Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

☣️ Malware gonna #malware:

"#Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a #cryptocurrency #mining program on its customers’ computers."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/

From democracy now this morning, despite being stonewalled by us gov, doctors at Texas Children's developed their own patent-free COVID vaccine and production is now underway in India
@news
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/3/patent_free_vaccine_in_texas

France fines Google and Facebook €210m over user tracking https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/06/france-fines-google-and-facebook-210m-over-user-tracking-cookies

I got some positive feedback about my articles from a stranger and it surprised me just how much it meant. I've made more of an effort recently to tell people when I appreciate their work because of how rare (but meaningful) positive feedback is.

I also note that the Linux Foundation doesn't appear to have a presence in the Fediverse or on any open platforms, instead choosing only to use the centralised proprietary technologies of their board members' employers.

Beeld en Geluid is the Netherlands Sound & Vision museum. They have a massive archive of thousands of videos available on the Fediverse at:

➡️ @nisv (in Dutch)

If the videos aren't visible on your instance yet, you can see them all at https://peertube.beeldengeluid.nl/a/nisv/videos

The museum's website is at https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en (in English and Dutch)

#BeeldEnGeluid #Museum #Museums #SoundAndVision #Academic #Art #Film #Videos #Video #Audio #Media #Multimedia #Archive #History #Netherlands #Nederlands

Part of what I'm pondering here is a paradox that I've alluded to in the past (https://cybre.space/@dynamic/106409189951101085): is disruption good, or not?

There are two ideas that keep coming up: 1) "we live in an entrenched system with evils built into it and nothing is going to disrupt it", combined with 2) "serious disruption always favors consolidation of power."

I don't know how to balance those correctly, and that really bothers me. The main thing that I get out of the whole thing is: proceed with caution.

It makes me sad to see that conferences of folks I once considered "my community", like linux.con.au, are only using proprietary centralised social media (from what I can see) and eschew distributed open media. I wonder what video conferencing system they'll use, and what back channels. I'm hopeful they'll use #FOSS technologies for that, but seems like a long shot. Most "open" communities seem too harried to actually us open tools. Which strikes lots of sour notes.

I'm encouraged to see the growth of trade schools, not just for young adults who wouldn't be served well by a 4-year degree, but also for older adults who must retool because fewer modern career paths last someone their whole life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/31/skilled-trade-education-comeback/

I implore any #FLOSS group using #Telegram to consider switching to @matrix for public (unencrypted) and private (#E2EE) chats, and #Fediverse services (Mastodon, Pleroma, Write.as etc) for announcements. And Discourse.

https://t.me/durov/176

Raise-Op is just $4k short, with a month of fundraising to go.

"Informed by our own members' experiences with housing, this 9-unit building is designed to meet the needs of people in our neighborhood today and 100 years in the future.

"It's a passive house design, which means it consumes very little energy to heat or cool, and it has excellent air quality."

https://www.mightycause.com/story/Raiseop-Eco-Homes

THIS! ☝️
Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html

#floss #foss #opensource #discord #chat

Here's the rub:

#owncast (if you haven't heard) is an awesome, yet still young and growing, live streaming alternative to Twitch/Youtube/etc. There is a small but mighty community regularly using Owncast to stream a variety of content, and development is marching on ( #activitypub #federation is otw! )

However, the project is in need of design help. That's why I'm forwarding the call for designers.

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@LeoSammallahti writes about The Staffing Coop (now part of Obran) at #CoopExchange: https://coop.exchange/blog/98aae6de-f8e5-11e9-a6c8-06ceb0bf34bd/we-need-more-worker-owned-staffing-agencies

Hive-mind: are there other examples of or literature about cooperatively owned/run staffing agencies?
Links/suggestions welcomed!

I'm particularly interested in food and ag sector applications, where there are major labor issues a coop approach could be quite helpful in addressing.

@Jeff_Piestrak @LeoSammallahti The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union is creating a Mobile Farm Workforce co-op. Some description in this expired job posting: https://www.goodfoodjobs.com/jobs/144318/farm-food-mobile-workforce-member.html