Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Work opportunity: anyone interested in part-time work developing e-commerce and direct marketing for an organic farm that sells a lot of seed? Open Food Network could be the platform...

I am VERY happy and proud to announce the public release of the "OpenBSD Webzine" !

https://webzine.puffy.cafe/

#openbsd #bsd

I will say it again and again and again and...

"If you use Microsoft in part of your infrastructure, you will get hacked. The question is not 'If', the question is 'When'".

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/poc-exploit-released-for-azure-ad-brute-force-bug-heres-what-to-do/

Hat tip to @craigmaloney and @bortzmeyer

How Can I Divest From Fossil Fuels?
https://gizmodo.com/how-can-i-divest-from-fossil-fuels-1847774633 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

When people talk about travelling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

School administrators, parents, and students may be happy to learn that an “edtech” company has signed the “Student Privacy Pledge.” But there is a disconnect between what one might expect when reading the Pledge & what companies must do to comply with it.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/fpfs-2020-student-privacy-pledge-new-pledge-similar-problems

@ephemeral @Anke the idea that everyone just assumes going into the library is free and the assumption that you just go there without needing any “reason” is essential to the concept. If you walked into a library and they were like why are you here it would be a different experience. Remembering that this concept was created over time by humans and we are able to recreate this type of space with a new dynamic seems really powerful. It seems like we are missing much vocabulary in this space tho

I'm all for this! https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210928-01.html please spread the word through your networks!

The GEO weekly newsletter is out! We've got an interview with a Fairmondo co-founder, a multi-stakeholder #cooperative Amazon alternative, and a discussion of the history, and impact of #CreditUnions in the US.

https://mailchi.mp/4f4a917efc14/credit-unions-are-co-ops-too-a-cooperatively-owned-online-marketplace-geo-weekly-newsletter

If you have a Vodafone Ultra Hub router (like I do), I note that "Status->About" menu item (Advanced Mode) takes you to a page that says "Notice regarding Open Source software" which says "The product contains Open Source software. The resulting need [sic] licenses information's [sic] are listed in the following link." The link points to http://www3.technicolor.com/en/hi/minisites/open-software ... which redirects to https://technicolor.com which has nothing to do with open source licenses that I can see.

This has been bugging me for ages: how can we fix social and climate brokenness when lots of 'good' people's job hang in the balance? How can we broach the subject "Your role in that corporation is actively bad for the world. The better you do, the worse you make the world." It's not something anyone wants to hear... but highly paid folk voluntarily absorb incredible cognitive dissonance to justify how they pay their mortgage. Stuff like "if I didn't do it, someone else less ethical would"...

EFF and @ACLU_NorCal recently discovered the San Francisco police unilaterally deployed a surveillance camera network against protesters marching in defense of Black lives. Now we're asking a court to hold them accountable for breaking the law.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/eff-court-stop-sfpd-spying-protestors-black-lives

While several other courts have held that long-term pole camera surveillance is constitutionally acceptable, two recent rulings, including a recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, have found otherwise. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/colorado-supreme-court-rules-three-months-warrantless-video-surveillance-violates

We’re pleased to share that the Atlas of Surveillance will be featured in the @IndianaUniv’s Places & Spaces exhibit, which highlights powerful uses of maps in sharing knowledge. You can browse our growing collection of data on police surveillance tools at http://www.atlasofsurveillance.org

@yogthos @be

Before assessing the value of synthestic starch, I really want to see a full life cycle analysis comparing this technology to traditional production. That seems to be where "vat meat" starts to look a lot more questionable (https://biobeef.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2019/12/15/cultured-meats-and-lca-statistics-what-do-the-data-say-2-of-4/).

In the meantime, it would be really nice if they provided units for this 8.5x efficiency number that all the science journalists are tossing around. Efficiency is usually calculated as units of product divided by units of some kind of input, but the results are very different depending on what kind of input goes in the denominator. Almonds are pretty efficient with regard to land, but a nightmare with regard to water inputs. Grassfed beef is extremely efficient with regard to fossil fuels, but a nightmare with regard to methane emissions. The journalistic coverage on this research doesn't specify, and at the moment I'm unable to put my hands on the _Science_ article, so the 8.5x number is basically meaningless.

The "10 Year Smartphone" initiative aims for a sustainable mobile ecosystem

https://tuxphones.com/10-year-smartphone-initiative-right-to-repair-lifecycle/ #righttorepair #opensource #10yearphone

Interoperability is tech's superpower! With it, new tech can unseat powerful incumbents. But decades of pro-monopoly laws have given Big Tech a veto over who can plug into its products. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/10/255710-competitive-compatibility/fulltext