Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

https://www.hackread.com/hacker-selling-500-million-facebook-user-data/

Bill aims to ban microtargeting of political ads. I'd argue the same reasoning to ban targeted manipulation for political ads should apply to *all* ads. The Internet (and society) would be much healither w/o microtargeting. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/proposed-bill-would-ban-microtargeting-of-political-advertisements/

That's how the Librem 5 performs with all the GPU acceleration in place :) @purism #librem5 #phosh

While politicians are focused on expanding higher education, labor union apprenticeships are a proven alternative path to prosperity.

Mastering blue collar skills shouldn't be seen as any less worthy of respect than the learning that happens in universities.

A new article "America needs more union apprenticeships – not just university graduates" on Mutual Interest, an online media #coop owned by the readers and writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/05/america-needs-more-union-apprenticeships-not-just-university-graduates

Become a member here:
https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

Librem 5 Timeline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HIcwP6zVEQ

Find out more about the Librem 5:
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#linux #privacy #security #freedom

Recently the .org domain was almost sold to a private equity firm.

Internet heavyweights, like the head of Wikimedia, fought to have the domain owned as a #platformcoop instead.

They blocked the sale and now plan to democratise large parts of the internet.

My new article on #CoopExchange blog.

https://coop.exchange/blog/7062477b-9e8d-11ea-b711-06ceb0bf34bd/the-co-op-that-blocked-the-sale-of-the-org-domain-to-private-equity-has-a-plan-to-democratise-large-parts-of-the-internet

Oh snap - Google gets a-schoolin'. https://skarnet.org/text/google.html As one who's also fended off a few Google hiring overtures, this is satisfying to see. I wish, too, that Google's exploitation of #FOSS & hypocrisy of employing exclusively proprietary software that creates an in-built power imbalance (that they have frequently abused) despite being built upon FOSS is the only key point that's missing.

A patent with generic claims on transmitting data is being used to sue companies that make water meters, modems, and even ventilators. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/new-low-bad-patent-patent-troll-sues-ventilator-company

https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/

It Hit 80 Degrees in the Arctic This Week
https://earther.gizmodo.com/it-hit-80-degrees-in-the-arctic-this-week-1843606717 #climatechange #climatecrisis

We moved libhandy from Purism's infra to GNOME's infra! Learn more here: https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2020/05/22/handy-1-alpha-1-migrating-to-gnome.html.

Repo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy
Doc: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy

@lwriemen

Yes, recently I've been a big fan of thinking around "proportional regulation" . Currently proportionally the regulatory burden is biggest for smallest businesses. This should be reversed.

Here is an article about the topic I wrote:

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/05/small-banks-are-massacred-by-disproportionate-regulation

Lake Effect EF! Statement About the 2020 Earth First! Summer Gathering https://itsgoingdown.org/earth-first-statment-2020-summer-gathering/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

I think the people who help us define the post-COVID "new normal" are not those with influence prior. We need the folks who're happy with less to call the shots. Equating influence & "success" & credibility with wealth is what got us into all these messes to start with. I suspect wealth is inversely correlated with happiness, satisfaction, and kindness. We want to be sustainably prosperous, not wealthy.

Contact-tracing app caught sharing location data with Foursquare
https://mashable.com/article/care19-north-dakota-contact-tracing-app-sharing-location-data-foursquare/ #privacy #security #purism #librem5

This is pretty huge https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/05/patent-case-against-gnome-resolved/ and it shows how idiotic and counter-productive for humanity software patents are. (there's lots more info still to emerge) Thank goodness for this outcome, as the alternative would've been full-dystopia.

@lightweight Vulture Capitalists in new Zealand are basically a way of siphoning skills and markets overseas by inserting (usually) American corporates into the board and taking it over. Once infested, the core of the business is then ripped out and sold overseas, usually to buddies of the stacked board. The remains collapse, but that's New Zealand's problem.

I have the strong impression that VCs tend to have strong confirmation bias based on whatever fluke (of birth or business "success") put them into the position of being a VC... leading to repetition of previous ill-advised approaches & generally fails to identify real, valuable novelty. And ethics (*why* are we doing this?) doesn't even feature.