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posted by dora, Fri 08 Mar 2024 02:05:58 AM UTC
The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.
The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. Nowadays, it is standard practice.
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posted by jing, Wed 17 Jan 2024 10:56:34 AM UTC
New article by Richard Stallman: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/the-moral-and-the-legal.html
posted by dora, Sun 25 Jun 2023 11:57:30 AM UTC
In his speech at the University of Pisa on June 7, Richard Stallman
addressed the topic of machine learning systems (so-called "artificial intelligence") and answered the question of whether the training data should be released.
29:00 - 54:00 and 58:40 - 1:04:00 in the video.
posted by jxself, Tue 25 Apr 2023 03:23:49 AM UTC
Alexandre Oliva, maintainer of GNU Linux-libre, was interviewed by Nix Sanctuary:
https://nixsanctuary.com/an-interview-with-alexandre-oliva-lead-developer-of-linux-libre-at-fsfla/
[...]> - What is your key role in Linux-libre development at the moment?
posted by jxself, Sun 26 Feb 2023 02:46:43 AM UTC
Linux-libre turns 15!
Shared from <http://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-02-Linux-libre-15>
It was February 2008 when Jeff Moe announced Linux-libre, a project to share the efforts that freedom-respecting distros had to undertake to drop the
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posted by dora, Sat 10 Dec 2022 10:56:37 PM UTC
New article by Richard Stallman, On Privacy at School.
posted by dora, Wed 22 Jun 2022 01:42:14 PM UTC
The GNU Education Team has published a new article by Richard Stallman on the threats of Big Tech in the field of education.
Many Governments Encourage Schools to Let Companies Snoop on Students
Human Rights Watch studied 164 software programs and web sites recommended by various governments for schools to make students use. It found
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posted by dora, Wed 18 May 2022 08:50:45 AM UTC
Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference
The first Hackers Conference was held in Sausalito, California, in November 1984. The makers of the documentary Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age interviewed Richard Stallman at the event. They included only parts of the
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posted by dora, Sun 01 May 2022 10:55:43 AM UTC
The nonfree app Along, developed by a company controlled by Zuckerberg, leads students to reveal to their teacher personal information about themselves and their families. Conversations are recorded and the collected data sent to the company, which grants itself the right to sell it.
posted by ineiev, Fri 29 Apr 2022 05:59:44 AM UTC
The world urgently needs a free program that can subtract background music from a field recording.
The purpose is to prevent censorship of people's video recordings of how cops treat the public.
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