Timeline for freesoftware list by mikegerwitz
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Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2019 20:09:45 UTC 
Free Software Foundation
This week, dozens of wonderful local community members joined us at the FSF office to help us send out the new issue of the Free Software Bulletin. Keep an eye out for yours -- and, thank you so much, volunteers! https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1169032 -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2019 16:26:04 UTC
Free Software Foundation
El Free Software Supporter está disponible en español. Para ver la versión en español haz clic aquí: https://u.fsf.org/2uy -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2019 15:39:21 UTC
Free Software Foundation
#LibrePlanet 2019 videos are live! Watch FSF executive director John Sullivan @johns_FSF deliver the welcoming speech for the conference: https://u.fsf.org/2tj https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1168288 -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2019 14:10:29 UTC
Free Software Foundation
As you know, the fight for free (libre) software doesn't run for free (gratis), so we're incredibly grateful for our generous donors, including Emil Volcheck, Hideki IGARASHI, and Mikhail Pomaznoy! #ThankGNU https://u.fsf.org/1kq -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2019 18:23:17 UTC
Free Software Foundation
The ACLU on Julian Assange's indictment: "For the first time in the history of our country, the government has brought criminal charges against a publisher for the publication of truthful information..." Read more: https://u.fsf.org/2ul -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2019 16:38:22 UTC
Free Software Foundation
#LibrePlanet 2019 videos are live! Watch Chase Kelley deliver his talk, "Modern Emacs IDE": https://u.fsf.org/2tq -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2019 14:07:31 UTC
Free Software Foundation
Assigning your copyright to the Free Software Foundation helps us defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Anthony Rossini, Joel Rosdahl, Matthew Newton, and Neil Roberts for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #emacs #GNU -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2019 02:00:33 UTC 
Mike Gerwitz
I really enjoyed this Purism "'See Your Junk' - Behind the scenes" post and video, which goes into some detail on professional video production using free software:
https://puri.sm/posts/see-your-junk-behind-the-scenes/
Thanks @purism for taking the time to put that together, especially since it's such a specialized domain that many people don't have exposure to. -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2019 21:13:49 UTC
Free Software Foundation
Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit: https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pelly. Don't let them harvest your emotional info! Instead, help better services powered by free, distributed software like libre.fm grow. -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2019 14:53:04 UTC
Free Software Foundation
#LibrePlanet 2019 videos are live! Watch Alexandre Oliva deliver his talk, "Who's afraid of Spectre and Meltdown?": https://u.fsf.org/2tn -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 17:06:41 UTC
Free Software Foundation
Thank you to @Iprogrammerinfo for sharing our latest licensing updates! https://u.fsf.org/2uw -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 15:22:55 UTC
Free Software Foundation
Are you in Boston? Do you work with CiviCRM? Join us for our Boston CiviCRM meetup on Tuesday, June 18, at 7pm, at the FSF office! https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:CiviCRM_Boston -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 14:07:15 UTC
Free Software Foundation
Assigning your copyright to the Free Software Foundation helps us defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Serghei Iakovlev, Stefan Kangas, and Sungbin Jo for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #emacs #GNU -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 01:27:36 UTC
Mike Gerwitz
On the topic of #privacy and #surveillance, I often seen arguments that can be phrased as: "if someone you loved were lost, wouldn't you do everything you could to find them?"
Of course I would. I have two young children. They mean more to me than anything, and that includes my principles. I can't imagine the desperation I would feel if they were lost, and I would do almost anything to find them.
And that's part of the problem. We have these pervasive surveillance systems---be it government or civilian (like Ring)---that produce enormous amounts of data. We have mobile devices, cars, ALPRs, and such tracking most every person's moves. We have services analyzing DNA for family history being used for other uses. So on and so fourth.
And it doesn't matter what those data are collected for---maybe it's for certain purposes now, but once enough people become desperate enough, they'll be used for other things too. Even if those people think it's wrong to do so.
We need to avoid putting these systems in place to begin with. That's the only way we can't be tempted by them in difficult times.
And when something does happen, people say, "but if we had X, I wouldn't have lost the person I love". The problem is: it's impossible to satisfy that argument. You can never have enough. And as a consequence, the lives of everyone are affected, not just those who are in that terrible situation.
These aren't easy decisions to make. I say that as both an activist for user privacy, and as a father. -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 20:15:08 UTC
Free Software Foundation
The FSF works for you, thanks to your generous donations! #ThankGNU to Catalin Francu, David Klann, and Deepak Ponvel Chermakani for your donations! https://u.fsf.org/1kq -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 18:11:37 UTC
Free Software Foundation
Check out @EFF 's new feature TOSsed Out, a new iteration of EFF’s longstanding work in tracking and documenting the ways that Terms of Service (TOS) are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services: https://u.fsf.org/2ux -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 15:28:39 UTC
Free Software Foundation
Did you know: Blender is free software, forever! It is free to use for everyone. Free to use for any purpose, also commercially. Blender is free to share with others, it is free to study Blender’s sources and free to make new versions. https://u.fsf.org/2uv -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 03:21:51 UTC
Mike Gerwitz
@mangeurdenuage Any solution to any problem can be viewed as a specific application of some more general principle, recursively. If you first write that more general program, and then write the program you were _going_ to write in terms of that general program, then it might be useful for a larger class of problems, and more interesting to write (...also recursively). And it may also take orders of magnitude longer to write, and require more research, and possibly never get written.
As a professional, one learns to identify and avoid this problem, unless generalization is warranted (perhaps through incremental development). Yet at home, I fail to control myself. Which leads to a whole lot of interesting research, and a whole lot of incomplete projects. -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 02:49:04 UTC
Mike Gerwitz
How I doom almost every personal project I start to work on: "Oh, I could generalize this."
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