Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The GEO Weekly Newsletter is out. #WorkerCoops #SolarEnergy #Italy #Cooperatives

"The sign of vitality is not to endure but to change, and to try to have the future as an ally." ~Don José María Arizmendiarrieta

https://mailchi.mp/601879bcbeae/scaling-co-ops-through-a-multi-stakeholder-network-italian-co-ops-hire-inmates-geo-weekly-newsletter

After Austria, France's regulator @CNIL just confirmed that usage of Ggoogle Analytics violates #GDPR and therefore is not legal. 👏👏👏

#privacy #mydataisMYdata #GDPR #RGPD #CNIL #GOOGLEANALYTICS

https://www.cnil.fr/fr/utilisation-de-google-analytics-et-transferts-de-donnees-vers-les-etats-unis-la-cnil-met-en-demeure

My friend and colleague has this article in NPQ today: https://lnkd.in/giVtm9bi. You can learn more about the toolkit that she developed this Friday at the Union-Coops Council General meeting. The meeting is Friday, February 11 from 10:00 am pacific time (1:00 pm eastern) until 11:15 am pst/2:15 pm est. You can register for the meeting here: https://lnkd.in/gZ6UupDv #unions #cooperatives #union-coops

The #EARNITAct is a danger to free expression and privacy. That's why it's being opposed by @CenDemTech, @ACLU, @NCLRights, @spj_tweets, @PENamerica, and many other civil society groups. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/activists-writers-and-security-experts-all-oppose-earn-it-act

Cool, cool.

In order to participate in the #RightsCon annual conference for digital and online #humanRights, I have to agree to the Terms of Service of their third-party proprietary service, which demands the rights to do basically anything they want with my profile information, metadata, & whatever I write.

Rights con, indeed. 🤦🏽‍♂️

You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon. All links count as 23 characters no matter how long they really are.

Also, links on Mastodon stay in the form you wrote them. This is much better for privacy than Twitter.

Twitter quietly changes all posted links to go via Twitter's domain t.co so they can track people. This doesn't happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse.

You can see this hidden conversion in Twitter by hovering your mouse over a link there, the link appears to show a normal address but Firefox and other browsers will indicate the true t.co address in the bottom left corner of the screen. If you try this same check on Mastodon or the Fediverse, you will see your links stay just as you wrote them.

#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse #Privacy #Twitter #LinkShorteners

The Traxide is a punk and underground venue in Montréal.. They had to cancel a couple of months of show for a second time since the beginning of the pandemic and this time it hits hard. With a couple of band of the scene they release compilation to get some money and pay the bills.

If you have some money to spend on music, it's pay what you can (minimum 1 CAD) and it could help a really nice venue survive de pandemic.

https://traxide.bandcamp.com/releases

2/ So, #Docker, a for-profit corporation, is mooching even more out of the #FreeSoftware community because I was tired of manual-built images. So I build my images on #salsa, which is run by the non-profit @debian . Alternatives to Docker Hub that are better?

"The lobstermen—a title claimed by women as well as men who catch and sell lobster for a living— partnered with the Machinists Union (IAM) to create both an affiliate union local and a marketing cooperative. Their success demonstrates how union membership coupled with worker ownership can strengthen worker power."

https://labornotes.org/2022/02/how-lobstermen-formed-union-co-op-claw-back-fair-prices

And I’m sorry but the solution IS boring. You want people to remain people (not properly) and you want democracy in the age of the digital network? You give individuals the means of communication.

You want autocracy on a scale hitherto unseen in human history? You give it to corporations instead.

Simple. Boring. True.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

Jimmy Carr might think it's a joke – but state violence against Europe's Roma is not just one of history's darkest episodes, but a painful reality to this day.
https://newint.org/features/2021/12/07/big-story-roma-do-romani-lives-matter

[Full-time] Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10843/site-reliability-engineer-at-wikimedia-foundation/ #jobs

This is what we've let our country become. This is what happens when we put MBAs in charge of everything, and frankly, I think we should all be ashamed.

https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/06/what-denying-blankets-to-waiting-patients-says-about-health-care/

This is depressing to think about nonfree firmware eating the world:

Uncompressed source code of Linux 5.16.7: 1.1GB

The "source" of nonfree firmware: Over 700MB and growing so it's a good percentage of the size of the ENTIRE KERNEL ITSELF.

Free firmware with actual source code? 24.5MB and not growing

Kill this bill. https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

Excellent article about the ongoing tragedy of land use and the decline of agricultural land and communities, featuring long time friends of my family.

https://www.agjournalonline.com/2022/02/04/solar-farm-threatens-heart-of-historic-ranch/