Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Nextcloud Talk 12 introduces voice messages, location sharing, Outlook integration & more!

With Nextcloud, enterprises, educational institutions and private users can immediately benefit from a decentralized, ad-free, surveillance-free complete communication experience!

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (Updated for 5.x Kernels)
https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg/

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Economics in Brief: Dollar Stores Make Up Nearly Half of All New Store Openings
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/dollar-stores-make-up-nearly-half-of-all-new-store-openings-this-year

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Secret collusion with public blockchains is impossible.

Some websites say they won't do it. Only LBRY says we can't do it.

UnityX 10 Desktop Environment Makes Great Progress, Now Features a New Sidebar Design

https://9to5linux.com/unityx-10-desktop-environment-makes-great-progress-now-features-a-new-sidebar-design

#desktopenvironment #UnityX10 #UnityX #Unitydesktop #Unity

Any system that privileges digital ID over traditional ID will disadvantage people already at society’s margins. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/dhss-flawed-plan-mobile-drivers-licenses

The shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech’s big quarter - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Tech earni... - https://www.theverge.com/22602104/chip-shortage-tech-quarterly-earnings-intel-apple-microsoft-amd-samsung-tesla

New blog post.

Android Privacy Guide: Zero Trust
https://ebin.city/~werwolf/posts/android-privacy-guide/

I've written a detailed guide on how to maximize privacy when using a smartphone. I hope that you find it useful

Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print biometrics - How much is your palm print worth? If you ask Amazon, it’s about $10 in promotiona... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/gcCVWNRDEdk/ #lawenforcement #unitedstates #amazonmusic #biometrics #technology #computing #newjersey #security #maryland #privacy #newyork #seattle #amazon #retail #texas #palm

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub - Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more In brief  Malici... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/08/02/in_brief_security/

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series will premiere in September 2022 - The first image from Amazon’s yet-untitled Lord of the Rin... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22606267/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-series-release-date

#GNU Emacs is so much more than a text editor -- it's an entire workflow environment, loved by free software supporters around the world. Get the new GNU Emacs Manual, Nineteenth edition, for Emacs 27.2, at the GNU Press Shop: https://u.fsf.org/3ff

Twitter adds third-party signup with Apple or Google - Twitter has introduced third-party login support, letting ... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22606150/twitter-third-party-apple-google-login-signup-feature

Mastodon now has an official iPhone app https://web.archive.org/web/20210731011024/https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22602275/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-official-ios-app-launches

Distribution Release: 07/30 Freespire 7.7 http://distrowatch.com/freespire

Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

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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
#newsbot

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