Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

You’re in a Police Lineup, Right Now
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006687787/facial-recognition-police.html #privacy #security #libremone #librem5 #purism #bigtech

One-third of car firms have cut jobs amid Brexit uncertainty - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/15/one-third-of-car-firms-have-cut-jobs-amid-brexit-uncertainty #brexit cast a terrible shadow from the future...

Without #encryption we will lose all #privacy. This is our new battleground | #EdwardSnowden | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australia-facebook

You Should Definitely Listen to These Guys

Extremely good-faith arguments against impeachment.

See Ya, Shep

Shep Smith abruptly leaves Fox News.

Trump Provides Cover For the Kurds

The President gets his hands dirty.

sudo flaw lets Linux users run commands as root even when they're restricted:

https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html

The UK Just Got More Power From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels, a First Since 1882
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-uk-just-got-more-power-from-renewables-than-fossil-1839034441 #climatechange #climatecrisis

How my application ran away and called home from Redmond:

https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-called-home-from-redmond-de7af081100d

Giving users the power to moderate their own feeds is the key. Centralized moderation will always be flawed--a company can never represent your sensitivities as well as you and your peers (and will likely bow to outside pressure to censor, whether it's China or groups of users).
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35yke/tech-companies-didnt-plan-for-chinese-censorship

#Janayugam Malayalam newspaper is switching to GNU/Linux with #Scribus. Possibly first daily in the world to run on 100% #FreeSoftware. Thanks to awesome work by @kannan @bady @mujeebcpy @ranjithsiji Hussain KH and Ashokan mash.

:)

To quote Pennywise:

"Go Straight Ahead,

It's Your Fucking Life"

And yes, it is Friday!

This is among the reasons I never post pictures of my son. I understand and accept risks to my own identity, but I don't own his online identity--I'm merely a steward of it until he's an adult. I hope at that point I can hand it off to him untarnished and unexploited. #privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html

Weapons of Mass Family Fun

Where Were the Kurds?

Trump said that the Kurds were no help during WWII. When else