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diff -rNU2 all.html all.html
--- all.html    2022-01-02 05:11:47.453768938 +0000
+++ all.html    2022-01-12 05:18:51.164576662 +0000
@@ -43,4 +43,33 @@
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+<!--#set var='ADD' value='2022-01-11' --><!--#set var='PUB' value='2022-01-01' 
--><li><small class='date-tag'>Added: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo 
encoding='none' var='ADD' --><span class="gnun-split"></span> &mdash; Latest 
reference: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo encoding='none' var='PUB' 
--></small>
+    <p>The legacy company that made
+    Blackberry phones is about to kill them off <a
+    
href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/01/tech/blackberry-end-of-life/index.html";>by
+    shutting down the server they are tethered to</a>.</p>
+
+    <p>If the software on those phones were free (as in freedom),
+    people could modify their software so they could talk to some other
+    server.</p>
+  </li>
+
+<!--#set var='ADD' value='2022-01-11' --><!--#set var='PUB' value='2010-03-28' 
--><li><small class='date-tag'>Added: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo 
encoding='none' var='ADD' --><span class="gnun-split"></span> &mdash; Latest 
reference: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo encoding='none' var='PUB' 
--></small>
+    <p>Sony restricted access to the PlayStation 3 GPU, so people
+    who installed a GNU/Linux operating system on the console couldn't
+    use it at full capacity. When some of them broke the restriction, <a
+    
href="https://blog.playstation.com/2010/03/28/ps3-firmware-v3-21-update/";>Sony
+    removed the ability to install other operating
+    systems</a>. Then users broke that restriction too, but <a
+    
href="https://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/sony-follows-up-officially-sues-geohot-and-fail0verflow-over-ps/";>got
+    sued by Sony</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
+<!--#set var='ADD' value='2022-01-11' --><!--#set var='PUB' value='2005-12-27' 
--><li><small class='date-tag'>Added: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo 
encoding='none' var='ADD' --><span class="gnun-split"></span> &mdash; Latest 
reference: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo encoding='none' var='PUB' 
--></small>
+    <p>To install and use third-party operating
+    systems and programs on the Xbox console, <a
+    
href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/591-paper_xbox.pdf";>people
+    had to break the restrictions imposed by Microsoft</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
 <!--#set var='ADD' value='2021-12-19' --><!--#set var='PUB' value='2021-11-20' 
--><li><small class='date-tag'>Added: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo 
encoding='none' var='ADD' --><span class="gnun-split"></span> &mdash; Latest 
reference: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo encoding='none' var='PUB' 
--></small>
     <p>NordicTrack, a company that sells
@@ -2524,5 +2553,5 @@
      Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
 
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2018-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2018-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
 
