Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Google has excluded all climate effects except CO2 from the emissions calculator of its Google Flights platform.

"The company said it made the change following consultations with its 'industry partners'." 🤨
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62664981

⚠️ 🔓 Unauthorized party gained access to portions of the #LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account and took portions of source code and some #proprietary LastPass technical information

(N.B.: Use #FreeSoftware alternatives e.g. #KeePassXC.)

#breach #infosec #privacy

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/08/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

Job opportunities:

Someone I know through political volunteering works at Tech Networks of Boston (https://techboston.com/about-tnb/mission/), a company that provides IT services to nonprofits, and they are evidently in a big hiring scramble right now for IT people.

Please spread the word!

Former UK Supreme Court Judge Calls Out Online Safety Bill As Harmful By Itself - https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/24/former-uk-supreme-court-judge-calls-out-online-safety-bill-as-harmful-by-itself/

#NGINX "gets back to [their] #OpenSource roots" ... by announcing their use of proprietary platforms #Microsoft #GitHub and #Salesforce #Slack. 🤦🏻

https://www.nginx.com/blog/future-of-nginx-getting-back-to-open-source-roots/

Jeffery Sachs speaking some much needed truth.

https://johnmenadue.com/the-wests-false-narrative-about-russia-and-china/

Eventually figured out that I could only achieve the basic task of specifying the authentication username (hint, it's the same as the email address!) by using the now long obsolete "control panel" mail settings functionality. Windows almost seems deliberately set up to make any non-Microsoft workflow neigh on impossible, but it's probably just incompetence. I ferl bad for folks tgat are dependent on that rubbish. Rant over. 2/2

It' s not like this is a new thing... e.g. https://www.hrw.org/report/2022/05/25/how-dare-they-peep-my-private-life/childrens-rights-violations-governments our educational policy makers have been asleep at the wheel for a generation when it comes to anything to do with digital technology in schools.

Headline on RNZ right now: "For environment's sake is it time cruise ships sailed into sunset?"

Ignoring the weird syntax, I'd answer "Yes!". https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/473378/cruise-ships-back-in-nz-waters-should-we-really-be-welcoming-them

They are obscenely unsustainable, and bring us nothing of value. Let's give them a big miss.

Yup - finally we're seeing some questioning about the rampant use of Frightful Five technologies in our schools and the privacy implications. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018855220/report-warns-protections-against-spying-on-kids-too-weak It's something that's bugged me since I've had kids in schools here... It's an elephant in the room: https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards

Permanent access to at-home #abortions to be granted in #England and #Wales | Abortion | The Guardian

Some good news

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/permanent-access-to-at-home-abortions-to-be-granted-in-england-and-wales

#UK #Health #WomensHealth

Foreign intelligence agents working at #Twitter? Terrible security practices? Management unconcerned with #security? Color me shocked. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html

Twice as many people died with #Covid-19 in #UK this #summer compared with 2021 | #Coronavirus | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/twice-as-many-people-died-with-covid-in-uk-this-summer-compared-with-2021

#Pandemic #2022

Publicly financed software should be available to the public. We should be able to use, study, share, and improve the code that has been developed with public money. Show your support with a 'Public Money? Public Code!' sharepic. #PublicCode #FreeSoftware

https://publiccode.eu/sharepic

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