Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Big business ventures love regulation that keeps competitors out, and they lobby legislators to stack the regulation deck against the little guy, who has much less lobbying power. #notafreemarket Marijuana has become big business. So why are small growers struggling to survive? #business #marijuana #small #big https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFBzCXpTpwA

Kernel Address Space Isolation Aims To Prevent Leaking Data From Hyper Threading Attacks http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kernel-Address-Space-Isolation

House Democrats Can't Stop Tweeting And Deleting Obama-Era 'Children In Cages' Pics https://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/News/264429-2019-07-11-house-democrats-cant-stop-tweeting-and-deleting-obama-era-children.htm?EdNo=001&From=RSS

The Pope is Bombarded With Insults After Telling People to Pray for Migrants on His Twitter Feed https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3763394/posts

No surprise: Harvard poll finds voters now tough on illegal immigration https://www.sott.net/article/416608-No-surprise-Harvard-poll-finds-voters-now-tough-on-illegal-immigration

Firefox 68 available now in Fedora https://fedoramagazine.org/firefox-68-available-now-in-fedora/ #FedoraProjectcommunity

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that Nancy Pelosi is inciting death threats... https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3763399/posts

Microsoft Putting Patent Traps Inside Linux While Blackmailing Companies Using Patents Associated With These Traps http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/microsoft-putting-patent-traps-inside-linux-while-blackmailing-companies-using-patents-associated-with-these-traps-190711063053.html

Video: Texas Reporter Watches 300 Migrants Cross Border in Six Hours https://www.infowars.com/video-texas-reporter-watches-300-migrants-cross-border-in-six-hours/ #FeaturedStories #illegalaliens #borderpatrol #buildthewall #U.S.News #illegals

Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-stirs-suspicions-by-adding-telemetry-files-to-security-only-update/

(submitted by rlv-dan)

YouTube Begins Blocking Stream-Ripping Sites https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190710/13302742554/youtube-begins-blocking-stream-ripping-sites.shtml

President Trump Is the Latest Critic of Facebook's Libra In a series of tweets late Thursday, the president attacked cryptocurrencies and said Libra "will have little standing or dependability." https://www.wired.com/story/president-trump-latest-critic-facebooks-libra #Business/BlockchainandCryptocurrency #cryptocurrency #Blockchain #Business #Facebook

YouTube drafting "creator-on-creator harassment” rules after Steven Crowder incident https://t.co/cf6Qut5HpF https://t.co/HSQThPagjk
#thevergebot

New Orleans faces a never-before-seen problem with Tropical Storm Barry https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/weather/new-orleans-flooding-trnd/index.html #CNN #news #global #bot

Your daily dose of spiritual inspiration http://www.wnd.com/2019/07/your-daily-dose-of-spiritual-inspiration-372/ #DailyBlessing

Top psychologist group now promotes group sex http://www.wnd.com/2019/07/top-psychologist-group-now-promotes-group-sex/ #APPFrontpage #FrontPage #Politics #Health #Faith #U.S.

A limited edition David Bowie Barbie is unveiled to honor the 50th anniversary of the release of the singer's hit s… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1149476590847348736

Amazon to spend $700 million retraining a third of its US workforce by 2025 https://t.co/M7TeoI8KDK https://t.co/EzjAUNoCAY
#thevergebot

Court decision costs Planned Parenthood up to $60 million http://www.wnd.com/2019/07/court-decision-costs-planned-parenthood-up-to-60-million/ #APPFrontpage #FrontPage #Politics #Health #Faith #Money #U.S.

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Pleroma Releases 1.0!

Pleroma, the Elixir-based fediverse communication platform, has finally pushed out a 1.0 stable release. This is the culmination of many months of hard work from about a dozen or so active contributors, all poking and prodding at the underlying codebase and discussing the best path forward.

The end game for us is to teach you (yes, all of you) how to build a resilient and safe federated Social Web. we don’t have all the answers, but we have a basic roadmap for getting from here to that point.
Kaniini, one of Pleroma's developers

This release includes numerous fixes and improvements; one of the highlights includes the capability to create and vote on Mastodon-compatible federated polls.

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A poll in Pleroma, courtesy of Lain's blog

Other improvements include a shiny new documentation site, as well as OTP releases, which aim to provide better Elixir / Erlang compatibility for deployment purposes.

There's a lot of exciting developments in store for future releases. Although they haven't been officially defined as milestones yet, the Pleroma devs are taking stock of what developments need to happen next - there's possibly some talk about adding federated groups, and Kaniini has expressed an interest in implementing Object Capabilities (OCAP) as a security improvement to Pleroma's ActivityPub implementation. In time, this might replace the HTTP-Signatures method that most ActivityPub implementations currently use. Kaniini has a Patreon available here, if you're interested in supporting them in this effort.

Anyway, this is a very exciting step forward for the Pleroma project! Instance admins are advised to upgrade, and newbies can grab the source code and set up their own instances from here.