Bankrupt

Banking institutions have sought to automate customer service through
websites and, more recently, through TRApps.

https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-03-TRApps

What these banks are saving in offices and staff, we customers are
paying for with security and freedom. They are morally bankrupt.

Genuine security never depends on secret software. On the contrary,
transparency strengthens security.

Nevertheless, these banks impose on us, in the name of security (their
own, not ours), various harmful behaviors:

• the use of software that we cannot control and whose actions on our
  computers are hidden from us;

• the use of too-short passwords; and

• the use of devices and operating systems designed to run under
  someone else’s control, and to collect and exfiltrate our data.

Running software controlled by others always implies a loss of
freedom, and a threat to security and privacy.

The requirement to use these programs has become so common and
persistent that it seems unavoidable. Thus, we have decided to expand
our campaign against imposed taxing software beyond state-controlled
institutions to also include private services and goods whose
providers converge on such impositions.

https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota#softimp

We share our board member Alexandre Oliva’s recent account of his over
20 years of struggle against technological abuse by banks in his
country. We highlight his recent legal victory: online banking
services must be restored without requiring the installation of
programs other than a standard browser. Read more:

https://www.fsfla.org/texto/bancarrota

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About Imposed Taxing Software

Since 2006, we have been running a campaign against imposed taxing
software: programs that are imposed in the sense that you cannot avoid
them, and taxing in the sense that they burden you in a way that
resembles a tax, but is exempt from social benefits and paid for with
your freedom.

Nonfree programs are unjust and too onerous (even when they are
nominally gratis), because they imply a loss of freedom, that is, of
control over your digital life. When this burden (of suppressed
freedom) is compounded with the imposition of use of such programs,
they become profoundly oppressive: imposed taxing software.

Our initial focus was on oppressive software imposed by governments,
such as mandatory tax-related programs and software required to
interact with public banks.

https://www.fsfla.org/circular/2006-11#Editorial

While pressuring the government to liberate income tax software in
Brazil, we have been updating and publishing a compatible and
freedom-respecting version every year since 2007.

https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2012-10-Acesso-SoftImp

https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/fsfla/irpf-livre/

In 2023, we extended the campaign to taxing software imposed by
private providers: when freedom-depriving software is required to
obtain or enjoy products or services.

To be clear, this campaign is not (solely) about software for
taxation, but rather about software that is taxing (an unjust burden,
because it taxes your freedom; the software is itself like a tax), and
that, on top of that, is imposed, thus profoundly oppressive.

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About FSFLA

Free Software Foundation Latin America joined in 2005 the
international FSF network, previously formed by Free Software
Foundations in the United States, in Europe and in India. These
sister organizations work in their corresponding geographies towards
promoting the same Free Software ideals and defending the same
freedoms for software users and developers, working locally but
cooperating globally.

https://www.fsfla.org/

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https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota

In the mid-1980’s, Microsoft produced an expansion card for the IBM PC and PC XT, known as the Mach 10. In addition to occupying an expansion slot, it also replaced your CPU: You unplugged your old and busted 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU and plugged into the now-empty socket a special adapter that led via a ribbon cable back to the Mach 10 card. On the Mach 10 card was the new hotness: A 9.54 MHz 8086 CPU. This gave you a 2× performance upgrade for a lot less money than an IBM PC AT. The Mach 10 also came with a mouse port, so you could add a mouse without having to burn an additional expansion slot. The Mach 20 took the same basic idea as the Mach 10, but to the next level: As before, you unplugged your old 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU and replaced it with an adapter that led via ribbon cable to the Mach 20 card, which you plugged into an expansion slot. This time, the Mach 20 had an 8 MHz 80286 CPU, so you were really cooking with gas now. And, like the Mach 10, it had a mouse port built in. According to a review in Info World, it retailed for $495. Microsoft also produced a customized version of OS/2 for the Mach 20. Despite being tailor-made for the Mach 20, it still had terrible performance problems. One of my former colleagues spoke with the person who took over from him as the support specialist for OS/2 for Mach 20. According to that person’s memory (which given the amount time that has elapsed, means that we should basically be saying “according to legend” at this point), a total of eleven copies of “OS/2 for Mach 20” were ever sold, and eight of them were returned. That leaves three customers who purchased a copy and didn’t return it. And the support specialist had personally spoken with two of them. If these numbers are accurate, I believe this makes OS/2 for Mach 20 a strong candidate for being the worst-selling actually-shipped Microsoft software product of all time. We have to find this. Someone must have a copy of OS/2 for Mach 20 in a box in the attic somewhere. This is the final boss of software preservation.

A healthy plate is an easy way to control portion sizes. Fill half your plate with nonstarchy vegetables, one quarter with lean protein, and one with whole grains for a healthy eating plan.

El papa Francisco celebró hoy un acto con miles de jóvenes en el estadio “Papp László” de Budapest Sportaréna y les invitó a cultivar el silencio, pero “no para quedarse pegado al celular y a las redes sociales” porque “la vida es real, no virtual y no sucede en una pantalla”.

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Après son match elle s’est confiée sur son aventure, qu’elle pensait beaucoup plus courte lorsqu’elle a découvert le tirage : “Quand je suis arrivée à Madrid et que j’ai vu que je jouais Leylah, j’ai pensé que ce serait amusant de jouer un match et que je devrais bientôt rentrer chez moi. Mon entraîneur m’a dit qu’il avait réservé l’hôtel jusqu’à dimanche parce qu’il voulait nous, quoi qu’il arrive, nous consacrerons cette semaine à bien nous entraîner ici. C’est impressionnant de continuer dans le tournoi, la vérité est que je suis très heureuse de pouvoir fêter mes 16 ans de cette façon”. Avant d’affronter en huitième de finale la numéro 2 mondiale Aryna Sabalenka, qui a dominé la Colombienne Camila Osorio (115e) 6-4, 7-5, la jeune fille savoure : “Ça va être génial d’affronter une grande championne comme elle, je veux faire de mon mieux”, a-t-elle dit humblement”.