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What if a government passed a bill enshrining software freedom, and free software principles, into law?

I've been informed that the state of New Hampshire (in USA) is considering passing this bill:

https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2022&id=1363&txtFormat=html

My own country (United Kingdom) could take a leaf out of NH's book.

(I said earlier that it had passed the bill, but I was wrong. I was corrected: it's a reading, the bill isn't actually passed yet)

So frustrating that many gmail users are unaware that emails from small independent mail servers are regularly dumped into spam, have attachments and/or links dropped, and then get annoyed at me for it. Especially in non-tech circles, they often don't believe it's even possible.

Bespoke seems like a pretty cool modular synthasizer / DAW, and is GPLv3! (Well, the core is at least) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctDgnhXoJRc

Happy 20th birthday to GNU Parallel! Read Parallel author Ole Tange's reflections on the occasion here: https://u.fsf.org/3hi #gnuparallel

GNU poke, an extensible editor for structured binary data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwb_8VJ5ZeQ | https://lobste.rs/s/hproht #reversing #video