We urge Google and Apple to remove from their respective app stores ALL apps that contain SDKs from data brokers that collect and sell our location data.
Google is threatening to remove certain apps from its Play Store, unless these apps provide users with better information about how they harvest and monetize location data. Good.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vp35/google-tells-apps-disclose-location-data-removed-huq
Vampire capitalism is coming. New use for the term, blood money.
https://newsbots.eu/@ScienceDaily/107413411229055649
TIL about funding a co-op with "revenue-based financing."
CVS already had a really bad online presence; this won't make it better, and will reduce customer privacy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2021/12/02/cvs-microsoft-partner-to-bring-digital-first-care-to-customers/?sh=61a06e702645
@fribbledom You could read about both at https://www.dbdebunk.com/ ;-)
@lightweight you have to factor in electoral college.
PSA: There is now a CfP for the FOSS on mobile devroom @FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/foss_on_mobile_devices/
@lightweight I agree with the sentiment, but COVID-19 isn't deadly enough to make a significant dent. Even adding in hospitalizations without death, that might make some reconsider support of the USA's costly healthcare system, you still don't even get to 10%.
Wow - fascinating. In the generally totally munted US political scene, this info drops: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=F-bpASAVEPU - US voting districts which favoured Republicans (i.e. Trumpists) last election, the rates of vaccination are substantially lower (like 40% lower). Their COVID contraction and *death* rates are also *much* higher. In tightly contested races, the Republicans have lost the natural selection race, and will likely lose the election race. Too bad, but just desserts.
BigBlueButton Tutorial
https://events.oeru.org/events/440930c7-0d56-4e57-bbb0-0ff713a55865
Everyone deserves #privacy. The United Nations even codified it as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
However, governments, corporations, and other powerful entities routinely block us from exercising our right to privacy through #surveillance, monitoring, and tracking.
Mark your calendars for PrivChat 6 on 2021-12-15 at 19:00 UTC:
Gitxsan land defenders are still facing legal repression from the rail blockades set up on their unceded territory last year in support of their Wet'suwet'en allies. Shoot them some cash and/or help spread their call for support. #ShutDownCanada
https://www.gofundme.com/f/gitxsan-land-defenders-legal-fund
📣 We're happy to share w/ the fediverse our new website:
https://bonfirenetworks.org
We tried hard to communicate the vision and the motivations that nurture bonfire ecosystem. We also included new technical guides to setup and configure a new instance, to play with it or contribute to the development.
Any feedback is welcome :)
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Soil Care Network November newsletter as normal loads of interesting stuff
https://www.soilcarenetwork.com/2021-november
#soil
#gardening
@lightweight typo in your link.
Shell is trying hard to greenwash fossil gas as a "clean" fuel. But the reality is a dirty one: In Vaca Muerta, Argentina, @Shell is constructing a new gas field, which is being linked to numerous violations of indigenous and human rights and environmental destruction. #MoveShell
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa