Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Anonymized" location data, isn't. Catholic priest resigns after legally-obtained Grindr app data from a broker correlated location data with his and relatives' homes, his place of work, and gay bars. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-quits-after-anonymized-data-revealed-alleged-use-of-grindr/

Jeff Bezos Got as Much Morning Show Coverage in a Day as Climate Change Got All Last Year
https://gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-got-as-much-morning-show-coverage-in-a-day-a-1847334966 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Fascinating. A good read for all those FOSSy Microsoft lovers. https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/27/Microsoft-plays-their-hand.html

Can't stop thinking about a new model for community-based development where there's co-ownership between users and maintainers, hybrid coop-style.

Maintainers' buy-in is labor.
Users' buy-in is remuneration for maintainers.

And both get to participate in decision-making.

Conservatives ARE being censored by Big Tech. So is everyone else, from Palestinians to Christian ministries to sex educators. Big Tech won't get moderation right for billions of us - but interoperability lets communities set their own standards. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship

"Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry"

-- Ted Nelson

Looking at the concerns over the energy cost of Bitcoin mining... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018804363/dr-tara-shirvani-on-the-environmental-cost-of-crypto-we-have-to-find-solutions - why not do as Kim Stanley Robinson suggests in The Ministry for the Future and create a new crypto currency where a full coin is awarded for proven sequestration of each ton of carbon (or prorated values) instead. That'd reward, for example, oil producing countries and petro-chem corps for keeping their carbon in the ground.

If you want to support an musician, buy their album and go to their shows. If you want to support a writer, buy their book. Speaking from personal experience, subscription services that let you use content w/o buying it (like streaming), rips off creators. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/21/07/18/1922249/music-streaming-inquiry-finds-pitiful-returns-for-performers

One has to wonder where humanity would be now if not for the incredible retarding effect of organised religion and the dark age it perpetrated (and its continued influence against scientific thought). The religious establishment has so many injustices (beyond just stifling science) to answer for.

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/huge-data-leak-shatters-lie-innocent-need-not-fear-surveillance

It's strange that we are solving the problem that people use the same passwords everywhere, by replacing passwords with unrevokable biometrics, that *have* to be the same everywhere to work.

Debian bullseye reaches final milestone and is now fully frozen! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/07/msg00002.html

A win for #union #democracy at the Teamsters Union! Woo hoo!

https://labornotes.org/2021/07/convention-no-other-teamster-challengers-turn-corner

I invested in The Drivers Cooperative (@TheDriversCoop@twitter.com) on @wefunder@twitter.com and you should too!

https://wefunder.com/driverscoop

My new article: "More Leisure Should Be Coupled With Making Leisure Better".

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/07/more-leisure-should-be-coupled-with-making-leisure-better

Reductions in working hours should be combined with policies that enable and encourage people to use their spare time in ways that are beneficial to themselves and others, like exercising or editing Wikipedia.

We should also stop our obsession with measuring success with GDP and shareholder value.

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Even though it's a Friday, feeling despondent today listening to people invoking 'whataboutism' to justify doing frickin' nothing about their impact on our biosphere. As a result, we continue to accelerate towards a brick wall, and the most precious and vulnerable (life, not just humans) will be the first to suffer. Our institutions and gov'ts are not suited to dealing with this existential crisis. At best, they're deck chair-rearrangers.I'm struggling to see any cause for optimism.

"Many eyes make bugs shallow" doesn't apply to security bugs. You need the *right* eyes auditing the code. Until then, backdoors like this can hide in plain sight. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/for-years-a-backdoor-in-popular-kiwisdr-product-gave-root-to-project-developer/

Means TV is offering a pay-what-you-can option, if $10/month is too steep for you. Now you can watch a #WorkerOwned streaming service for $0-9/month. It's enough to make a capitalist cry. Email CONTACT@MEANS.MEDIA for their sliding scale subscriptions.

https://means.tv