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owasp-de.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Good news, we're streaming the German OWASP day!

Kudos to [email protected]

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/god2025
Live-Streams – German OWASP Day 2025 Streaming
streaming.media.ccc.de
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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fsfe.org
🚀 Registrations for the 2026 edition of #YH4F are OPEN! 🎉
yh4f.org/register

If you’re a young European who knows how to code or is just starting to, this is for you!

💡 Build a project with #FreeSoftware
🤝 Meet other participants
🏆️ Win cash prizes!

📢 Spread the word and don’t forget to apply!
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
asander.bsky.social
EU Parliament lawmakers vote to sue Commission over withdrawn patent bill #SEP
www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...
EU Parliament lawmakers vote to sue Commission over withdrawn patent bill
The patents are at the center of a battle between the companies that own them and those that use them.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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maximilian-henning.bsky.social
A group of lawmakers has called on the @europarl.europa.eu to use more EU software and hardware, namechecking a whole host of solutions which they say can replace the current – dominantly US – tech suite.

Read my article at @euractiv.com:

www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
Parliament must buy European IT, lawmakers tell Metsola | Euractiv
A letter from MEPs to the parliament's president, obtained by Euractiv, name-checks European alternatives to buying Microsoft products
www.euractiv.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
asander.bsky.social
The Legal and Policy DevRoom invites hackers, developers, contributors, lawyers, and decision-makers alike to share their knowledge with the community. We invite you to contribute to our DevRoom: CfP DEADLINE: Sunday 7 December 2025 lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fo... #FOSDEM26 #FOSDEM #FreeSoftware
[FOSDEM] Call For Participation: Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom
lists.fosdem.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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fsfe.org
Digital sovereignty can only be achieved with Free Software! That’s why we call for the Germany Stack to be implemented entirely as Free Software: fsfe.org/news/2025/ne...

Our feedback on openCode: gitlab.opencode.de/dstack/d-sta... (DE)

#FreeSoftware #PublicCode #DStack #OpenSource
Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty - FSFE
The “Germany Stack” is a central digital-policy project of the German federal government. The FSFE calls for the Stack to be planned in close coordination ...
fsfe.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
asander.bsky.social
The Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany’s music rights society #GEMA, which said #ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to “learn” from them. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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cknebel79.bsky.social
(*) Studie zeigt, in der Verwaltung fehlt klare Strategie für Nachnutzung. Effizientere Prozesse und Digitalisierung könnten Ressourcen sparen und Abläufe verbessern. #Verwaltung #Digitalisierung https://www.egovernment.de/studie-zur-nachnutzung-in-der-verwaltung-a-bf70547b097cf5edb98c2e39468d781b/
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
asander.bsky.social
The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America. And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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netzpolitik.bsky.social
Das ist spannend und ein deutliches Zeichen: Der internationale Gerichtshof schmeißt Microsoft raus und setzt auf deutsche Open-Source-Lösung - aus Angst vor Trump!

Da gab es bereits einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall.

www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-i...
Handelsblatt
www.handelsblatt.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
asander.bsky.social
Freie Software für das Bundesheer -
Streitkräfte setzen auf #LibreOffice statt auf #Microsoft
#PublicCode #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Freie Software für das Bundesheer | DI | 16 09 2025 | 17:55
Streitkräfte setzen auf LibreOffice statt auf Microsoft
oe1.orf.at
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
asander.bsky.social
“Une première victoire” : Polytechnique claque la porte à Microsoft 365 et choisit le logiciel libre, la révolte gagne les universités

www.lesnumeriques.com/informatique...
“Une première victoire” : Polytechnique claque la porte à Microsoft 365 et choisit le logiciel libre, la révolte gagne les universités
L'École polytechnique suspend sa migration vers Microsoft 365, contrainte par une mobilisation inédite. Une victoire qui révèle les failles béantes de la stratégie numérique de l'enseignement supérieu...
www.lesnumeriques.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
asander.bsky.social
Schleswig-Holstein: Verwaltung mit E-Mail-Migration auf #OpenSource fertig
#PublicCode #FreeSoftware #Softwarefreedom

www.heise.de/news/Schlesw...
Schleswig-Holstein: Verwaltung mit E-Mail-Migration auf Open Source fertig
Die Landesverwaltung Schleswig-Holsteins hat den Umstieg ihres Mailsystems von Microsoft Exchange und Outlook auf Open-Source-Lösungen vollzogen.
www.heise.de
October 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
asander.bsky.social
www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/14804/p...
Post von Wagner – Stefan Niggemeier
www.stefan-niggemeier.de
October 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
asander.bsky.social
The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: #OpenSource #FreeSoftware thenextweb.com/news/eu-budg...
The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source
Daniel Stenberg, president of the European Open Source Academy and founder of cURL, fears the EU's next big budget will sideline open source.
thenextweb.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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noyb.eu
🎉 Thanks to our most recent win, noyb litigation is now officially responsible for more than €2 billion in administrative fines!

