John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

A clear example of "defective by design": https://happygamer.com/youtuber-overlord-gaming-creates-a-video-to-prove-denuvo-causes-fps-loss-in-titles-72959/ (yes, DRM does make your computer do other things more slowly, how could it not?)

Listen, we already have a problem with the Football Supporter Federation. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-rr-replacement-redskins-letter-20200707-zwpryt35dfhtfifrb2llywfoxy-story.html

This speaks to me: https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/28/21230963/taco-bell-quarterly-mm-carrigan-interview -- fave quote: "So writers that were published in the Paris Review could also be published on a trash bag. But if you’re a nobody writer you couldn’t even make it to a fast food bag."

FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab volunteers meet every week around this time on IRC. If you'd like to join the team producing and sharing info on free software licensing best practices, drop an email about your interest to licensing@fsf.org. (You don't have to be a lawyer.)

"This years theme is Your IP: A power tool for building success"

If I told you this event is called Invention-Con, would you believe me?

"You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Zoom Marks without Zoom's express written consent." <meta name="description" content="rubbish">

"You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any Zoom Marks, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Zoom without express written consent" -- are they talking about picture framing?

Yikes. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/moroccan-journalist-targeted-with-network-injection-attacks-using-nso-groups-tools/
(A good argument to bring up with those who still insist we don't need full HTTPS?)

So now you have to use proprietary software to not get evicted from your home: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880859109/zoom-call-eviction-hearings-they-ll-throw-everything-i-have-out-on-the-street

I wonder if free software "smart" bulb features could be developed to counter this: https://www.wired.com/story/lamphone-light-bulb-vibration-spying/ Or I guess yeah there's curtains.

Patent lawsuits over DRM are really something. "Hey, *I* designed that way to make digital files defective first!!! If you want to make your files not work, you need to pay me!"

Finally, vindication: https://skillet.lifehacker.com/you-can-have-all-the-martini-garnishes-at-once-1843982095

The only thing "brazen" here is limitless copyright: https://publishers.org/news/publishers-file-suit-against-internet-archive-for-systematic-mass-scanning-and-distribution-of-literary-works/ Instead of suing, how about a conversation addressing both the interests of authors and the public interest in free speech and education.

35 of the 53 messages in my spam folder this morning are auf Deutsch. No other language besides that and English. Is this common for others or am I getting special treatment?

TikTok? I've got *sick* LoC. #flossinfluencer

Sea levels are rising but so is my level at C. #flossinfluencer