Digital Liberation of Society at Times of Armed Conflicts and Uncertainty
DESPITE being a relatively "slow news day" yesterday (busy with household chores here, for the most part), this site delivered over 400,000 requests/pages, not counting Gemini, but tonight or overnight, having finished everything - the 3 parties included - and shelved the Monday series (no more feeding those trolls and Microsofters, not even once a week) it seems like a good time to revisit goals and strategies. We always did this once in a few years, for instance prioritising software patents over a decade ago. We ask for input and consider what matters most.
In partly internal discussions today (hours ago) we debated how to better shed light on the perils of software patents, seeing the EPO was granting those and then invalidating those, albeit only "on demand" (that's not cheap!). I explained that distro developers had been telling me they too had been targeted and needed to implement workarounds - not always doable at all! This was in Europe!
Regardless, we have many challenges as threats will simply remain as long as they're being ignored. When I quit my job 2 years ago I wanted to make use of the time to do Techrights and focus on what mattered most. Tonight, powered by caffeine, I shall prepare a short but multi-part series about ongoing, impending issues.
We're fortunate to be at a time of growth for Free software, even if the world at large is a mess due to wars, famine, poverty, and overpopulation (which, suffice to say, causes or worsens the former 3). Reading the news isn't pleasant these days, not just because of the bad news but also the low quality of journalism in general. "Too much of the 'news' is LLM filler mislabeled as 'AI'," an associate explains. "However for the year to date, daily links have averaged 92.5 manually collected links per day."
Roy and Rianne's Righteously Royalty-free RSS Reader (R.R.R.R.R.R.) has just had a new version released. It helps a lot when it comes to discovery and curation of news. We have technical contributions, not just written output. It's something that happened in the past decade or so. █