Digital Freedoms

As someone who likes to see new life brought to legacy #FOSS software, I was happy to hear about a new fork of #GTK2: git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gt… It includes patches from other forks. There are plans to test out classic #GTK software with it. #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RetroComputing

If you've written a post, article or blog entry about #HardwareFreedomDay2026 or you're holding or attending an event, please share the information on social media with the tag: #HFD2026 How are you celebrating today?

Wishing everyone a Happy #HardwareFreedomDay2026 digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd #HFD2026

4 reasons why a law enforcing "Age Verification on Operating Systems" is a terrible idea: - Will likely lead to bad actors obtaining more personal information (massive collection of personal data makes too tempting of a target). - Will likely lead to a reduction in Free Speech. (Could cause significant issues for both journalists and whistleblowers.) - Does the opposite of protecting children. It builds a national database of every child who uses a computer. A database which, if the past is any indicator, will be hacked and breached. Thus putting every child in the country in increased danger. - Forcing developers to create this feature would be a violation of Free Speech (see Junger v. Daley, & Bernstein v. United States which both hold that computer code is speech with First Amendment protections). In other words: The law would be illegal, harmful to children, harmful to software developers, harmful to Free Speech and journalism... and generally make people less safe. And that's just off the top of my head.

If you're in the US, please contact your Senators and Representatives and let them know how you feel about age verification laws for operating systems and bill HR 8250: house.gov/representative… senate.gov/senators/senat…

For those in the US, bill HR 8250 would require age verification for operating systems on a national level: linuxiac.com/federal-bill-w…

Know of a #Makerspace in your area? Ask them join in on celebrating #HardwareFreedomDay2026 digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd/events?… #HFD2026

#HFD2026 is a great time to get together with people in your neighborhood & discuss topics such as Right to Repair, creating Makerspaces, reducing electronic waste & reusing old computers and/or what to do when there's an emergency like a power outage or the Internet goes down.

What are you doing #HardwareFreedomDay2026 this Saturday?  Please share your posts about Hardware Freedom Day on your favorite social media channels and blogs and include #HFD2026

We're counting down to Hardware Freedom Day on April 18th: digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd How will you celebrate this year? #HFD2026

@Bhavani_00007 Personally, I like Netrider and Fifth.

name a browser better than brave I'll wait

Interviews with a #DFF board member: youtube.com/watch?v=-iP4dT… youtube.com/watch?v=-Sm0pt…

Can you imagine your car or smart refrigerator asking for your age? That's exactly what new age verification laws being passed are requiring of all operating systems. Please contact your legislators and let them know what you think of these laws.

Please join us for a virtual meeting celebrating Document Freedom Day 2026 today, Saturday March 28 at 10 AM EST: digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd/archive… #DFD2026

Article on the use of ODF as a standard: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/1… Happy #DFD2026

2/2 Even if you can't make an event this year, I hope you'll join in by sharing your thoughts on Free and Open Document formats on your social media accounts using #DFD2026. Thanks and hope you enjoy celebrating this year.

1/2 Document Freedom Day 2026 is tomorrow March 25th, 2026. See the following for event listings: digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd/archive…

2/2 Please help by getting the word out about the importance of #FreeDocument formats on your social media accounts. How will you celebrate #DFD2026?

1/2 Check out the #DocumentFreedomDay2026 events happening this month: digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd/archive Are you hosting an event? Even if it's small or local, please add it to the map.

2/4 #librsvg is a popular #C/C++ SVG library. For years, I searched for a lighter option. #sdl_svg was good but not perfect. #nanosvg makes a great alternative. It's used by #SDL_image & #FLTK projects & others. I would love to combine the best patches from the nanosvg forks.

1/4 This week's #DocumentFreedomDay2026 #OpenDocument format is SVG. Check out editors such as #Inkscape inkscape.org and SVG-Edit github.com/SVG-Edit/svged… for ways to create your own SVG vector #graphics. What SVG projects do you like?