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  • Free Software Foundation Europefsfe@mastodon.social
    Oct 24, 2026, 6:13 PM

    FindMyWeb, developed by @misom@social.techncs.de, won the 2026 Elite Hacker Award! 🏆
    A #FreeSoftware project that lets you build your own location trackers instead of buying a sealed commercial one. You build the tag, run the software yourself, and benefit from the huge crowd of phones that already rely on infrastructure like Find My signals. 📍

    No lock-in. No vendor device or app. Your firmware, your server, your location data and history. Control your tech. 🔓

    codeberg.org/Misom/FindMyWeb/

    #YH4F #DeviceNeutrality

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  • Free Software Foundation Europefsfe@mastodon.social
    Oct 24, 2026, 6:23 PM

    #YH4F 2026 first prize, the Ultimate Hacker Award, goes to NumOs! 🥇

    It’s a #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) operating system for a graphing scientific calculator that anyone can study, compile, and modify. You can inspect how each calculation is performed, so “Is this calculator reliable?” is no longer a matter of trust: you can verify it.
    Next stop: the NeoCalculator, a Free Software physical calculator with a custom PCB.

    🔧 github.com/El-EnderJ/NeoCalcul

    #DigitalSovereignty #esp32

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  • Free Software Foundation Europefsfe@mastodon.social
    Oct 24, 2026, 9:08 PM

    Thank you!! :underheart:

    To ALL teenagers who took part in #YH4F: we hope to see some of you in next editions;

    To our jury members who evaluate the submitted projects and have the hard task of choosing the winners;

    To our sponsors who believe in this initiative;

    To our amazing team, who support and help participants through the whole competition and make this award weekend happen.

    Registrations for the 2027 edition are open: yh4f.org

    Who will be the 2027 winners?!!

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  • mirabilos🐈‍⬛mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
    Oct 24, 2026, 7:46 PM

    @fsfe that one’s not even free software, it’s full-on vibecoded, over 185 vommits by commercial fashtech slop extruders based on stolen works

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  • mirabilos🐈‍⬛mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
    Oct 24, 2026, 10:52 PM

    @Beachbum @fsfe you’re welcome.

    Looking at it a bit closer…

    • Needy has no obvious signs of being slop, and it was first written in Italian and then changed to English, including the comments, which were not 1:1 translated…
      • … but the image in Resources/ is slop…
      • … and the translation of Nascondiamo vecchi errori e blocchiamo il bottone to We hide old mistakes and block the button is what Google Translate spits out and is odd, as the context is hiding old error messages, not mistakes…
      • … so the jury is still out on this one.
    • RastiSearch is on Codeberg so it cannot really be slop ;) it’s also by people from @Teckids who naturally don’t use slop
    • Pianove… does not trigger slopscan, but it does trigger the “Claude has committed to this repo” warning from Microslop Github. Maybe in an earlier commit force-pushed away? Maybe in PR#1 (does CCR mean claude code router?)? I cannot quickly find anything obvious. If so, it would be too bad, it does look like fun.
    • SmartFoodSave… using slop to save the world, yeah, no.
    • FindMyWeb… also on Codeberg, and I cannot find any obvious slop, and the author is apparently on Fedi (@misom@social.techncs.de but the FSFE post failed to make that into an actual mention, maybe they pasted this to a nōn-federating network first?), so perhaps slopfree
    • NumOs… 379/476 commits fully vibecoded, ’nuff said 🤮

    Not sure whether the FSFE even has an “AI” policy. I tried finding anything other than blogposts, but even their ALL AWARENESS ACTIVITIES and ALL POLICY ACTIVITIES pages give 404… the ALL LEGAL ACTIVITIES list nothing related. I’ve no idea.

    By the way, https://mastodon.social/@ryanprior/117496914743525428 from just today explains that LLM-containing software cannot be Free software from another angle.

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