 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
@@ -2534,5 +2563,5 @@
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/12/19 08:18:48 $
+$Date: 2022/01/11 07:27:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary.html proprietary.html
--- proprietary.html    2022-01-02 05:11:47.549768945 +0000
+++ proprietary.html    2022-01-12 05:18:52.248576750 +0000
@@ -189,4 +189,39 @@
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M202201010">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2022-01</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>The legacy company that made
+    Blackberry phones is about to kill them off <a
+    
href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/01/tech/blackberry-end-of-life/index.html";>by
+    shutting down the server they are tethered to</a>.</p>
+
+    <p>If the software on those phones were free (as in freedom),
+    people could modify their software so they could talk to some other
+    server.</p>
+  </li>
+
+  <li id="M201003280">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2010-03</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>Sony restricted access to the PlayStation 3 GPU, so people
+    who installed a GNU/Linux operating system on the console couldn't
+    use it at full capacity. When some of them broke the restriction, <a
+    
href="https://blog.playstation.com/2010/03/28/ps3-firmware-v3-21-update/";>Sony
+    removed the ability to install other operating
+    systems</a>. Then users broke that restriction too, but <a
+    
href="https://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/sony-follows-up-officially-sues-geohot-and-fail0verflow-over-ps/";>got
+    sued by Sony</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
+  <li id="M200512270">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2005-12</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>To install and use third-party operating
+    systems and programs on the Xbox console, <a
+    
href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/591-paper_xbox.pdf";>people
+    had to break the restrictions imposed by Microsoft</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M202111201">
     <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
@@ -209,43 +244,4 @@
     servers.</p>
   </li>
-
-  <li id="M202111110">
-    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
-    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
-    <p>Some researchers at Google <a 
href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bw8y/google-caught-hackers-using-a-mac-zero-day-against-hong-kong-users";>found
-  a zero-day vulnerability on MacOS,
-  which crackers used to target people visiting the websites</a> of
-  a media outlet and a pro-democracy labor and political group in Hong
-  Kong.</p>
-
-  <p><small>Please note that the article wrongly refers
-  to crackers as &ldquo;<a 
href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker">hackers</a>&rdquo;.</small></p>
-  </li>
-
-  <li id="M202110250">
-    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-10</small>'
-    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
-    <p>Ed Tech companies use their surveillance power to
-    manipulate students, and direct them into tracks towards various
-    levels of knowledge, power and prestige. The article argues that <a
-    
href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2021/10/25/algorithmic-injustice-in-education-why-tech-companies-should-require-a-license-to-operate-in-childrens-education/";>these
-    companies should obtain licenses to operate</a>. That wouldn't hurt,
-    but it doesn't address the root of the problem. All data acquired
-    in a school about any student, teacher, or employee must not leave
-    the school, and must be kept in computers that belong to the school
-    and run free (as in freedom) software. That way, the school district
-    and/or parents can control what is done with those data.</p>
-  </li>
-
-  <li id="M202111090">
-    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
-    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
-    <p>A building in LA, with a supermarket in it, <a
-    
href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-09/column-trader-joes-parking-app";>demands
-    customers load a particular app to pay for parking in the parking
-    lot</a>, and accept pervasive surveillance. They also have the
-    option of entering their license plate numbers in a kiosk. That is
-    an injustice, too.</p>
-  </li>
 </ul>
 <p class="button right-align">
@@ -300,5 +296,5 @@
      Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
 
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2013-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2013-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
 
 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
@@ -310,5 +306,5 @@
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/12/19 08:18:48 $
+$Date: 2022/01/11 07:27:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-jails.html proprietary-jails.html
--- proprietary-jails.html      2022-01-02 05:11:47.557768946 +0000
+++ proprietary-jails.html      2022-01-12 05:18:52.412576764 +0000
@@ -370,5 +370,31 @@
 <p>No game can run on the console unless the console's manufacturer
 has authorized it.  Alas, we can't find a article to cite as a reference
-for this fact.  Please inform us if you know of one.</p>
+  for this fact.  Please inform us if you know of one.</p>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201003280">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2010-03</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>Sony restricted access to the PlayStation 3 GPU, so people
+    who installed a GNU/Linux operating system on the console couldn't
+    use it at full capacity. When some of them broke the restriction, <a
+    
href="https://blog.playstation.com/2010/03/28/ps3-firmware-v3-21-update/";>Sony
+    removed the ability to install other operating
+    systems</a>. Then users broke that restriction too, but <a
+    
href="https://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/sony-follows-up-officially-sues-geohot-and-fail0verflow-over-ps/";>got
+    sued by Sony</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
+  <li id="M200512270">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2005-12</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>To install and use third-party operating
+    systems and programs on the Xbox console, <a
+    
href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/591-paper_xbox.pdf";>people
+    had to break the restrictions imposed by Microsoft</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+
 </div>
 
@@ -421,5 +447,5 @@
      Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
 
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2014-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2014-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
 
 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
@@ -431,5 +457,5 @@
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/10/16 11:40:17 $
+$Date: 2022/01/11 07:27:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-tethers.html proprietary-tethers.html
--- proprietary-tethers.html    2022-01-02 05:11:47.577768948 +0000
+++ proprietary-tethers.html    2022-01-12 05:18:52.808576796 +0000
@@ -70,4 +70,17 @@
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M202201010">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2022-01</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>The legacy company that made
+    Blackberry phones is about to kill them off <a
+    
href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/01/tech/blackberry-end-of-life/index.html";>by
+    shutting down the server they are tethered to</a>.</p>
+
+    <p>If the software on those phones were free (as in freedom),
+    people could modify their software so they could talk to some other
+    server.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M202111200">
     <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
@@ -384,5 +397,5 @@
      Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
 
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2016-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2016-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
 
 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
@@ -394,5 +407,5 @@
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/12/19 07:18:02 $
+$Date: 2022/01/11 07:27:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>