Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Good thing that mega-corporates like Microsoft are so much better at keeping our stuff safe... we should just outsource all our tech needs to them... or should we? https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/

#Apple: "Designed in California, Assembled in China, Purchased by You, Owned by Us."

#privacy #infosec

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

While Deliveroo pays its couriers sometimes as little as £2 hour, Wings Coop provides an alternative democratically owned by the couriers.

Could it foster the wider coop economy by expanding ownership to restaurants and partnering with other coops?

A new article on Mutual Interest, a no-paywall media coop owned by our readers & writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/08/wings-co-op-how-the-courier-owned-deliveroo-alternative-could-help-strengthen-the-wider-co-op-economy

Become a Mutual Interest member and vote for your favourite articles in our participatory budgeting here:

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New post: Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2021/nitter-bandwidth/

The #Debian Janitor now automatically produces updated packages with the latest upstream Git commit for about 8k out of the 30k packages in the archive. Instructions on how to add the apt repo and which packages are included at https://janitor.debian.net/fresh / https://jelmer.uk/fresh-builds.html

Samsung can remotely brick TVs it believes are stolen once they reconnect to the Internet, which is required to enable smart TV features. ⁨#privacy https://gizmodo.com/samsung-smart-tvs-can-be-remotely-bricked-if-stolen-1847557228

And, of course, it's money in the bank for the Zooms and Googles and Microsofts of the world. And here's the thing: they're not worthy. Not even close. They're gold-plated assholes with government-granted monopolies.

The genericising of proprietary tech brand names really pisses me off. It's like saying "Let's Subaru to the Countdowns for some Proctor & Gambles, Johnson and Johnsons, and maybe we'll throw in a few Unilevers before we Subaru to our next consumption destination".

Next task: deploy a new Moodle instance, on a US$40/month host (although it's being used by 5-6 other services, so let's say it's 25% of that, or US$10/month). It'll probably be about 30 min of my time since I already know how to do it. Plus 30 min every couple months to update it, so let's say 4-6 hrs admin per year. If I charge out at NZ$150/hr, that's about NZ$600-$900/year. Max total: (NZ$900 + US$120)/year for one Moodle. For twice the time & hosting, I could manage 10 instances... 1/2

Start a surveillance mapping project in your area using our guide - https://masspirates.org/wiki/Holding_a_Mapping_Event

The report by the Chicago Inspector General makes it clear: Not only is ShotSpotter ineffective at combating gun violence, it also generates police harassment, bad stops and frisks, and an erosion of civil rights.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/chicago-inspector-general-police-use-shotspotter-justify-illegal-stop-and-frisks

The GEO weekly newsletter is out!
Common challenges in Native American and Black agricultural #coops, & fighting food poverty with a food subscription co-op. 🗞️

https://mailchi.mp/c35cdee359f0/common-challenges-in-cooperatives-food-subscription-co-op-pilot-project-geo-weekly-newsletter

In effect, the government is telling private operators that here is this road, godown, pipeline, or railway platform, that you can operate for 25 years.

Here @sonaliranade@twitter.com dissects the bankrupt Modi Govt's panic sales! https://m.thewire.in/article/economy/how-will-asset-monetization-help-the-government/amp?__twitter_impression=true

The Banality of Apocalypse
https://gizmodo.com/the-banality-of-apocalypse-1847528867 #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalheating #leadonclimate

Wigan Diggers' Festival
Celebrates the life and ideas of Wigan born and bred Gerrard Winstanley & the 17th Century Diggers' (True Leveller) Movement
11th September 2021
https://wigandiggersfestival.org/

Volunteers still wanted to help out with this year’s festival

seeking land stewardship research help:

last night a friend told me "indigenous people make up 5% of the world's population, and are stewards of 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity"

today I wanted to look up where this came from, to share it, and it sent me down a long research rabbit hole, of not quite finding where the 80% figure came from

don't get me wrong, I found lots of research supporting the sentiment behind the quote, that indigenous peoples have been and continue to be stewards of amazing amounts amounts of biodiversity

such as this paper, from 2019, showing that the indigenous-managed lands they looked at had even greater biodiversity than "protected lands" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190731102157.htm

and I see the 80% figure often quoted, but I haven't been able to pinpoint where the 80% figure *originally* comes from

if you want to help me figure this out, I'll outline further where I got to, in a list of citations in the next toot

Friend made this ace #zine about the state of the environment and society in the #UK and things that people can do to improve things
Please feel free to pass on the link or print some copies 🙂
http://thebookshelf.org.uk/zine/