#Video of Andrew Kelley's #lecture at #SXSW this year saying that (specifically for #AI) “if you don’t control the source code, you are not in control,” claiming AI agents are under the control of AI companies, which is of course true. There’s a section about disliking AI but using it anyway, and a section explaining how #Anubis is killing the open Web.
Very clear statement about the value of #free-software: “It primarily matters whether high-quality free software is available to users, providing competition that limits the degree to which proprietary software can get away with being coercive.” #toread
on 02026-09-22#ICANN supports #free-software
on 02025-11-05“the modern distinction between “programmers” and “users” is evil and destroys agency,” approving of #loper-os Stanislav. #Excel is #malleable. #free-software #politics #toread
on 02025-07-20Archives of the debian-legal #mailing-list. Dismaying dropoff in activity in recent years. #Debian #free-software
on 02024-08-27#EU #politics on #free-software and product liability
on 02024-02-02The #free-software #copyright #lawsuit that upheld the enforceability of the Artistic License.
on 02023-12-13Stallman’s arguments against using #Discord. #free-software #politics
on 02023-03-10#Debian will include proprietary drivers now because the #free-software movement has failed
on 02022-10-12The original #SPICE 3f5 #hardware #simulation #software. #free-software
on 02020-01-25"Boxer", an extension and modernization of #Logo, is now #free-software, but so far only for MacOS
on 02020-12-13how to use Timidity++ #free-software to render #MIDI #music as #audio
on 02020-12-13#music #audio #free-software #software under GPLv2 with score view and #MIDI
on 02020-12-13"STK" is the Synthesis Toolkit, for #DSP #audio #music synthesis and processing. It's #free-software, written in C++. #software
on 02020-12-13#Bulgaria #politics #free-software “whatever custom software the government procures will be visible and accessible to everyone.”
on 02017-05-19onchipUIS wants to make #free-software #hardware: “have designed and taped out a #RISC-V implementation with Cortex M0-like characteristics.”
on 02016-10-10Bassel Kharbatil, previously public affiliate for CC Syria, disappeared from his prison cell there and has been secretly sentenced to death. It’s been 8 years since Saeed Malekpour was arrested and sentenced to death for writing #free-software that a porn site used.
on 02016-10-06Explanation of the #Microsoft Windows RT signed policy #security vulnerability that allows jailbreaking those devices to run #free-software
on 02016-08-12Esteban Magnani on the #economics impact of #free-software on #Argentina
on 02016-07-11a #WebTorrent instant download link to a JPEG. The code for the site is #free-software under an MIT license.
on 02016-01-18the #RISC-V #free-software core is written in the #Chisel #HDL.
on 02016-01-14“#free-software has lost, only amd64, aarch64” (64-bit #ARM), “and armv7 are really supported”, by Miod Vallat.
on 02015-11-25The author of libupskirt, who was a woman who spoke English as a foreign language, quit #free-software development (temporarily?) because of #language-policing.
on 02015-11-06Sun made the multithreaded CPU UltraSPARC T1 design #free-software under the GNU GPL in 2006 in the form of RTL Verilog, and the T2 in 2007.
on 02015-09-05apparently Europe passed regulations banning wireless devices that can be flashed with #free-software: “Beschreiben Sie im Detail, wie das Gerät gegen ‘flashen’ und die Installation von Drittanbieter-Firmware wie DD-WRT geschützt ist”.
on 02015-09-04The FCC is proposing to outlaw #free-software for wireless firmware.
on 02015-08-28A #free-software #screen-reader, for Microsoft Windows only.
on 02015-08-17the author of a #free-software #computer-algebra-system used in various #HP #calculators
on 02015-08-05