Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Great report from @technicallynotdeaf on their journey getting started contributing to #OpenStreetMap with the StreetComplete app. Give it a try if you haven't yet (or recently) taken a look!

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TechnicallyNotDeaf/diary/398146

Let us not forget.. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/07/rein-s07.html

EFF urges courts to clarify that, while schools may punish students who engage in bullying or harassment wherever it occurs, students can generally express themselves in their private lives without fear that their schools may punish them for it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/first-circuit-affirms-schools-punishment-students-online-social-media-posts

https://12ft.io/ Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.

#OBSStudio and #Fedora #Linux: An Interview with Georges Basile Stavracas Neto - Fedora Magazine

https://fedoramagazine.org/obs-studio-and-fedora-linux-an-interview-with-georges-basile-stavracas-neto/

#GNU #FreeSoftware

The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user

Cool cool, @Gargron moving all @Mastodon project discussion behind a proprietary walled garden that requires agreement with Microsoft terms of service (and their analytics tracking). Now THAT makes a ton of sense. 🤦‍♂️

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #privacy

https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/we-are-moving-to-github-discussions/4010

👀 Yet another new report out today:

💰 US government agencies are paying private/corporate #data brokers to avoid following #privacy laws.

😡 (And in poor countries, US/EU taxpayer money is footing the bill for nonprofits to serve the same role - so-called #surveillance aid.)

📑 Read more details then download the full report:

https://cdt.org/insights/report-legal-loopholes-and-data-for-dollars-how-law-enforcement-and-intelligence-agencies-are-buying-your-data-from-brokers/

Got a GITLAB account???
Give us a star to help us become a fiscal sponsor for projects with opencollective! https://gitlab.com/drutopia/drutopia

How White Electric Coffee workers unionized, and then bought the business #WorkerCoop

https://geo.coop/articles/how-white-electric-coffee-became-worker-co-op

@alcinnz You can support the making of future movies by subscribing to https://studio.blender.org/ . They have behind the scene videos and tutorials too for subscribers!

Agent 327: Operation Barbershop, based on a dutch comic book, depicts a comedic fight between a secret agent & a minion inside a barbershop.
The Daily Dweebs follows a dog's emotional rollercoster.
Spring follows a young girl & her dog herding cloudsheep out of a valley thus bringing spring.
Coffee Run is charmingly depressing, in a sidescroller style.
Sprite Fright depicts "sprites" taking vengence on careless nature destroying teenagers.

4/4 Fin

If you or your enterprise face extreme security threats and are willing to trade some convenience for extra security, here are combination of options that would make your Librem 14 order the most secure🗝️https://puri.sm/posts/my-recommendations-for-the-most-secure-librem-14-configuration/

Fall on walk from bed to desk is #WorkplaceAccident, German #court rules | #Germany | The Guardian

It was bound to happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/fall-on-walk-from-bed-to-desk-is-workplace-accident-german-court-rules

200+ newspapers are suing Google and Facebook for price fixing.

Antitrust (and not link taxes and other pseudo-copyright) is the right tool for the job

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/newspapers-vs-big-tech-antitrust-tackles-problems-copyright-just-cant-fix

EFF : "hey ! let's do a #VR meeting about how to have #humanrights in the #Metaverse"

also EFF : "hey, let's do it inside a corporate owned multiplayer VR system where you have to sign under (probably abusive) #proprietary EUA and gives personal details ... " #privacy

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We urge Google and Apple to remove from their respective app stores ALL apps that contain SDKs from data brokers that collect and sell our location data.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/apple-and-google-kicked-two-location-data-brokers-out-their-app-stores-good-now

Google is threatening to remove certain apps from its Play Store, unless these apps provide users with better information about how they harvest and monetize location data. Good.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vp35/google-tells-apps-disclose-location-data-removed-huq