Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Yes, we need all of these gone. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/bust-em-all-lets-de-monopolize-tech-telecoms-and-entertainment They have way too much power, and no one's providing oversight. They're a law unto themselves and that bad for just about *all of us*.

The Azure Government Cloud is the $10 billion contract, I think?

Maybe not a good idea to annoy the people who buy aircraft carriers in bulk, but, on the other hand, also not a good idea to annoy the people who can turn off all your computers

This is what they call a Seattle Standoff

Yes, this modus operandi, used by Microsoft and other faux-#FOSS "friends" does ring very true, especially if we consider the Linux Foundation: http://techrights.org/2020/09/27/proprietary-monopoly-github/ This is how the proprietary incumbents can use their exploitative profits to destroy those with far better ethics (and software).

Victory! @CAGovernor vetoed A.B. 2004, which would have forced a hasty "immunity passport" program on Californians, harmed privacy, and further hurt vulnerable communities. Thank you to everyone who took the time to speak out against this bill.

The most important feature is missing........

PRIVACY!

Microsoft Edge for Linux will Ship With These Features Missing - OMG! Ubuntu!
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/09/edge-linux-missing-features

Me looking at Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection:

Wow this sure is a lot of extremely fine-grained detail about every corporate workstation on the planet that Microsoft is storing on their servers

I wonder if the US military, a $10 billion customer of Microsoft, would ever be tempted to do anything unusual with this data

I'm sure this is all probably extremely okay and nothing bad will likely ever come from handing the nice people running the USA this level of raw power over others

the only trickle down economics I support is where the richest person pays for the budget and when they run out of money, we trickle down to the next richest person

California NAACP president aids corporate prop campaigns — collects $1.2 million and counting

https://calmatters.org/politics/2020/09/california-naacp-president-helps-corporate-ballot-measure-campaigns/

#osk-sdl unlocking a LUKS rootfs running PureOS on the #purism #librem5 devkit.

osk-sdl is an initramfs touchscreen keyboard made originally for postmarketOS, for unlocking a LUKS rootfs on touchscreen devices with no physical keyboards.

The long unlocking time is due to the rootfs being encrypted on a big core desktop system (see `man 8 cryptsetup` /--iter-time)

RT @Ende__Gelaende@twitter.com

3000 activists in 16 action groups are currently blocking ...

👏Fossil gas infrastructure!
👏Fossil lignite infrastructure!
👏Fossil capitalism!

... in the lignite mining area Rhineland, Germany!
WE SHUT SHIT DOWN!
#EndeGelaende #FightClimateInjustice

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Ende__Gelaende/status/1309842307940782080

This article by Barton Gelman, in the Atlantic, pulls from sources within the Republican Party, and lays out their strategy to stay in power, essentially engage in a coup, if they lose the election.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/

Regardless of how many of us feel about elections, this is something we have to pay attention to.

The strategy Gelman talks about has three phases.

The first is using the police and forces from the Right to intimidate voters in cities in swing states.

The San Francisco Police Department reportedly used face surveillance—despite last year's ban on government use of this dangerous technology. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Facial-recognition-tech-used-to-build-SFPD-gun-15595796.php

Just vibin', designing a worker collective/consumer co-op hybrid for bootstrapping early stage #coops.

Read our advice for staying safe in demonstrations in the U.S. and elsewhere https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest

DHS should not be flying surveillance aircraft over protesters demanding justice for Breonna Taylor. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqmxn/dhs-flew-two-surveillance-aircraft-over-breonna-taylor-protests

Anger and Confusion After Facebook Suspends Environmental and Indigenous Groups' Accounts Ahead of Pipeline Protest | Common Dreams News
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/22/anger-and-confusion-after-facebook-suspends-environmental-and-indigenous-groups