Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

To be upfront: my own first reaction was critical. I am very privacy-conscious, and the idea that 'someone' captures my screen every few minutes is disturbing. Sure, it's voluntary, local, might be encrypted, etc, but that doesn't change the fact. These things might change. The feature might be turned on with the next update. HR might turn it on. My boss might look at it. Someone's lawyer might. The police or government might. Some hacker might. The potential that they could is alarming enough.

@lightweight @Firesphere @virtuous_sloth @keoni Not sure how much effort would be required. That is why I thought a 'Translation Academy' would be a good place to start planting seeds.

Although I very much want to see both updated dictionary and language packs/translations for #TeReoMāori in Linux/Ubuntu. I do think it is a taonga that needs to an iwi or similar group to be kaitiaki for it.

If someone is like "huh, we don't know where to start", I'd leap in to help and be part of what they do.

Everyone should know that spell check is broken in software you spend hundreds on because Microsoft insists you use a cloud service to check your spelling. This has broken custom spell check technologies indigenous people have built for their language.

@Firesphere @virtuous_sloth @keoni Adding the Māori keyboard is the easiest.
Adding a dictionary can be done, but it needs someone to give it some love as it is quite out of date.
Using the Te Reo Māori interface to the GUI .. a truely sad state of affairs there. With it currently unsupported in all(?) distros. Ubuntu had it for a while but there was a lack of support to keep it updated.

More info here .. https://figjam.nz/geekery/māori_ubuntu.html

#Codeberg needs you: Your trust, your donation and your time (you decide how much love you can give, though 💙)

Check out our teams on the Contributing Page: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contributing

“It’s really hard for the average person in the United States to know all this technology that police are using, how they justify it, what they’re spending on it,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia said. “It’s important because it’s dangerous.”
https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/21/santa-cruz-aclu-panel-examines-privacy-rights/

If you're installing Linux for a friend this weekend, think about asking:

"Hey, do you have an old laptop you're not using any more?"

Try making *that* useful. Keeps your friend calm because their main system is fine. Keeps you calm because you're not worried about your friend. And, you reduce some e-waste.

And this move by Microsoft (among the many dodgy moves & massive hyping of 'A' by #BigTech in the recent past) shows they *know* they're nearing the end of their growth curves. They're trying on things they know risk really (terminally) pissing off their captive audience... and yet they're doing it anyway. It suggests they're more desperate than we thought to find new frontiers to ruthlessly exploit.

#Forgejo v7.0.3 was just released! This is a security release.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

Something useful to keep in mind, people: the only thing a major public corporation, like the 'Frightful Five' of #BigTech, has to do to fail... is to stop growing. That inflection point is tantamount to death as far as its shareholders are concerned, and that's all that matters. Let's be the millions of cuts that take the wind out of those ethically bankrupt juggernauts' sails. I think we'll be surprised how fast they fall when they finally do.

you don't need to blow leaves! they're just fucking leaves! it's literally in the name that you can just leave them there

If #BernieSanders ran for #POTUS as an independent in the 2024 #US Presidential election would you vote for him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEDoCaYSwVw

#Boost for sample size
#USPol

Am I the only person who is seeing this play going down right now?

December 2023: Microsoft prices Windows 10 long term support

May 2024: Microsoft poison pills Windows 11 with spyware

The beauty of this is that Microsoft doesn’t even have to sell the new windows 10 pricing, infosec will

In chess, this is called a “discovered attack”. Check!

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-to-offer-windows-10-subscription-plan-for-customers-who-want-to-keep-getting-updates-after-october-2025-for-both-businesses-and-individuals

"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

Okay, all this yelling about "Switch to #Linux now that #Microsoft is doing bad things to #Windows".
Let's stop yelling, shall we?
I made a TINY start here:

https://codeberg.org/Firesphere/from-windows-to-linux

Pull requests welcome!

Why #HostedOnCodeberg? Well ehm... do you *know* who the owner of GitHub is?
Also, @Codeberg is dedicated to open source!

Listening to RNZ, seems the media's trying to make it sound extravagant & unacceptable (and on par with mismanagement and other human incompetence) that a public works project ends up costing more & is delayed due to an unforeseen need to preserve a directly-affected skink population and the biodiversity it represents. That's one of the few causes for gov't project blowouts I actively celebrate (it should've been identified & costed prior to the project going ahead!). https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517476/native-skinks-cause-cost-blowout-for-porirua-sewage-tank

Happy to help others join me out from under the thumb of #BigTech. I've written a lot of guides here: https://tech.oeru.org and https://davelane.nz

It's a huge, daily relief to be able to say that I have zero dependence on Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, or Amazon (and substantially constrained any dependence on Google and FB). I've shunned them all for the past couple decades and feel nothing but gratitude to my resolute former self (who received an unending stream of disparagement from people who're now experiencing a slow realisation that their past blind faith in the benevolence of the corporate model was woefully misplaced).

Listen.

It's not about whatever Microsoft is doing with these features today. Maybe it's apocalyptic, maybe it's not. But what we're seeing is next-level disregard for user choice about their OS. Yes, even for Microsoft, this is exceptional.

And in the constant pursuit of monetizing our data or extracting training sets, we must confront the question of what they will push on us next, without consent or reasonable recourse.

This is not an OS under owner control, and as such, should not be trusted for any purpose where data security is a concern.

I struggle to think of a use case where it isn't.

I'm not sure what it is about these shifts that makes these situations hit harder. I imagine that part of it is that knowing that the people affected had a similar lifestyle to my own makes it more relatable. But also the fact that this is all about conflict means that this is all the result of human decisions. I guess that's applied to more famines in more remote areas as well.

Perhaps better news coverage is another factor here.