ERR: 0CK5 @everlastingrocks@librem.one

@everlastingrocks They do not trust me to run my own software. My "new" laptop has been in purgatory for 4 months because I refuse to sign the local sysadmin privileges user agreement from Infosec.

Mixed in this document is a requirement that all employees with local assigned-laptop admin access MUST get permission for every installed piece of software from the head of Infosec.

This is not how FOSS works not how software developers work. The rest of my department signed and disregarded it.

Obvious use-case: "Did you get that memo? Here's the URI."

"On your exceedingly great mercy rests all my hope. Give what you command, and then command whatever you will." - Augustine

The radical modernist, secularist side of the "political debate" espouse their "faith" when beneficial to them. It is a tool like claiming identity with the working class or the value of life (*limitations apply).

Every now and then they let their guard down and let slip what they really believe. Such is Andrew Cuomo's recent comment on a slight improvement in the mess he made in New York:

"The number is down because we brought the number down. God did not do that. Faith did not do that."

No siree, God had nothing to do with it and we should not give Him credit. Nope. Just solidarity rejecting big, heavy-handed government. That's our salvation. Come dance with me on this wide road to perdition...

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/new-york-gov-cuomo-we-flattened-coronavirus-curve-god-did-not-do-that

> The stats also revealed that African Americans make up 28 percent of COVID-19 deaths — even though they are just 22 percent of the city’s population.
>
> “The disparities that have plagued this city … are all about fundamental inequality are once again causing such pain and causing innocent people to lose their lives,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio … “It’s sick. It’s troubling. It’s wrong.”

Okay boomer.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/de-blasio-releases-racial-breakdown-data-of-coronavirus-deaths/

RT @aginnt http://sobr.org/g9v

Web 2.0 and mashups are over, now.
Tom Scott, 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0

"but isn't it worth it if it saves one life?"

No. It fucking isn't! We have to face our mortality, and giving up liberty for pretend safety is no way to live.

Live free or die, because given a long enough timeline, the survival rate for each of us is 0 anyway.

@progo they tested it on 30 patients. We need larger studies with more patients before we can draw any conclusions.

Nevermind all my raving yesterday about New York State being over the curve with "new cases per day".
https://www.glump.net/blog/misc/covid-19-new-york-new-cases-by-day

Take action against #EarnIt: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-it-barr-encryption/ #Fight4Privacy #Fight4Encryption

Calling smartphone equipped teenagers 'digital natives' is a mistake because a smartphone makes you a consumer rather than a native of anything.

If you want a child to become a digital native give them an actual computer instead of a corporate controlled and curated consumer device.

"Ethical source" can be open source the same way that grain-fed pigs can be kosher.

In other words, you can't be both. "Ethical source" denies users liberty and expressly repudiates the open source principle of nondiscrimination (discriminating against those you consider discriminatory themselves is NOT non-discriminating). #opensource

Reminder that if you don't license your work it's automatically under an all rights reserved license.

If it doesn't have a license, it's not FOSS nor is it free culture. Please license your creations!

Does God love everyone, or just selected ones? – Forthright Magazine http://forthright.net/2020/02/24/god-loves/

> Most everyone is familiar with John 3.16. It has become a favorite verse of many. God loves the world! But this fine summary needs to be supplemented with the full gospel. A good place to start for this is another word from Jesus, also in the gospel of John.

#gospel #love #Bible

This is why I'm skeptical of claims like, "Someday in the future we'll have a device in our brains so we can Google using our thoughts." I don't *want* software in my brain. Software in my brain means:

- they ship a patch that breaks my brain
- somebody hacks my brain
- they change the UI for my brain unexpectedly
- the server goes down so my brain stops working

Software for anything mission-critical scares the bejeezus out of me. (And that includes software in planes etc.)

Was going to post this here, but it ran over the word limit:
http://randal.us/god-knows/

#thoughts #encouragement

Pre-installed apps can have privileged custom permissions that let them operate outside the Android security model

Find out more about why we're telling @google to take action

#LowCostTech

https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3320/open-letter-google

Wondering what the future of the internet will look like? Here it is, from one of the people helping to build it...

http://csharpner.com/blog/this-is-what-the-decentralized-web-3-0-will-look-like/

#Decentralization #privacy #encryption #censorship #freespeech