🚀 Huge news! A U.S. court ordered Google to open its Play Store to third-party app stores and alternative payments.

This could be a game-changer for privacy-focused platforms like /e/OS and Murena, boosting app options and digital freedom! 🌐🔓

What do you think? 🤔👇

#Android #PrivacyFirst #EpicVsGoogle #OpenSource #Murena

@RaccoonForFriendica nuova versione 0.1.0-beta04 pubblicata:

- fix crash al caricamento del profilo del proprio utente;
- miglioramento layout campi custom nel profilo utente;
- richiesta di conferma uscita in creazione post se presenti modifiche non salvate;
- fix richiesta conferma uscita in modifica dati profilo.

Purtroppo la release di ieri sera aveva qualche problema (soprattutto il primo) sfuggito al mio potentissimo controllo qualità procionide, per cui ho preferito rilasciare il prima possibile una correzione.

🦝🦝🦝

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #mobiledev

Release 0.1.0-beta04 · LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon/RaccoonForFriendica

What's Changed enhancement: user fields layout in profile and user detail by @AkesiSeli in #280, #283, #284 enhancement: confirm exit in post edit by @AkesiSeli in #281 fix: profile refresh by @A...

^GitHub

https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=345980

Fair Source Software as an alternative to open and closed source licenses... Interesting...
#opensource #foss

More Companies Are Opting for ‘Fair Source’ Instead of ‘Open Source’: Here’s Why

Fair Source is a new license approach trying to find a middle ground between proprietary and open-source benefits.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!

We offer custom P2P screen sharing optimized for latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as *senders*, whereas all DEs work as receivers.

This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones!

https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/

#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer

Adwaita is really pretty freaking great. It makes designing responsive apps just… easy?? Here’s an update to Butler, my Home Assistant app, for GNOME 47 and Adwaita 1.6.

Update coming soon to Flathub!

#GNOME #Adwaita #Flatpak #Flathub #HomeAssistant #Linux #OpenSource

‼️ The Free Software Foundation Europe needs your help ‼️

The EU Commission aims to remove funding from free software projects which are crucial to our digital lives.

We spoke with the #FSFE to learn more.
👉 https://youtu.be/mNZgSCvg6Ew

Please share this post with your friends to spread the message and rally support for free software! 📣

#freesoftware #opensource #eu #europe #freedom

David Revoy è un artista francese che stimo moltissimo, sia per la capacità nel disegno che per l'impegno nel trovare soluzioni alternative alle grandi aziende. Ho portato il suo esempio di fumetto open source anche ai miei studenti dell'accademia di belle arti.

Qui un articolo dove dimostra come si possa organizzare una stazione di lavoro creativo con Debian.

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide

Lo potete seguire nel fediverso da qui: @davidrevoy

#OpenSource #Debian #Linux #Krita #KDE

Debian 12 KDE Plasma: The right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024. Reasons and complete installation guide.

^{David Revoy}

I really think that every marginalized group that suffered #discrimination and systemic oppression should join the discussion about #OpenSourceAI

If a black box will be distributed, regulated and trusted as #OpenSource, no human right organization will be able to inspect the dataset used to train it.

And if you can implant undetectable backdoors in a machine learning model (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974), you can much more easily implant undetectable bias that will hurt some groups of people to benefit others.

#LGBTQ people and victims of systemic #racism should really demand transparency,...before it's too late!

Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of learning to a service provider. We show how a malicious learner can plant an undetectable backdoor into a classifier.

^arXiv.org

TIL that a #BlackBox #AI can be defined as #OpenSource.

Granting the “freedom to fine tune” cannot be enough to qualify as Open Source AI just like granting the “freedom to configure” cannot be enough to qualify as Open Source Software.

Yet, for #OSI it's enough.

And you can't provide effective solutions to the problem they pretend to see into making training data available.

Or you will be silenced.

https://opensource.org/blog/copyright-law-makes-a-case-for-requiring-data-information-rather-than-open-datasets-for-open-source-ai

#OpenSourceAI #OpenWashing #OpenWashingAI
#OSS #OSAI #AIAct #BigTech #GAFAM

Copyright law makes a case for requiring data information rather than open datasets for Open Source AI

When we look at applying Open Source principles to the subject of AI, copyright law comes into play, especially for the topic of training data access.

^{Open Source Initiative}