A week from now we’ll be in Strasbourg at The Matrix Conference!

🇩🇪 Don’t miss Dominik Braun from FITKO share the architecture decisions, the choice of Matrix as the end-to-end encrypted backbone and key insights from navigating the political and administrative challenges of this large-scale transformation in the German federal administation

There are still a few tickets left if you want to listen to it live – we’d love to see you there!

conference.matrix.org/register

I've been thinking about creators and distributors. picture a woodworker who crafts a perfectly balanced, minimalist chair. a furniture store loves it and starts selling it. but, to "match their brand", the store paints every chair bright green

customers see a green chair. they don't know the store painted it. they just assume the original artisan loves making bright green chairs. the creator's original intent and aesthetic are completely lost in translation, and their reputation is now tied to a choice made by someone else

this happens so often in FOSS. upstream developers create the "wooden chair", and downstream distros often paint it "green". there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it creates a gap where users blame the artisan for the paint job. it makes you think about where creative ownership truly lies

#FOSS #OpenSource #Philosophy #UserExperience #UX #Upstream #Downstream #DigitalOwnership

Help us investigate book bans across the USA.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

🔗 404media.co/help-us-investigat…

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

Remember people no longer buying Swasticars in numbers had an impact. While the company is still here, a more fragile business like Framework probably would see the effect harder if people stop buying.

FAFO.

I can't wait to discover that Apple stance on not giving access to data (no backdoor) is actually a big lie and that they have been doing it all along.

Note: I don't even think Google, Microsoft, Facebook aren't already doing it.

If you're thinking of buying a @frameworkcomputer check this thread from their forum: community.frame.work/t/framewo…. Make sure to check their twitter stream too.

Personally the chances of me buying anything from them in the future is 0%.

Framework supporting far-right racists?

Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.

^{Framework Community}

spvm to buy a dystopian american mass surveillance product

some notes from the thread:

• American software collecting the movement history of all people in Montreal. Millions of hours of video will be sent to the US, and the movement history of all citizens will be potentially sold to the highest bidder.

• Software with very advanced capabilities accessible without a warrant by the police, such as chronological search (give me all the movements of this person over a year), facial recognition, alerts on individuals, and all the previously mentioned functionalities, etc.

• Complete loss of privacy for all people in Montreal, immediately. Privacy is dead the moment this system is connected and used by the SPVM.

• No strict judicial control, and data is not within our control. Valuable data going directly to the US and accessible without a warrant by the police.

• Police can access movement history without a warrant or validated by a judge ( think jealous police officer ex here )."

archive.ph/WvzWm

original link: old.reddit.com/r/montreal/comm…

#montreal #mtl #tiohtiake

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

By EMILY TEMPLE

lithub.com/laszlo-krasznahorka…

#nobelprize

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, for “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror…

^{Literary Hub}

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Denmark has tabled next week's vote on Chat Control.

Yet, per Peter Hummelgaard:

"The Danish Presidency will, however, continue to work with the member states to find a solution, and therefore negotiations on the technical details of the proposal continue. It is urgent to find common ground."

One must always accept the unexpected.

— The Doctor, in “The Leisure Hive”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

If Framework made the business decision to fund anti-LGBTQ+ and white supremacist, then we shall make the business decision to not give them a red cent.

I bought a Framework less then a year ago to replace an aging and failing Dell XPS. While not perfect, I liked the repairability. Then I had to get the battery swapped a couple of weeks ago, and they made me think twice, but ok.

Right now I regret it. But I couldn't have known.

DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM Framework.

I used to wonder how IBM could possibly consent to create a system to help Hitler organize his concentration camps.

Then I look around at all the tech companies aligning with fascism today.

Ok, some important questions from my kids:

Vampires, zombies and werewolves all have bit-related contagion effects. What happens if they bite each other? Help me fill out that 3x3 bites/is-bitten matrix.