Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We're kicking off the commons.hour - a monthly open gathering to learn, share and co-design a governance model and handbook for #cooperative-#commons tech infra initiatives like #meetcoop

📆 Monday 27th at 18h UTC

Invitation: https://opencollective.com/meet-coop/updates/invitation-commons-hour-session-1

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@lwriemen @groovestomp yes, I frequently regale folks about the fundamental brokeness of institutional IT where mediocre technologists (who convince uniformed corporate/org HR people they're 'up to it') win roles where they're hired to "digitally enable" people in their organisation and instead create locked-down anti-progress feifdoms designed to give them a career's employment while minimising opportunities for the rest of the org to fully grasp their total unsuitability for their role.

School surveillance eliminates the only space where kids from lower-income families can communicate privately online. “The school Chromebook is the only device some kids have, and the school Wi-Fi is the only internet connection,” says EFF attorney Sophia Cope.

Next year, my older son starts highschool. They use MS Office 365, which I consider a tragic waste. I feel very strongly that my boy shouldn't have to install any Microsoft (or any other proprietary) products in order to study at a public school. It's ethically indefensible, esp on his Linux-powered laptop. He can use excellent, functionally equivalent #FOSS & if the tech staff don't 'get it' & insist on MSO, then they'll have a major problem on their hands. Summary: https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards

@dredmorbius Summary is:

1. MS (and AD) strongly contributed to and enabled a culture of bad passwords. While they didn't invent bad password policy, their defaults and recs became gospel to many IT admin and AD enabled bad policy to scale, training a generation of computer users to make bad passwords.

2. "Passwordless future" enables vendor control of hardware, as auth is strongly tied to hardware security, which is anchored in trusted (signed by MS) software.

Have any other software devs found that they have to psyche themselves up prior to starting a long coding session (like someone has to talk themselves into it before jumping off a high diving board)? There seems to be a cognitive load associated with getting into the flow state (especially when there's risk of interruption, e.g. during lockdown when the whole family's around all day :) )... Can anyone relate?

Tell Congress: The Fourth Amendment is not for sale. Your Senators and Representatives need to hear that the government should be barred from purchasing personal data it would otherwise need a warrant to acquire.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-the-fourth-amendment-is-not-for-sale

I didn't realize just how much I blamed Microsoft for the current state of passwords until I sat down to write about their "passwordless future": https://puri.sm/posts/microsoft-ruined-passwords-now-aims-for-a-passwordless-future/

I for one am relieved that this is not happening under the Trump administration, otherwise it might be racist¸ or even fascist. As it's the Biden administration doing this, I'm pretty sure this is totally woke and progressive.

https://eu.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2021/09/19/haitian-migrants-tough-choices-crackdown-del-rio-texas-border/8411152002/

FOSS creates huge opportunities for indigenous communities around the world to ensure the technology they use reflects their unique and precious cultures. Software is a personal and cultural sovereignty issue and deserves a global uprising - in the form of people who desire to learn. We need a new 'enlightenment' with true, deep digital literacy as the goal if we want to achieve a true balance of power. Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple and others like them are just digital colonials.

More than 26,000 PG&E customers were without power in the Bay Area today because of fog and mist. Fog. and mist. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/over-28000-customers-experiencing-power-outages-due-to-fog-mist-pge/2660562/

This is such important information, please send to your networks and friends!!
http://techrights.org/2021/09/14/university-of-genova-rms/

Police departments are receiving millions in public health funding to buy high tech surveillance equipment, but, “There’s no way to police yourself out of a pandemic. And there’s certainly no way to surveil yourself out of a pandemic.” https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/mesa-arizona-millions-of-covid-relief-funds-high-tech-police-surveillance-12004279

I would like to think that someday soon, the "how do we pay for it?" and "omg, what about the deficit?" bullshit talking points will be expunged, at least from the Dem side of the aisle...not holding my breath though.

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/yes-we-can

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