Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Work at Google. Work at Facebook. Work at Palantir. Heck, work at Phillip Morris or Exxon Mobil or Halliburton. But don’t you dare be proud of it. And don’t you dare tell me you’re working to bring about a better world for everyday people. Don’t you fucking even dare.

Today in #Berlin the pigs and german state are trying to evict anarcho-queer-feminist project #Liebig34. Solidarity with all those on the streets! Berlin for people not pigs!

https://puri.sm/jobs/ On-Site EE position and PureOS GTK App Dev position posted https://puri.sm/job/pureos-gtk-application-development/ come join!

The Google v Oracle ruling will be hugely consequential for software development. Even if the Supreme Court finds fair use, that may be small comfort for startups that can't afford to litigate to protect their right to reimplement APIs https://www.forbes.com/sites/martingiles/2020/10/07/supreme-court-google-and-oracle-api-software-case/#23adea3b592c

Electric cars really do cost less to own than gas-powered vehicles, report says
https://www.engadget.com/electric-cars-cost-less-to-own-than-gas-vehicles-133913554.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

If you like, use or even produce Podcasts, you should read this. And you should demand podcasts to be available via RSS. Having a show locked into Spotify or audible is _not_ a podcast. You're just handing them your audience for free.
https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2020/10/08/podcast-privacy-tracking-listener-data

@stephaniewalter This is a great idea! I wonder though about the tax implications. Would the receiving organization have to pay taxes on the gift they received from you? Any experience with that?

@purism While fixing #convergence related issues in #phosh, #phoc and the kernel for the #librem5 I wanted things to be more automatic. So #phosh can now enable a 'docked' mode on screen plug: windows become moveable automatically (and get their close button back), #squeekboard gets disabled and there's a quick setting that lets you toggle that too:

Introducing: Fund Your App

Vote for the mobile phone apps you desire to see working on the #librem5 phone!

https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/

"Fund Your App is a great way to show how far we have come with the Librem 5 and PureOS, it also allows people to vote on what is our app development priority."

#privacy #freedom

● NEWS ● #ITWire ☞ US report says big four tech firms need to be reined in https://www.itwire.com/technology-regulation/us-report-says-big-four-tech-firms-need-to-be-reined-in.html unacceptable that #microsoft is left out http://techrights.org/2020/08/01/microsoft-loves-trump/

Courts have been forcing people to defend themselves from eviction on proprietary videoconferencing platforms. We should not accept opaque, proprietary software as infrastructure for our democracy. Read more: https://u.fsf.org/35n

The Compost Co-op in Greenfield MA was started by formerly incarcerated people to provide living wage jobs for returning citizens. With a successful worker co-op under their belt, they're now looking to purchase an apartment building to provide safe, affordable housing for their members. If you can spare a few bucks, help these amazing comrades make their down payment:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/affordable-housing-and-coop-sustainability

US #Cooperative Resource Ecosystem Map from Univ. Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives

https://uwcc.wisc.edu/research/national-cooperative-resource-ecosystem/