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August Will be Productive, the Future Bears Much Promise

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 30, 2024

YESTERDAY was a fruitful day, we belatedly completed a full site backup, and then tidied up the digital desk to make way for future articles, based on patient research. We try to cover things exclusively - focusing on topics other sites do not touch or barely touch. That pays off on many levels, except financial.

Overnight we'll be working on some long-form publications and tomorrow - seeing there's a bit of a heatwave on the way - we might have to take a break. This site has been smoothly operating for a long time and the vandals foolishly resort to crimes, which only means they get reported to the cops (the cops very much encourage updates on this).

In the month of August we don't plan to travel abroad or do anything very special, so it'll be another very productive month for sure.

https://lists.gnu.org/ has been offline for hours already, we're not too sure why (better not to guess), but the FSF has in general done well recently. It spoke out against Microsoft (good!) and belatedly met its fundraising goal. Its new leadership is decent and it recently improved some more.

From the lenses of an optimist (which I am not, although my wife and my father insist that I am), Free software seems to have a positive future. As a pessimist (by nature) I recognise that lots of work will be needed for decades to come. It's a constant struggle and we need to ensure we have more people on our side than the likes of Microsoft have on theirs (Microsofters).

Eventually justice can prevail and the truth will prevail. Convincing people of a lie take more time, effort and money than convincing people of something that is evidently true. █

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute, he who does not remains a fool forever. - Famous Chinese Proverb