Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Today Zoom reached a settlement with the FTC to close its security holes and protect its users better.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/11/ftc-requires-zoom-enhance-its-security-practices-part-settlement

Do we trust our intimate conversations with doctors, colleagues, friends and family to this company?

Wouldn't it be good to join an online meeting platform that you can trust? That is owned by users and workers? That is not analysing user behaviour?

Did you check out #meetcoop? Online meetings with privacy first.

Become a member today! http://meet.coop

Love it. Weekly English chat with a Japanese union leader (low level leader) who reported that they blocked a company attempt to make the workers pay for Covid losses by reducing staff. The key to their success was developing a good relationship with the other, larger, union in their workplace. (Like Europe, it is possible in Japan to have more than one union represent workers in the same company.) It reminded me of the excellent film "Human Resources" by Laurent Cantet: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220726/

Then you could have a worker co-op created after you're done remodeling the reclaimed housing -- a crew that could then start getting work in the larger economy, and be around to provide repairs to the collective housing as well.
2/2

https://shelterforce.org/2020/11/02/activists-win-control-of-vacant-philadelphia-buildings-now-what/

Remodeling abandoned buildings is no joke. The building trades, like anything, take a long time to get good at, and the skills require practice to do well, which is something the activists should not underestimate.

I'd think it would be much more efficient to intensively train a crew to do all the work for everybody, rather than try to train everybody to do a portion of the work that needs done 1/2

Jalil Muntaqim, recently paroled after 49 years, was arrested Friday and is facing re-imprisonment for completing a voter registration form

Community sign on letter is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdW2zfSqUm28Xk7BbUi2gicD-YwAcbwfvI3vG3ToOdyiYeXDw/viewform

Source: https://sfbayview.com/2020/10/jalil-muntaqim-recently-paroled-after-49-years-was-arrested-friday-and-is-facing-re-imprisonment-for-completing-a-voter-registration-form/

@lwriemen @brown121407 I'm not necessarily implying any such thing, just curious if it was made obvious beforehand or not. I have this fear that schools and workplaces obscure the fact that they plan to force proprietary software on you, making it harder to avoid them. If you've already committed to a job or a class when you suddenly find out you have to use Windows or Matlab or whatever else, it's a lot harder and more uncomfortable to get out of than if you'd known ahead of time and been able to avoid it. If you decide you can deal with it, you can still take a job after finding out, but not knowing before it's too late is terrible.

You can still pre-order the Librem 5 and save $50 - but this early bird pricing ends November 15th!

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#privacy #freedom #security #librem5

Bits from the release team: winter^Wfreeze is coming https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/11/msg00002.html

The RIAA just abused the DMCA to have a tool taken offline that doesn't infringe on any RIAA copyrights. https://t.co/Z3a4xYk3VV

😭 On microsoft's hostile practices 😭

Outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com blocking disroot emails.
Read more at:
https://disroot.org/en/blog/microsoft_hostility

Yay, now we can start criticizing the neo-cons' policies without being distracted by stupidity every 2 days.

Biden is going to be a *terrible* president for Americans. But compared to Trump, it'll feel like he's perfect. Don't hold him to that very low standard 😉

I've been working with C++ for almost 25 years now.

My first reaction when I open a C++ file still is:

Yuck, gross 😂

Linux version of RansomEXX ransomware discovered | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-version-of-ransomexx-ransomware-discovered/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

Yes push Biden left but also consider revolting against a system that made us choose between Biden and Trump in the first place.

Oh, HP, never change.

First you tricked people with a fake "security update," that blocked cheap ink, then you invented rented ink, and now
you've redefined "free ink for life" to mean "$0.99/month, forever, or else."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer https://t.co/B7OAjMb0WD