Between 4,000 and 5,000 people had come from Belgium, but also from France, the Netherlands, England and even Lithuania. Concrete blocks placed at the entrances did not slow down the revelers this weekend.

Maxime, a Norman, took part in the gigantic clandestine party in Sombreffe: "Everything was organized at the last minute" Olivia François and Michael Harvie, published on January 02, 2023 at 1:24 p.m.  

"You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code. So I would advise you to put these rules in the same dumpster." INDYRADIO completely endorses every word of this brilliant essay by Thomas Depierre

I am not a supplier

31 Dec 2022 - Thomas Depierre

Like the NYPD, Police know how to give a beating in Belgium. The differences are, that when they're done. they don't stuff a rack of false charges up your ass while you're still in a coma. In the capital area of Brussels, an accounting intern of Molière theater received one of these gratuities when he looked out to see what all the noise was outside. It was a political protest in dire need of suppression, and local police have learned the same methods of general terror to shut them down as we have seen in CIA training manuals, and on the streets of New York City.

At a hearing on December 15, 2022, Magistrate Judge Claire Jason denied bond to five of the arrestees charged with felonies.

“Each of you have been charged with domestic terrorism,” Jason said, appearing to read from a document on her screen. “Generally the information that I have on the affidavit of warrant…You did participate in actions of DTAF, Defend the Atlanta Forest, a group that’s been classified by the United States Department of Homeland Security as a domestic violent extremist group.”

All types of Free, open software will suffer if controls intended for the App Store are forced upon non-commercial distributions. Since this has not yet been discussed in English, we offer a translation from Germany's NETZPOLITIK

Chatkontrolle: Danger Ahead for Open Software

It is now widely known that chat control would have dramatic consequences for all of our fundamental rights. However, it's impact on the open source community is hardly discussed.