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Read and share online: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2022/february
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software
Foundation's (FSF) monthly news digest and action update — being read
by you and 227,454 other activists. That's 55 more than last month!
LibrePlanet registration (March 19 and 20) now open
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to be another great two days of online excitement!
Register and share the following link today!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FSF expands process for associate members to nominate new members of the board
- Artist collective Hundred Rabbits to keynote LibrePlanet: "Living Liberation"
- Waag founder Marleen Stikker to keynote LibrePlanet 2022
- Chile citizens: support these constitutional proposals for free software and user privacy
- What happened at the hearing for New Hampshire's free software law?
- The UK paid $724,000 for a creepy campaign to convince people that encryption is bad. It won't work.
- Biden name checks Apple and Microsoft in right to repair speech
- Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU
- New "TLDR" bill requires companies provide synopsis of overlong, predatory terms of service
- Canon tells its customers how to remove its DRM in its printer toner
- GNU Guix conference announcement
- Intel's SGX deprecation impacts DRM and Ultra HD Blu-ray support
- January GNU Emacs news
- Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
- LibrePlanet featured resource: Freedom Ladder Stories
- GNU Spotlight with Mike Gerwitz: New GNU releases!
- FSF and other free software events
- Thank GNUs!
- GNU copyright contributions
- Translations of the Free Software Supporter
- Take action with the FSF!
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FSF expands process for associate members to nominate new members of the board
From January 18
The board of the FSF announced that associate members of the
Foundation will be able to nominate and evaluate candidates for the
nonprofit's board of directors for the first time in the
organization's 37-year history. Read more about these updates.
Artist collective Hundred Rabbits to keynote LibrePlanet: "Living Liberation"
From January 31
Hundred Rabbits is a small artist collective consisting of Rek, a
writer and cartoonist, and Devine, a programmer, artist, and
musician. Rek and Devine travel the globe together with their sailboat
named "Pino" while creating and adapting software to fit their
needs. Learn more about Hundred Rabbits, their contributions to free
software, and their keynote at the upcoming LibrePlanet 2022.
Waag founder Marleen Stikker to keynote LibrePlanet 2022
From January 25
Marleen Stikker, founder of Waag and Digital City (1993), will keynote
LibrePlanet 2022. Of Stikker's work, Zoë Kooyman, program manager for
the FSF, said, "We're delighted to host Marleen as a keynote at this
year's event. She has helped introduce the concepts of free software
to many people in her years of activism. Her work is the perfect
example of 'Living Liberation.'" Read more about Stikker and this
year's LibrePlanet.
Chile citizens: support these constitutional proposals for free software and user privacy
From January 27 with Felix Freeman
The FSF helped to generate awareness around Chilean free software
advocates' proposals to advance free software and free culture. Read
the FSF's call to action.
From January 19 by Drew DeVault
What happened at the hearing for New Hampshire's free software law?
From January 17 by David Brooks
At the beginning of January, the FSF gave a call to
action
to free software supporters in New Hampshire. What happened at the
hearing?
The UK paid $724,000 for a creepy campaign to convince people that encryption is bad. It won’t work.
From January 21 by Joe Mullin
This week, the UK government launched an unprecedented and deceptive
effort to kill off end-to-end encryption. They've hired a fancy ad
agency to convince people that encrypted messages are dangerous to
children. Learn more about what the campaign may mean for encryption.
Biden name checks Apple and Microsoft in right to repair speech
From January 26 by Kris Holt
Biden issues an executive order to encourage "[US Federal Trade
Commission (FTC)] to issue rules against anticompetitive restrictions
on using independent repair shops or doing DIY repairs of your own
devices and equipment." Learn more about how this could impact people
in the US.
Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU
From January 19 by Hanna
Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is
illegal to use on European Web sites. Read more about the landmark
ruling and how it impacts users in the EU.