As a donation-funded NGO, our work is made possible by our 5,250+ Supporting Members.

👉 Join noyb as a Supporting Member! noyb.eu/en/support-us
We have reached €2 Billion in fines!
September 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
asander.bsky.social
Von LibreOffice bis Linux: Schleswig-Holstein setzt konsequent auf #FreieSoftware

Über Erfahrungen mit digital souveränen Arbeitsplätzen in Schleswig-Holstein hat heise online mit Jan Kürschner gesprochen, der sich für #OpenSource einsetzt.

www.heise.de/hintergrund/...
Von LibreOffice bis Linux: Schleswig-Holstein setzt konsequent auf OSS
Über Erfahrungen mit digital souveränen Arbeitsplätzen in Schleswig-Holstein hat heise online mit Jan Kürschner gesprochen, der sich für Open Source einsetzt.
www.heise.de
September 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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andre.netzpolitik.org
Chatkontrolle: Wir haben eine vier-seitige Zusammenfassung des 200-seitigen Gesetzentwurfs von Dänemark erhalten. "Da uns die realisierbaren Optionen ausgehen", legen sie einfach den alten Vorschlag nochmal vor. Sie fordern explizit "Client-Side-Scanning". data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...
INFORMATION From: Presidency To: Law Enforcement Working Party (Police) Subject: LEWP-P meeting on 11 July 2025: Presidency flash on the new compromise text on the CSA Regulation Delegations will find attached the Presidency flash on the above-mentioned subject.
September 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
asander.bsky.social
#FreeSoftware is one person: About half of the 13,000 most downloaded NPM packages are ONE PERSON.

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is gett...
opensourcesecurity.io
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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fsfe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Did you miss our talk about #cra at #froscon2025? In it, @lexelas and Michael Schuster discussed the current status of the #CRA implementation and its impact on the #freesoftware landscape.

📺 Watch it now ! (in DE) https://media.fsfe.org/w/miJY9odhtHi6Q8Zpz8SGca

#softwarefreedom
FrOSCon 2025 - Cybersicherheit in der Gesellschaft
By Alexander Sander and Michael Schuster Der Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) wird derzeit implementiert und noch immer herrschen einige Unklarheiten in Hinblick auf seine Auswirkungen auf die Freie Soft...
media.fsfe.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Call from a producer this morning:

Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?

We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
August 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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glynmoody.bsky.social
"Majority (55%) of Britons think under 18s should be banned from using #VPNs" - yougov.co.uk/topics/techn... most people are idiots, and don't understand why VPNs are vital #security #privacy
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a tool that hides a user's internet activity and location, often used for privacy or bypassing content restrictions. Do you think under 18s should be allowed to use ...
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a tool that hides a user's internet activity and location, often used for privacy or bypassing content restrictions. Do you think under 18s should be allowed to use ...
yougov.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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l17r.bsky.social
Do you regularly work with or develop open-source software? Then we would love to talk to you!

We are conducting research on how people think about OSS quality and how they evaluate OSS projects. We want to interview people to gather all kinds of perspectives. /1
The call for interviewees in picture form, containing more or less the same information (and a bonus drawing of a cat at the bottom left)
August 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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osb-alliance.de
Trotz „Rekordinvestitionen“ bei der Digitalisierung: Keine strategische Ausrichtung auf Open Source, keine klare Open-Source-Strategie im Digitalministerium.
Wir fordern: Open Source by Default – jetzt.

osb-alliance.de/pressemittei...

#DigitaleSouveränität #OpenSource
100 Tage Bundesregierung: Wo bleibt die strategische Ausrichtung auf Open Source Software? | OSBA – Open Source Business Alliance
Am 14. August 2025 ist die Bundesregierung 100 Tage im Amt. Doch entgegen den Vereinbarungen im Koalitionsvertrag wurden digitale Souveränität und Open-Source-Software bislang nicht erkennbar…
osb-alliance.de
August 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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eu-os.eu
"#Proton’s latest analysis reveals the extent of Europe’s dependence on US-based tech, and the results are alarming. We found that 74% of Europe’s publicly listed companies rely on US-based tech like #Google and #Microsoft." 1/3

Source: proton.me/blog/us-tech...

#endof10 #EuroStack #Windows11
US tech rules the European market | Proton
Over 74% of European businesses rely on US tech. This is an unsustainable situation, an obstacle for European innovation, and a threat to European sovereignty.
proton.me
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM