Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

When the US stops #EndlessWar in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, it can pay for #MedicareForAll without even raising taxes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/17/opinion/medicare-for-all-funding-military.html

great to see #security reviews also include key factors like "organizational transparency", #Mozilla #Firefox deserves the credit here https://www.zdnet.com/article/germanys-cyber-security-agency-recommends-firefox-as-most-secure-browser/

#BillGates gets so much "feel good" press these days because he has a foundation, but he's still up to his old tricks of profits above all else https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/16/republic-services-strike-bill-gates-sanitation

#fastlane collects tracking data and sends it to their server, it is also opt-out so it is enabled by default https://docs.fastlane.tools/#metrics
they hashed the Application ID so it must be private! ;-) except the Application ID space is small enough to just generate all possible Application ID, then have a lookup table.

"20 companies responsible for 35% of world CO2 output since 1965" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions
Meanwhile, the Scotland and Norway are using their expertise in setting up offshore platforms to make gianormous, 100m tall, floating windmills that can power 20,000 homes (30MW).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUlfvXaISvc

"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed"

it is absurd that airplanes pay no energy taxes while electric trains and buses do. #ClimateAction #kerosenetax_EU
https://zeeus.eu/news/germany-to-reduce-electricity-tax-for-electric-buses
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-aviation/france-wants-eu-to-seek-end-to-jet-fuel-tax-exemption-to-curb-emissions-idUSKCN1T41HI
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/oesterreich/2032318-Die-Kostenwahrheit-zwischen-Lkw-und-Bahn-ist-ein-Witz.html

The Austrian state railway #OBB is expanding the night train network! Night trains are really a wonderful, low stress, productive way to travel for work, and kids totally love them. They do take a little getting used to, but its worth it.
https://www.politico.eu/article/night-trains-set-for-return-to-brussels/ #ClimateAction

#Zapatismo are still going strong in #Chiapas

https://www.thenation.com/article/zapatista-chiapas-caracoles/

Interesting to see that the #ClimateImpact of travelling by electric train is less than the impact of manufacturing the car or motorcycle. So just owning the car has more impact than taking the train.

https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Carbon-Intensity-1024x863.jpg

#Netanyahu is promising to annex territory gained through force. That should receive the same treatment as #Putin received when he annexed Crimea https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/13/eu-leaders-must-get-tough-with-israel

The reusable #tor Android binary now is now a #ReproducibleBuild on the same machine, e.g. in the #GitLab CI Docker runners. There are still diffs when running the process on a different Debian version, albeit with the exact same #Android NDK binary. More to come as its finished

"#OpenBanking bedeutet vielmehr, dass es im Finanzmarkt viele neue Player geben wird, weil die großen Finanz-Haie ihre Gewässer für hungrige Piranha-Schwärme öffnen müssen – und wir sind das Futter."

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kommentar-zu-PSD2-Was-die-Finanzbranche-unter-Open-Banking-versteht-4522127.html

#blogs are still a thing, especially in #security research, so my #RSS reader is key to my work. Recently, I've started an experiment with it: I read the articles in oldest-first order. It feels unnatural at first, but now I'm starting to appreciate the calm, without the #AddictionByDesign of pull-to-refresh breaking news feeds

#FreeSoftware like #SAMBA was key to breaking open the #microsoft #monopoly in the early 90s with #AdversarialInteroperability. The #BigTech web and bad #copyright and #patent laws like #DMCA make that even harder now than in the 90s.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects