falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Wondering what's moving into the public domain in the US in just a few days? Our colleagues at Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain have published their annual review: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

Celebrate the public domain with us January 19 & 20: http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-two-ways-to-celebrate-public-domain-day-in-2023/

Participate in our Film REMIX contest: https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/public-domain-day-2023-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/

the sad reality of open source software development

In short: folks love the amazing decentralised encrypted comms utopia of Matrix. But organisations also love that they can use it without having to pay anyone to develop or maintain it. This is completely unsustainable, and Element is now literally unable to fund the entirety of the Matrix Foundation on behalf of everyone else - and has had to lay off some of the folks working on the core team as a result.

https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022

We finally released version 1.0 of the REUSE helper tool to help projects with understanding their license information.
Also we are glad to announce that cURL and @gnuhealth projects became REUSE compliant this year: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220928-01.html#reuse

#softwarefreedom #copyright #freesoftware

Week highlights: new releases of @darktable, Hugin (panorama maker), and LSP plugins

Here is the full recap: https://librearts.org/2022/12/week-recap-25-dec-2022/

Featured @krita artwork by Hamilcar Pereira

After a year and a half of development – Haiku R1/beta4 has been released! 🎉 https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2022-12-23_haiku_r1_beta4/

While I was experimenting today with the latest release of @haiku r1beta4, which was released earlier today, I managed to port #LiteXL to it. It is still really premature but seems to work quite well.

I plan to keep on working on this and create a proper release. There is a lot I need to learn about Haiku, but I am really happy I will have my beloved editor to work with.

Adam Neely essentially suggests a Creative Commons Attribution licence on all music - he calls it a 'citational system' - as a solution to the dead end that copyright - The Grotesque Legacy of Music as Property - came to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFUdIZnI5o

#copyright #music

Are you someone who has a simple fix for something in the Linux kernel, but haven't bothered submitting a patch because you find the email workflow daunting? Can be a bugfix, spelling correction, anything at all.

If so, I want to talk to you! I have tools that simplify this process quite a bit, but I need more feedback from people who aren't long-term Linux maintainers.

Please reach out, either via here or by emailing mricon@kernel.org.

Have you ever noticed that the number of devices you are using daily is continuously growing, but it is ever harder to run #FreeSoftware on them? In 2022 we kicked off #DeviceNeutrality and succeeded in the Digital Markets Act. More in our yearly report: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220928-01.html#device-neutrality

[$] Beyond microblogging with ActivityPub https://lwn.net/Articles/918224/ #LWN

#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/

#sarcasm

Twitter just sneaked in a new rule disallowing links to competing platforms, right during the world cup finals

Gods, screaming at all my mutuals to leave had zero effect in getting them to leave, and now this.

At least I’m easy to find online, but they aren’t.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

Amazon workers in Coventry vote to go on strike in the new year. They were classed as key workers during the pandemic… but are treated like robots for low pay. Amazon has plenty money to go around.

> This time the turnout was 63%, with 98% of those backing strike action, marking the first time Amazon workers in the UK have voted to do so.

#Amazon

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/16/amazon-workers-vote-strike-coventry-depot-uk-first

Open Letter to the President of the United States of America: Pardon for Mr. #Assange european-pirateparty.eu/wp-con… (pdf)

Charge - Blender Open Movie https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/04da454b-9893-4184-98f3-248d00625efe

We're excited to announce the official launch of the #Forgejo project, a community-driven fork of #Gitea under the stewardship of @Codeberg.

Check out https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/ to learn more, including the motivation for the fork, as well as Codeberg's announcement at https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

Come and get involved at https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo or in our Matrix room https://matrix.to/#/#forgejo-chat:matrix.org . We aim to be a fully inclusive community and everyone's participation is welcomed.