Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Schools should use technology to serve students, rather than using it as a tool to discipline them. Here’s our advice for both students and schools in this situation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/what-do-when-schools-use-canvas-or-blackboard-logs-allege-cheating

Update on how we are accelerating Librem 5 software support in mainline Linux ➡️ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-support-in-mainline-linux/

#Anti-vaccine #protesters storm #BBC #HQ – years after it moved out | #Coronavirus | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/confused-anti-vaccine-protesters-storm-bbc-hq-years-after-moved-out

"Confused anti-vaccine protesters stormed what they thought was a major BBC building on Monday, apparently unaware the corporation largely moved out almost a decade ago."

They could have left out the word “Confused” and it would still be the same.

#UK #Pandemic

Doordash calls its workers "independent contractors," but when Dashers installed an app called Para to find out how much they'd earn from each job, the company treated them like nefarious data-thieves. Tech rights are workers' rights!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/tech-rights-are-workers-rights-doordash-edition

Looking for an open source or co-op small business suite. Anyone have ideas? A collection of apps like @disroot except geared towards teams (we don't all have to register an account separately, we can share documents, etc.) does this exist? #askfediverse

The Warrior Met strike in AL is what actual solidarity looks like...which is why In These Times is one of the only places you'll read about it. You will find nothing AT ALL about the strike or this incredible rally in the New York Times, for instance. Funny that...

https://inthesetimes.com/article/at-a-massive-union-rally-the-promise-of-a-better-south

EFF opposes an amendment to the cryptocurrency provision of the infrastructure bill by Sens. Warner & Portman. It fails to protect software developers & is not technologically neutral. We urge Congress to pass Wyden-Lummis-Toomey amendment instead: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/cryptocurrency-surveillance-provision-buried-infrastructure-bill-disaster-digital (1/8)

Citizen's "Protect" plan would enable users to contact a special service whenever they feel threatened. Actively inserting itself between emergency responders and users who think they are in a crisis situation is a terrible idea, says EFF's @JGKelley https://www.wired.com/story/citizen-protect-subscription/

Apple: Think Different.
Users: Great!
Apple: About encryption and privacy.
Users: Yeah!!
Apple: We’re scanning your private messages, and we’re gonna tell your parents.
Users:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/apple-plans-to-scan-us-iphones-for-child-abuse-imagery/

Are you and your friends tech experts? Sign up to participate in EFF's @defcon Tech Trivia today to play and win some prizes! #DEFCON29 https://eff.org/techtrivia

Apple's filtering of iMessage and iCloud is not a slippery slope to backdoors that suppress speech and make our communications less secure. We’re already there: this is a fully-built system just waiting for external pressure to make the slightest change. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life

#HollingsworthHound in #Space! | Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2021/08/04/hollingsworth-hound-in-space.html

#Humour #Cartoon

It occurs to me that dogs are strong evidence that it's possible to be noble without being dignified.

I was going to write something up about Apple's new child safety features, but the @EFF post on the subject covers what I would have wanted to say, better than I could say it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life

iPhone users don't live in a walled garden, they live in a digital nursing home. They are well taken care of, but Apple controls the property, activities and visitors. Apple plans to search residents regularly for contraband. #privacy https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

#ClimateCrisis: Scientists spot warning signs of #GulfStream collapse | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-crisis-scientists-spot-warning-signs-of-gulf-stream-collapse

#Environment #GlobalWarming

The #GNotification / #GApplication side went smoother than expected https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/2207 (thanks Philip!) so chatty and calls will show different LED feedback in upcoming releases: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/merge_requests/767 once #glib 2.70 is out.

This is sensible to see. https://fossbytes.com/german-government-open-source-cloud-nextcloud/ Will other sovereign gov'ts also finally notice that they've effectively handed the deciding vote in their democracies to anti-democratic US tech megacorps? (https://davelane.nz/mshostage)