Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Not seeing any protests over this one. Not seeing any Yemen flags in anyone's bio. Maybe killing a bunch of children isn't such a big deal when it's our allies and our weapons doing the killing? It's a mystery, truly.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/23/un-yemen-recovery-possible-in-one-generation-if-war-stops-now

And now there is an election for "individual" board members.

🤔 Which corporate tech giant should get my vote?

👀 The proprietary software SaaS voting platform whose trackers also share my personal information with Google awaits....

#OpenSource #PublicCharities

Now hiring!

The #Inkscape project is seeking to fill a 12-month contract position for a Project Coordinator.

You'll find more details here: https://inkscape.org/news/2022/03/11/hiring-project-coordinator/

#FLOSS #collaboration #job #inkscape

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Руководство от Access Now по цифровой безопасности и обходам блокировок и отключений интернета для гражданского общества России и Беларуси.

https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/2022/03/Digital-Safety-tips-for-Russia-Belarus-2022-RU-1.pdf

Digital security and circumvention tools for civil society and resistance movement in Russia and Belarus, and free VPNs and digital security assistance for civil society including in Russian via help@accessnow.org. Please share with your networks!

🔓 Nearly 40 civil society organizations this week issued an open letter calling on the U.S. government to not disrupt internet access in Russia or Belarus, and to ensure sanctions do not reinforce efforts to assert total information control.

https://www.accessnow.org/US-government-internet-access-russia-ukraine-war-sanctions/

Whatever happens, always remember: we're the good guys.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/10/supreme-court-torture-at-cia-black-site-is-state-secret/

Prototype Fund announced that a next funding round call is open until the end of March! All FOSS ideas in the areas of data literacy, data security, civic tech, and software infrastructure are welcome.

Listen to this podcast episode and find out more!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-podcast-15-interview-about-collectives-app-and-prototype-fund/

Live NOW 3/11/2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQe0gthe_c

@dajbelshaw I've had a change of heart. I no longer think the "tech vegan" label is appropriate. I'm the tech equivalent of "I only buy what's (certified) fairly traded". All the other options are exploitative malware from ransomware producers, who're only considered legit because they pwn the regulators of these things (e.g. the US government). Being called a "vegan" suggest to the mainstream that I miss out. I don't don't. I eat far better than those who use the digital colonials' tools.

Don't forget: If there are topics and keywords you don't want to see on #Mastodon, be sure to set up appropriate filters:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#filters

🐭 #Disney is using its newly-granted full control of #Hulu to build an #adtech giant to compete with #Meta #Google et al. #privacy #advertising

https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/how-disney-is-using-its-audience-data-and-hulus-ad-tech-to-compete-with-google-meta-and-amazon/

👀 60% of workers said they have been subject to some form of #surveillance or monitoring by their employer, with three in 10 agreeing these practices had increased since the start of the #pandemic. This marks an increase on the 53% who said they had been subject to workplace surveillance in 2020.

#privacy

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252514006/Workplace-surveillance-spiraling-out-of-control-says-TUC

I've always wondered what happens to that number you still use for messengers but don't own anymore:

Why tech companies should stop using phone numbers as user IDs - a super weird story in a thread ⬇️