse exemplo, #LibreOffice, pode crer que já é relevante deixar de alimentar a injustiça causada por quem nos priva, não somente como indivíduos, mas toda a comunidade. Se quiser, também há outras maneiras de aproveitar e de reforçar o software livre, por exemplo:

• :libreoffice: Dar retorno ao projeto LibreOffice
• :gnu: Como ajudar o Projeto GNU e o Movimento Software Livre