Lee Riemenschneider @lwriemen@librem.one

The Massive Privacy Loopholes in School Laptops

https://puri.sm/posts/the-massive-privacy-loopholes-in-school-laptops/

"If you are a parent who cares about #privacy ...you can also invest in Purism products and have peace of mind that your child's data is protected while they access school services on the web..."

Original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/10/laptop-buyers-guide-distance-learning/

#freedom #security

This Week in Fascism #69: Portland Pipe Bomb Attack; #AllOut for Stone Mountain https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-69-portland-pipe-bomb-attack-allout-for-stone-mountain/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

**Biology blurs line between sexes, behaviors**

"Biological sex is typically understood in binary terms: male and female. However, there are many examples of animals that are able to modify sex-typical biological and behavioral features and even change sex. A new study identifies a genetic switch in brain cells that can toggle between sex-specific states when…"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200810140949.htm

#science #news #bot

"DSP chips are much more vulnerable to risks as they are being managed as ‘Black Boxes’ since it can be very complex for anyone other than their manufacturer to review their design, functionality or code." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/snapdragon-chip-flaws-put-1-billion-android-phones-at-risk-of-data-theft/

And we oppose government enforcing home quarantine by forcing COVID-19 patients to wear GPS ankle shackles or download spyware to their phones. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/covid-19-patients-right-privacy-against-quarantine-surveillance

And we oppose telling police where COVID-19 patients live. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/telling-police-where-people-covid-19-live-erodes-public-health

**Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035**

"A new study supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200810113216.htm

#science #news #bot

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Zombie firms are a plague that is corroding the fabric of our economies.

Could Covid-19 be an opportunity to tackle this problem?

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/08/could-covid-19-kill-the-plague-of-zombie-firms

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Did you know about 'git rebase --onto'?

1. You create branch1 from master
2. You create branch2 from branch1
3. PR for branch1 gets merged into master

Now you want to rebase branch2 off of the new master, so you can make a clean PR for it.

This is actually easy!

$ git checkout branch2
$ git rebase --onto origin/master branch1 branch2

This takes all the changes between branch1 and branch2 and replays them onto master, so it's as if branch2 had been branched from master.

Open courts matter. No one—especially super-litigious companies—should be allowed to hide key motions from the public. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/victory-eff-defends-publics-right-access-court-records-about-patent-ownership