Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Free Software Foundation has published an "Ethical Tech Giving Guide" and suggest our #librem5 for their smartphone category!

https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/

Learn more about the Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#freedom #privacy #security

Facebook admits to tracking users across the internet - Security | DSLReports Forums
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32945846-Facebook-admits-to-tracking-users-across-the-internet

If an article title starts with "We need to do talk about", the chances are it's about a topic we don't need to give a shit about it.

The ancient Greeks had spirits; we have apps:

"What oppressed the pious Greek was the cloud of spirits that surrounded him, ready and able, he believed, to spy upon him, interfere with him, and do him evil." -- Durant

The difference between "can't do this at all, or at least not repeat it reliably" and "can do this repeatedly, reliably, but it takes a long time" is enormous. It's a game changer. Even if "long time" means hours.

From "repeatable, reliable" it's possible to move towards "repeatable, reliable, fast" and getting there is revolutionary for productivity.

53m discarded #Covid-19 #FaceMasks in #UK 'could be polluting the #sea’ | #Coronavirus | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/18/coronavirus-face-masks-could-be-polluting-the-sea

#Pandemic #Environment #Pollution #Waste #Littering

I encourage companies who have a fundamental dependence on custom software (their own SaaS or a crucial info management system or even their day-to-day productivity software) to ensure that they control that software and have in-house development expertise to customise it. If you outsource that, you're no longer an independent company. You're an effective non-voting subsidiary of whoever controls that software. More info: https://davelane.nz/mshostage

Publishing study results in AI without enough information to allow the scientific method to continue through attempted replication is not science, it's marketing. Science and scientific publications must demand more. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/12/1011944/artificial-intelligence-replication-crisis-science-big-tech-google-deepmind-facebook-openai/

After receiving EFF’s letter, GitHub has reversed course, and is committed to have technical experts review Section 1201-related accusations & allow code repository owners to dispute those accusations before taking down their code. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-after-riaas-abuse-dmca https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1319787243184123904?s=20

#azure layoffs carry on and #iis will soon have the plug pulled on it (it's running out of actual users). #microsoft is in trouble and that's why it's attacking, bribing , sabotaging and infiltrating. We need to resist this Mafia. #deletegithub for starters.