Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Goodbye CentOS, hello Rocky Linux | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/goodbye-centos-hello-rocky-linux/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

#SouthAfrica's chief justice unrepentant for linking #Covid-9 #vaccines to satanism | South Africa | The Guardian

This guy seems to be a moron. He should resign or be sacked immediately for endangering the population.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/south-africa-chief-justice-unrepentant-link-vaccines-satanism-coronavirus

Precursor - What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway? | Crowd Supply
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates/whats-the-value-of-hackable-hardware-anyway

@lwriemen yes - I think communities have to wise up regarding the "nature" of the corporate beast. I've characterised it here: https://davelane.nz/megacorps

International development cooperation is increasingly digitised and #FreeSoftware fundamental to reach the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Together with experts in the field, he FSFE summarises the background in an article and demands #publiccode in international development cooperation:
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201210-01.html

Unfiltered: How YouTube’s ‘Content ID’ Helps Shape What We See Online
https://www.thedailyfodder.com/2020/12/unfiltered-how-youtubes-content-id.html?m=1

Death of an Open Source Business Model | by Joe Morrison | Dec, 2020 | Medium
https://joemorrison.medium.com/death-of-an-open-source-business-model-62bc227a7e9b

Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not
https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/12/10/nobody-owns-linux-but-you-can-pay-for-it-or-not/

"Spotify resets passwords after a security bug exposed users’ private account information"

In a data breach notification ... the music streaming giant said the data exposed “may have included email address, your preferred display name, *PASSWORD*, gender, and date of birth only to certain business partners of Spotify.”

Wait, wat?! Passwords?

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/spotify-resets-user-passwords-after-a-bug-exposed-private-account-information/

We - open organisations and communities - need to avoid dependencies on listed corporations. They use open communities to launder their reputation (at best) or to co-opt them and shut them down because they're represent a threat to that corporation's profitability. Because of their incentives, they do not act in a benevolent way in the medium to long term. They are not allies, except of temporary convenience, and dependencies on them undermine our credibility & cloud our own values.

As always, Giridharadas is worth a read... this article especially (for folks here in the Fediverse): https://the.ink/p/we-can-have-democracy-or-we-can-have

#phosh 0.7.0 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.7.0

This features automatic media mounting, initial support for background XML, handling of per app `show-banners` notification setting and fixes for swipe window closing by @exalm@floss.social

#librem5 @purism #gnomeonmobile

.@senjudiciary is currently discussing the Online Content Modernization Policy Act. We urge them to reject this unconstitutional mess of a bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/online-content-policy-modernization-act-unconstitutional-mess

It’s shocking that politicians pushing for a more exclusionary Internet are doing so under the banner of free speech; it’s even more shocking that the president has dubbed it a matter of national security. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment

Looking forward to working with colleagues at COL in progressing open courses for technical and vocational skills development. #CTVSD2