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In this age of technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to Big Tech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's the @_elena options

https://blog.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

(and yes, all are based in . With free software you have freedom!)

New on // foss.events: WICMP 11 by Bits’n’Bugs e.V. on 26 February - 01 March 2026 in ZAM - Zentrum für Austausch und Machen in ,

Find out more on
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Call for participation is running until 12.02.2026

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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @haubles@hachyderm.io

Mastodon community director / fediforum advisory board certified goof loves birds importantly, earnest she/they

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 04 February 2026 at 12:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

Or, even on #YouTube: youtube.com/@btfree_org

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

A dark image. The background is unclear and blurry. On the foreground on the left there is a huge circle, inside of which a profile picture belonging to @haubles@hachyderm.io. On the other side, a bit lower in the frame we see a fediverse logo, but on fire. This is the logo of the Fireside Fedi show. In between those two elements a text is written. This text says: AN INTERVIEW WITH @haubles@hachyderm.io hannah aubry - Mastodon community director / fediforum advisory board certified goof loves birds importantly, earnest she/they 04 February 2026 AT 12:00 US EASTERN TIME ON FIRESIDEFEDI.LIVE

New on // foss.events: OpenEduDay by CH Open on 25 April 2026 in ,

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This year at @fosdem, I'm giving a speech about videogames, translations and language barriers.

More specifically, I'll talk about how translations in @Luanti work and how my Luanti server @aes benefits from it: how, thanks to @Codeberg staff, our translation pipeline spiked once we migrated to @weblate and how we now feature 14 different languages. See you there!

📍 Brussels
🗓️ Sunday, 1 February
🕙 16:45-17:00

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https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/AZHTZD-playing_online_games_without_language_barriers_a_luanti_server/

Quoting the :

[…] Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Towards European Open Digital Ecosystems

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT

Bravo 👏🏽

Also: f***ing morons. I’ve been doing grassroots free software advocacy for two decades and even ran one campaign in (which is literally owned by , including my university and at least back then, used tech reporters as part of its marketing efforts to pushback against intitial attempts at adoption of Linux and free software in the public sector). Everything the said in the 2000s still holds. Proprietary code is dangerous, cloud computing worse. Both create lock-in—and it’s gone beyond trampling personal freedoms. It’s now an existential threat to liberal democracy, possibly civilizational with in the mix.

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