Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Today, we’ve filed a class-action law­suit in US fed­eral court in San Fran­cisco, CA on behalf of a pro­posed class of pos­si­bly mil­lions of GitHub users. We are chal­leng­ing the legal­ity of GitHub Copi­lot (and a related prod­uct, OpenAI Codex, which pow­ers Copi­lot). The suit has been filed against a set of defen­dants that includes GitHub, Microsoft (owner of GitHub), and OpenAI.”

https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/

You'll want to get yourself a ☕ for this one. And an extra CW on that link for some real disturbing WWII pictures.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/09/how-pre-ww-ii-ukrainian-fascists-pioneered-brutal-terror-techniques-later-improved-by-cia-now-ironically-taught-to-descendants/

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TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc

#InContempt for November is here! Packed with news, action + updates on political prisoners, abolitionist campaigns, George Floyd uprising defendants + much more! Spotlight and update on #Alabama prison strike. https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-22/

This is yet more evidence that exceeding the safety limit of 350 ppm CO2 atmospheric concentration was a mistake. Without glaciers, there will be no freshwater.

Source: WMO
https://nitter.net/WMO/status/1587824008896122880#m

Given the the rapidly unfolding #ClimateDisaster do #academic associations have an ethical responsibility to discourage #conference travel?

And if so, WHY DON’T THEY?

Discuss.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/cop27-un-climate-summit-warming-reparations-temperature-rise-odds-mayhem/ #histodons

I think I posted this recently, but might've been in a conv thread. This is a report the #EU commission asking "where would the EU be if they'd embraced #FOSS and open hardware instead of becoming dependent on US big tech?" https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and sobering. Hope it's not to late to change course.

@strypey @xurizaemon - maybe we should also be exploring this (instead of CiviCRM)... https://karrot.world/#/welcome the plaform is karrot...

Periodic reminder: Microsoft loves Linux and #FOSS like a tapeworm loves a healthy digestive system.

Did you know that the European Union had an official Mastodon instance where only official EU institutions could open an account?

https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

No need to pay for a blue checkmark, accounts on this instance are, by definition, officials.

That’s Fediverse done right!

@catspyjamas - is Mark Smithers in the Fediverse yet? @mackiwg and I were just watching https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=gK7H3kgE3I0 and I think we really need to talk to him... What the OERF is doing with our FOSS Digital Learning Ecosystem couldn't be a better fit with what he describes (only we've already got FOSS options for all the proprietary components he mentions): we're already there. Think there's huge scope for us all to collaborate.

Today, part of Google’s new Play Rules come into force, banning VPN apps which affect ads or tracking, seemingly including those affecting DNS queries to include an ad block list like PiHole does. No vested interest in those rules, clearly, from the company with their trackers in 87.6% of Android apps! (@RDBinns et al. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03603v3.pdf) https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/12253906?hl=en