This is well deserved. She's doing a very important work for the progress of science. All those pay walls are nonsense.

The FSF words are strong but deserved in this case. Let's hope it marks the beginning of an efficient campaign against this move from Google.

Looks like an interesting Free Software alternative for digital documents signing.

I'm not necessarily convinced this is as much a silver bullet as it is presented here. Still there are benefits to such a structured approach for reviews in community projects.

A reminder of what's going on in France... and it's bleak. Lots of things can turn you into a suspect at this point.

You encrypt your communications or data? You try to avoid surveillance from the GAFAM? You use Tor or a VPN?

If anything bad happens around you, then you'll turn into a suspect, this is due to the "clandestine behavior" you entertain... so for sure you are part of some "conspiracy".

This is very worrying.

Happy birthday the KDE Free Qt Foundation! It's really nice to see it survived the test of time. It is for sure an essential tool of the KDE ecosystem. I wish there would be more such foundations around.

Despite the (sometimes valid) criticism floating around RMS and the FSF, we can't deny RMS has been proven right more than once.

Following up on his "The Free Software Foundation is dying" post, Drew DeVault has been working on the messaging part of his recommendations. The result is not bad at all!

Looks like an interesting tool to run LLMs on your own hardware.

Interesting idea, for sure on a complex enough system just managing the dependencies can quickly become a full time job.

This looks like a move in the right direction regarding desktop portals on Linux.

Interesting new tool for easily setting up dev environments. The real added value to previous such tools is it's open source nature and the fact that you can fully control on which infrastructure the environments will be created.

Clearly inspiring... this project really went from dying to skyrocketing. I'd like to see more of those.

And yet another set of open source models. This is really democratizing quickly.

Truly open source models are pouring in. This is showing more transparency and I hope it will lead to better uses even though some of the concerns will stay true.

Since I've seen this argument floating around more than once, it's nice to have a properly done rebuttal of it. This is nicely done, listing the own bias of the author, still in the end that shows the logical flaw of the argument.

Are we surprised? Not at all... this is an ethical problem, this is a legal risk. The alternatives will hopefully know better.

Definitely this! Major FOSS projects should think twice before giving their street creds to such closed systems. They've been produced with dubious ethics and copyright practices and since they're usable only through APIs the induced vendor lock-in will be strong.

This is a good thing that Google makes such a move. Still, it could be so much more. Tidelift still seems to be the best offer for securing your dependencies.

I don't necessarily agree with the fine points in the proposed actions. That said the diagnosis is unfortunately very true I think.