Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

At my work (Freedom of the Press Foundation) we're still hiring for a Senior Security Engineer to join the @securedrop team.

This is a work-from-anywhere role that's great for folks who have worked in security-sensitive software engineering roles for 3+ years (with or without the SecEng title).

https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-senior-security-engineer/

Non-profit & open source jobs can be few and far between. HMU if this looks of interest to you or you have questions about it :)

Have been convinced we need mass civil disobedience to stop climate change. Extinction Rebellion might be cringy at times but they have a point.

Future generations can't vote, therefore electoral politics favour those who benefit current voters at the expense of the future ones.

#UN blasts world leaders for failing to seal £72bn-a-year deal on #climate | #Cop26: Glasgow climate change conference 2021 | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/un-blasts-world-leaders-for-failing-to-seal-72bn-a-year-deal-on-climate

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Politics

I'm so glad to know that when the jack-booted thugs come in the middle of the night to drag me off for my politics, it will have been Joe Biden's administration who sent them and not that despicable fascist Trump.

https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1405943810648117255

Black lives matter in the streets, Black lives matter on the internet. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/year-action-support-black-led-movement-against-police-violence-and-racism

The Dutch Data Protection Authority advises Dutch schools to stop using Google Workspaces as it is in conflict with the GDPR. Luckily, European, GDPR compliant alternatives exist!
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/182730/ap-adviseert-onderwijs-te-stoppen-met-google-workspace-wegens-strijd-met-avg.html

@ParadeGrotesque When you're in one of MicroSoft's musea, that means you're already dead.

Your important reminder of the day:

"The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS). [...] Most people in the industry don’t realise that the web dev economy is primarily extractive."

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-blogging-bubble/

Interesting to come across this from 2012: https://gizmodo.com/googles-broken-promise-the-end-of-dont-be-evil-5878987 Turns out, society loses respect for those who fail to live up to their stated principles. And fair enough too.

Interesting - I went from Apache -> Nginx about 10 years ago... never looked back. https://linuxiac.com/nginx-most-popular-web-server/

"The First Amendment prevents the government from forcing private publishers to publish the government’s preferred speech, and from forcing them to favor politicians over other speakers. This is a fundamental principle of our democracy."-EFF's @davidgreene https://www.eff.org/press/releases/unconstitutional-florida-law-barring-platforms-suspending-politicians-should-be

RT @lgbtq_economics: Today CLEAR joined @eff and 20+ organizations in calling on @paypal and @Venmo to provide more transparency and accou…

Sometimes the best debugging technique is taking a nap.

Freenode: "The new freenode is launched. You will slowly be disconnected and when you reconnect, you will be on the new freenode. It's a new genesis for a new era. Thank you for using freenode, and Hello World, from the future. freenode is IRC. freenode is FOSS. freenode is freedom. We're so happy to welcome you and the millions of others."

How delusional can this still get? What a megalomaniac.

The “only” arguably makes it impossible to dual-license.

Hmm, yeah it seems so although if one used MsPL they probably are not interested in dual-licensing (because it just came from MS) and changing the license of a project that we don’t have copyright is not allowed in general. Say we distribute Sequoia under GPL and someone says “well I can’t dual-license it under Apache!”. D'oh!

Thanks for the point Rysiek, see you later!

@lightweight MsPL has a clause added specifically and only to make it incompatible with the GPL and related licenses.

When I was doing FLOSS activism back in the day, I had a meeting with some "FLOSS Evangelist" from Microsoft, they were pushing hard the bullcrap of "FLOSS-friendly" MS. So when they asked what can they do to make the FLOSS community trust them more, I said "remove that clause".

The guy got *actually* offended. How dare I suggest such a thing?!