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FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript

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Par : EditorDavid
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is now on Bluesky, they announced this week. But "We can't advocate that you sign up for a Bluesky account like we do with Mastodon or PeerTube since signing up for Bluesky means loading the registration page's nonfree JavaScript..." While federated, Bluesky is generally not considered part of the "fediverse" network of social media services like Mastodon and PeerTube, as it uses its own AT protocol rather than ActivityPub... Hosting your own Bluesky "Personal Data Server (PDS)" and relay is technically possible, but generally far more difficult and resource-intensive than spinning up an instance of Mastodon, let alone any of the lighter-weight ActivityPub servers like Akkoma or Starling. Much of the Bluesky codebase is freely licensed. This allows users to run, copy, modify, and share large parts of the codebase. However, Bluesky's web client still serves nonfree JavaScript to users, just like its registration page. (Since our script was written for us specifically, we have not extensively vetted all available clients.) Why did we sign up? Simply put, we have to continue to reach people where they are. Bluesky is a decent choice for us that evades many of the issues of other, more problematic networks... We accepted running Bluesky's nonfree JavaScript a single time if it meant being able to reach people who have never heard of software freedom. The FSF's blog post advises supporters "If you're on social media, follow the FSF on Bluesky and on Mastodon today." Slashdot also has an account on Blueky.

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EmmaDE6 1.02 améliore encore l’accessibilité aux déficients visuels

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Par : Patrick Emmabuntüs

Ce 27 juillet 2026, le collectif Emmabuntüs vient d’annoncer la sortie de sa nouvelle version Emmabuntüs Debian Édition 6 1.02, basée sur la Debian 13.6 Trixie et supportant les deux environnements de bureau XFCE et LXQt.

Première séance de formation au Centre Polyvalent Saint-Augustin de Lomé, du 9 au 10 juillet 2026

Rappelons que cette distribution est née au sein du Mouvement Emmaüs, pour faciliter le reconditionnement des ordinateurs donnés aux associations, notamment humanitaires, mais aussi pour favoriser la découverte de GNU/Linux par les débutants, tout en prolongeant la durée de vie du matériel informatique, ce qui réduit le gaspillage lié à la surconsommation de matière première.

La nouvelle évolution de cette distribution concerne essentiellement des améliorations en matière d’accessibilité avec notamment un retour à la version stable d'Orca 48.1.1 ainsi qu’une meilleure prise en charge de la synthèse vocale Piper, ce qui améliore notablement le confort d’écoute du système.
Cette distribution a été utilisée lors de la première séance de formation dispensée au Centre Polyvalent Saint-Augustin de Lomé, à l'intention des futurs référents représentant les 10 structures spécialisées pour les personnes déficientes visuelles du Togo.

Pour mémoire ces actions se font en collaboration étroite avec l’A.S.I. YOVOTOGO qui prévoit aussi l’installation d’une première salle informatique au Cameroun, marquant une nouvelle étape dans l’expansion géographique de ses actions dans cette région d’Afrique.

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GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code

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Par : BeauHD
GCC has adopted a policy rejecting substantial code contributions generated by or derived from LLMs. "This covers not just code copied directly from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or GitHub Copilot, but also any versions of the code later edited or rewritten by a human, provided that the final contribution is still based on material generated by the system," reports Linuxiac. From the report: The important point, then, is not whether a developer has used an AI tool at some stage in their work; contributors can use LLMs to discuss ideas, understand existing code, learn about a field they are unfamiliar with, or carry out general research. The limitation lies in the inclusion of copyright-significant material generated by such tools in the code submitted to GCC. The policy also provides for a few limited exceptions; GCC maintainers are allowed to accept changes that are legally insignificant or trivial and are generated by an LLM, on the condition that they meet the project's normal contribution requirements and the use of an LLM is clearly disclosed. Furthermore, copyright-significant AI-generated test cases could still be accepted. Since test cases usually involve small programs which are intended to reproduce compiler bugs or to verify certain behavior, the policy deals with them separately from code that is incorporated into GCC itself. It does not follow that merely looking at or altering the generated code makes it acceptable. By the rules that have been adopted, a contributor cannot take substantial implementation produced by an LLM, clean it up manually, and then treat the resulting patch as if it had been originally written by them. Once a contribution has been derived from generated content, it is still subject to the policy.

