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posted by dora, Sat 10 Dec 2022 10:56:37 PM UTC - 0 replies
New article by Richard Stallman, On Privacy at School.
posted by dora, Wed 22 Jun 2022 01:42:14 PM UTC - 0 replies
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 ...
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posted by dora, Wed 18 May 2022 08:50:45 AM UTC - 0 replies
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 ...
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posted by dora, Sun 01 May 2022 10:55:43 AM UTC - 0 replies
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 - 0 replies
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.
posted by dora, Wed 21 Apr 2021 03:16:06 PM UTC - 0 replies
A student of Computer Science in Poland fights back proprietary software at his university and manages to graduate using only free software.
= How I Fought To Graduate Without Using Nonfree Software =
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posted by dora, Sun 21 Mar 2021 01:32:49 PM UTC - 0 replies
The WWWorst App Store
by Alexandre Oliva
Picture the most abusive app store.
Programs in it are meant to run on your own computer.
However, you have to be online to run them.
Every time you start them, they contact the app store.
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posted by dora, Fri 12 Mar 2021 07:53:05 AM UTC - 0 replies
LibreJS Blocks JavaScript, But the Site Will Not Function
Here are some Guidelines and Suggestions to Fix That
= Write site-specific extensions to replace sites' JavaScript code =
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posted by dora, Tue 06 Oct 2020 02:40:21 PM UTC - 0 replies
New article by Richard Stallman: Should Rockets Have Only Free Software?
Could there be a rocket that is totally free software? Should we demand that SpaceX liberate the software in its satellite launching rockets? I don't think the person who asked me this was serious, but answering that question may illuminate similar issues about the sorts of products people really buy today.
posted by dora, Thu 09 Jul 2020 04:49:14 PM UTC - 0 replies
The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.
The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as backdoors, DRM, tethering and others, has become ever more frequent. Nowadays, it is standard practice.
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