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You can now relive LibrePlanet: Charting the Course and catch up on the talks you missed with videos, slides, and audio on GNU MediaGoblin: https://media.libreplanet.org/ As long as the code behind "smart" home devices is proprietary, these companies are free to spy on us as much as they like. Help us fight back: tell your friends about free software and urge then to join the FSF! Support #FreeSoftware. https://fsf.org May GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Nineteen new GNU releases in the last month, including GNU Global, GNU Mailutils, GNU Poke and more. Full details: https://u.fsf.org/3zs Big thanks to @bandali0 @bandali, all the devs, and other contributors! Take Action! Read and write about the FTC's call for public comment on so-called cloud computing: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ftcs-solicitation-for-public-comments-make-your-voice-heard Trisquel is a beautiful, fully free distribution of GNU/Linux. We also have Parabola and many other free GNU/Linux distributions -- all which respect your rights. Check out our list at: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html #GNU #Linux #freesoftware The FSF recently awarded its Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Free Software Gigabit Mini VPN Router (TPE-R1400) from ThinkPenguin, Inc. Read the full announcement and check out the device: https://u.fsf.org/3z7 Congrats, #ThinkPenguin Does the #GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public? "The GPL does not require you to release your modified version, or any part of it. You are free to [...]" Read the full answer at https://u.fsf.org/3kt #GNUGPLFAQ May GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Nineteen new GNU releases in the last month, including GNU Global, GNU Mailutils, GNU Poke and more. Full details: https://u.fsf.org/3zs Big thanks to @bandali0 @bandali, all the devs, and other contributors! What does it mean to say a license is "compatible with the GPL?" It means [...] you can combine code released under the other license with code released under the GNU GPL in one larger program. Read the full answer: https://u.fsf.org/3u6 #GNUGPLFAQ The June Free Software Supporter is here! Read the latest post on End Software Patents by Panos Alevropoulos, read about a recent award given to a GNU Emacs contributor and Free Software Award recipient, what to know about "Going NoPhone," and more! https://u.fsf.org/3zq Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? Freedom is important to education. Read about freedom-respecting choices at https://u.fsf.org/311 The global community of users should be directing how the web develops, not a single corporate monopoly. Read how Google's deprecation of #JPEGXL highlights this worrying trend: https://u.fsf.org/3z9 Yes, the Free Software Foundation and Defective by Design are on Mastodon! Visit us at https://hostux.social/@fsf and https://hostux.social/@endDRM and please help us spread the word by boosting this post! #Federated "I think higher education has normalized a culture of software oppression." Listen to Erin Rose Glass's (@erinroseglass) full keynote "Education and the future of software freedom" at https://media.libreplanet.org/ Did someone say encryption? Encryption helps protect the privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk surveillance systems. Learn more with our Email Self Defense guide: https://u.fsf.org/1df #GPG #PGP #E2E #encryption @fsf btw encryption? what do you think of matrix? is that considered #FreeSoftware? What about proprietary software which clames to do end to end encryption, such as signal and whatsapp, do you think they actuall do any kind of useful encryption, can they be trusted at all?  @fsf I love encryption, but PGP email is never going to be a mainstream thing. The closest is ProtonMail, but email is already on its way out except for business communications. We should focus on encrypted chat, such as matrix.  @fsf Before I went full time with XMPP, I played with the OpenFire server. Even then, I couldn't read encrypted messages as the admin. Now, if people were to wake up and stop using those corporate controlled social services that sells them to government and other corporations.... Have you always wanted to work at an organization that puts people and freedom at its center? The FSF is seeking a full-time deputy director: https://u.fsf.org/3vp "If someone steals a CD containing a version of a GPL-covered program, does the GPL give the thief the right to redistribute that version?" The answer is somewhat complicated. Read the full answer at https://u.fsf.org/3kv #GNUGPLFAQ  @fsf so if an employee leaves a company and continues to use gpl software sold to the company, and redistributes it, that's illegal? Nobody's stealing CDs these days. Looking for a freedom-respecting and federated publishing platform that works similar to Reddit? Consider checking out Lemmy, licensed under AGPL-3.0. Find an instance via https://join-lemmy.org/ Interested to help #freesoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining the upcoming FSD meeting on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-20230616-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory |
