Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RT @ThatTimWalker@twitter.com

People who say ‘well, he’s doing the best he can and who honestly could ever have got on top of something like #COVIDー19?’ should watch this.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1258891604301099008

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra

Turns out good developers, who want to build better software, just ditch Windows, and use Linux. Cut out the cheesy unnecessary middleman.

What do you get when you take a majestic eagle, a symbol of strength, beauty, and freedom... and lock it in a dingy cage? You get tragedy. Or you get irony, like Microsoft's WSL - the worse of both worlds: freedom, totally constrained by relentless mediocrity.

Amusingly, despite MSFT's massive PR campaign, looks like not too many have been taken in by this completely pointless development: http://techrights.org/2020/05/07/microsoft-wsl-evasion/

Looking for a weekend read?

We’ve put together an ebook on digital rights that will help you understand what roles technology should and should not play in fighting back against the COVID-19 crisis. https://supporters.eff.org/donate/pandemicguide

Zoom acquired Keybase.

No, this is not a joke.

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom

“And if we prevent people from saying [controversial] things out loud because we don’t like them right now… then we’re actually freezing society as a whole to progress.” Read on for more of @evan_greer’s thoughts on free expression https://www.eff.org/speaking-freely/evan-greer

The first global coops have emerged in recent years. Instead of being limited to local coops, everyone online will be a few clicks away from buying goods and services from a growing number of digital coops.

This makes “Coop Coupons" more viable than before.

https://coop.exchange/blog/9baaae5f-8f96-11ea-b711-06ceb0bf34bd/coupons-for-co-ops-and-the-rise-of-global-platform-cooperatives

Any publicly listed corporation that's big enough (e.g. the biggest in its field) is evil. It's their nature. They can't not be.

Here's why: https://davelane.nz/megacorps

St. Paul, MN: Community Mobilizes to Back Up Nurses Facing Down Far-Right ‘ReOpen’ Protesters https://itsgoingdown.org/st-paul-mn-community-mobilizes-to-back-up-nurses-facing-down-far-right-reopen-protesters/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

No, they haven't.

"Harrisburg University develops facial recognition software to ID criminals, no racial bias"

https://local21news.com/news/local/harrisburg-university-develops-facial-recognition-software-to-id-criminals-no-racial-bias

@isagalaev @sir I'm not so sure about that.

Copyright does also help "the little guy" to a certain extent by providing a means of defence against large corps taking their work and using it without recognizing/paying the artist.

However, I completely agree that the way it works right now is totally broken and, unless you have lots of money, it's hard to fight a case.

This video by Tom Scott is great at explaining many of the aspects of copyright, if you're interested: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU

Netherlands commits to Free Software by default - FSFE: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200424-01.en.html

Currently the US has an unacceptably low bar for "that candidate's an improvement over the incumbent". Come on, land of my birth, stop scraping the bottom of the barrel and make some real, useful change. As it is, you're now the world's richest 3rd world country.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray-resigns-calls-company-chickenshit-for-firing-protesting-workers

> In his resignation letter, Bray said that “firing whistleblowers isn’t just a side-effect of macroeconomic forces, nor is it intrinsic to the function of free markets. It’s evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture. I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.”

Fuck YEAH!

#UK #government 'using #crisis to transfer #NHS duties to #PrivateSector’ | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/04/uk-government-using-crisis-to-transfer-nhs-duties-to-private-sector

#Politics #Privatization

"Microsoft’s takeover of free software is fascinating, but where can the line be drawn? I treat this as both a hypothetical question and a practical one, because I’ve spent years boycotting #Microsoft and ever since they purchased #GitHub " http://techrights.org/2020/05/03/gnuhub-pt-1/