We want to thank the Proton community for giving a large donation to NLnet and 9 other organizations that promote digital freedom. Each year the Proton Foundation organizes a fundraiser for online freedom and invites its community to participate. This year over 50.000 people joined & raised $1,273,800!
The fellow online freedom proponents are: @edri @digiges @hackclub@social.dino.icu WITNESS humanetech Transparency International, Lighthouse reports, Open Markets Institute & The Insider.
https://proton.me/blog/2025-lifetime-fundraiser-results

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

If you would like to help financially support the development of a new Wayland compositor for Xfce, you can do so by contributing funds via our #OpenCollective accounts.

For US contributions:
https://opencollective.com/xfce

For EU contributions:
https://opencollective.com/xfce-eu

These contributions will help pay for the funding of longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.

Thank you for your support!

#Xfce #Wayland #Rust #FOSS #Linux

GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support "Soon"

After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is "almost there" with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline "The 64-bit Hurd is Here!" GNU Hurd 64-bit support is now said to be ready but SMP support for multiple processor cores and the like remain still in development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-64-bit-2026

true HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment this morning: over the holidays, my sticker guys were having a special on red octagons, so I designed and ordered 250 "Slop Sign" stickers — but while I was in China, someone stole them out of my mailbox. Bummer, I figured; they probably trashed them as worthless. anyway while walking to the subway I FOUND ONE OF MY STICKERS STUCK TO A MAILBOX! Whoever swiped my stickers is sticking them up around the neighborhood! This is the best thing that could have happened!

California just put FOSS devs on the financial hook for your kids "safety"

So California finally did it. They passed Assembly Bill 1043. And now your OS is legally required to collect your birthdate and report it to every app developer... so they can verify you're not a baby....

#Enshittification #Linux #AgeVerification #DigitalSovereignty

https://gardinerbryant.com/california-just-put-foss-devs-on-the-financial-hook-for-your-kids-safety/?utm_campaign=brsharewidget&utm_source=mastodon

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

"“It’s extremely hurtful, frankly,” said Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang...OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has concurred, lamenting pushback... “Looking at what’s possible, it does feel sort of surprisingly slow"

We're making the AI broligarchs sad, friends, but we can do better.
MOAR SADDNESS FOR SAM AND JENSEN
#DestroyAI :hammer:
https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-ceo-ai-hate

"A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered" (via Techmeme)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/