FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won’t Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is now on Bluesky, they announced this week. But “We can’t advocate that you sign up for a Bluesky account like we do with Mastodon or PeerTube since signing up for Bluesky means loading the registration page’s nonfree JavaScript…”

While federated, Bluesky is generally not conside … ⌘ Read more

FSF Shares Update on ‘LibrePhone’ and New Automated Site Monitoring Tool
At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to “better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today.” The FSF’s summer newsletter shares this update:

We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phone … ⌘ Read more

Free Software Foundation Says ‘Responsible AI’ Licenses Which Restrict Harmful Uses are Unethical and Nonfree
The Free Software Foundation’s Licensing and Compliance Manager published a blog post this week to explicitly state that”Responsible AI” Licenses (RAIL) are nonfree and unethical. The licenses restrict AI and ML software “from being used in a specific list of h … ⌘ Read more

On the blog: (Finally) Cutting the Cord https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/04/cord-cut.html #media #television #nonfree #ethics

On the blog: Mid-Year Media Updates https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/28/media.html #media #nonfree

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Thanks for the pointer to heads. Didn’t know that tails uses nonfree software.