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We are winding down our work on STARTTLS Everywhere. Thanks to the cooperation of email providers, protocol authors, and mailserver developers, we’ve made major strides in transport security for email since 2014! eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/wind

Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites · mtlynch.io
mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-it

What if workers and communities were given a preferential right to buy businesses that have gone bankrupt due to the Covid-19 crisis?

My new article on Coop Exchange blog.

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coop.exchange/blog/1594638a-84

I'm old enough to remember when "hardcore punk" referred to belief system, not a musical style.

80s punks know how to spot a fascist thanks to Ronnie and Mags.

I think you have to be a certain type of personality to see value in scrum. is broad enough to have mass appeal, even if you know how tainted is the Agile Manifesto by 'code is king' thinking. When you wrap agile in process, it becomes decidedly less agile, and scrum is one of the heaviest processes I've encountered. (Yes, that does include CMM.)

Of course, there's always a difference between process and 'process in company <x>', but scrum seems like agile meets Taylorism.

Question authority! Politicians, police, pundits, gurus, parents, ...

If you never question, you'll never uncover the data (or lack of data) supporting the pillars of said authority.

Work instituted a policy of using 3/4 of our PTO by Sept 30. The claimed justification was to avoid having everyone take time off at the same time after COVID-19 passes.

I've been in software 30+ years, usually at big corporations. This policy is meant to reduce cash liabilities for coming layoffs in Q4 (following Q1 layoffs earlier this year).

#Coronavirus: #England and #Wales #CareHome #deaths quadruple in a week | World news | The Guardian

This article shows that the headline figure is misleadingly low. It also doesn’t count deaths outside hospital due to #Covid-19

theguardian.com/world/2020/apr

#UK

@EFFThe CFAA has to be interpreted narrowly because of the dangerous precedent it sets for internet users across the board. That's why we supported cert in this case. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/eff-

RT @letsencrypt: Looking for an awesome team to work with and help secure the Web every day? We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer! http…

Oil price drops below $0

"US oil prices have turned negative, meaning that some producers are paying customers to take oil off their hands."

(CNN)

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