New "TLDR" bill requires companies provide synopsis of overlong, predatory terms of service
From January 13 by Karl Bode
This week saw the introduction of the Terms-of-service Labeling,
Design and Readability Act, or "TLDR Act", for short. The bill, which,
for now, has bipartisan support, would require the FTC to create rules
mandating that Web sites must offer a truncated version of their terms
of service (TOS). Learn more about the "summary statement" Web sites
would be obligated to provide and what it might mean for businesses
and people.
Canon tells its customers how to remove its DRM in its printer toner
From January 10th by Tim De Chant
Due to supply chain shortages in the chips that were being used for
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) over its customers, Canon
announced a workaround to the DRM. Learn more about how Canon is
telling customers how to defeat its restrictions.
GNU Guix conference announcement
From January 12 by GNU Guix
There is an upcoming GNU Guix conference on February 19 and
20. Deadline for talks proposals is February 8. Learn more, submit
proposals, and register for the online conference.
Intel's SGX deprecation impacts DRM and Ultra HD Blu-ray support
From January 15 by Jimmy Pezzone
Blu-ray users who are using modern Intel hardware are feeling the
consequences of an intentionally defective
design. Read the article to learn more
about how DRM has impacted users.
January GNU Emacs news
From January 31 by Sacha Chua
In these issues: GNU Emacs calculator, Doom Emacs, University notes with org-mode, and more!
Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to
discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth
of useful information, from basic category and descriptions to version
control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing. The Free Software
Directory has been a great resource to software users over the past
decade, but it needs your help staying up-to-date with new and
exciting free software projects.
To help, join our weekly IRC meetings on Fridays. Meetings take place
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regulars as well as newcomers. Libera.Chat is accessible from any IRC
client -- Everyone's welcome!
The next meeting is Friday, February 4 from 12pm to 3pm EST (17:00 to
20:00 UTC). Details here:
LibrePlanet featured resource: Freedom Ladder Stories
Every month on the LibrePlanet
wiki, we highlight one
resource that is interesting and useful -- often one that could use
your help.
For this month, we are highlighting the Freedom Ladder Stories
page, which is a place for anyone to share their free software
story. How did you get into free software? What difficulties did
you encounter adopting free software into your life? What
successes, no matter how small, made a difference for your
software freedom? You are invited to add to, spread and improve
this important resource.
Do you have a suggestion for next month's featured resource? Let us
know at [email protected].
GNU Spotlight with Mike Gerwitz: New GNU releases!
22 new GNU releases in the last month (as of January 27, 2022):
For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu
mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu.
To download: nearly all GNU software is available from
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A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a
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https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to
help. The general page on how to help GNU is at
https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html.
If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like
to offer to the GNU Project as a GNU package, see
https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
FSF and other free software events
- February 5-6, 2022, online, FOSDEM '22
- February 14, 2022, online, I love free software day
- February 19-20, 2022, online, Guix Days
- March 19-20, 2022, online, LibrePlanet 2022
Thank GNUs!
We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation,
and we'd like to give special recognition to the folks who have
donated $500 or more in the last month.
This month, a big Thank GNU to:
- Alexander Todorovic
- Carter Cheng
- Dane Gutsell
- Guus Sliepen
- Jeff Moe
- Kim Minh Kaplan
- Martin Jässing
- Michael Henderson
- Orlando Wingbrant
- Will Butler
You can add your name to this list by donating at
https://donate.fsf.org/.
GNU copyright contributions
Assigning your copyright to the Free Software Foundation helps us
defend the GNU GPL and keep software free. The following individuals
have assigned their copyright to the FSF (and allowed public
appreciation) in the past month:
- Ikumi Keita (GNU Emacs)
- Justin Schell (GNU Emacs)
- Jonathan Eskin (GNU Emacs)
- Mike Frysinger (GNU Automake)
- Niklas Eklund (GNU Emacs)
- Qifan Wang (GNU Emacs)
Want to see your name on this list? Contribute to GNU and assign your
copyright to the FSF.
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