Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Apple Has Reportedly Been Scanning Your iCloud Mail for Child Abuse Images Since 2019
https://gizmodo.com/apple-has-reportedly-been-scanning-your-icloud-mail-for-1847538826 #privacy #security #apple #purism

#BenJennings on the #US withdrawal from #Afghanistan – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/aug/22/ben-jennings-on-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-cartoon

#US #Politics #Satire

"The time has come to admit we control our economy for the common good. Crucial at all times, this realisation is especially important in our current need to dodge a mass-extinction event. The invisible hand never picks up the cheque; therefore we must govern ourselves."

Image:
Thomas Hawk
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/37406127610/

CC BY-NC:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

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It really bugs me how everyone around me (kids and wife getting back into schooling during lockdown) is constantly talking about "Zoom" this or that... I run/take part in video conferences every day but haven't used Zoom (or any other proprietary service) in well over a year.

This. I'd say open standards and open protocols are the better way to go. I'm very nervous about proprietary protocols/applications being used by our public services #what3words
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RT @TheRealRevK
@icassassin @cybergibbons @hacks4pancakes But there is no point "fixing" W3W for emergency services. Effort would be better spent ensuring they can use AML, SARLOC, etc from caller, and communicate digitally internally and to other services.
https://twitter.com/TheRealRevK/status/1429491841032937473

Ain't it the truth...

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-will-do-anything-to-get-you-to-work-for-us-except-pay-you-enough

Google revealed Thursday that it has received more than 20,000 geofence warrants since 2018. These warrants allow law enforcement to sweep up massive volumes of innocent people’s sensitive data. https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/google-geofence-warrants/

Lets ditch #Patreon for a Worker Coop!

https://comradery.co/

Half the fees of Patreon Lite (2.5% vs 5%) and be featured among and support other comrades. #Comradery / #ComraderyCo

> Comradery membership is designed for independent creators, workers, and activists, and cooperatively-owned organizations (referred to from here on as ‘Creators’) who need a place to connect with their audiences and supporters to raise a monthly income.

Just signed up. UwU

From the AWESOME coop cycle

https://coopcycle.org/en/

#platformcoop

“Real Power is in the Land”: Community Land Trusts—Past, Present and Future

https://www.lisc.org/our-stories/story/real-power-is-in-the-land-community-land-trustspast-present-and-future/

Some innovative #FoodSecurity work going on in Preston:

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/08/preston-council-plan-to-launch-a-food-subscription-co-operative-to-fight-food-poverty-2

And the took away Danny DeVito's blue check for supporting the striking Nabisco workers. Oh noes!

https://www.ign.com/articles/danny-devito-twitter-verification

All power to the workers at Nabisco in Portland, now on strike after their employer realized record profits last year and is still reducing benefits. ✊

https://nwlaborpress.org/2021/08/nabisco-workers-strike-around-the-nation/

Our new issue of Possible Futures is out.

In this issue we cover the heated topic of 💸 FUNDING 💸 .

https://possiblefutures.tech/issue/funding

How can we ethically fund projects so tech projects don't end up scaling at all costs, ditching all morals along the way?

How do we fairly compensate people in open source?

This issue also includes our *first* piece of original content.

I interviewed the CEO of @penpot on how they fund their open source projects among other things.

https://possiblefutures.tech/posts/interview-with-penpot-ceo-pablo-ruiz-muzquiz-on-open-source-design-and-ethical-funding

Arguing that setting up coops is useless because markets force them to act indistinguishably from capitalist firms is not just contrary to what research shows.

Its an argument that capitalists love, because what it says is that markets should be left entirely to the capitalists.

And I stand corrected - I had the dependency the wrong way around. @nuclear points out that MSFT's VSCode codebase is not available under a proper OSI/FSF approved license (plus it includes telemetry and other undesirables), so the VSCodium project has been set up by people (independent of MSFT?) wanting to rehabilitate the salvageable code.

As I've noted before: yeah, MSFT loves open source. Like a tapeworm loves a healthy digestive system.

@wizzwizz4 @devinprater @csepp @praveen @danielst @lorabe @storm I recall a thread where someone recounted some history behind all this, that there were several projects funded by the (American Council for the Blind?) to improve accessibility, but each time Microsoft (a big ACB funder) threatened to pull funding unless they dropped the projects.

And the reason appears to be: governments require accessibility in their software, so MS et al didn't want any threats to their monopoly over government contracts.

So to accuse OSS community of simply not caring enough to bother isn't really accurate - there is deliberate monopolism at play here. MS and Apple might appear to "care more" but only when it gets them access to tenders, and excludes the communal software from the competition.