Wishing everyone a great time at Linuxwochen Eisenstadt starting today in Hochschule Burgenland in #Eisenstadt, #Austria
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/04-05-linuxwochen-eisenstadt.html
Wishing everyone a great time at 19 Sesja Linuksowa by Akademickie Stowarzyszenie Informatyczne starting today in Politechnika Wrocławska, budynek D-20, Centrum Kongresowe in #Wrocław, #Poland
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/04-05-19-sesja-linuksowa.html
Official account: @ASI
Official hashtag(s): #SesjaLinuksowa
Okay, I'm trying to set up a Brother printer on Debian. The open drivers don't allow me to use the scanner, so I have to use Brother's, and the process involves manually entering the printer's IP address.
I cannot figure out how to find a printer's IP address. I have searched, and the instructions are pretty baffling.
Any suggestions? Help very much appreciated.
@elementary tl;dr I support your objectives, and kudos on the goal, but I think you should monitor this new policy for unexpected negative outcomes. I take about 9k characters to explain why, but I’m not criticizing your intent.
While I am much more pragmatic about my stance on #aicoding this was previously a long-running issue of contention on the #StackExchange network that was never really effectively resolved outside of a few clearly egregious cases.
The triple-net is that when it comes to certain parts of software—think of the SCO copyright trials over header files from a few decades back—in many cases, obvious code will be, well…obvious. That “the simplest thing that could possibly work” was produced by an AI instead of a person is difficult to prove using existing tools, and false accusations of plagiarism have been a huge problem that has caused a number of people real #reputationalharm over the last couple of years.
That said, I don’t disagree with the stance that #vibecoding is not worth the pixels that it takes up on a screen. From a more pragmatic standpoint, though, it may be more useful to address the underlying principle that #plagiarism is unacceptable from a community standards or copyright perspective rather than making it a tool-specific policy issue.
I’m a firm believer that people have the right to run their community projects in whatever way best serves their community members. I’m only pointing out the pragmatic issues of setting forth a policy where the likelihood of false positives is quite high, and the level of pragmatic enforceability may be quite low. That is something that could lead to reputational harm to people and the project, or to community in-fighting down the road, when the real policy you’re promoting (as I understand it) is just a fundamental expectation of “original human contributions” to the project.
Because I work in #riskmanagement and #cybersecurity I see this a lot. This is an issue that comes up more often than you might think. Again, I fully support your objectives, but just wanted to offer an alternative viewpoint that your project might want to revisit down the road if the current policy doesn’t achieve the results that you’re hoping for.
In the meantime, I certainly wish you every possible success! You’re taking a #thoughtleadership stance on an important #AIgovernance policy issue that is important to society and to #FOSS right now. I think that’s terrific!
#Coreboot 25.03 Released With Support For 22 More Motherboards
#Pixelfed and other #Fediverse platforms like #Mastodon were just mentioned on German television (ZDF) 
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Trump and his new big tech autocracy: Trump, Musk & Co are trying to dismantle the state at high speed. A culture war has broken out. Is democracy in danger?
How dangerous is this and what can Europe do to counter it? Will the EU's democratic rules stand up to the superiority of US big tech?
https://www.zdf.de/video/reportagen/aspekte-106/trump-demokratie-usa-musk-100
Voilà, j'ai terminé la migration de mes (insignifiants) dépôts de code sur #github vers @Codeberg, une organisation à but non lucratif basée en Allemagne qui propose une belle alternative 
Ça se fait bien avec l'outil de migration fourni par Codeberg : https://docs.codeberg.org/advanced/migrating-repos/ (en anglais).
France has been developing its own digital tools and platforms for governmental use. I hope other countries follow suit, rather than relying on Google or Microsoft for government and education systems: https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/uploads/DINUM-roadmap_EN.pdf
There are more things in ethics, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your four freedoms.
#Hivemind: do have any recommendations for trustworthy and affordable #transcription software? If it's open source and European even better! Thanks! 
#software #FOSS #OpenSource #Comms
"Twitter, you used to be cool 
" – Here's why the #FlatPress project will no longer publish on #Twitter: https://www.flatpress.org/2025/04/04/twitter-you-used-to-be-cool-%f0%9f%99/
The latest proprietary #VSCode extension that no longer works in non-Microsoft builds of the MIT licensed VS Code source code appears to be C and C++ support.
Your regular reminder: every day more of VSCode functionality is proprietary, and increasingly #FOSS hostile.
Se libérer des géants du numérique américains : quelles alternatives européennes ?
https://www.justgeek.fr/alternatives-europeennes-numerique-136168/
Bon, il manque beaucoup d'alternatives dans la liste, et il y a un peu trop d'arguments négatifs mais l'article donne quelques pistes intéressantes.
When paired with the Blur My Shell extension on GNOME Shell, Tauon 8.0 looks seriously slick 
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/tauon-8-0-app-update-transparent-linux
The #Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary
https://kolektiva.media/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy
#tech #linux #smartphone #deutschland #europe #europa #technology #foss This place seems very pro European independence and german, in addition to the more obvious tech nerdness, so I'd think this would be a good place to ask; Is the Volla phone any good? It's always the PinePhone or Librem mentioned whenever the subject of a Linux phone comes up and no one ever seems to bring up the Volla phone. Is there a problem with the Volla phone that makes it less known or what?
https://volla.online/de/
Si vous doutiez encore de la pertinence des logiciels libres et gratuits (FOSS) et de l'importance de quitter ou de fortement vous distancer des GAFAM. Tant sur le plan éthique que pour vos données personnelles ou le soutien de la Silicon Valley aux idées d'extrême droite.
#logicielslibres #foss #OpenSource #opensourcesoftware #europe #gafam
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Not me writing a bunch of new disclaimers and warnings on my website as I encounter more and more folks (not on here! In other discussions!) that have never done DIY software and computing and are diving in with my very-imperfect implementation of an installation ISO Linux build.
Again - not on Mastodon. If you're on Mastodon, you've certainly embraced using software that is not corporate packaged or polished (for better or worse).
When you start getting the "Hey asshole, you bricked my machine!", it really does make you reconsider hosting and supporting a FOSS project.
There's a specific mindset and paradigm of interacting with FOSS. It's very DIY, accept consequences of failure, adaptation, troubleshooting, etc.
But folks are used to the "client / server" paradigm of consumerism. Something is made. Someone buys it with expectations. If it doesnt work, they can return for moneyback, if it really doesn't work they can sue, etc.
Like. Don't get me wrong. I am doing my best to build in accessibility and ensure quality in what I'm making, but I'm also not forcing anyone to try and install this.
I can only imagine how folks working on FOSS medical equipment feel. That can actually kill people (corporate products kill people all the time, too, but they're protected by Limited Liability Corp structures).
Anyhow... hope I don't get sued.
