Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Feminist Hack Meetings* will happen in Athens, 9 and 10 of September as part of the project A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers, supported by the European cultural foundation. In case you are in the area, the workshops will be in English and Greek. And there will be a live stream too for those who aren't :)

More details about the program available here https://fhm.varia.zone/
(english at the bottom of the page)
* co-organized with @anglk and @estragon

#feminist #internet
#feministhacking

Yangtze river dries up in drought, causing 50% drop in hydropower output in China's heavily populated Sichuan province, impacting surrounding cities like Hubei. Aside from disruptions to shipping, thousands of factories incl. Foxconn (Apple devices), Tesla, and Toyota have suspended operations until supply resumes https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower

#NicolaJennings on trouble signalled by #Tories – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/aug/21/nicola-jennings-on-trouble-signalled-by-tories-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire #RishiSunak #LizTruss

Imagine - lobbying corporate agriculture got a water pollution report's recommendations watered down: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/300665073/freshwater-reforms-reveal-difficulty-in-sciencedriven-policy-report-says - not the first time secret 'back room' lobbying (outside of the formal process) has tried to derail broadly supported policy reforms - another example: https://softwarepatents.org.nz

We need to kneecap the lobbying process by requiring it to be completely transparent. Currently, it smells a whole lot like corruption.

This does seem optimistic. I hope @doctorow is right! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/24/ive-been-waiting-15-years-for-facebook-to-die-im-more-hopeful-than-ever it does seem plausible. #endfacebook

@tarkowski

Fediverse servers are entirely independent, it's up to the owner(s) of a server to decide how it's governed.

The protocols on the Fediverse just cover how servers talk to each other, they don't say anything about how each server is run.

If a community wants to own a server (or anything else!) collectively, they could form a co-operative which would share decisions and costs. I am not a lawyer, but I think co-ops give each member a legal right to participate in how the server is run. I think social.coop is run by a co-op?

Alternatively, every user could have their own single user instance, which would give them total control over governance.

It's rare though as most people just want to be an end user without thinking about governance or self-hosting.

But there's nothing to force it to be rare, if everyone wanted to have a co-op or personal Fedi server it's very easy to do technically, and costs start from about 5-10 euros a month:

https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network

Now they're calling adblockers "content blockers". Moving the goalposts much?

How can privacy survive in a world that never forgets?
https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-machines-behaving-badly-toby-walsh-la-trobe-university-press-150017213.html?src=rss #privacy #purism

#Anonymous #StreetArt with a political message – in pictures | #Art and design | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/20/anonymous-street-art-with-a-political-message-in-pictures

#Politics

I learned that some people don't know that Social.Coop is accepting registrations. We are, so feel free to register or tell others they can.

#socialcoop

Please boost

What the....! 😳

RT @KrauseFx@twitter.com

🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps.

https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-what-javascript-commands-get-executed-in-an-in-app-browser

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KrauseFx/status/1560370732705742848

https://MapKnitter.org will be going offline at the end of the month due to lack of funds, which is very sad!
1000s of maps of environmental injustices people have made over the years

And also http://SpectralWorkbench.org too.
database of 200k+ community-contributed open source spectra.

Both will be archived on archive.org

If you want to check and help
http://publiclab.org/mapknitter

http://publiclab.org/spectral-workbench

It's really fucking hard and violent blow for environmental activism and community based open environmental investigation

On the recent news about Signal "leak"

"Was my personal data accessed or hacked?

No. Signal is designed to keep your data in your hands rather than ours. Signal does not have access to your message history, contact list, profile information, whom you’ve blocked, and other personal data."

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242-Twilio-Incident-What-Signal-Users-Need-to-Know-

RT @Pal_action@twitter.com

BREAKING: Real estate giant Fisher German abandons office responsible for leasing factory to Israeli arms company Elbit, following direct action. Elbit’s kill chain is crumbling under direct action - another victory for #ShutElbitDown

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1559537021420556291

On Canadian Tire Fire, #FairyCreek blockade continues, actions on #PrisonerJusticeDay, violent sweeps of tent cities in #Vancouver, #Wetsuweten tour continues as do solidarity actions, #Montreal celebrates #Pride despite corporate event falling apart. https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-42/

Fox News is whipping up hate, nationally, against Minneapolis teachers, and some other right-wing source must be distributing some people's phone numbers… anyone know of an app/service that lets people have their friends help screen their calls to prevent abuse? i thought i had read about such a thing but i can only find this Android-specific, voice-assistant, local-to-your-phone feature https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/9118387?hl=en

Went out to a thing tonight connecting artists and scientists about the future of Antarctica. If all that ice melts, sea levels will be sixty metres higher. Imagine. Already change can be seen in Antarctic mosses. It’s overwhelming.

🌩️ Schools in the #USA continue to outsource highly sensitive data about students to #proprietary #software vendors to store in the "cloud", er, #Amazon #AWS.

🔓 A vendor used by some of the country's largest cities was recently breached, despite years of increasing legal policies ostensibly to protect #education data.

🤦🏻 You won't believe what happened next.

#privacy #infosec #security

https://web.archive.org/web/20220815122301/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/business/student-privacy-illuminate-hack.html