Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Would the most cost-effective form of organising for socialism be to campaign in workers pension fund trustee elections, push them to borrow money now when the interest rates are low, and use it to buy ownership in big corporations?

Trustee elections seem to have low turnout, so would be easier to gain a majority than in other elections.

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