I'll answer here instead, because the other forum category isn't
trackable through mailing list, and I hardly have time to stop and open
up the forum window in order to see what's up.

Brazil is somewhat turbulent now. Besides, unemployement is still a
thing, specially for us free/libre software activists because most works
related to computer usage says "requires _experience_ with Microsoft
Office", and even though one can --- and I do --- sign for a job that
doesn't require "experience" in one specific proprietary software (e.g.:
construction site food servant, human resource manager, store waiter or
vendor), it is still difficult to get hired because there is too many
people already in Brazil.

Furthermore, the country currently requires biometrical registry for
voting, and uses computers for voting, which it shouldn't do ([1][2]).

As for complying/making personal income tax receipts: The public pays
60% of their personal income in taxes per year just so that the current
public organization responsible for the personal income tax declaration
software makes it into a non-free one ([3]). There are community-made
alternatives, such as IRPF-Livre ([4]), Rnetclient ([5]), and Declara
([6]), these are all usable, because one can have his declaration
accepted, but the usage isn't user-friendly, and we need more people
(and universities?) contributing to these, specially because there are
some functions that are missing.

[1] <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-digital-society.en.html#voting>.

[2] <http://www.cic.unb.br/~rezende/trabs/entrevistaINFO2.html>. The
author/interviewed in this article/transcript favors "printed" votes,
but I don't. The main idea from the referenced article is that there is
a problem, as always, with computers for registering votes.

[3] <https://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/softwares-impostos>.

[4] <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IRPF-Livre>.

[5] <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Rnetclient>.

[6] <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Declara>.

[email protected] writes:

> Hi ADFENO, wishing good things for People living in Brazil, I heard
> from the corporate fake news - so maybe you'll drop in the troll
> lounge to chat when you can:
> https://trisquel.info/en/forum/what-happening-brazil
>
> Cheers!
>

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