Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Students at my alma mater are mad as hell and they're not gonna take it any more. Good for them. ✊

https://dailymontanan.com/2021/10/07/paul-kirgis-steps-down-as-dean-of-um-school-of-law/

http://www.montanakaimin.com/features/ethically-bankrupt-blog/article_e652a6b8-2892-11ec-bf62-3b2f56e19994.html

Pity it takes so long to change ag skills, tech & culture -

Regenerative agriculture practices linked to 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

"Compared to conventional agriculture practices on average across the three ingredients, regenerative agriculture practices are projected to:

reduce biodiversity loss by 20 percent
& greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent

increase total food output by 5 percent
& farmer profitability by USD200 per hectare"
https://synergylyn.wordpress.com/2021/09/30/regenerative-agriculture-practices-linked-to-50-percent-reduction-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

Windows is a ransomware magnet, according to a new VirusTotal report
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wmexperts/~3/8OldWoSpufs/windows-ransomware-magnet-according-new-virustotal-report #Microsoft #security #purism #ransomware

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/

#AllOutForWezinKwa
Folks in Montreal kicked off the Gidim'ten solidarity week of action by shutting down trains. This foreshadows that if the RCMP continue their aggression, they will likely be met once again with coordinated, nation-wide actions to #ShutDownCanada

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