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Poll: epony argued in #gnu that licenses are e-waste. Do you agree? I would love an answer. Please include [POLL] in your answer on IRC, or alternatively, send an email to poll@andrewyu.org.

New Hampshire might be incorporating software freedom into its law! This would be a huge victory for the Free Software Movement. Please take the time to read https://www.andrewyu.org/nh.html (WIP).

It is our responsibility to spread free software, free computing (one of the websites started by me :D) and advocate for user freedom. Please don't waste any chances to do so.

Recent activities you might want to help with: Sign the give students user freedom petition by the FSF and fight against trial in courts with proprietary software.

Welcome to my new website! This website is entirely hand-crafted HTML and CSS, with some Vim and Emacs magic, of course. The colors should remind you of the Airbus's flight displays, if you're into aviation. I'm was using a very lame kind of responsive design—columns and their width—but that should make it quite readable on big displays. Since stuff got long things break, I had to remove it. Maybe I'll use some calc() some day.

I need a hand with some of my projects. If you can, please look in their repositories. Any ideas would work.

https://git.andrewyu.org contains the git bare repositories. https://project.andrewyu.org contains the project pages. Usually, their corresponding URLs match with each other (except for the subdomain).

The Libre Society Project is a campaign to spread the ideas of free software to places other than software, such as the political system, economics, and society in general.

The Free Biololgy Project is a repository of ideas for the development of medicine and the treatment of patients, especially related to medical equity. I haven't started on this one yet, but it is upcoming.

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The Affero GNU General Public License

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For things that I really don't see any chance of being on the radar of those people, I put them in the public domain. This includes all of the Libre Society project, for example.

However, when I start the Free Biology project, which may be a few decades from now, I'd certainlly like making it copyleft, if possible to the extend permitted by applicable law. I don't know licenses that are as copyleft as the GPL for practical works besides computer programs and the documentation thereof. Creative Commons ShareAlike isn't copyleft enough.

Help me ponder upon these questions

These are questions that interest me. Maybe you have ideas?

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What about a mathematical political system?

A government too strong causes authoritarianism which may lead to non-democracies, while a government too weak causes the inability of the government to do anything with the slightest controversy (look at COVID handling). Is there a mathematical way (say a function; this sounds like group theory, but I'm not sure) to compute, based all known information known about the bill/order/whatever being considered, if the government (I'm especially talking about the executive here) has the right to order that? I feel like this could be proved impossible due to incompleteness and unpredictability, but this needs further investigation. This is the main problem in question of the Libre Society project, by the way.

Quotes

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. —Edward Snowden

About me

I am Andrew Yu. My main fields of interest are philosophy (especially moral philosophy, and especially especially moral philosophy in technology), metamathematics, programming fundamentals and molecular biology. I'm also a free software activist.

Contact

There are many ways to contact me. None of these require proprietary software.

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mail andrew@andrewyu.org (Emails are preferred for in-depth discussions.);

xmpp andrew@andrewyu.org (My OTR fingerprint is D860F6CC FEF3D079 A6964AA3 86BD6A34 8F86E218 and my OpenPGP fingerprint is as below. Use this for quick questions, or highly interactive discussions.).

irc Andrew on LibreIRC (LibreIRC is an IRC network started by Andrew, myself, running Solanum IRCd and Atheme Services. Use this for quick questions, or highly interactive discussions. Since talking on Internet Relay Chat requires people to be online at the same time, use a bouncer, or don't close your client, to ensure that my replies reach you. Of course you can also give me another way to get to you that's persistent.);

irc Andrew on Libera (Libera is an IRC network popular among free software users, activists and developers. Use this for quick questions, or highly interactive discussions. Please note that for privacy purposes, you should use some type of encryption. I am not affiliated with Libera and I don't run it in any way. Of course, either be on there all the time or give me another way to contact you.);

There are many ways not to contact me.

OpenPGP

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Check if you've actually downloaded these keys from andrewyu.org. Check the fingerprints with me elsewhere (email, IRC, in real life, etc) before trusting or signing it.