#tech #technology #BigTech #data #security #privacy #safety #InfoSec #IT #surveillance #computing #digital #online #internet #web #cloud #meme

So much for '#SystemD is not a monolith' guilt tripping. It's modular in theory alone. #Flatpak is the next critical software to introduce a hard dependency on systemd, after #Gnome. Those of us using #Runit, #OpenRC, #GNUShepherd etc are looking at a situation similar to #elogind.

What's common among them? A corporate #OpenSource ecosystem that only they can maintain. Meanwhile, those who question this are treated with contempt!

https://www.osnews.com/story/145071/flatpak-will-depend-on-systemd/

#gentoo #void #guix #alpine #linux

The Virtual OS Museum : plus de 1 700 systèmes d'exploitation préinstallés, de 1948 à aujourd'hui, dans une seule VM Linux. Du Manchester Baby de 1948 à Android, en passant par Multics, NeXTSTEP ou BeOS — tout préconfiguré, rien à bidouiller.
https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Wow... #noctalia is amazing, exactly what I was looking for!

Google is tying reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing over de-Googled Android users

The ways in which Google can lock you into their ecosystem are often obvious, but sometimes, they're incredibly sneaky and easily missed.

CAPTCHA tests are annoying, but at the same time, they can help protect websites from bots. While these tests are alre

https://www.osnews.com/story/144909/google-is-tying-recaptcha-to-google-play-services-screwing-over-de-googled-android-users/

#Android

We're excited to be offering our first "Intro to Guix" class! We'll cover the basics of how Guix works, installing, managing packages, configuring your system, Guix Home, writing packages, and more over a total of 3-4 hours live instruction and exercises. We'd love to have a few more people for this first small class, at a special rate. We'll be running it sometime in the next week or so, so please get in touch if you are interested with your timezone and availability!

WIP Wednesday: fixes and improvemenets all over FreeCAD and a brand new parametric tool in BIM for modeling architectural surface finishes, such as flooring, wall cladding, ceiling tiles, or façade panels.

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/04/29/wip-wednesday-29-april-2026/

Consider unfollowing that person that always leaves you feeling worse about things.

I think I'm going to try #niri

L'Europa dice di voler controllare la sua tecnologia. Poi apri un qualsiasi ufficio europeo e trovi Teams per le riunioni, Azure per i dati, AWS per i server. E i provider cloud locali? Dal 29% al 15% di quota in sette anni.

Bruxelles ha firmato dichiarazioni, lanciato framework, stanziato 75 milioni per un cloud federato europeo. Bello, ma AWS ne investe 33 miliardi solo in Spagna. Il piano c'è. Le alternative, per ora, no. E le intenzioni?

https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/04/sovranita-digitale-ue-il-piano-ce-le-alternative-no-e-la-volonta

#futuroprossimo

After an additional round of fixes, cleanups and huge commit splitting, I just merged The Blur Pull Request to niri main!

https://niri-wm.github.io/niri/Window-Effects.html

Now I want to see screenshots that put Tahoe to shame

#niri

FreeCAD 1.1.1 released

Hot on the heals of version 1.1.0 we are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.1. You can check out the release notes and the full change log on the repository, it's fair to say that there are a LOT of small fixes to enhance your experiences with FreeCAD. As ever massive thanks to all contributors and developers for taking the time and effort to continue to improve #FreeCAD

#CAD #CAM #BIM #opensource

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/04/15/freecad-1-1-1-released/

grub on Guix now asks password only once for LUKS encrypted disk! It took quite some time, but I'm happy we are finally here! :D

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/b90597b98d46767207a0e92a84fb39c344472b69

Kudos to Danny Milosavljevic for fixing it!

#guix #grub

Tutorial: Importing and Using Scaled Reference Images

Often we might need to create geometry to fit real world objects that we don't have a CAD model for. Whilst we might jump to complex 3D scanning methods and more, sometimes a simple reference image, or images, can really help the process. Even more so if we can accurately scale the image.

#CAD #CAM #3DPrinting #Design

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/04/12/tutorial-importing-and-using-scaled-reference-images/

Turning a Bluetooth Caliper into a FreeCAD Input Device

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/05/turning-a-bluetooth-caliper-into-a-freecad-input-device/

When corporate 'open source' supporters put their idiotic identity policies first before the actual free software freedom, you get mobs lynching Richard #Stallman and now being shut up about corporate #spyware with #SystemD mandating age verification.

Ironically the #guix people don't use it, they use shepherd, but some maintainers tried to coup #gnu .

But I don't blame them: these are equally screwed in a near future with the incoming
orwellian policies affecting their #guile project themselves. Hope you learned a lesson, guys.

Enjoy your 'opensauce' surveillance state and corporations denying LGBT and women rights from your Apple machines, you fancy frapuccino nuts. Get your rights back and kick away people who bashed RMS down. RMS has been decades supporting LGBT, women, minorities and whatnot from its home page:

https://stallman.org/#politics

https://gnu.support/

La Svezia ha speso 130 milioni di dollari per ricomprare libri di carta da mettere sui banchi di scuola. Sì, nel 2026. Sì, il paese di Spotify e Skype.
Il motivo? I punteggi di lettura degli studenti crollavano, e il Karolinska Institutet (quelli che scelgono i Nobel) ha detto chiaro: gli schermi peggiorano l'apprendimento.

Ho scritto un pezzo che racconta tutta la storia 👇

https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/04/la-svezia-butta-i-tablet-e-torna-ai-libri-di-carta-funziona/

FreeCAD: It IS Rocket Science!

In full disclosure the author of this post is involved in model, amateur and high power rocketry so forgive their over excitement! This blogpost highlights a fabulous video from #NARCON around using #FreeCAD for #Rocket design analysis using #CFD #rocketry

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/04/03/freecad-it-is-rocket-science/

WIP Wednesday: dozens of improvements in CAM, improved styling of cosmetic threads in accordance with ISO 6410-1, resetting and cenetering view on a NaviCube double-click, and many more improvements and fixes

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/04/01/wip-wednesday-1-april-2026/