Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Microsoft continuing it's frankly predatory behaviour. Thread on how this will abuse poorer consumers.
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RT @GossiTheDog
Microsoft added Buy Now Pay Later into Edge (and so Windows 10 and 11 base OS), a thing which is known to be abused to harm people.

The tags on the post on Microsoft’s website say it all. Keep speaking out.
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1465613506376613894

The Token Disconnect

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/disconnect.html

The customer *isn't* always right.

There. I've said it.

As reported by @derspiegel and @politico, Nextcloud has filed a complaint with the EU as well as the German anti-trust authorities over the behavior of Microsoft.

Find input from all the supporting organizations on our website https://antitrust.nextcloud.com

https://nextcloud.com/blog/eu-tech-sector-fights-for-a-level-playing-field-with-microsoft/

#GitHub is down.

Can we please have #OpenSource federated forges now?

Still true.

#GoodDeeds #quotes

The newly-agreed #German government coalition called for a Europe-wide ban on public #facialRecognition and other dangerous biometric #surveillance, as part of negotiations over the forthcoming #AI Act.

https://reclaimyourface.eu/new-german-government-calls-for-european-ban-on-biometric-mass-surveillance/

Poorly designed regulations cause more problems than they solve. To assert control over online platforms, government in #India granted itself expansive #censorship and #surveillance powers through "IT Rules" that include provisions to undermine #encryption. Now the rules are the target of multiple lawsuits. Here's why no one should back off.

https://scroll.in/article/1010778/how-the-modi-governments-new-it-rules-jeopardise-the-right-to-privacy-and-free-speech

#privacy

Fingers crossed for a change to the brutal regime

‘Hundreds of fake Twitter accounts have spread authentic-looking lies about Castro; fake opinion polls appear alongside real ones; 300,000 voters still don’t have the identity cards they will need at polling stations.’

John Perry on Honduras’s elections:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/november/end-of-a-narcostate

Here's the theory behind Europe's GDPR: if an online service wants to collect, store and/or process your personal information, it has to obtain your real, informed consent for each of those activities. In theory, this should have exterminated surveillance-based "behavioral" ads. In practice, nothing of the sort has happened...yet.

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My late husband J-P was one of those who resist the attempts by marketers to shoehorn "Black Friday" into the celebrations of a country that doesn't even celebrate Thanksgiving.

He created this very simple website - please share it widely today!

http://www.isitblackfridayintheuk.com/

did you know that #mastodon web UI has OCR built in? so when you are posting screenshots of text, a transcription of the text to put into a description of the image is literally one click away. when uploading image into a toot, just klik 'Edit' and then 'detect text from picture'. that's it.

please help sighted people. it's costing you two extra clicks.

#accessibility

An English language version of a story I posted in German earlier in the week... https://news.itsfoss.com/german-state-foss/

Sad to see this Adobe / Docusign pseudo-security bollocks gaining ground. I guess it makes some people rich, but it adds nothing in terms of security or legal standing.

There are plenty of ways to electronically "sign" a document without trying to fake my own signature with a mouse on some proprietary website. *sigh*

We are thankful for @StanfordLibs KNOW Systemic Racism project for helping us create the first ever index of California law enforcement policy manuals. https://www.eff.org/sb978-Apr2021

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