💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

A Fair to remember ! Today was the New year, new digital you?Join the UG Digital Autonomy Fair! Less big tech, more academic control ! with speakers from the university of Groningen, and SURF about on Zotero, Linux workspaces, Nextcloud/UniShare, RDMS, Mastodon, &stands representing different tools used with the university including the UMCG ! Congratulations to the organizers the Alliance for Digital Autonomy (ADA). Thanks all speakers & participants ! #ADA #digitalautonomy #RUG

A Fair to remember ! Today was the New year, new digital you?Join the UG Digital Autonomy Fair! Less big tech, more academic control ! with speakers from the university of Groningen, and SURF about on Zotero, Linux workspaces, Nextcloud/UniShare, RDMS, Mastodon, &stands representing different tools used with the university including the UMCG ! Congratulations to the organizers the Alliance for Digital Autonomy (ADA). Thanks all speakers & participants ! #ADA #digitalautonomy #RUG

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

somehow #Ada made it to the top 10 languages on the #PYPL list, which is based on Google Trends data

https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

#Eugenics: "removing ASL interpreters denies deaf & hard-of-hearing Americans the ability to fully participate in civic life." The sentence that I've edited begins "Advocates have argued." I've deleted those words b/c the consequences of the removal (further disabling from civic life those w/ disabilities) are facts. There's no other side to the "argument" other than cruelty, criminality (it defies the Americans with Disabilities Act), & #fascism.

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/13/disability-advocates-push-back-as-white-house-limits-asl-access/

#USPol
#ASL
#ADA

#Eugenics: "removing ASL interpreters denies deaf & hard-of-hearing Americans the ability to fully participate in civic life." The sentence that I've edited begins "Advocates have argued." I've deleted those words b/c the consequences of the removal (further disabling from civic life those w/ disabilities) are facts. There's no other side to the "argument" other than cruelty, criminality (it defies the Americans with Disabilities Act), & #fascism.

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/13/disability-advocates-push-back-as-white-house-limits-asl-access/

#USPol
#ASL
#ADA

hey #Wordpress folks, do you have tools and a workflow for delivering #ADA compliant sites which work well with a screen reader, have keyboard nav, UI controls etc?

I need to learn this stuff and finding out where to start is daunting. I'd love some tips from people already doing it. boosts appreciated.

Check out what I totally overlooked, if anyone’s into that 😉
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/full-ada-programming-toolchain-now-on-freebsd.98576/

#freebsd #ada

Check out what I totally overlooked, if anyone’s into that 😉
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/full-ada-programming-toolchain-now-on-freebsd.98576/

#freebsd #ada

@michalfita @nullagent idk, after all those arguments I still think that my point holds: If you *really* care about safe software you write it in #Ada *today*, and not in #Rust someday when it will have bounded types, or stable standard, or being able to recompile your project after 10 years. Safety isn't only about memory allocation it is about processes and first and foremost code maintainers. Most Rust evangelists were JS/Java/C++ programmers in the past – aka normies, so they just don't know anything better.

Rust is a *good* language, but cult following around it is just insane. And all those people that heard about safety for the first time from Rust evangelists... sigh.

P.S. Marketing approach of Rust is worth learning – beat a straw man argument, aka Rust is better then C and ignore real competitors.

P.P.S. And about AdaCore what should they do? of course they want to cooperate I don't get the point.

P.P.P.S. MIT license is only good for corporations that want to abuse free work of open source community.