I'm not French, never been to France, but this is a little step in the right direction. We should be happy and celebrate every one of these little steps. If nothing else, this makes some noise and starts turning heads towards more privacy friendly software.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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I don’t understand why anyone who is about foss would to install keepass that require mono (on mac)from microsoft. I would love to use keepass but we need keepass v2. I use bitwarden.. please educate me
Mono is owned by WineHQ
And there are other tools that use the same database format. I use keepassDX and keepassXC
I wouldn't use chromium. Never heard of keepass, the people on the security sub recommend bitwarden.
I've been using keepass for years. If someone gets a hold of the vault file, the passphrase could potentially be found.
Unless you do selfhost correctly, yeah you want to trust somebody else.
"The cloud is just someone else's computer", so I guess if you trust bitwarden, that's cool. I hear that everything is encrypted before it's sent to their servers, but I prefer having everything done locally via KeePassXC.
You can self host the server very easily.
Ah, that's something I didn't know. I thought it was centralized.
Keepass is very good. Bitwarden just has a server side so it's easier to set up and use for multiple devices.
I use keepassxc + syncthing, super easy to setup and decentralized.
endorsed
Funded?
I was wondering the same
https://github.com/hackmdio/CodiMD for me is the genuine oss app with the real talent behind it and hedgedoc a controversial fork iterating on an older version
I hope NixOS gets added.
The French Government knows their shit.
Actually not really, like any governments but it hapoened to have some good decisions some times.
c'est magnifique
To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can’t be reprimanded if they use them.
This isn’t the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. GIMP has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.
No, it's not. They may not cancel M$ contract but one step at a time, one hand may challenge the other to sign it again. Yes, it's called administration.
Nevertheless, for once, let's recognise something is moving in the good direction. This country is rotted by sarcasm, nihilism, and unrealistic theorical positions. Just try to smile when there's something good.
Just try to smile when there's something good.
That's so true and do agree on that ! But just beeing happy with breadcrums is something we experience like forever?
It's way to slow and people are way to much brainfucked by big tech/GAFAMs and other shit...
So yeah, put your happy face mask on but don't rejoice until we actually win somthing...
Neglecting little victories, little baby steps, is a way to demoralise everybody. Rome wasn't built in a day. But they didn't wait to have the plan ready either.
It is so French to be against things when they are not final nor perfect. "One idiot standing is better than 10 intellectuals sitting". Abortion would never have been added to the constitution is it wouldn't have been first a more little law before.
It’s a good start nonetheless, and I’m happy to see them take this step in the right direction.
Yeah for that you have to look to Germany, which has largely embraced Matrix, and certain states, such as Schleswig-Holstein, have embraced Linux and LibreOffice:
https://element.io/matrix-in-germany
https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/
Wasn't France the one that started switching to Matrix and funded a bunch of improvements?
It's great that Germany is doing the same, I just remember Matrix talking about money from France and helping the French government deploy Matrix for government use back in the day. A lot of the E2E encryption improvements were attributed to their collaboration with France at the time
France is such a bizare country... They enforce E2E encryption and at the same time try to break E2E encryption?
:/
I don't think France tried to break E2E yet? Some political groups repeatedly submit law projects through the democratic process, but as long as it doesn't pass I think the best we can say is that France is against.
Yes and the French administration has access to a modified version of Matrix called Tchap.
Ya.