Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Big Oil’s Climate Plans Are Worthless, According to Science https://gizmodo.com/big-oil-s-climate-plans-are-worthless-according-to-sci-1847919875 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Given Trumps past history with people taking Trump to court, this is going to be very interesting. I'm not sure if Trump's going to even comply with the results of a court case or any kind of licence enforcement.
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RT @IlvesToomas
Ripping off open source software is the apotheosis of Trumpism https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740354/trump-truth-social-network-spac-mastodon-license-software-freedom-conservancy
https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas/status/1451636556343689226

People shouldn't have to unlock their phones for police. We’ve fought for that principle in courts across the country, and the fight continued this week in Utah. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/police-cant-demand-you-reveal-your-phone-passcode-and-then-tell-jury-you-refused

Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? That's a violation of your educational rights. Support #FreeSoftware https://fsf.org

Adaptive version of #gnome #calendar running on #pureos on the #librem5. This is still a work in progress, some issues still need to be solved before releasing this. But again; “hey it’s progress” :D.
Credits to @KekunPlazas fr his work on this.

Just gonna leave this here. 👇

(from https://newint.org/features/2021/08/09/money-ultimate-decolonizer-fjf )

Once again my #coop is hiring: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/bx6k4sjaxe

We do open data stuff for public good. This role in particular is focussed on beneficial ownership data analysis and standards development, but internally there's a lot of flexibility about what you work on and we have a variety of ongoing projects. It's particularly fun to do transparency and anti-corruption stuff though.

We have flat pay, are all remote, mostly UK-based, mostly part time, extremely flexi, and always looking for new ways to improve our wellbeing.

There's a birdsite thread with more info here: https://twitter.com/opendatacoop/status/1450787984706506755 (which I might recreate on here later).

#coopjobs #cooplife

In case you missed it. Google Play may be about to do something unethical to Termux. Suggestion is to back up now, uninstall the Google Play version to stop them uploading a destructive stub, and reinstall from F-Droid.

Neither Front Porch Forum nor Pantip get the headlines of a Facebook—but not because they're unsuccessful forums. In this installment of our series on the Public Interest internet, we talk about why localized services matter. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/bangkok-burlington-public-interest-social-internet

Have ideas for how to improve Debian? Submit a project proposal. https://freexian-team.pages.debian.net/project-funding

The Marin County Sheriff uses automated license plate readers to track the movements of drivers, and shares its database with hundreds of out-of-state and federal agencies, including ICE.

Now, community activists are suing over this illegal data sharing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/eff-files-new-lawsuit-against-california-sheriff-sharing-alpr-data-ice-and-cbp

Purism's App Developer, Dorota Czaplejewicz shows how she used PulseAudio to play sounds from the laptop on her #librem5 📢
https://puri.sm/posts/speak-to-me/

Dammit, Coal’s Back
https://gizmodo.com/dammit-coal-s-back-1847891771 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

RT @RancidBacon@twitter.com

@AntonHand@twitter.com If more people who depend on creative tools had this realization it could be transformative in terms of tools available to them.

If even fraction of $$$ creatives spend on software tools went to projects like Blender/Krita/Godot/Inkscape their tools could be their own.

Forever.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RancidBacon/status/1449854436394762240

How do you fund free software sustainably? In this post I talk about some of the main approaches, the problems with some funding models, and specifically how (and why) Purism takes the approach we do. https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-funds-free-software/

Was just talking to a new neighbour briefly, who, it turns out, runs a national gov't owned organisation. We were talking IT systems and she said (clearly expecting me to be impressed) that they were a fully Microsoft shop, and had just moved to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM system. Unfortunately I couldn't help but wince and had to say "you're throwing money into a hole"... We've agreed to discuss it in more detail over a pint in future...