DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

🧐

Amazon announces "Cyberpunk dystopian mass-suveillance as a service".

Dear IT-humans: Please do yourselves a favour and create security@ as an email address on all of your domains which is actually routed and read by someone with knowledge about your IT!
That way you make it easy for people who accidentally stumble upon security issues with your infrastructure to actually report them to you.

The sheer fact of having and reading security@ (as mandated by RFC 2142) will help improving your IT security.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt

"Wir können nicht wegschauen, wenn wir unsere Werte ernst nehmen!"
...sagt die Partei, die gemeinsam mit der #cdU das #HauAbGesetz beschlossen hat und den Antrag der Opposition, da nochmal "nachzubessern", im Bundestag rigoros vom Tisch wischte.
Also - welche Werte, #sPD?

♲ @spdbt@twitter.com: 70,8 Millionen Menschen sind auf der Flucht, so viele wie noch nie. Sie fliehen vor Verfolgung, sie fliehen vor Kriegen, sie fliehen vor Hunger. Wir können nicht wegschauen, wenn wir unsere Werte ernst nehmen. #StepWithRefugees #Weltflüchtlingstag

pbs.twimg.com/media/D9fbySqX4A…

Ever dream of getting a 15" Librem laptop for $799?

Dream no longer, my friends. This is just for a limited time.

Librem 15 v3 No-TPM (UK keyboard): $799
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-15-v3-notpm/

Librem 15 v3 (UK or DE keyboard): $999
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-15-v3/

Sway & wlroots has a dedicated budget for hardware, travel, etc. It's going to be empty after partially covering travel to XDC 2019 (X.org developers conference). If anyone is feeling generous and is able to help us refill it, please make a donation with the comment "for the sway/wlroots general budget":

https://drewdevault.com/donate

Thank you ❤️

RT @IvanaNenadovic
Don't be deceived: refugees are not coming to steal your jobs - you don't have a job anyway. People are leaving their homes, running for their lives, because of the wars our governments are producing instead of creating good quality jobs.
#WorldRefugeeDay
#Let_Them_In https://twitter.com/DiEM_25/status/1141701226318499843

We're taking a look at software running on the Librem 5 Smartphone Dev Kit -- something new, every day.

Day 2 - Gedit & Apt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzRgjHaIZo

I will stop here with #Gab by removing the block feature inside the app in the next release.

My motivations:

- I didn't receive a reply from Google policy team about a potential ban of the application.
- Without the previous risk, I clearly think that's not my role. I can't hard-code instance blocks especially when every tools are here for that.
- If you want a strong block, it's in the hands of social network developers or your admins.

For anyone who doesn't understand why the Tusky change is wrong:

It may not be against the letter of free/open source software*, but it is certainly in the spirit. FOSS does not discriminate against its users and remain FOSS, including the users you don't like. The freedom to use the software as you wish is unalienable, including for gab users.

* both definitions

That, and don't add rickrolls to your project for any reason.

The Librem 5 smartphone team has been hard at work, and we want to update you all on our software progress.

Including: LibHandy, Calls, Encrypted messaging, patches going upstream, Mesa, Documentation, and... Quake II. Seriously.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-june-software-update/

RT @DiEM_25
A bold, just and democratic #GreenNewDeal for #Europe is the only antidote to the logic that, in this #EU, there is no alternative to socialism for bankers, austerity for the many and catastrophe for the environment.

Check it out https://www.gndforeurope.com/10-pillars-of-the-green-new-deal-for-europe

Due to the recent discussions about Tusky merging their Gab ban, I'm reposting my series "Imagine if _all_ applications were developed the same way as Fedi apps" with slightly improved screenshots and a new one.

Also, I'd like to clarify my stance on this matter since people thought I'd support Gab or that I'd make inaccurate comparisons.

My motivation for posting these screenshots is that I think blocks like this don't belong in software that is completely detached from the stuff it displays.
Kinds of software that belong in this category are web browsers, email clients, music players, text editors, and also Fedi apps such as Tusky or Fedilab. They are merely tools that allow people to use certain contents or services, but they don't host them and therefore aren't responsible for them.
To me, this isn't a matter of free speech or some free software principles. As a user, I simply don't want developers to force their personal/political opinions onto me in that way. And here is why:

Imagine if more software implemented various kinds of blocks against things the developer doesn't want to support. I'm sure many of you now may think "Cool, so they block things for bad people. How is this a problem?"

The problem is that your view of what "bad people" are or how they should be handled by the software doesn't necessarily have to agree with the developers' views.

A good example for this is the file browser screenshot: Among other files, the message lists a Torrent for an Arch Linux image as blocked. Most likely, the imaginary developer thinks that Torrents are used too often to distribute illegal things, so making them harder to use is more beneficial than not doing it. Would you agree with this?

In the long run, this problem may become worse. What if the political climate in our society shifted and over time, some of the opinions you or people you like/follow/... hold were considered harmful by many software developers? What if you were confronted with messages like the ones in the screenshots all the time because of that?

Many people don't expect that measures taken against "bad people" could ever affect them negatively. After all, they are good people.
This is actually very similar to discussions about privacy invasions, where there are people who "have nothing to hide" and therefore don't care about such problems.

That's the situation I was trying to convey with these screenshots in the same way Black Mirror shows how current technological trends could lead to negative impacts on our society.
Bildschirmfoto vom 2019-06-19 1…
Bildschirmfoto vom 2019-06-01 2…
Bildschirmfoto vom 2019-06-02 1…
Bildschirmfoto vom 2019-06-02 1…
Bildschirmfoto vom 2019-06-17 2…
Bildschirmfoto vom 2019-06-19 1…