Weekly Digest #3

This has been quite a productive week!

Interview with VeronicaExplains

I'm happy to report that I interviewed VeronicaExplains, and the video will be up very soon - just the time to sync the audio and render it. It will be available to all supporting members, but a couple of segments will also go on the YouTube channel. Stay tuned!

Roundtable: Frameworks Announcement and more!

I also uploaded, still for supporting members, a 40-minute talk between Luca, the other writer of LibreNews, and me. It's a nice way to get to know Luca, and you can find it here:

Roundtable: we love the Frameworks 12 and Desktop

In-depth news about Linux and Free and Open Source Software.

LibreNewsLuca Bramè

New Articles and Videos

This week, Luca talked about his new default browser, Zen. I found the write-up very interesting, and I'll be switching over the browser soon too!

I have a new favorite browser

If I asked you to think about a web browser, how would you visualize it? For most people, the answer would be simple: you would imagine a window with a stacked layout composed of an array of tabs, a text box to search the web or input a URL, a

LibreNewsLuca Bramè

Still discussing browsers, I wrote another article about the Mozilla controversy. This time, I wanted to talk about some claims that Nick from TheLinuxExperiment made regarding the story.

The Linux Experiment ditches Firefox, but I’m not sold

The Linux Experiment made a video in which he says that he has lost trust in Mozilla and is therefore abandoning Firefox and Thunderbird (or any other Mozilla product). This is a legitimate take, which I can’t argue with. You do you. However, I find that the arguments he made

LibreNewsNiccolò Venerandi

Finally, we have end-to-end encryption having some trouble in France:

France wants backdoors in end-to-end encryption

Four days ago, Tuta, the providers of an end-to-end encrypted email service, published a blogpost titled: “France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. We must stop them now!”. According to them, this French law would allow the government - amongst other things - to have

LibreNewsNiccolò Venerandi

These are fewer articles than usual, but sadly, there were some almost-finished articles that haven't seen the light yet, plus some technical difficulties. We'll be back next week with more!