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FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code

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Par : BeauHD
FreeBSD 16 has removed the last GPL-licensed code from its base system, retiring the old GNU 'dialog' implementation after the installer moved to 'bsddialog' and the final dependency was disabled. Phoronix reports: This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for what will become FreeBSD 16.0. With dialog removed, the latest FreeBSD code now retires the GNU sub-tree of the FreeBSD base system now that no more GNU code remains. FreeBSD 16.0 is working its way toward release that is expected to happen in December 2027.

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How the FSF Sysadmins are Blocking Botnets with reaction

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Par : EditorDavid
For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models). A botnet controlling about five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025. Their systems administrator wrote this week that they view these as distributed denial-of-service attacks. How are they fighting back? We noticed patterns in the scrapers that were abnormal, which gave us material for writing regular expressions. Searching for the regular expression then gave us a large lists of IP addresses. Looking up the origin of those IP addresses revealed that some of the crawlers were using botnets of residential IP addresses to scrape faster and avoid detection. We looked for what kinds of botnets might be generating the kind of traffic that we were seeing, and one that we suspected was called the "Vo1d" botnet, comprised of smart TVs running some sort of compromised app... We got confirmation that at least some of the botnet traffic hitting GNU Savannah was originating through the Vo1d/Popa botnet. We placed our regular expressions in fail2ban, and found that we were hitting the maximum rules that could be added to UFW firewall rules on our systems which showed degradation around 65,000 rules... We learned about ipset and configured fail2ban to add IP addresses that it found to IP sets. Using ipset, we kept building larger IP sets and did not find instability with as large as five million rules... We eventually found a promising project on Framasoft's forge Framagit called reaction written by ppom... After we ran into scaling issues with our initial implementation, we developed a much faster implementation where the reaction shutdown process would export the IP sets to disk and the reaction startup process would restore the IP sets. This allowed us to have nearly instantaneous restarts of the service to apply new rules. We published both of our configurations upstream to reaction's wiki so that everyone can benefit from it. reaction's getting started documentation now leads to the method that we proposed... Many sysadmins know about fail2ban, but not enough people know about reaction. I am very grateful to ppom for the help they have provided and for the tremendous project they have released to the world with reaction. We have implemented other defenses as well, but reaction is doing the majority of the automated work keeping our sites online.

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Sortie de Trisquel GNU/Linux 12 « Ecne »

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Par : nspanti · Arkem

La distribution Trisquel GNU/Linux est sortie en version 12 dite « Ecne ». Elle est basée sur Ubuntu et plus précisément sa version 24.04 dite « Noble Numbat » qui est la précédente version maintenue à long terme (Long-Term Support, ou LTS pour les intimes). Mais il y a encore un support de 3 ans (jusqu'en mai 2029) par Canonical (la société derrière Ubuntu), donc ce n'est pas grave, et ça s'explique sans doute par le peu de force de la distribution.

Mais de toute façon, quel est l'intérêt de cette énième distribution GNU/Linux ? C'est rien de moins qu'une des rares qui est 100% libre et donc approuvée par la FSF (Free Software Foundation) sur la base des GNU FSDG (Free System Distribution Guidelines), contrairement par exemple à Debian qui n'en était historiquement pas loin et a récemment régressé. Avec Trisquel, il n'y a donc notamment pas de blob privateur dans le noyau Linux (car oui, de base il en contient) et pas d'incitation à installer du logiciel privateur.

De plus, Trisquel se veut respectueux de la vie privée. On peut constater ça avec le cas des navigateurs web. Firefox n'est pas proposé au profit de Abrowser qui en est une version dérivée (fork) avec quelques améliorations. De plus, GNU IceCat est proposé et va lui plus loin. Enfin, si on veut un autre moteur web majeur, il y a ungoogled-chromium, en plus bien sûr des navigateurs web basés sur WebKit (comme GNOME Web).

Si la souveraineté ordinatique vous intéresse (il parait que c'est devenu à la mode, dans les discours du moins…), Trisquel GNU/Linux est assurément un bon choix si vous vous fichez d'avoir les dernières versions des logiciels. Toutefois il y a aussi GNU Guix si ça vous dérange.

Pour l'anecdote, un VIP du logiciel libre utilise Trisquel. Et oui, rien de moins que Richard Stallman !

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