AS we're technically (and officially) under lock-down we cannot really go out to mark the event, but staying home with some cakes was still a possibility. My writings online predate the site and articles about patents go further back than 2006, but this site grew very fast after it had been set up and the past year was a record year (no matter what criteria are measured), maybe because of the growing urgency of software freedom in time of "Corona" and coups against our leadership figures.

The 'party' was ridiculously boring and laughably small; but it's kind of compatible with geeks' standards if not nerds' standards (geeks sans social skills), so we probably won't get laughed at. At least we did something. Considering the current limitations (movement and purchases), it's not too pathetic an effort. We got those cakes early enough.

Techrights' IPFS node is now properly set up in a self-hosted (our home) Raspberry Pi and has a new object online (the first one). Techrights will become available in more than one medium (beyond HTTP), as we’ve already done format-shifting to reduce our dependence on -- or rather adherence to -- SGML. The daily bulletins contain almost as much information as HTML (but are vastly smaller, compacted text-only files, one per day). ⬆