Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

China to ban apps from collecting excessive user data starting May - Starting May 1, apps in China can no longer force users into providing excessive personal data, acco... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/swXE0sQzbis/ #ministryofindustryandinformationtechnology #government #wechat #china #asia

Looks like Microsoft will buy Discord. Glad I am not using it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b #discord #microsoft

How To Disable Unattended Upgrades On Ubuntu #Ubuntu #Linux #linuxtips
https://ostechnix.com/how-to-disable-unattended-upgrades-on-ubuntu/

NSA Issues Guidance on Zero Trust Security Model
https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/Feature-Stories/Article-View/Article/2515176/nsa-issues-guidance-on-zero-trust-security-model/

(submitted by graderjs)

News following the post about Solus: The lead developer of the distro shoots us down in the comments for being "unhelpful" and looking for "clicks". I think this tells you everything you need to know about Solus and how they treat end users. #solus #distro #steam #linux #linuxgaming

The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-end-of-silicon-valley-as-we-know-it/

(submitted by hacksilver)

Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later
http://flatkill.org/2020/

(submitted by URfejk)

RT @netblocks@twitter.com

⚠️ Confirmed: Internet has been shut down in the Republic of the #Congo on the day of presidential elections.

Network data show a near-total collapse of national connectivity from midnight local time. The incident is ongoing as polls are due to open 📉

📰https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-shutdown-in-the-republic-of-the-congo-on-election-day-xAGR398z

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1373509480399405059

FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-March/093340.html
#newsbot

New York lawmaker wants to ban police use of armed robots https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/new-york-lawmaker-wants-to-ban-police-use-of-armed-robots/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @wired
#newsbot

Just a reminder that the european and canadian healthcare systems have abysmal wait times, to the point that people can often expiernce permanent life injuries or even death due to the extreme wait times to be treated. While emergencies are usually treated quickly most things that cause long term injury aren't emergencies.

and the worst wait times, often resulting in harm

% of people waiting more than 2 months for a specialist.

Germany 2x vs USA, new zealand 4x, sweden 3x, australia, 3x, France 3x, canada 5x.. all % of people waiting more than 2 months for a specialist

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-care-wait-times-by-country

#healthcare #health #medicine #biology

Debian progress on bullseye reaches Milestone 3: The Hard Freeze. This stage puts us a step closer to the full release in the near future. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/03/msg00006.html #debianbullseye

Mouse plague grows to biblical proportions across eastern Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/19/you-cant-escape-the-smell-mouse-plague-grows-to-biblical-proportions-across-eastern-australia

(submitted by YeGoblynQueenne)

“Expert” hackers used 11 0-days to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users | Ars Technica — https://web.archive.org/web/20210320125605/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/expert-hackers-used-11-zerodays-to-infect-windows-ios-and-android-users/

Facial Recognition: What Happens When We’re Tracked Everywhere We Go? - The New York Times — https://web.archive.org/web/20210320202329/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/18/magazine/facial-recognition-clearview-ai.html

Distrowatch News: Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Glen Barber has announced that the third release candidate for FreeBSD 13.0 is now ready for testing. This should be the final development build before the official release of FreeBSD 13.0 on 30 March: "The third RC build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary.... http://distrowatch.com/11188

Distrowatch News: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 908 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Solus 4.2News: Haiku polishes applications, Ubuntu to get Flutter applications, Rust coreutils running on Debian, Void warns about performance hits on newer kernels with default settingsQuestions and answers: Packet filters and legacy technologyReleased last weekTorrent corner: KDE neon, Live Raizo, SystemRescue, Venom.... http://distrowatch.com/11183

Satellite Imagery Shows Northern California Kelp Forests Have Collapsed
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/satellite-imagery-shows-northern-california-kelp-forests-have-collapsed-180977214/

(submitted by PretzelFisch)

Someone managed to run Box86 on the Pinephone (Box86 translates x86 calls to ARM in a Linux environment): https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/m4bwux/pinephone_running_wine_x86_without_qemu/ #linux #box86 #arm #pinephone

I'd prefer Daylight savings... But just stop moving the time / clock ⌚would be my second choice...

Time change poll: Americans don't like changing the clocks, but can't agree on a solution - CNNPolitics

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/14/politics/daylight-saving-time-analysis/index.html