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More People Crowdfunded Basic Needs In 2025, GoFundMe Report Shows

Par :BeauHD
10 décembre 2025 à 00:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company: More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food, and other basic needs. The for-profit crowdfunding platform's annual "Year in Help" report, released Tuesday, underscored ongoing concerns around affordability. The number of fundraisers started to help cover essential expenses such as rent, utilities, and groceries jumped 20%, according to the company's 2025 review, after already quadrupling last year. "Monthly bills" were the second fastest-growing category behind individual support for nonprofits. The number of "essentials" fundraisers has increased over the last three years in all of the company's major English-speaking markets, according to GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan. That includes the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. In the United States, the self-published report comes at the end of a year that has seen weakened wage growth for lower-income workers, sluggish hiring, a rise in the unemployment rate and low consumer confidence in the economy. [...] Among campaigns aimed at addressing broader community needs, food banks were the most common recipient on GoFundMe this year. The platform experienced a nearly sixfold spike in food-related fundraisers between the end of October and first weeks of November, according to Cadogan, as many Americans' monthly SNAP benefits got suddenly cut off during the government shutdown.

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Congress Quietly Strips Right-To-Repair Provisions From US Military Spending Bill

Par :BeauHD
9 décembre 2025 à 23:20
Congress quietly removed provisions that would have let the U.S. military fix its own equipment without relying on contractors, despite bipartisan and Pentagon support. The Register reports: The House and Senate versions of the NDAA passed earlier both included provisions that would have extended common right-to-repair rules to US military branches, requiring defense contractors to provide access to technical data, information, and components that enabled military customers to quickly repair essential equipment. Both of those provisions were stripped from the final joint-chamber reconciled version of the bill, published Monday, right-to-repair advocates at the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) pointed out in a press release. [...] According to PIRG's press release on the matter, elected officials have been targeted by an "intensive lobbying push" in recent weeks against the provisions. House Armed Services Committee chair Mike Rogers (R-AL) and ranking Democrat Adam Smith (D-WA), responsible for much of the final version of the bill, have received significant contributions from defense contractors in recent years, and while correlation doesn't equal causation, it sure looks fishy. [Isaac Bowers, PIRG's federal legislative director] did tell us that he was glad that the defense sector's preferred solution to the military right to repair fight -- a "data as a service" solution -- was also excluded, so the 2026 NDAA isn't a total loss for the repairability fight. "That provision would have mandated the Pentagon access repair data through separate vendor contracts rather than receiving it upfront at the time of procurement, maintaining the defense industry's near monopoly over essential repair information and keeping troops waiting for repairs they could do quicker and cheaper themselves," Bowers said in an email. An aide to the Democratic side of the Committee told The Register the House and Senate committees did negotiate a degree of right-to-repair permissions in the NDAA. According to the aide and a review of the final version of the bill, measures were included that require the Defense Department to identify any instances where a lack of technical data hinders operation or maintenance of weapon systems, as well as aviation systems. The bill also includes a provision that would establish a "technical data system" that would "track, manage, and enable the assessment" of data related to system maintenance and repair. Unfortunately, the technical data system portion of the NDAA mentions "authorized repair contractors" as the parties carrying out repair work, and there's also no mention of parts availability or other repairability provisions in the sections the staffer flagged -- just access to technical data. That means the provisions are unlikely to move the armed forces toward a new repairability paradigm.

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The 2024 Free Software Awards winners

Par :corbet
9 décembre 2025 à 23:55
The Free Software Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2024 (even though 2025 is almost over) Free Software Awards. Andy Wingo won the award for the advancement of free software, Alx Sa is the outstanding new free-software contributor, and Govdirectory takes the award for projects of social benefit.

Le numéro 8 du Lama déchainé promeut la diversité

Vous l’avez déjà lu, mais chaque numéro du Lama déchainé a une thématique particulière. Cette fois-ci, c'est un numéro qui parle de diversité et d’inclusivité mais surtout des richesses que cela peut apporter à une communauté !

La diversité chez les barbus linuxiens

Pour l’édito de ce numéro, nous avons fait appel à notre spécialiste, celle qui anime les chroniques F/H/X dans l’émission Libre à vous ! sur la radio Cause commune: Florence Chabanois. Merci pour son texte !

La parole bénévole est à Ewa, qui anime les stands parisiens et est intervenue à la radio.

Sinkra, présidente des sans-pagEs, a tenu la plume invitée pour nous présenter cet incroyable projet qui vise à enrichir l’encyclopédie Wikipédia de pages consacrées à des femmes.

La distribution libre choisie cette semaine est FreeBSD, ça change de GNU/Linux !

L’écho des assos est pour découvrir l’association GEBULL, qui ne s’intéresse pas qu'au numérique.

Le logiciel libre pour Android présenté par Michael Opdenacker est Joplin, pour prendre des notes.

Dans ce numéro, vous aurez enfin les dernières étapes pour finir de construire votre LPI (Lama photonique Interpellant) et bien sûr, toutes les chroniques habituelles. Sans oublier les mots croisés évidement.

Notre actu brulante s’en est prise au Canard enchainé qui nous a « atrocement et très beaucoup » déçu.

Frise d'avancement à 41%

Petit rappel (désolée…), le Lama déchaîné présentera les actions de l’April et de ses proches jusqu’à Noël 2025, avec, si possible, humour, subjectivité et parfois espoir. Nous travaillons à un numéro bonus avec de nombreux cadeaux à l’intérieur ! Nous réfléchissons au choix du papier qui les emballera.

Ce travail qui occupe plusieurs membres de l’association, chaque semaine pendant plus de 20h, a pour but d’assurer la pérennité des activités de l’April qui essaie de récolter une somme de 30 000€ avant le 31 décembre 2025.

Cette semaine, la somme récoltée a dépassé les 40%. Il ne reste plus que trois semaines pour atteindre les 100%. Le finish sera manifestement mouvementé. Un sprint final pour la dernière semaine est déjà envisagé !

Merci de votre lecture, de vos commentaires, de vos nombreux relais sur les réseaux sociaux ou ailleurs (c’est un bon moyen de nous aider que de relayer) et, bien sûr, de votre soutien !

Y a vraiment de plus en plus de liens dans ces articles. 

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