From third to second - time to help us to first spot! Vote for Nextcloud in the CloudComputing Insider Awards!
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-has-been-nominated-for-the-cloudcomputing-insiders-award-again/53637
Mini-DebConf Marseille (France) is only in 10 days! See the schedules and register on https://minidebconf-mrs.debian.net #Debian #DebianFrance
@purism As I am reading your article, my phone battery happens to be at 42%
@purism Still loving my Librem One subscription!! Keep up the amazing work!
Giving consumers a real choice when it comes to social media platforms and online services can help protect privacy *and* inspire innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/digital-advertising-consumer-privacy-and-more
Happy Towel Day from your friends at Purism. #TowelDay
"We’re burning billions of acres of pristine #Indonesian rain forests to plant palm oil trees. #Palmoil is now the world’s cooking oil of choice since it’s one of the healthiest oils available with a low price tag and a long shelf life.
But the low price tag doesn’t cover destroying one of the two key rainforests on Earth. On the other side of the planet, the #Amazon #rainforest is being destroyed for soybeans, sugar, coffee, cattle and wood."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/05/21/nature-on-the-eve-of-destruction-the-un-extinction-report/
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Malaysian authorities have detained 123 Vietnamese fishermen in the first half of May in a campaign that Vietnamese press called Malaysia’s toughest move yet to curb illegal fishing.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/9776-malaysia-nabs-123-vietnamese-as-fishing-tensions-rise
LibreOffice 6.2.4 is now available, with bugfixes from our worldwide community of developers! Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/05/22/tdf-releases-libreoffice-6-2-4/
it was super easy to create @effblog with https://bots.tinysubversions.com by @darius -- and the formatting is great #kudos
A rare moment of Reddit wisdom:
"You could also pull a monty python yes, have jon (snow) arrested by the british police
R: "that would genuinely be a better ending than this season"
Tomorrow, @Amazon shareholders vote on an important resolution that asks the company to cease sales of its facial scanning software to law enforcement, and also pushes for an independent report on how it may threaten civil rights and privacy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/technology/amazon-facial-recognition.html
Civil liberties and civil rights organizations, including EFF, agree: Amazon should not be in the business of providing surveillance systems like Rekognition to the government. https://medium.com/aclu/an-open-letter-to-amazon-shareholders-374f4fb84e98