- Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile
- people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend
- now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source

What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

#ONLYOFFICE suspends partnership with Nextcloud ❗

We’ve made the decision to suspend our partnership with Nextcloud. While we’ve collaborated since 2018, recent actions—like the launch of the “Euro-Office” project using #ONLYOFFICE tech—have raised serious concerns about trust and shared values.

That said, the #ONLYOFFICE connector for Nextcloud will continue to be supported and developed, ensuring stability for everyone who relies on it.

Read the full announcement: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/partnership-with-nextcloud-suspended?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=fosstodon

Euro-Office: sovereign in name only, or in reality too?

The announcement of the Euro-Office is welcome news. The coalition is credible, the governance is sound and the timing is perfect. Europe needs office software, and we are delighted to see such significant players allocating resources to make it happen.

However, we have a question. It is not meant to be hostile, but it is the only question that matters.

What is the native document format of Euro-Office?

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/euro-office/

I'm going back to Windows.

@misty@digipres.club also note that Apple have dark-patterned this update below the fold that doesn't appear to be there

Young people today will never understand what a fucking experience it was going to the Computer Lab. That was the only place that Computers lived, and you went to that place when you wanted to use them. Everyone was very excited to do some Computing and Word Processing, and maybe part of your assignment involved printing a document. Hopefully someone hadn't lost the mouse ball since the last time you were there.

It was all so very innocent.

RT: https://slime.global/users/junebug/statuses/116330950817268044

Comment about Collabora blog post

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-about-collabora-blog-post/

@libreoffice@fosstodon.org

#Telegram fork #Nekogram has been caught collecting users' phone numbers for OSINT bots with a secret function in the official release binaries.

https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram/issues/336

https://github.com/RomashkaTea/nekogram-proof-of-logging

There also was a debug function in #Cherrygram, another fork, immediately removed after the news about Nekogram broke out, although the dev says it was an innocuous unused debug function, but I think it's weird that it sent your phone number to Google Firebase Analytics though.

#Privacy #Security #FOSS

Cherrygram commit removing the unused debug function: https://github.com/arsLan4k1390/Cherrygram/commit/56d2337179a6ae2f967498a48fe9cc69e9f1de07.

The Nekogram developer has admitted that there was a function that sent them users' phone numbers, while trying to downplay the controversy. You can't make this shit up.

https://t.iss.one/NekoUpdates/531

They've also been responding rudely to questions and skepticism, and then deleting the replies.

🚨 LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

｢ Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits https://linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it ｣

https://browsergate.eu/

#linkedin #privacy #surveillance

🇪🇺The end of #ChatControl tomorrow is not a legal gap, it’s a fresh start! Instead of useless mass surveillance, we need targeted policing & secure apps. Read our 5-point plan for genuine #ChildProtection (incl. voices of survivors): https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-end-of-chat-control-is-an-opportunity-5-point-action-plan-for-genuine-child-protection/

🇮🇹La fine del #ChatControl non è una falla di sicurezza, ma un nuovo inizio! Basta sorveglianza di massa, servono indagini mirate e app sicure. Il nostro piano in 5 punti per tutelare davvero i minori (incluse voci dei sopravvissuti): https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-end-of-chat-control-is-an-opportunity-5-point-action-plan-for-genuine-child-protection/

Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!

EDIT: @rysiek has an explanation about the shady things LinkedIn is doing. He explains it far better than I did:

https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116337205401370428

LinkedIn/Microsoft are definitely NOT to be trusted. But I realize phrasing is important. So I’m moderating my own post. I apologize if this was misconstrued.

But I subjectively believe there is a high likelihood that LinkedIn is doing nefarious things with this data.

Heavy drama in the open-source world of...

...Office Document Software.

Nextcloud, originally a fork of ownCloud, has launched Euro-Office, a fork of OnlyOffice (pissing off OnlyOffice). Collabora is weighing in and issuing comments against both OnlyOffice and Euro-Office while, itself, forking Collabora Office Desktop from the Document Foundation's LibreOffice. Document Foundation has now resumed LibreOffice Online which competes against Euro-Office and OnlyOffice.

(I think I've got all that right 😅 Correct me if I haven't! 😂)

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 I unironically love this!!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Document software may appear boring on its face, but Microsoft Office is a big reason why folks still stay with Microsoft OS and don't (can't...) move to Linux. MS Office 365 is often used as a bridge to allow folks to move to Linux while still using Microsoft products in the browser but that solution still keeps them tied to closed source solutions.

Development of Free and Open Sourced Software (FOSS) office products, both desktop apps and online web apps, is a core and key element to allowing FOSS solutions to thrive - both for individuals and organizations.

This level of drama and fighting is indicative of a lot of effort and attention being thrown into this arena. I'm confident over time it'll settle and different projects will merge back together or at the very least borrow and build upon each's efforts.

Read and get your fill of the drama here: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/

#FOSS #digitalSovereignty #installParty #Linux #diDay

Oh this drama is getting spicy. Someone made a Linus jet tracker website.

Nekogram sarebbe stata stata beccata a trasmettere segretamente il numero di telefono del tuo account Telegram allo sviluppatore

La backdoor sarebbe nascosta nel file "extra.java", che differisce dal modello caricato nel repository.

Il codice offuscato invia i dati come richiesta inline a @nekonotificationbot, senza lasciare traccia.

Lo stesso file esegue il 'doxing' dell'account tramite diversi bot; è possibile che i dati divulgati vengano utilizzati per popolare i loro database.

Inoltre, il creatore del client Nekogram (presumibilmente un cittadino cinese) era già noto per aver condotto attacchi DDoS e per comportamenti online non etici (tra cui minacce di morte nei confronti di conoscenti).



E a quanto pare, nelle prime versioni del client, la de-anonimizzazione veniva applicata solo ai numeri di telefono cinesi, che avrebbero potuto essere utilizzati per la sorveglianza politica!

https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram/issues/336

@informatica

Qui un POC: https://github.com/RomashkaTea/nekogram-proof-of-logging

I'm sick of it, I recently saw multiple GNOME contributors just using those tools (mainly Claude).

Am I the only one feeling like that using them is a path of least resistance which show how much those devs does not care about others work ?

If they want so much to use an LLM, just do a model yourself and ensure it's not a licensing hell…

No, least resistance. I'm sick…

PS: Just for context I'm more of a GNOME dev than KDE, so I did not check how it is there.

My feed is full of BSD people gloating about the systemd "age verification" stuff and I can basically see them doing the Pixar face behind the screen and saying "heh, told you"

Feels like a good time to remind everyone that just like Linux, FreeBSD (one of the biggest BSD OSes) is also financed in part by donations from "big tech" corporate sponsors – Meta, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYear=2025

Meta in particular is one of the biggest lobbyists that push for the "OS-level age verification" bullshit.

That is not to say that you shouldn't take any money from big tech whatsoever as a project of that scale, but becoming a "Foundation Partner" clearly buys you some influence over the project: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/freebsd-foundation-partnership-program/

My point here is not "you're only allowed to criticize age verification if your OS of choice has zero corporate influence". My point is that instead of dunking on people who use systemd and reveling in the fact that you've "always known better", we should fight against it together.

"First they came for systemd users, and I stayed silent, because I wasn't a systemd user", and all that.