Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@kyle

What do you think about the "System Transparency" thing?

I think it seems good, it lets the user decide what should be on the system from the ground up.

https://www.system-transparency.org/

@aral @claus

Got this ridiculous notice from a web page earlier today.

It's like something from Kafka's Der Prozess. If Josef K. had a computer, I bet it would have shown him messages like this. 🙂

@neil Welcome back anytime!

I know will miss that sweet GDPR 🙂

Marina Hyde continues:

"If you give a minister a brief that encompasses the entire media, the UK’s data strategy, regulating big tech, 5G rollout, cyber-security, the charity sector, the whole of sport and the £100bn-plus creative industries, and they spend so much as ONE NANOSECOND fanning up some culture war nonsense about panto, that isn’t so much playing with the box as taking a shit in it. And nobody, other than fellow infants, wants to see that."

2/2

Marina Hyde in The Guardian is sharp and funny, as usual.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/17/herpes-boris-johnson-ministers-cabinet-reshuffle

"Even so, I had to balk at the Spectator’s suggestion that Nadine “will oversee a more punchy attitude to the culture war aspect of her brief”. Sorry, but what culture war aspect of her brief?! Psychologists say that if you give a child a present and they end up playing with the box, then the toy you gave them was too complicated for them."

1/2

@xarvos

Great, that last one is okay according to uBlock Origin.

@joacim

@joacim I wish that motherfucking website would get rid of motherfucking Google Analytics.

"Et tu, motherfuckingwebsite?" 🙂

@silverhax Of course they will not fire the coolest person at the workplace. Without you they are totally lost. 🙂

@iotshark

Thanks!

@kop316

@iotshark

That link does not seem to work for me.

@kop316

@neil Is it legal for them to do that?

@clacke

Interesting! I did not know that ever existed.

Here are a few related Swedish organizations that are still active in 2021:

foss-sthlm: https://www.foss-sthlm.se/ Lista: https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/foss-sthlm/2021-August/thread.html

Uppsala Linux User Group: https://www.ulug.se/ Lista: https://lists.fripost.org/ulug.se/sympa/arc/diskussion/2021-09/msg00000.html

Föreningen för Digitala Fri- och Rättigheter: https://www.dfri.se/ Lista: https://lists.dfri.se/listan/maillist.html

@arielcostas@fosstodon.org But that's the choice you get after choosing "Customize settings". The first and most important choice is between "Accept all cookies" and "Customize settings", most people will choose accept all there because it is the quickest way to move on, so they will never see the "confirm my choices" button. They know very well people don't want to be tracked, but trick them into "accepting" all by making it the quickest choice.

TLDR they are still assholes 🙂

@lig What does "ML" mean?

Maybe when I need to ask that it means the poll is not meant for me, but anyway. 🙂

@ruffni@mstdn.io @jrballesteros05

> i recommend watching series in english (:

Yes! Especially watch "The Wire" if you have not seen it, very good stuff.

@iotshark

> Anyone with $6 can hack and read your MMS

Can you explain what you mean by that? What would that person do with the $6 and how would they read my MMS?

@kop316

@ruffni@mstdn.io @schratze

I recommend making your argument against the school as an accessibility issue. Probably they are required to make the education accessible to everyone, it is probably not legal for them to exclude you.

Use words like "accessibility" and "inclusiveness" and argue against them "excluding" you, then you have a better chance of being heard, I think.

If you know examples of other schools doing better, point to those as good examples.

@redstarfish

> Their goal of Google/Apple free is too shallow!

I agree, but also they are not fully Google-free since it is built on Android, so still playing by Google's rules.

> It uses the non free GrapheneOS.

On https://grapheneos.org/ they call it "open source" rather than FOSS, but I thought it was anyway code with free software licenses, is that not the case?

Anyway I was hoping it would be a new GNU+Linux phone, so a bit disappointed to find out it's Android.

@ademalsasa