On this date in 1983 Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project and with it launched the entire free software movement. Nearly 4 decades later free software has given us a lot of software to run our computers freely but we are still fighting to ensure that technology works for us, not against us. Free software remains a beacon of hope for those who value their freedom and autonomy. For today's 39th birthday I'm happy to unveil a picture of Freedo giving a cake to the gnu: https://jxself.org/git/?p=freedo.git;a=blob;f=Happy+39th+Birthday.svg;h=0f9e60f27ed50621c2f211c043b2f1e1428f4634;hb=HEAD