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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Marcin Wichary ☛ “They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.”
Chisnall goes on to talk about one specific vim feature: [...]
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Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers
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Chromium
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Kev Quirk ☛ I Switched to Brave Browser
I kept Vivaldi on my machine as a backup, and over the last 6 months or so, I've found myself having to open it more and more due to something not working in Firefox. This was far from a daily occurrence, but it happened often enough for it to become annoying. But I still couldn't use Vivaldi full time.
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Funding
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Chris ☛ Donating to open source
I have decided to start donating a small amount of my fun money to open source
projects.
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FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty
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Tom's Hardware ☛ US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem — trial programs running now, first release expected at end of 2027
When the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, it also meant that its chief prosecutor lost access to Microsoft services, including email. It was then that the Dutch government decided that it was time to make plans that would reduce its reliance on software and services that were made or based in the United States. The result of that decision was DAWO, or Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid (Digital Autonomous Work Environment for Government in English). And work is underway to bring it to fruition.
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Standards/Consortia
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Michael Geist ☛ Buried in Bill C-39: The Enabling Digital Trade Act Brings Canada Its First Federal Electronic Trade Documents Law
The Act implements the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records, adopted in 2017 to bring international trade into the digital era. Trade has long relied on paper, with documents such as bills of lading and warehouse receipts operating through physical possession. The right to claim the goods, or to transfer that right, has been linked to paper for a reason: an ordinary electronic file can easily be replicated, so a digital version needs a legally reliable way to establish who controls the entitlement and how it passes to someone else. The model law, enacted in a host of countries including the UK, Singapore, France, and Bahrain, seeks to solve that problem by substituting exclusive control for physical possession. Canada committed to promoting compatible legal frameworks on this issue back in April 2021, when it joined the other G7 members in a ministerial declaration. While several provinces have limited carriage-of-goods rules in their electronic commerce statutes, nothing equivalent exists federally.
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