I want every program that’s required to participate productively in society to be #FreeSoftware

Because Free Software allows me to avoid direct remote control of what I can do. And it enables me to help others with my #programming skills.

That’s why I think we need #copyleft. Ideally the #AGPL, because only that keeps webservices free. And those are programs, too.

(a discussion got me thinking why I contribute to FLOSS projects; besides wanting to share what I create, this is the reason)

#GNU and the #FSF have been fighting for copyleft the past decades. But if you look at their financial statement, you’ll see that their paid staff are just a dozen people. All the others are volunteers.

The Tor project alone has more employees than the FSF. Github has almost 6000 employees. Six thousand.

So the advocates for #copyleft must be us. We can’t point at the FSF and say “they didn’t do it”. They provide resources. We have to use them to protect our freedom as users.

Remember when online progressive #hacker / #privacy culture was anti-#copyright, anti-intellectual-property, pro-data hoarding and pro-piracy?

When the general utopia was a world where art was shared, free and the public collective property of all of society?

Why has everyone turned into the copyright police and decided "IP enforcement and DRM are good actually and I hope the state police finally does something to crack down on #cybercrime" since the #AI nonsense began?

Happy to have 3 talks about the Cyber Resilience Act #CRA in the legal and policy devroom, which I co-organise for #FOSDEM

* The EU CRA and #Copyleft
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5291-the-eu-cra-and-copyleft/

* Legislative overlay: anticipating and navigating through regulatory vectors https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5325-legislative-overlay-anticipating-and-navigating-through-regulatory-vectors/

* CRA Q&A on #OpenSource Stewards under the Cyber Resilience Act https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6638-cra-q-a-on-open-source-stewards-under-the-cyber-resilience-act/

I am producing and directing an animated series called "Lunatics!" about the first permanent settlers on the Moon, which attempts to be as realistic about this as possible, drawing on present-day technology, and much of the organizational culture around it.

It's a *free-culture* project: CC By-SA 4.0 licensed for episodes and most behind-the-scenes content. And an open movie project in that source files from Blender, Kdenlive, etc will be released with episodes. For this to be truly meaningful, we also rely on *free/open-source* software to produce it.

There is a #Pixelfed for the project itself:

@lunatics@px.filmfreedom.net

and of course, a website for the series:

https://lunatics.tv

and the project:

https://lunaticsproject.org

This is my "professional" account, so I focus on topics related to my project: #Animation #Film #ScienceFiction #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Copyright #Copyleft #Art #Blender #Kdenlive #CreativeCommons #FreeCulture #ShareAlike

I often post little progress reports and work-in-progress here.

I try to avoid partisan politics and other acrimonious subjects. Also trying to watch my language here, keeping it PG-13, let's say.

If you would like a less filtered ​​ version of me, I do have a personal #Hometown (basically #Mastodon but not quite) account as well:

@TerryHancock@realsocial.life

NOTE: #Misskey allows a longer post length and also up to 16 images per post, which makes it a lot more convenient for my project posts. Buy you'll only see the first 4 images on Mastodon (there are 7 on this post, for example). There are subtle differences like this between #Fediverse platforms!
#Introduction

Please consider donating to #Blender to help them sort out their financial situation. I cannot stress enough how important this software is to indie #studio to develop quality #animation without the need of giving up their fruits of labour to big enterprises (through #AI) and succumbed to heavy subscription burden. Everyone deserves to own the #software they bought from the market.

This video explains very well on the topic:

Why is Blender in Financial Trouble?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=D1FcYknxEY0&si=5OIp4bJgqJcKt2wB

Vente a jugar con nosotras... con los algoritmos y electrónica que pretende gobernarnos. Jaja

#madrid , barrio de Tetuán Valley

#hacklab

habitualmente los encuentros son los viernes (y algún sábado ) : el próximo se intuye... diversión y aprendizaje colectivo a 'tuti plen' .

Estamos montando nuestra propia infraestructura, servidores ( chat, ... video )

Todo con mucho amor #copyleft
y #softwarelibre . Naturalmente.

Órganicamente. Te esperamos :-)