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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5717757...

Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and bolstering independent repair shops will turn states into “hacker meccas.” The car industry insists that making it easier and...

He discussing another right-to-repair story and how apple’s genius bars are scamming people - Laptop owner baffled over two very different repair quotes www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdr5RKi75NI

John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they’re PROUD of it!

#stickyourcloudstorage

Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)

We need to start talking about the Cyber Resilience Act, because according to all major Open Source organizations the CRA is a threat to Free Software itself, and it has been approved by the European Committee that was working on it.

…with Apple and Microsoft, Mutahar’s turn to take a look at “Web Environment Integrity”

This video as a text article: blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/

Right to repair your stuff

No security or feature updates, but selling as “new.” I guess they need to switch to Linux if able…

Youtube video

Blinkered Blinken. USA Land of the free, my bollax

I prefer “list” view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.

Recent discussions in the European Parliament can seriously undermine existing cyber security practices and open source development by setting disproportionate obligations and strict requirements for vendors supplying products in Europe.

Youtube goes to war with ad blockers - how companies die

I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it’s officially up and running now: www.search-lemmy.com...

This is hopefully the final part of our series on Red Hat’s communication disaster regarding the changes to Red Hat source code availability through the CentOS github. Today we are looking at what the Software Freedom Conservancy has too say on the matter.

Google Play Store locks users into its controlled ecosystem. Here are the several options available to avoid the Play Store, and why you may want to consider them (yes, before your favorite app is mistakenly removed as well) This video is targeted towards individuals looking to deGoogle.

All Red Hat had to do was stop talking and the problem would eventually go away, the problem is nobody ever stops talking and every time they do the RHEL problem only keeps getting worse and worse

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/755685...

Red Hat, their goal is to make money. Nothing wrong about that. I run a company, my goal is to make money. How you make money is what matters to people: is it ethical, or not. Are you selling your soul, lying, selling your community out, or not....

#RedHat #RHEL #OpenSource Recently Red Hat announced a change to how they’re distributing source code for RHEL and it’s rightfully got a lot of people really worried.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has decided to no longer make its source code publicly available. That’s right…RHEL will become closed source. What does this mean? Should you care?

This is a MAJOR development with Redhat NO LONGER giving public access to the base RHEL source code.