Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"The new report shows that Indigenous communities resisting the more than 20 fossil fuel projects analyzed have stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least 25 percent of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions."

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/09/15/indigenous-actions-stop-billions-of-tons-of-emissions/

Holy Sh** #Microsoft has installed the simplest backdoor in your #Linux VMs without you knowing about it.

Microsoft Azure silently install management agents on your Linux VMs without an auto update mechanism, so you have to update manually but you don't know they exist because you didn't install them? 🤔

Simply remove the auth header and you are root. Remotely on all machines.🤯

https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers-to-unauthorized-code-execution

Fire & Fury is raining down this Wednesday! Electronic Frontier Alliance’s @EthicsInTech is hosting over a dozen great speakers and performers on Big Tech’s role in surveillance and war. Check out our page for a discount: https://www.eff.org/event/fire-and-fury-throwing-monkey-wrench-big-tech

Thanks to @bigblen for pointing me at https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/13/eu_open_source_study_highlights/ - gee, wonder if NZ gov't could learn anything from these recommendations? On the plus side, we have a much smaller ship to turn around... On the negative... we haven't got a single IT-savvy politician (and only the most sporadic evidence of any savvy policy makers or advisers).

Accessible-Coconut: #Linux distro for blind and low-vision people

https://www.makeuseof.com/accessible-coconut-linux-distro-for-visually-impaired/

"Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp": https://www.investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2021/Intuit-to-Acquire-Mailchimp/default.aspx

Welp, so much for that.

People subtracted on adding machines w/ a neat trick: the complements method. Convert a number to its complement, add it, and discard the extra "1" on the left. Many calculators with subtraction functions use this method under the hood: https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/subtraction-by-addition.html

#Facebook has reversed its systemic ban of mentions of #Mastodon. Good.

There is a debate over whether or not this #censorship was intentional. I believe it was. Whether a human specifically added joinmastodon.org to a blacklist or not, they have made quite deliberate decisions about their algorithm that serve their greed for engagement first, and the resulting low-quality dangerous information on FB is entirely predictable. Details: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10303-facebooks-blocking-decisions-are-deliberate-including-their-censorship-of-mastodon

Really cool work! Anarchist building simple tiny homes out of pallets for homeless people that want them https://narratively.com/the-undercover-anarchists-secret-construction-collective/

Best POTUS ever, amiright?

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1435637655501512712

I'm not an audio book guy (with the exception of the occasional librevox recording), so I had no idea that Amazon owns Audible. And I had no idea how frickin' terrible they are for authors.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/somebody-will/#acx

Judge orders Apple to change its App Store practices in long-awaited decision in antitrust trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/10/apple-epic-decision-judge-market-monopoly/ #bigtech #apple #purism #librem5

@yojimbo Here's a first cut. https://davelane.nz/principles-engagement

I just had to break it to one of my consulting clients - who requested me to take part in a meeting with their staff and other consultants - that I don't use MS Teams. Or any other MS software. It's (my) company policy. I provided them with a link to one of the BigBlueButton instances I run onshore in Aotearoa instead. Which'll be better in every way in any case.

VICTORY! Both SB 4 and AB 14 have cleared the California legislature and are headed to the governor's desk. Thank you to everyone who supported #broadbandforall. https://t.co/NsvSKQ0bxE

Nearly All the Unburned Coal Must Stay in the Ground to Avert Climate Catastrophe
https://gizmodo.com/nearly-all-the-unburned-coal-must-stay-in-the-ground-to-1847645357 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate