Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Privacy Sandbox” protects Google’s bottom line at the expense of your privacy. Opt out automatically with Privacy Badger’s latest update. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/why-privacy-badger-opts-you-out-googles-privacy-sandbox

I also added this gorgeous poster from Sam Wallman "You Don’t Have To Hate Your Job To Want A Union"

https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/

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#books #bookstodon #antifa #anarchism

Privacy-first smartphone. No tracking. No data mining. Runs PureOS. Physical kill switches. True digital freedom in your pocket. #Librem5 #PureOS
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

Once again I have my rates bill, and once again I am reminded that I, an atheist Jew, am being rated by the Christchurch city council to rebuild the cathedral, a place of worship for Anglicans, who had to have their arms twisted to rebuild it, in an initiative led by cranky old people like the late Jim Anderton who were/are not Anglicans.

If any lawyers would like to help me refuse to pay $6.25 this year please get in touch.

This is a big deal. As a member of my family so astutely put it, "insurers and banks are shaping environmental policy for the better, rather than our own governments."

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/nz/news/environmental/major-insurers-withdraw-support-for-deep-sea-mining-498048.aspx

I'm speaking at #fossy2024 in just under two weeks. First, I'm doing an updated co-presentation with my son about teaching #softwarefreedom concepts to children. Second, I'm co-presenting an updated overview of the economics of public goods to set the stage for a panel discussion on FLO funding dilemmas.

https://2024.fossy.us/

#Switzerland mandates #OpenSource software for all public software!

This makes perfect sense. Public software should be transparent. #India could have taken a lead on this, but our digital public infrastructure is mostly closed-source - with predictable consequences. 🙄

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

Listening to Jesse Mulligan & Dr Ravi Iyer about how #BigTech is harming kids... He's ex-Meta (Facebook). Seems to me those who have thought it acceptable to work for BigTech should be treated skeptically by default because they showed poor judgement taking that job & have probably rationalised their role, so that whatever they've done in the past still allows them to be 'good'. Unless they're openly contrite about having worked in Big Tech & ashamed, they're probably not worth listening to.

Everyone I know that actually trains as a sprinter is so violently opposed to terminology that implies knowledge work should be approached that way, yet we still call it a "sprint".

I feel like we could just call it a "fortnight" and half the Scrum industry would instantly evaporate as pseudo-leaders realize that you can't program at max speed forever in enterprise environments.

Unfortunately, at that point someone would invent "Faster Sprints" to recapture the gullible dweeb market.

Amazing to see professional infosec people (working for NZ gov't) defending the use of a CrowdStrike rootkit on 'enterprise' systems. What terrifying brainwashing these poor people have undergone. These 'outsource' corporations (both CrowdStrike & Microsoft, among others) are entirely unworthy of your confidence.

guys, i think we’ve entered U.S. political territory that’s uncharted even by The Simpsons. wild times ahead, for sure.

It's hard to get ready for a studious day at high-school while also seeing adults do nothing about climate change

If the DNC wants to win, I agree with some other posters: match Harris with Sanders as VP. That's how they'd win. The US needs an *anti-capitalist* to win over swing voters. That's because it's inconceivable that all US voters are as woefully & righteously ignorant as GOP supporters.

#Firefox , you were the least bad #browser .
I guess you still are, but trying hard to catch up, aren't you?

https://www.osnews.com/story/140247/i-told-you-so-mozilla-working-with-facebook-to-weaken-firefox-privacy-and-anti-tracking-features/

Thanks for enabling a #privacy violation without asking me on a profile with enhanced #tracking protection on.

I have over 20 profiles and I can't find a working way to disable it everywhere at once -_-

#mozilla

In case you missed it, #BookWyrm is the Fediverse's alternative to Amazon's Goodreads.

BookWyrm lets you keep track of what you're reading, publish book reviews and discover new books from other people's recommendations. It's part of the Fediverse, so you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc. More info at:

➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com

There are BookWyrm servers where you can sign up at:

➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances

You can also follow BookWyrm news at @bookwyrm

#Fediverse #Goodreads

Wow, our crucial public services (and business/commerce systems) are so completely badly run. No one seems to have considered that the world's crucial computer systems are completely dependent on a low quality, poorly managed, insecure, woefully fragile software monoculture. And those managing it act like they're surprised. This has been obvious to many of us for a decade. How are those managers even still employed?

Internet history rhymes

The FCC has voted to more closely regulate prison telecom services, a move that will significantly cut the exorbitant fees that families pay to communicate with incarcerated people. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/07/18/fcc-vote/

When you see the word "privatize" just think "extract wealth by choking public good to death"