Free and open-source software is now going strong with extremely popular and even industry standard products. However with fame always comes abuse which unfortunately affected FOSS as well.

In recent times we saw separate political decisions by big FOSS companies/teams such as the Linux kernel development team prohibiting citizens of Russia to contribute to the project, as well as general rise of political (specifically aggressive left and ultraleft leaning) drama and discussions in the space.

This makes me believe that the situation is only going to get worse. I can't be sure if projects will start implementing restrictions on their use (therefore switching to a model that is not considered free and open-source) but it's clear that contributions will likely and increasingly continue to be affected. This may cause all kinds of issues, up to addition of malicious code that starts on certain (and obviously unreasonable) triggers.

A complete death of the free and open-source model is p

Unfortunately there's still no information on the matter. Neither Tobias nor Brodie know pretty much anything.

However I would say the reason for the ban has to be illegitimate if the truth remains hidden even after the negative public reaction. From my knowledge on the FOSS development world and community, the chance of the reason being political is fairly high as the FOSS community stupidly doesn't respect anyone right leaning. The "we won't let you change our system" reason is also possible though.

Tried the Xfce version on a PC that I needed for some browser work only (Discord server moderation). The installation was a bit scary but not too bad.

Then I was greeted by an HDD boot speed comparable to my gaming PC with an NVMe. I still miss that now when the PC is running Arch (btw).

When it comes to issues, I only remember a missing screenshot utility (fixed with 1 command) and fonts (can't remember if I ended up fixing it).

I tried installing a bare system and then installing the best DE (which is GNOME.) but I had to configure Xorg and Wayland myself and uhh I failed miserably. Still wanna do it though.

I've always been a hater of the Anaconda installer. It's not necessarily hard but everything was in wrong places and UX was nonexistent (just try to remember the tile view of steps). Now that I've heard a lot about the new one, I had to try it.

So I downloaded the latest stable Fedora 42 GNOME edition image and booted it off an approximately 15 years old flash drive.

The first impression was "bruh no rounded corners. Imagine using web UI" but then it got better. There's no stupid tile view and the only real complaint is in my case the buttons on the bottom were in a weird spot between the left side and the center (just move them to the right please).

However I'm strict so I also checked the partition manager thing and I actually liked it. I haven't tried doing actual work with it though (as I didn't plan to install anything) so there might be issues there that I didn't notice.

Overall it's a terrific improvement but you do a simple installer so just switch to the GNOME's one duh.

I'm genuinely curious. Other changes are just following modern (and stupid) trends so nothing weird with that. This one though just makes the maximize, minimize and close buttons look smaller than others (new tab in Console etc) which imo creates inconsistency. Also it may not apply to all display resolutions but it does on mine.

As a tech support channel member I sometimes see people not being able to install or repair a desktop OS because of inability to get another PC to create a bootable medium on. I guess such an app should help them because USB-A to USB-C adapters are much cheaper than computers. The only downside (or probably a feature) is it can't flash official Windows ISOs yet.

Today I got banned from Mastodon (infosec.exchange instance) for stuff nobody should ever consider wrong. I can't add screenshots (because I can't register on imgur for some reason) but I can add the comments below:

1. @eff tbh I'm considering joining Meta because I support their recent decisions. The FOSS alternatives are very toxic and don't want to change.
2. @BrodieOnLinux do we have any evidence of you actually living in Australia though?
3. @GossiTheDog ugh how do so many people not understand that opinion based censorship is not democratic at all? It's more nazi actually if you ask me.
4. @nixCraft well I support the changes. Moderation nowadays is pretty terrible and doesn't allow any unpopular opinion or religion. You can use heavily moderated forums that only allow your opinion but for gatekeepers it's not the way to go.
5. @eff @theintercept @jilliancyork ok the first example is kind of hate speech. Calling people trash is kinda bad.
6. @eff now this is better than fak

As many active internet users already know, Meta is changing (or claiming to be changing) their policies to reduce censorship and allow "not popular" opinions on their platforms.

I personally think it's the best decision a social network has made in the past few years. The majority of the internet being significantly left-leaning caused censorship and hate against those who legally and rightfully support a different position. Unfortnately this also affected big "user-focused" networks such as Mastodon and Lemmy to such an extent many of the instances outright banned such opinions.

This is an extremely severe threat to political freedoms and freedom of expression in places that consider themselves democratic. This is why I fully support the Meta's decision and encourage other social networks and communication platforms to follow Meta in this particular decision.

Also I would like to add that considering civil expression or promotion of an unpopular opinion on topics such as p

No like seriously, I get that the admins work for free but FOSS is supposed to be about freedom and making products that everyone can benefit from yet still the bias is simply hilarious sometimes and concerning usually.

For the record, I'm talking about conflicts of different opinions here, not justifying hate speech or extremism. I know there is a major difference between FOSS and Big Data in terms of treatment of troll behavior (with the latter supporting it because it generates engagement), but it is clearly being misunderstood and abused now.

I even think I'd rather recommend proprietary options to others at this point because of mental health risks. Yes, I know that some major platforms are quite heavily biased politically (with X even being accused in supporting fascism) but it's not as bad as being biased in everything imo.

Can't we finally understand that the modern trends in most cultures praise exclusiveness (often cleverly disguised as distorted inclusiveness which sound

I think it's just nice to be able to verify a file with a right click instead of opening the terminal and typing the *sum command. Yes, it is technically bloat, but also good for time saving.

Idk much about emacs but some people love it and probably will find it useful. Also the app seems to require a self-hosted backend so don't check it out if you're poor.

Many features are still incomplete and barebones but I think it's good to have it installed, especially for those who share and post photos all the time.