Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

You love to see it. 😂

https://i.redd.it/ihkhc17wwft71.jpg

Framasoft is a brilliant non-profit organisation which promotes free open software and libre decentralised services. You can follow them at:

➡️ @Framasoft (in French and English)

They have been around for years, and developed Fediverse platforms like @peertube and @mobilizon for example.

They depend on donations to keep going, and they're currently doing a fund-raising drive at:

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

#Framasoft #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Français #Francais #NGO #NGOs

Interesting. This rings very true, in part because it completely reinforces my existing view: Microsoft really sucks. https://alex.kleydints.com/a-post-mortem-in-5-acts-of-how-microsoft-privatized-open-source-killing-javascript-in-the-process-62ee5fc77d9e

I've been doing more with #coreboot on Chromebook hardware. Liberated an Acer C740 with the mrchromebox.tech firmware. Now that I know how to do it, it's almost easy. Can be intimidating until you successfully flash one, though.

I've flashed two Dell Chromebook 11 3120 laptops to coreboot now and planning on doing a few more soon. I've been using one with #GalliumOS and it has been working well. Battery life is long, Gallium is practical and works as expected (#ubuntu-based so familiar).

What the hell is ""deep tech" supposed to be. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/453572/tech-start-ups-hit-by-illogical-change-of-r-and-d-funding Looks to be a made-up media designation that's never defined and is meant to convey 'technical badassery' to non-tech punters?

People are dying from poverty and lack of education in the shadow of Harvard University - right outside the gates:
In its most recent financial report, released 10/14/21, it also reported a 33.6 percent return on its endowment, which has now grown to $53.2 billion. (Boston Globe)

We are testing out a new experimental feature in PureBoot to extend tamper detection past /boot into the root disk. I write about the feature and my thought process behind developing it here: https://puri.sm/posts/new-pureboot-feature-scanning-root-for-tampering/

Alibaba T-head RVB-ICE dual-core #RISCV SBC supports Android 10, Debian 11

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/10/13/alibaba-t-head-rvb-ice-dual-core-risc-v-sbc-supports-android-10-debian-11/

@lightweight parallels between this article about the value of in-house expertise at Twitter and things that you and others have said about how govt should directly employ its own tech experts https://danluu.com/in-house/

EFF to Tenth Circuit: First Amendment protects students’ right to speak, even in offensive ways, on social media while off campus.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/eff-tenth-circuit-first-amendment-protects-public-school-students-campus-social

If governments of the world realised (as I've often suggested) that they should be funding critical digital #FOSS infrastructure, instead of OAuth run by mega corporations, slurping our data with their surveillance capitalism bizmodels, we'd be using Mozilla Persona and our lives would be better for it. Huge opportunity missed. Sadly, by failing to take it, you've thrown further fuel onto the fire currently razing our national and personal sovereignties.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/10/1044917871/facebook-instagram-safety-controls-kids

This, right here is the kind of thing I'm talking about:
"Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who chairs the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, told Bash in a separate interview Sunday that it's time to update children's privacy laws and offer more transparency in the use of algorithms."

Facebook is treating users as products, collecting masses of individual data through passive surveillance, selling it to private corporations, using individualized user profiles for highly targeted advertising, refusing to give users control over who they associate, and arguably has been instrumental in the rise of fascism in several countries including the U.S.

And what is Congress talking about? The impact on children.

Exciting EU study on open source software:

> strongly contributes to GDP
> avoids vendor lock-in
> reduces costs & maintenance
> drives state-of-the-art tech
> fosters competition, interoperability & tech-neutrality

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and