Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

GTK 4.0 is here! After four years of hard work from our dedicated developers, GTK 4.0 was released today. Some highlights from this release include media playback, drag-and-drop, and scalable lists and grids. Learn more about what's new in GTK 4.0: https://blog.gtk.org/

#GTK #opensource #FOSS #release

The Debian web updates its homepage and prepares for a major renewal https://bits.debian.org/2020/12/debian-web-new-homepage.html

A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night
https://futurism.com/new-satellite-buildings-day-night

[Full-time] Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10310/site-reliability-engineer-at-wikimedia-foundation/ #jobs

"Help NYC drivers launch a platform cooperative"

https://ioby.org/project/help-nyc-drivers-launch-platform-cooperative#.X9Yjx4K9LgI.facebook

Who had "US Air Force launches SkyNet" on their 2020 bingo card? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/16/air-force-artificial-intelligence/

I hope there is more to the story than this because if not...wth...
♲ @zackwhittaker@twitter.com:

SolarWinds, whose software was backdoored to allow hackers to breach U.S. government agencies, was warned last year that anyone could access its update server using the password "solarwinds123", per @Bing_Chris and @razhael.
Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it

How many times has #Trump #lost the #election ahahahaha | #FirstDogOnTheMoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/16/how-many-times-has-trump-lost-the-election-ahahahaha

#Humour #Satire

French Film Company Somehow Trademarks 'Planet', Goes After Environmental NGOs For Using The Word - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201215/09492645887/french-film-company-somehow-trademarks-planet-goes-after-environmental-ngos-using-word.shtml remember that Canal Plus doesn't care about saving this planet...

☘ American journal of botany
Lancaster, Pa.: Published in cooperation with the Botanical Society of America by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, 1914-
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47137777

What is Technology for Liberation?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/astraea.production/app/asset/uploads/2020/12/Technologies-for-Liberation-1.pdf

Palantir, for example, produces software for ICE agents to profile and arrest families of undocumented status, playing a direct role in taking migrant children away from their
parents and caging them in privately run detention facilities.75

Keytap2 - acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on language n-gram frequencies:

https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio/discussions/31

Want to take a COVID test at home? You must install an app to get the results: "Ellume’s test requires users to download an app on their smartphone to learn their test result. That app automatically sends data by Zip code to the cloud"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/15/covid-home-rapid-test/

Visa and Mastercard, acting together, are currently a chokepoint for online payments. This means their arbitrary policies often decide what you can read - or watch - online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-are-trying-dictate-what-you-can-watch-pornhub

The only Christmas song that matters 🎄 🧔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLNqmDOa-Ww

(Probably NSFW...depending on where you work)

It's because most vendors think of customers as children that must be protected from themselves by removing as much agency and control as possible. This also makes customers completely dependent on them.