The European Commission plans are indeed short sighted... Hopefully they'll come to their senses and prioritize funds for FOSS.

Definitely a good move to have more sustainable income for Mastodon.

Let's have some well deserved praise. The product is definitely good, the community is great. Who said I'm biased?

Clearly a big step in Blender history. I wish them success through this transition. Blender is a very important and influential product in its space.

Interesting point, let's not forget those devices indeed don't give us enough access to run whatever operating system you want on them.

This stays true, most projects are maintained by a single person and that's a problem. Where is the support from all the businesses benefiting from FOSS?

The situation is still complicated for maintainers... And companies benefiting from their free labor don't get it. This leads to really stupid situations.

This is an old one, but I think that even without DVDs in the mix the core of the stories are still valid.

Very interesting stuff. This doesn't give a very cheerful picture of the current state though. Can a XMPP revival be in the cards? That would be an interesting outcome.

It's nice to see there are turn key solutions for hosting your own XMPP server nowadays. And the community behind this one even improve on the mobile applications.

Running interesting models locally gets more and more accessible.

It's a very important threshold to cross. Let's hope this momentum stays long enough.

Looks like an interesting vector editor.

Interesting framework to reason about lock-ins. It's not only about depending on a vendor, there are other factors to keep in mind. Now obviously I'd see the risks around cloud hosting in particular in a different way than the author... but I guess we're biased differently there.

This is a model which seems to work for donation campaigns for FOSS projects. I wonder how much this scales though... if everyone does that, is there a point where users will be fed up with it?

The situation around OpenSSL and its fork is rather confusing... And there's no indication this would improve.

It's indeed difficult to separate FUD from the real community issues around Matrix right now. We'll have to keep an eye on how things evolve.

I'd say this is a sane rant. Indeed, there's more progress to do, it will probably never stop. What could stop though is throwing crap at the people who quietly put effort into making our desktops more accessible.

Nice idea and well executed I'd say. If you got doubts about something being FOSS, stopping there and checking is in order.

This is definitely a paradox in community dynamics.