Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Our car radio does not do #bluetooth so after fixing up headphone detection in device tree and finishing #phosh's mpris MediaPlayer2 interface i can now feed sound via a 3.5mm audio cable from my l5 to the car radio via #mpd and #mpDris2 . Will show up on a #librem5 near you soon.

RT @eff: 🚔 Learn to identify police surveillance devices commonly used at protests. 🚔 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/how-identify-visible-and-invisible-surveillance-protests

Facebook's deactivation of accounts of journalists and activists, while allowing similar content from politicians, is clear and continuing evidence that it dangerously privileges and creates exemptions for those already in positions of power https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-doesn-t-care-activists-say-accounts-removed-despite-zuckerberg-n1231110

this is cool! Try it :)

https://ncase.me/trust/

Let me be clear here: I'm all for getting rid of master/slave in the context of disks, databases, DNS, ... the list is very, very long.

But when it comes to git, I always considered the term "master" in the same context as we use it in "master degree" or "master tournament".

There is no "git slave" after all, and that analogy wouldn't make much sense there.

While the transition phase may be a bit rocky, I'll happily switch to "main", though 🙂

Facebook makes a Slack competitor called "Facebook Workplace," with marquee customers like the government of Singapore, Walmart, Discovery Communications, Starbucks, and Campbell Soup Corporation.

On Wednesday, the company demonstrated a new suite of features for Workplace, including the ability to censor certain words or topics from the system. The example they chose? "Unionize."

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-unionize/

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Hot take: We should aim for 'decentralized' networks that are simple enough that they can be understood and improved by lots of people.

The 'fully distributed, but only fully understood by a few people' pattern is unsustainable and tends toward a society where software developers are not representative of software users.

ISPs, media companies, and tech companies work together to eliminate your choices online. HBO Max is just the best example of it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/streaming-laying-bare-how-big-isps-big-tech-and-big-media-work-together-against

Great article @GuerillaOntologist !

https://geo.coop/articles/making-worker-co-ops-antifragile

Have you come across Worker Coop Solidarity Fund?

https://solidfund.coop/

#Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, #cloud data shows | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-worst-case-scenarios-clouds-scientists-global-heating

#Environment #GlobalWarming #Clouds

Keep recording. Independent recordings of police officers are critical for ensuring police accountability. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/you-have-first-amendment-right-record-police

Ouch: Linux Monster Laptop Powered by AMD, Not Intel
https://news.softpedia.com/news/ouch-linux-monster-laptop-powered-by-amd-not-intel-530244.shtml

Reading this https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists reinforces what's already obvious. We need better, smarter, uncorrupted gov'ts and no corporations. There're a bunch of current leaders who need to be removed from power, stat.

If you ever had trouble seeing where monopoly, net neutrality, and technology intertwine, well then thanks to AT&T for its achievement in HBO Max. No one knows what it’s supposed to do, but everyone can see what’s wrong with it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/streaming-laying-bare-how-big-isps-big-tech-and-big-media-work-together-against

After a discussion at our #FOSS meetup on Tuesday, I'm wondering if anyone can explain to me why Linux distros like Debian (and downstream, like Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) need Snap or AppImage? Given that we have a mature, robust software management infrastructure already, they seem entirely superfluous based on my (admittedly superficial) understanding of why they exist.

@lightweight It'll be down to the actual software itself, how much you want it, and how it's available. There are some packages available as both Snap and as .deb on Ubuntu, so I make sure to prefer the .deb ones.

But sooner or later you'll want something that's only in a Snap. But it's all down to the trust that you have in the Snap maintainer - there's been actual malware in the Ubuntu Snap store for example, because the Ubuntu security team aren't involved.

@jonathanharker (or, in other words: "Microsoft = a bunch of dim bulbs who don't even realise how painfully derivative they are". Sadly, the only people less savvy: their target market ([G]CIOs, CTOs, etc.).

@lightweight It seems to be part of an effort to make desktop Linux more appealing to a less technically adept user. Personally, if I wanted an 'easy' OS at the expense of bloat, I'd go back to Windows.

Flatpak, AppImage, etc. taste like surrender.