Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

One thing NZ should definitely be avoiding is adopting US/Silicon Valley-style Venture Capital culture. It's driven purely by profit, it's committed to unhealthy US corporate tech dependence, and creates weak companies destined (at best) for offshore purchase, who contribute little to NZ & seldom produce anything good for humanity or the planet. They invented surveillance capitalism & "first hit's free" loss-leading tech capture to co-opt businesses early.

Comic: The one about UI toolkits

https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-21-b/

California prison officials are refusing to release data crucial to researchers' efforts to detect bias in parole decisions. We're proud to represent these researchers in a lawsuit to release this information. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Researchers-filing-lawsuit-against-California-15286733.php

EFF submitted a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on racial discrimination describing our years of research, litigation, and advocacy concerning the growing problem of surveillance at the U.S. border.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/eff-un-expert-racial-discrimination-mass-border-surveillance-hurts-vulnerable

Just read that Barry Goldwater became a pariah in the Republican party in his later years NOT because of his racism, but because of his support for environmentalist and pro-LGBT causes.

American politics is weird!

Original cartoon by Graeme MacKay, edited by unknown.
#climatechange #COVID19

In a landmark decision the German Constitutional Court has ruled that mass surveillance of telecommunications outside of Germany conducted on foreign nationals is unconstitutional.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/victory-german-mass-surveillance-abroad-ruled-unconstitutional

RT @juhasaarinen@twitter.com

Covid 19 coronavirus: NZ Govt tracer app enriches Jeff Bezos, not locals, via @nzherald@twitter.com https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12333291

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/juhasaarinen/status/1262870086496292864

🎉️ libhandy 0.80.0 is out!

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy/tags/v0.80.0

This 1st alpha to the upcoming libhandy 1 offers free-form windows, swipeable decks, a cleaner and simpler API, vastly improved styling, and more!

See the migration documentation: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libhandy/unstable/hdy-migrating-0-0-to-1.html

As an alpha, it is not suitable for distribution, use it if you want to start porting your app to libhandy 1, but be aware its API and ABI *will* change before the 1st beta release.

MSFT be all like "remember those 20ish years where we fought dirty as & tried to knife you at every opportunity? Ha ha! We were *really* your buddies all along! BFF now, eh!" ("oh, but we still hate you Copyleft freaks... OSS folks, let's divide & conquer that nasty freedom.") shttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/15/microsoft_brad_smith_open_source/

#Microsoft #Windows TCO:☞ Paying Ransomware Crooks Doubles Clean-up Costs, Report https://threatpost.com/paying-ransomware-crooks-doubles-clean-up-costs-report/155767/

The default rule for court records is that the public must have full access—even if those records contain unsavory details. Any departure from that rule must be narrow and well-justified. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/court-upholds-public-right-access-court-documents

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

Become a member here:

https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

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/

Learn more about the Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#security #privacy #freedom #linux #librem5