Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The "10 Year Smartphone" initiative aims for a sustainable mobile ecosystem

https://tuxphones.com/10-year-smartphone-initiative-right-to-repair-lifecycle/ #righttorepair #opensource #10yearphone

Interoperability is tech's superpower! With it, new tech can unseat powerful incumbents. But decades of pro-monopoly laws have given Big Tech a veto over who can plug into its products. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/10/255710-competitive-compatibility/fulltext

In line with a recent opinion from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Colorado’s Supreme Court has found that warrantless, continuous, long-term video surveillance via pole camera violates violates reasonable expectations of privacy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/colorado-supreme-court-rules-three-months-warrantless-video-surveillance-violates

This is just gross. 🤢 Ngl, if I lived in the UK, I'd probably be boycotting the Co-op Group. This mentality is a plague on the movement.

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/companies/2021/09/we-dont-chase-profit-steve-murrells-ceo-of-the-co-op-group-on-running-the-uks-biggest-mutual

Wow! Scottish Parliament introduced free bus travel for 5 - 18 year olds this March, and will be extending it up to 21 year olds the beginning of next year!

https://www.transport.gov.scot/concessionary-travel/young-persons-free-bus-travel-scheme/

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1. Browsing the internet will never be secure as long as web pages can execute arbitrary JavaScript.

2. For security reasons, a password manager should never integrate with a web browser.

The following website shows why these two points are true.

https://www.spookjs.com/

If code development if funded by the taxpayer, the result should be entirely open source, no excuses. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source If proprietary dev companies won't do that... then don't use them. Simple.

First Microsoft 'saving us' with a plan to build an Azure zone in NZ and now Amazon... https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126468116/amazon-to-spend-75-billion-making-auckland-a-centre-for-cloud-computing massive Digital Corporate Colonialism incoming.

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

Sign up & join us!

cc @Matt_Noyes @matslats @jdaviescoates @coopsmark @msavoritias @zkat @coopcloud @donestech @Stacco @jamiem @fredsultan @Sybille_Saint_Girons @disco_coop @agaric @strypey @flgnk @oli

@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.