Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #AntitrustLawsandCompetitionIssues #ComputersandtheInternet #CounterfeitMerchandise #BookTradeandPublishing #BooksandLiterature #WritingandWriters #Amazon.comInc #E-Commerce

ACLU: we protect women being forced to cover their whole body with a black rug. But a cross somewhere on the road infringes freedom?! https://www.aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/government-promotion-religion/supreme-court-undermines-religious-neutrality

Lots of complaints about #ubuntu dropping #i386 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/125143#comment-20772 #games #valve

TIL human procrastination is considered a complex psychological behavior because of the wide variety of reasons people do it. Although often attributed to "laziness", research shows it is more likely to be caused by anxiety, depression, a fear of failure, or a reliance on abstract goals. #psychology https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/c42txr/til_human_procrastination_is_considered_a_complex/

hackernews@die-partei.social - Facebook’s Libra must be stopped - https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/facebook-libra-must-be-stopped-by-katharina-pistor-2019-06

#privaatsus #turvalisus

RT @Pinboard@twitter.com
This Washington Post article about how "Google’s web browser has become spy software" contains 11 megabytes of ad cruft and includes invasive trackers from at least 20 domains, including Google, the subject of the article. Of course there is no disclosure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/

You can’t patent a law of nature. 

If this bill passes, that will change.
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-don-t-need-more-bad-patents-8941b5c6-5bb1-4d93-9ca1-a2da87c4458e

The hangar door at launch complex 39A opened a short while ago as SpaceX prepares to roll out its Falcon Heavy rocket: https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/06/18/falcon-heavy-stp-2-launch-preps/ https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1142938401164972036/photo/1
#newsbot

🐧 🐧 Disroot News 🐧 🐧 🐧 🐧

🍓 Nextcloud performance improvements
🍓 Hubzilla still not happy
🍓 XMPP page and botcamp
🍓 New Team members
🍓 Mission Statement

Read more:
https://disroot.org/en/blog/welcome-the-new-team-members

Tech journalists troubled by Assange computer intrusion charge https://cpj.org/blog/2019/06/tech-journalists-troubled-assange-CFAA-charge.php

9/11 was "mother of all false flag" attacks https://www.sott.net/article/415487-9-11-was-mother-of-all-false-flag-attacks

With A Pinch Of Salt: Endless Failure Of Climate Doomsday Tales https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3758857/posts

Microsoft’s new browser is just like Chrome, so why switch from Chrome? https://www.osnews.com/story/130184/microsofts-new-browser-is-just-like-chrome-so-why-switch-from-chrome/ #InternetExplorer

#KStars v3.3.1 is released http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/125157 #kde #gnu #linux #freesw

" #Facebook's #Libra Crypto Coin: 5 Things We Know, and 5 We Don't [...] But there are still many questions" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-22/facebook-s-libra-crypto-coin-5-things-we-know-and-5-we-don-t

Today in #Techrights
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/125158 #epo #microsoft #gnu #linux

#Security Leftovers
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/125159

#google which sends all your data to the NSA through back doors wants you to use its #encryption and reckons #openwashing can help adoption. https://www.pymnts.com/google/2019/open-source-cryptography-data/

No, #Google does not keep data private. It asks everyone to give it data and then shares that with the US military/government. This is misleading a narrative, albeit a very common one. https://www.wired.com/story/google-private-join-compute-database-encryption/