Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Very cool chart visualizing countries by share of earth's surface!

(Interestingly all of the world's countries combined cover not even a third of our planet).

(Credit: visualcapitalist via https://t.co/UsPKTWGyGA) https://twitter.com/universal_sci/status/1446668523019907073/photo/1
#newsbot

Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla, following their "suggest ads" features enabled by default. That's Windows 10 telemetry level of bullshit. https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/ #linux #browser #firefox #spying #ads

Gitea, your self-hosted GitHub alternative, has a new release (1.15.4) with quite a few bugfixes: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.15.4 #linux #linuxgaming #release #update #gitea

Flatpak has now a 1.12 release (new series) with better support for sub-sandboxes, which helps for Steam: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.12.0 #linux #linuxgaming #flatpak #steam #sandbox #release #update

Most Commonly Used FFmpeg Commands For Beginners #Ffmpeg #Linux #Flramework #Multimedia #AudioVideoConverter #Commandline #CLI
https://ostechnix.com/20-ffmpeg-commands-beginners/

Mozilla’s now director of public policy once asked me, with a straight face, why I was giving them a hard time and holding Mozilla to a higher standard: “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”

But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?

Still, it’s time y’all got this.

Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.

https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/

#mozilla #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism

How To Monitor The Progress Of Data Through A Pipe Using ‘pv’ Command #Pv #Pipeviewer #Linuxcommands #Progressbar #Linuxtips #Linux
https://ostechnix.com/monitor-progress-data-pipe-using-pv-command/

Just tried AdGuard today (the home edition, FOSS), and it's like Pi-Hole yet better designed. Highly recommended for DNS caching and ads blocking. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome #linux #adblock #dns #caching #adguard #FOSS

Your Money and Your Life (from Snowden), about the danger of upcoming national, centralized cryptocurrencies https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs #money #life #snowden #crypto #currency #government #control

Software News: The Gitea project has released version 1.15.4 https://freshfoss.com/projects/gitea/

Wine 6.19 released, with several modes converted to PE, more HID progress for Joysticks, and fixes for various games: https://www.winehq.org/announce/6.19 #linux #wine #release #FOSS #update #linuxgaming

Updated Debian 11: 11.1 released https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20211009

Since Apple released the pop-up allowing users to ask apps not to track their data, +80% of iPhone users have opted out of tracking, challenging data-hungry advertisers to respect consumer privacy reports @bxchen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/technology/digital-privacy.html

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1446834585589981191

How to Change SSH Default Port To A Custom Port In Linux #SSH #SecureShell #SSHPort #Linuxtips #Linuxcommands #Linuxhowto #Linux
https://ostechnix.com/how-to-change-apache-ftp-and-ssh-default-port-to-a-custom-port-part-3/

Debian GNU/Linux 11.1 “Bullseye” Released with 24 Security Updates and 75 Bug Fixes

https://9to5linux.com/debian-gnu-linux-11-1-bullseye-released-with-24-security-updates-and-75-bug-fixes

#Linuxdistribution #Debian11 #DebianBullseye #DebianGNU/Linux11

Amazon received $650 million in local and state incentives in 2021 alone, and $4.1 billion over the last twenty years.
https://trib.al/5LgmEPU
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Software News: The Wine project has released version 6.19 https://freshfoss.com/projects/wine/

Dear @exodus community,

You are just awesome!

During our submission outage, we reached 3000 followers in the fediverse.

If you agree, we send a kiss to each of you.

3000× 💋

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) monitors network-level blocking of internet access, usually by governments or ISPs.

OONI also develop FOSS tools for carrying out this monitoring.

You can follow at:

➡️ @ooni

Their website is at https://ooni.org

Their monitoring tools are available for desktop and mobile from https://ooni.org/install and https://github.com/ooni/probe

#OONI #Activism #NGOs #NGO #Privacy #Internet #Censorship #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #Libre #OpenSource

EU Parliament calls for ban on predictive policing - The European Parliament has called for bans on predictive policing and biometric m... - https://thenextweb.com/news/european-parliament-votes-to-ban-predictive-policing-biometric-surveillance-facial-recognition #insider #neural