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Must good street art be illegal? I'm used to NYC street art culture, where its almost always against the law, including the and related events we did. In Vienna, there are large areas where painting everything in public is fully allowed. There's a festival now where murals are being painted on blank walls around the city. I appreciate the murals from previous years, but have this funny feeling that its somehow less when its allowed. Crazy or valid?
callelibre.at/2020

"As a cop, I killed someone. Then I found out it happens more often than we know... We must work toward a society where citizens and their governmental representatives – the police – aren’t so terrified of one another."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Beware the Unified Court: even if it is a good idea, they way it is being put together pretty much guarantees there will be hidden nasty surprises. Its delay is one benefit of theregister.com/2020/07/21/uk_

Great alternatives to Google Maps that use #OpenStreetMap data:

- Qwant Maps: website, has directions. Highlights the fact that data is from #OSM, providing links to view and edit the data.
qwant.com/maps
- F4map: website, 3D views of cities.
demo.f4map.com/
- MAPS.ME: mobile apps with a neat vector renderer. Minimalist. Works offline. More obviously profit-oriented.
- OsmAnd: mobile apps with lots of features. Offline too. (Too?) many customisations and options available.

CryptPad is a free open source online office suite which can be used collaboratively and anonymously. It is a privacy-friendly alternative to Google's Drive/Docs services.

You can follow them here:

➡️ @cryptpad

You can self-host CryptPad or use their official instance. Their website is at cryptpad.fr

The system is designed to be "zero knowledge", so the people hosting have no access to users' data.

#CryptPad #FOSS #FLOSS #GoogleDrive #GoogleDocs #Alternatives #Privacy

interesting talk by one of the academics involved in the and how they worked with those companies youtu.be/FKN2feOdGO8?t=1553

"the venture industry is no longer as focused on finding small companies that might one day change the world but more on creating financial instruments for the wealthy" techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/tim-

So what you're saying is, after 18 months you've mined all the profit you can out of your users' data, which is the real heart of what you do.

twitter.com/sundarpichai/statu

Original tweet : twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/

Many fellow open-source projects are hit hard by the COVID crisis. These are FOSS crowdfunding campaigns that need help! Check out their call for support:
fossresponders.discourse.group

Back in 2011, @eighthave and @n8fr8 had a crazy idea to turn SQLite guts into a standalone wrapper for , funded by money. made it a well-engineered product. Latest user: German gov's Corona Warn App. Technical projects with high risk of failure, without paths to massive profits rarely get developed in the private sector. This project highlights mixing public grants and private enterprise to deliver security and privacy in essential software.

It is proven!

Android apps can be built using only standard packages from Debian Buster!

gitlab.com/Matrixcoffee/hello-

"This project helps to document the Android tools in Debian by providing an example build, and can serve as a base template for new projects for those who would like to develop Android apps using only truly Free and Open Source software."

will require App Bundles for new apps in Play, thereby forcing developers to give Google their app's private signing key. This further centralizes the ecosystem and strengthens their by making it harder to publish outside of Play xda-developers.com/google-play

🎉🎈 Mastodon.Social has just welcomed its 500.000th user 🎂

At this 🌟special🌟 #milestone I would like to thank everyone in the #fediverse for the numerous interesting posts, the wonderful time and the untiring voluntary #community contributions that make it all possible.❤️

@Gargron #mastodon #mastodonSocial #500k #freedom

decentralized government can make for much more responsive government. This can be seen in the Bay Area county government response to vs. the Trump administration. I can also be see in Germany: theguardian.com/world/2020/apr

History tells us that protocols adopted in times of crisis often persist when the crisis is over.

That’s why social media platforms should publicly commit, now, that they will restore and expand human review as soon as this crisis has abated. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/auto

We're sorry, Zoom is becoming a bit of a punching bag - but, like Facebook, they choose their own business practices and we all can disagree with those questionable choices. So do SpaceX and NASA... They have banned the use of Zoom.
seekingalpha.com/news/3557756-

We, alongside a network of advocates, have launched an online resource centre to track and explain worldwide Covid-19 measures - you can find it here: privacyinternational.org/campa

Anyone with updates can contact us at: info@privacyinternational.org.

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