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Cory Doctorow  

NYCers have a new ridehailing alternative to Uber: The Drivers Cooperative is a driver-owned, app-based ride-hailing service that pays drivers more, charges riders less, and pays out any profits to driver-owners as periodic dividends.

nytimes.com/2021/05/28/technol

Platform cooperativism is a powerful antidote to app-based gig work: a way to provide customers with the convenience that made app-based services so popular while putting workers in control of their days, schedules and conditions.

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Cory Doctorow  

If there's one lesson you'd hope governments would take away from the pandemic and the lockdown, it's that good internet policy - universal access at fair prices, managed in the public interest - is a prerequisite for *all* good policy.

Canada didn't get the memo.

Last week, the CRTC - Canada's telecoms regulator - released its long-awaited decision on the wholesale prices paid by small, innovative ISPs to access the facilities of Canada's telecoms monopolists.

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keverets  

@moparisthebest how many hdmi switches and composite/s-video/component-to-hdmi adapters are you up to now?

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@ruff @kyle the open standard is still there, used, and improving. Follow projects like or jmp.chat and you'll find communities that are active and doing interesting things to grow XMPP.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

New York: Now is the time to speak up for your right to repair. act.eff.org/action/new-york-st

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@vogon reminds me of the TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) interface for scanners

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

We’re excited to announce the Dark Patterns Tip Line with @consumerreports and friends @AccessNow @PenAmerica @DarkPatterns. Anyone can submit deceptive design patterns they see in everyday products and services. Submit one today! eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/help

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keverets  

@eliasr @craftyguy @purism yes. The "number" for the data sim doesn't really do anything (no sms or calls). It's basically an account identifier for the mobile network. My actual used number connects to my xmpp clients. Only downside is that chatty doesn't support voice atm so I have to use SIP on librem5. Everywhere else (android, laptop, etc) calls come in through my xmpp clients as well.

This works well simce the SIM is just for data, but I can use wifi everywhere instead.

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mhoye  

This is so cool vimeo.com/551468278

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@vortex_egg little brother?

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@eliasr @craftyguy @purism using jmp.chat and Chatty already gives me MMS on

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Martijn Braam  

Keyboard!

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📞Telephone Jax  
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Kyle Rankin  

Interesting article that directly compares Tesla's lock-in and remote control tactics to Apple's: washingtonpost.com/technology/

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

AirTags can enable stalking--especially for users who don't have an iPhone. "Apple’s failure to take seriously the safety of people who exist outside of the Apple ecosystem is inexcusable," write EFF's @evacide and @FoxCahn in @wired. wired.com/story/opinion-apples

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Kyle Rankin  

Why is it so hard for people to have ? Because a TV company can make almost as much profit selling customer data as it can selling the TVs. engadget.com/vizio-q1-earnings

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tadzik  
Imagine living in a dystopia where an image like this is supposed mean "Peace of Mind"

(from https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011)
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madcap :hackers_town:  

Signal created targeted ads for Instagram that show the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to.

They were blocked.

signal.org/blog/the-instagram-

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HN Tooter  

World's biggest jeweller, Pandora, to drop mined diamonds
bbc.co.uk/news/business-569725

(submitted by kasperni)

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See: @cjd@pkteerium.xyz  

Give a man a program and he'll be frustrated for a day.
Teach a man to program and he'll be frustrated for the rest of his life.

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