Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The elephant in the room. Folks in NZ gov't need to read this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-poses-threat-to-germanys-digital-sovereignty-warns-study/ and ask themselves, seriously... have we in NZ (and in every other country, for that matter) made precisely the same strategic blunder? Is it a failure of vision and leadership? I think so.

@Gargron Nah, it's the trojan horse into Slack. That's what it is. Once they own Giphy, they pretty much own Slack.

So every time someone posts a #Giphy GIF in a chat and every time you open Giphy in your app / keyboard, Facebook will get data on you, did I get that right? Is that why a GIF collection was worth $400M?

The number of small banks is declining dramatically.

Creation of new banks has stopped almost entirely.

Regulations are burdening small banks the most, although they were least responsible for the '08 financial crisis.

We need proportional regulation.

A new article "Small banks are massacred by disproportionate regulation" on Mutual Interest, a free online newspaper #coop owned by the readers and writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/05/small-banks-are-massacred-by-disproportionate-regulation

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Your Own Personal Enclave: The Smart Card Reader on the Librem 5

https://puri.sm/posts/your-own-personal-enclave-the-smart-card-reader-on-the-librem-5/

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#security #privacy #freedom #linux #librem5

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This Is America #116: Against the Economy of Death https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-116/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Mitch McConnell is pushing the Senate to pass a measure that would let the FBI collect Americans' web-browsing history without a warrant
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-patriot-act-renewal-fbi-web-browsing-history-2020-5 #privacy #security #purism

hello internet plz add created date and last updated date on all your articles kthx

Seems to me that *this* is what we really have to worry about: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic The tech billionaires and their corporate arms definitely won't save us. They will, however, be delighted to exploit us.

Big Oil's Climate Plans Don't Come Close to Meeting the Paris Agreement
https://earther.gizmodo.com/big-oils-climate-plans-dont-come-close-to-meeting-the-p-1843418530 #climatechange #climatecrisis

Twitter led the migration of tech orgs from the rest of the Bay Area north into SF. I suspect many will follow their lead to a distributed workforce w/o SF's high cost of living. Big implications for SF economy mid-term.

The Great UDP Joke.

https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-12/

Surveillance vendor NSO Group pitched hacking tools to US police forces that would "turn your target's smartphone into an intelligence gold mine" #privacy #infosec https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8899nz/nso-group-pitched-phone-hacking-tech-american-police

This sounds very cool.

RT @ThatTimWalker@twitter.com

People who say ‘well, he’s doing the best he can and who honestly could ever have got on top of something like #COVIDー19?’ should watch this.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1258891604301099008

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra

Turns out good developers, who want to build better software, just ditch Windows, and use Linux. Cut out the cheesy unnecessary middleman.

What do you get when you take a majestic eagle, a symbol of strength, beauty, and freedom... and lock it in a dingy cage? You get tragedy. Or you get irony, like Microsoft's WSL - the worse of both worlds: freedom, totally constrained by relentless mediocrity.

Amusingly, despite MSFT's massive PR campaign, looks like not too many have been taken in by this completely pointless development: http://techrights.org/2020/05/07/microsoft-wsl-evasion/

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