Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Facebook says it will require its US staff be vaccinated before returning to offices this fall, and will work around medical or other vaccine exemptions (Lauren Feiner/CNBC) - Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Facebook says it will require its US staff be vaccinated before r... - http://www.techmeme.com/210728/p58#a210728p58

Apple, AMD, and Intel shift priorities as chip shortages continue https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/chip-shortages-continue-apple-amd-intel-hunker-down-for-a-long-haul/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @jrssnet
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In the Strange Land of Robert Heinlein (1984)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/09/05/in-the-strange-land-of-robert-heinlein/b7a2ee22-0a6e-4c29-8fc1-88b3e68ec08c/

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Google to Require Vaccinations for On-Campus Workers, Delays Return - The tech giant joins a number of employers taking new precautions as the highly infectiou... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-require-vaccinations-for-on-campus-workers-11627491628?mod=rss_Technology #paid

About half of Python libraries in PyPI have security issues, Finnish boffins find - Coding lingo's community says it has a plan to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities Boff... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/07/28/python_libraries_security/

Dusty Hill of ZZ Top Dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Hill

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Twitter is testing notices that tell you if your account is suspended or locked - Twitter’s new banners informing users their account has be... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596615/twitter-notice-banner-suspended-locked-testing

#Barinsta has been removed from #github because reasons including #facebook cannot tolerate anonymous viewing and downloading of Stories which is deliberately denied by Instagram.

https://github.com/austinhuang0131/austinhuang0131/issues/2

Nextcloud has been updated to version 21.0.3 🎉

In coming weeks we will be focusing on performance of the webinterface of the cloud. Hopefully squeezing as much as possible form current hardware and optimizing a lot before we get new servers (also on the roadmap).

A Fun List of Browsers
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/a-fun-list-of-browsers-youve-never-heard-of/

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The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/the-insect-apocalypse-our-world-will-grind-to-a-halt-without-them
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IFixIt gives the Framework Laptop a 10/10 in repairability. I watched their tear-down video and it's certainly the most user-friendly laptop to date when it comes to changing just ANY part! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV2umY3R0vw #linux #laptop #hardware #framework #ifixit

Evading facial recognition https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/3c3444b9-e96a-4ca2-8a22-b2abb5a99a9b

Full Interview: Edward Snowden on Privacy & Threats to Democracy – MSNBC (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9yK1QndJSM

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Google publishes a detailed timeline for the Privacy Sandbox rollout in Chrome, reiterating plans it announced earlier to delay cookie phaseout until H2 2023 (Abner Li/9to5Google) - Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google publishes a detailed timeline for the Privacy Sandbox rol... - http://www.techmeme.com/210723/p26#a210723p26

🌉 ❄️ Software Developer for Anti-Censorship Team

This developer position will be an integral part of our Anti-Censorship Team to work of our bridge distribution system, pluggable transports, and other anti-censorship technologies.

https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship-2/

New Privacy Policy Gets Audacity Back on Track - Regular readers will likely be aware of the considerable debate over changes being... - https://hackaday.com/2021/07/23/new-privacy-policy-gets-audacity-back-on-track/ #softwarehacks #privacypolicy #telemetry #audacity #privacy #news

HBO Max will release 10 Warner Bros. films straight-to-streaming in 2022 - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

After deci... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/23/22590727/hbo-max-warner-bros-films-hbo-max-2022

This week in the Weekly News Roundup, we look at a priest that was ousted by his phone's locaiton data and a bug that grants root access in Windows and Linux. Also, Steam is working on a handheld video game block based on Arch Linux and Venmo shows how stupid humans can actually be.
#Arch #LocationData #Steam

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https://youtu.be/Pi0RASFg0L0

How to recognize environmentally friendly smartphones? Those who want to buy greener smartphones are often at a loss, however there are criteria that you can pay attention to when choosing a phone. @sueddeutsche_de@twitter.com has put together 4 tips to help out. https://bit.ly/3z8045P