Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

OBS Studio 27.1.2 is out: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.1.2 #linux #linuxgaming #release #update #obs #videocapture #foss

Hackaday Remoticon: Tickets and T-Shirts! - Tickets for the Hackaday Remoticon are now available and there’s one big addition ... - https://hackaday.com/2021/10/04/hackaday-remoticon-tickets-and-t-shirts/ #2021hackadayremoticon #cons

How do leaderless legions of ants, birds or fish sometimes seem to function as a singular entity? The answer lies in the idea of emergence, a concept that demonstrates how a whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. https://www.quantamagazine.org/emergence-how-complex-wholes-emerge-from-simple-parts-20181220/ https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1445061947657961477/video/1
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Pandora Papers expose how the world's ultra rich hide their money - CNET - Newly published investigation sheds light on secret offshore financial system. - https://www.cnet.com/tech/pandora-papers-expose-how-the-worlds-ultra-rich-hide-their-money/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Facebook and Some of Its Apps Go Down Simultaneously - Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger all showed outage on Monday, accordi... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-down.html #computersandtheinternet #computernetworkoutages #mobileapplications #instantmessaging #instagraminc #socialmedia #facebookinc #whatsappinc

To Reduce Facebook’s Harms to Teens, Target its Data-Hungry Business Model, we write in @techpolicypress

https://techpolicy.press/insta-toxic-to-reduce-facebooks-harms-to-teens-target-its-data-hungry-business-model/

At the heart of how content is curated and shown to teens and other people on Instagram, is the company’s extensive and invasive data collection.

Distribution Release: 10/02 SystemRescue 8.05 http://distrowatch.com/systemrescue

The beloved Babylon 5 is getting rebooted, and series creator JMS is running the show - In 1994, J. Michael Straczynski (Sense8, Changeling) broug... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696836/babylon-5-reboot-j-michael-straczynski-warner-bros-the-cw

Pulling methane out of the atmosphere could slow global warming—if we can figure out how to do it - Pulling methane out of the atmosphere has the potential to help slow global warming in t... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/27/1036284/methane-removal-slow-global-warming/ #carbonsequestration #climatechange #cleanenergy

Microsoft’s free course teaches the non-tech skills you missed in school - It’s no secret the tech industry often doesn’t fully represent the people it attem... - https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-tech-resilience-amanda-silver #insider #plugged

Package Release: 09/27 inkscape 1.1.1 Inkscape: a drawing tool that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG) https://www.inkscape.org/

NY prepared for tens of thousands of unvaccinated health workers to lose jobs - Enlarge / Demonstrators hold signs during a protest against COVID-19 mandates in ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798836 #infectiousdisease #publichealth #covid-19 #science #mandate #newyork #vaccine

Ford picks Kentucky and Tennessee for $11.4 billion EV investment - Enlarge / A rendering of the BlueOvalSK campus in Glendale, Kentucky. (credit: F... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798764 #batteryelectricvehicles #skinnovation #tennessee #kentucky #biz&it #cars #ford

Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/electronic-frontier-foundation-will-deprecate-https-everywhere-plugin/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @jrssnet
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Digital health ID for every Indian - We explain how it will work
https://web.archive.org/web/20210927184056/https://www.techradar.com/news/digital-health-id-for-every-indian-we-explain-how-it-will-work

Raspberry Pi 4 model Bs arriving with newer 'C0' stepping http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-4-model-bs-arriving-newer-c0-stepping #linux #hardware #raspberrypi #upgrade

Misinformation has pushed American democracy to the brink, former CISA chief says - CNET - Erosion in confidence in democracy could be "potentially catastrophic" - https://www.cnet.com/tech/misinformation-has-pushed-american-democracy-to-the-brink-former-cisa-chief-says/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Package Release: 09/27 thunderbird 91.1.2 Mozilla Thunderbird: a full-featured e-mail and newsgroup client http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Why TV Antennas Are Making a Comeback in the Streaming Age - To access local stations—for free—without paying for a cable subscription, try these upda... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-tv-antennas-are-making-a-comeback-in-the-streaming-age-11631819804?mod=rss_Technology #paid