Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I think the people who help us define the post-COVID "new normal" are not those with influence prior. We need the folks who're happy with less to call the shots. Equating influence & "success" & credibility with wealth is what got us into all these messes to start with. I suspect wealth is inversely correlated with happiness, satisfaction, and kindness. We want to be sustainably prosperous, not wealthy.

Contact-tracing app caught sharing location data with Foursquare
https://mashable.com/article/care19-north-dakota-contact-tracing-app-sharing-location-data-foursquare/ #privacy #security #purism #librem5

This is pretty huge https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/05/patent-case-against-gnome-resolved/ and it shows how idiotic and counter-productive for humanity software patents are. (there's lots more info still to emerge) Thank goodness for this outcome, as the alternative would've been full-dystopia.

@lightweight Vulture Capitalists in new Zealand are basically a way of siphoning skills and markets overseas by inserting (usually) American corporates into the board and taking it over. Once infested, the core of the business is then ripped out and sold overseas, usually to buddies of the stacked board. The remains collapse, but that's New Zealand's problem.

I have the strong impression that VCs tend to have strong confirmation bias based on whatever fluke (of birth or business "success") put them into the position of being a VC... leading to repetition of previous ill-advised approaches & generally fails to identify real, valuable novelty. And ethics (*why* are we doing this?) doesn't even feature.

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