 Similar to Apple, Kindle's software has always been proprietary... [I]f you buy a Kindle today, you have very little hope of actually being able to customize it without resorting to "breaking in" through hardware modification. Read more: https://u.fsf.org/3zi We have recently made updates to the benefits that organizational Patrons receive, including additional donation tiers and more benefits. See all the tiers and current benefits at: https://u.fsf.org/3u2 #FSFPatrons 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 The right to repair is crucial for a free future, this is illustrated in our animated video "Fight to Repair." Join our campaign and inform others on the state of #RightToRepair in your country. #FightToRepair https://fsf.org/ftr 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 Help us give a big #ThankGNU to Raffael Stocker, Fredrick Brennan, Morten Lind, Stéphane Bortzmeyer, and R Scott Belford for their generous donation. Contributions such as these help the #fsf fight for freedom! Check out https://u.fsf.org/3vy for a full list of donors. 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/ Our Email Self-Defense guide teaches you how to defend yourself and others by using encryption. Check out the updated version, get your GnuPG set up, and share with absolutely everyone you know with #UserFreedom: https://u.fsf.org/3f5 @fsf Thanks for promoting a decentral comunication solution - email and OpenPGP with GnuPG! As for the guide,: keyservers and the web of trust have lost quite a bit of relevance in recent years. What would be really cool is to select an email provider that offers the pubkeys via the web key directory. https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD and bring your public key up there. #GnuPG #FreeSoftware #EndtoEndCrypto Interested to learn more about the newly launched FSF board nomination and review process? This post details the nomination process along with a helpful chart of the procedure: https://u.fsf.org/3wa From the preamble of the GNU GPL: "To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities [...]" https://u.fsf.org/3kz Watch the LibrePlanet: Charting the Course videos on PeerTube: https://framatube.org/a/fsf/. Which talks do you like in particular? #PeerTube #LibrePlanet "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 HW [...] chose GPLv3 for that purpose. The fact that we're still going today [...] is proof he made a good choice. If KOReader had been proprietary, it may have been unnecessarily abandoned -- a fate that is all too common for similar projects. Read more: https://u.fsf.org/3zi #ThankGNU! to Colin Strasser, Dave Chapman, Peter Kunze, Demo Agoris, Charlie Ebert, Steve Wickert, Martin Jässing, Marcus Pemer, Alessandro Vesely and Robek Dirstein for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware https://u.fsf.org/3vy "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/ 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 @fsf it is forcing us, but how can we influence them? They basically don't care about what we say Do you want to take on a job that results in user freedom, both for yourself and for others? The FSF is seeking a full-time operations assistant. Read and boost to help get the word out: https://u.fsf.org/3vr A testimonial from a new FSF member: "The world, especially in its current state needs advocacy of the Free Software principles more than ever. I joined to help advocate that cause." 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! We love the four freedoms, and we want others to be able to enjoy them as well. |
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