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muesli  

Legend has it that Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1968.

But did you know that German television manufacturer Telefunken released a "rolling-ball" device just a few months earlier?

From a technical perspective it actually closely resembles the kind of mouse that we ended up using until the late 90s.

The German patent office declined a patent due to a "lack of inventive step".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

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DanielTux  

@janci@mstdn.io @aral that's cute, but Mozilla does not need your money, they are a big for-profit.
Gnome etc., yes. The main problem is that people think free software should be free of charge. Some try to change that, like elementary OS, and IMO @purism even more so in everything they do. (Paid foss services, paying lots foss devs and sponsoring projects with their hardware revenue)

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muesli  

We need a system that lets us reproduce a packager's work and confirm that whatever they release was indeed built from a specific source tree without any unintended or even malicious changes.

To achieve that we require reproducible builds, so we can correlate a build with its source tree(s) and dependencies.

Whenever a new package gets released, this would allow independent systems and entities to verify that its contents really match the expectations.

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Anne Roths Twitterbrücke  

Dieser Mythos, dass die aktuellen Teenager 'Digital Natives' sind und das Internet besser kennen als aktuell 30/40/50/60-Jährige, wie lange überlebt der noch?

Zuletzt gehört bei Jugendweihe-Feier am Wochenende. Danach Teenager Google-Tracking erklärt.

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Aral Balkan  

Israeli espionage firm hacks WhatsApp. Can install spyware with missed call.

theguardian.com/technology/201

My advice: dump WhatsApp today and start using Wire (wire.com/en/products/personal-). Tell your friends and family to do the same. (It’s a simple, free download on all app stores. Easy to use, doesn’t require your phone number, and their business model is based on charging for commercial use and for pro accounts.)

You can find more alternatives on @switchingsocial (switching.social/ethical-alter)

#WhatsApp

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Google's announcement that they will improve controls for third-party cookies is "all well and good, but if it’s something buried in the settings then only the most privacy-conscious people are ever going to use it,” says EFF's Bennett Cyphers gizmodo.com/the-dumb-truth-abo

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DanielTux  

@jinxx von den USA gelernt.
Patriot Act

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doctorow  

RT @Raritania01@twitter.com

@doctorow@twitter.com Anyone (rightly) disturbed by China's blocking Wikipedia must remember we're seeing a bigger, disturbing pattern-the EU's Article 13, France's attack on Gutenberg, and the rest. What remains of the web is under attack.
boingboing.net/2019/03/24/how-
boingboing.net/2019/04/11/one-

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Raritania01/status

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DanielTux  

@aral
Loving this:
ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-a

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Kyle Rankin  

I see some people pressuring tech companies to build a machine that blocks entire groups from Internet Society. They must be bigger optimists than I am, all I can think of is how such a machine will be abused.

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DanielTux  

@kyle Oh. Is there also a way how to use such a technology in a non-abusive, non-discriminating way? 🤔

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DanielTux  

@gcrkrause @purism See the FAQ on the bottom of librem.one/ "Will you release your apps on F-Droid?"
Meanwhile, in theory you could sideload directly from their CI servers, I guess.

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DanielTux  

@gcrkrause @purism From the page: All future services ... included ... at no additional charge.
On giving back, see
puri.sm/posts/how-purism-works

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DanielTux  

@gbryant Man! Now I want to know what you would have been talking about! 😀

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IndieHosters  

RT @Federation_OSM@twitter.com

Pour vivre l'open source au quotidien, transition en cours en interne de Google Groups vers #Framadate de @framasoft@twitter.com. Etape suivante : quitter Google Drive pour #Nextcloud. Et vous, qu'est-ce que vous faites pour rendre votre vie plus open source ? 🌅
forum.federation-openspacemake

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Federation_OSM/sta

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Real #NetNeutrality protections have already passed in the House of Representatives. Tell your senators that they must do the same. act.eff.org/action/tell-the-se

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

The Xinjiang law enforcement app's focus on data entry reminds us that digitizing our lives is the first step towards creating a panopticon. eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/huma

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charlag  

@linux and so does Flatpak but at least flatpak is fully FLOSS, unlike Snap with proprietary server.
I'm really disappointed in FOSS community for not stressing this enough.

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omg! ubuntu  

The ace Kdenlive video editor has published new bug-fix builds for Windows and Linux systems omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/kdenli

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Sean O'Brien  

it turns out that NYTimes "Privacy Project" was a honeypot for privacy advocates all along (who built a ladder of legitimacy for Google to climb), not just readers (who had their data pilfered by tons of Big Tech trackers). #SurveillanceCapitalism

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