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Radically Open Security, the nonprofit computer security company donates 90% of its profits to NLnet. Today @ros turned 10 years old *and* crossed the magical number of 1 million euro in donations to NLnet. Happy birthday ROS! And thanks a million :-). We interviewed ROS co-founder and CEO Melanie Rieback to learn why she decided to give the company such an unusual business model. Adblockers are legal, German courts ruled. Their argument: users not only have the right to receive information but also to refuse it.
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I don't see why a site shouldn't be able to block their content from users who try to bypass their monitization strategy. I don't think it's smart for them to do so however... people who want to block ads are less likely to click on those ads anyway, and blocking them isn't always going to be enough incentive to disable the blocker. If ads were less annoying, we might not be in an environment where blockers are so prevalent also. Treat users as more than just clicks.  @NGIZero @rayckeith @fsfe I foresee ad-flushers that accept the ads and send them to the bit bucket. In the latest round of NGI0 grants, 55 FOSS projects received funding. Quite a few of these are #Fediverse related. The @fediversereport has written up an overview of these projects and their goals. Have a look here: https://fediversereport.com/a-fediverse-look-at-nlnets-latest-grant-round/. (Btw, a new call for proposals just opened. The next deadline is February 1th.) 55 new projects have been awarded an NGI Zero grant. A big thank you to all 55 teams and individuals for contributing to the open internet! Here is an overview of the 55 projects: https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20231123-announcing-projects.html With thanks to the @EC_NGI European Commission's Next Generation Internet initiative. Just a reminder that today we host the webinar How To Make Your Digital Product Accessible For All at 13.00 CEST For more info and the link to the BigBlueButton platform see: https://nlnet.nl/events/20230921/index.html. Registration not needed, just join the room. What do we mean when we say Fediverse? In The Multiple Meanings of the Fediverse, @fediversereport explores three different interpretations of the word. Each based on a different founding principle: Community, ActivityPub, or Interoperability.  @NGIZero @fediversereport I often use it as a synonym for Web 3.0. Web 3.0 is not a term I see used very much these days. We are pouring public funding down the drain agen, this criteria is feeding the #geekproblem not actually trying to take the "problem" out of our geek paths. The people who PUSH this agenda are the problem - please POINT at them and talk about this mess, thanks. Hi there, happy to see you on the Fediverse! Interested in free and open source software or hardware, open standards etc? NGI Zero helps support digital commons through grants with low overhead. Our crew of @nlnet, @techcultivation, @fsfe @APC, #RadicallyOpenSecurity, #NixOS et al funds and supports amazing projects like @pixelfed, @interpeer, @Castopod, and many more)... Check out https://nlnet.nl/entrust & https://nlnet.nl/NGI0 - and help make the internet a better place! For people wanting some more information on NGI's involvement with #ActivityPub, this is a good starter: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/ Do you have an interesting ActivityPub-related project? The next deadline to submit proposals is December 1st - that is next week. And the best thing is: you can submit today! @NGIZero Ugh! But why, every time we talk about fedeverso and activitypub, does everyone always forget to mention #Friendica? Basically the only real alternative to Facebook...
(PS: Anyway, thank you for mentioning @XWiki and @bonfire because they are two of the most interesting projects in the fediverse) BTW: in case folks reading this have a cool FOSS project that needs funding, please be aware that we have a deadline for submitting these tomorrow (August 1st) noon. Don't feel intimidated - it is really light-weight to submit something (you can do it in less than an hour if need be). Have a look at https://nlnet.nl/propose - Next week, we have two webinars coming up. Tuesday we are happy to discuss #opensource (crowd)funding with dr. Melanie Rieback of Radically Open Security (member of NGI0) talking about nonprofit business models and open hardware developer and writer @bunniestudios share his experiences with crowdfunding (CrowdSupply and elsewhere). Link here, freely accessible, no signup (BigBlueButton-room hosted by the Dutch technical uni of Delft) -> https://nlnet.nl/events/20210921/index.html See you there! 12
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@NGIZero I would be more concerned with exercising freedom 1: to study and modify the program. But to me this itself implies the new freedom 4, hence 4 is not needed.