Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Security companies sometimes use "we're in Switzerland" to imply that makes them more secure or private. But better protection from government compulsion doesn't do much good if the company itself decides to collect and sell your location data. #privacy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-06/this-swiss-tech-exec-is-said-to-have-operated-a-secret-surveillance-operation

"Conventionally, liberal theory conceived creativity as the capacity of the individual exercised in isolation by an unusually gifted person, the (white male) genius (Woodmansee, 1984). Many cultural tropes, from the writer struggling with the empty page, to the artist secluded in her atelier, and the inventor with his personal “eureka” moment, reflect and popularise this notion."

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Long ago, back in 1996, the entire Internet (there weren't so many of us back then) turned our pages black and protested a hostile government takeover attempt.

One of our poets wrote this manifesto, "A Declaration of the independence of Cyberspace". Take a listen if you haven't heard, or haven't lately.

https://invidious.snopyta.org/3WS9DhSIWR0

RT @json_dirs@twitter.com

Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale.
Is this the way we want science to work?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1466951017459716096

Fred Hampton murdered by da fbi n da chicago pd on this day, December 4, 1969.

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Hey, it turns out that it is in fact possible for values-driven companies to stop participating in practices that are known to cause people harm, even when it may impact revenue.

Now, where are the nonprofits?

https://mashable.com/article/lush-quit-facebook-instagram-tiktok-snapchat-social-media-harms

The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy - Karl Bode @ VICE (2018): https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sites

Gives me some hope that if people have to give up "must see" movies/TV anyways (or resort to piracy), that gives free culture an opportunity to get a foothold...

This Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control https://www.synack.com/blog/this-microsoft-windows-rce-vulnerability-gives-an-attacker-complete-control/

TL;DR it's still worst practice to use Remote Desktop for anything other than running a honeypot.

Amazon rainforest destruction 2020

It's currently 60 degrees F here in NW Montana. We've had maybe an 1/8 inch of snow so far this year. Last year, Winter didn't ever really arrive, and it's starting to look like we're gonna have a repeat this year. Starting to think Winter just isn't going to be a thing anymore. 😧