Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Facebook makes a Slack competitor called "Facebook Workplace," with marquee customers like the government of Singapore, Walmart, Discovery Communications, Starbucks, and Campbell Soup Corporation.

On Wednesday, the company demonstrated a new suite of features for Workplace, including the ability to censor certain words or topics from the system. The example they chose? "Unionize."

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-unionize/

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Hot take: We should aim for 'decentralized' networks that are simple enough that they can be understood and improved by lots of people.

The 'fully distributed, but only fully understood by a few people' pattern is unsustainable and tends toward a society where software developers are not representative of software users.

ISPs, media companies, and tech companies work together to eliminate your choices online. HBO Max is just the best example of it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/streaming-laying-bare-how-big-isps-big-tech-and-big-media-work-together-against

Great article @GuerillaOntologist !

https://geo.coop/articles/making-worker-co-ops-antifragile

Have you come across Worker Coop Solidarity Fund?

https://solidfund.coop/

#Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, #cloud data shows | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-worst-case-scenarios-clouds-scientists-global-heating

#Environment #GlobalWarming #Clouds

Keep recording. Independent recordings of police officers are critical for ensuring police accountability. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/you-have-first-amendment-right-record-police

Ouch: Linux Monster Laptop Powered by AMD, Not Intel
https://news.softpedia.com/news/ouch-linux-monster-laptop-powered-by-amd-not-intel-530244.shtml

Reading this https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists reinforces what's already obvious. We need better, smarter, uncorrupted gov'ts and no corporations. There're a bunch of current leaders who need to be removed from power, stat.

If you ever had trouble seeing where monopoly, net neutrality, and technology intertwine, well then thanks to AT&T for its achievement in HBO Max. No one knows what it’s supposed to do, but everyone can see what’s wrong with it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/streaming-laying-bare-how-big-isps-big-tech-and-big-media-work-together-against

After a discussion at our #FOSS meetup on Tuesday, I'm wondering if anyone can explain to me why Linux distros like Debian (and downstream, like Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) need Snap or AppImage? Given that we have a mature, robust software management infrastructure already, they seem entirely superfluous based on my (admittedly superficial) understanding of why they exist.

@lightweight It'll be down to the actual software itself, how much you want it, and how it's available. There are some packages available as both Snap and as .deb on Ubuntu, so I make sure to prefer the .deb ones.

But sooner or later you'll want something that's only in a Snap. But it's all down to the trust that you have in the Snap maintainer - there's been actual malware in the Ubuntu Snap store for example, because the Ubuntu security team aren't involved.

@jonathanharker (or, in other words: "Microsoft = a bunch of dim bulbs who don't even realise how painfully derivative they are". Sadly, the only people less savvy: their target market ([G]CIOs, CTOs, etc.).

@lightweight It seems to be part of an effort to make desktop Linux more appealing to a less technically adept user. Personally, if I wanted an 'easy' OS at the expense of bloat, I'd go back to Windows.

Flatpak, AppImage, etc. taste like surrender.

#introduction

I wrote an article about the cybernetician Stafford Beer for a left-wing art magazine, and I'm looking to expand it into a book. My background is in mathematics (algebraic geometry) and I've worked on medical data integration for the last dozen years or so. Tired of making tech billionaires richer, I want to learn about co-operatives. I have an idea for a residential education co-op for high school students. I want to turn Beer's ideas into libre software. He/his pronouns.

Why Linux’s systemd Is Still Divisive After All These Years
https://www.howtogeek.com/675569/why-linuxs-systemd-is-still-divisive-after-all-these-years/

There are all sorts of artists who put their work online, only to run into copyright bots and bogus takedowns. And the Senate doesn't mention them when it talks about copyright online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/when-senate-talks-about-internet-note-who-they-leave-out

#Canada doubles #weapons #sales to #SaudiArabia despite #moratorium | Canada | The Guardian

What are you playing at Canada?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/canada-doubles-weapons-sales-to-saudi-arabia-despite-moratorium

#ArmsTrade

This Week in Fascism #63: Police and far-Right Make Common Cause in Midst of Rebellion https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-63-police-and-far-right-make-common-cause-in-midst-of-rebellion/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

There is no such thing as equality and we all accepted it. Because we all benefited from it. All but the lowest in this food chain. They were powerless because we constructed a system that forced them to participate or otherwise suffer immense repercussions. Over time, however, the gap widened, and the circle of people profiting from the established social contracts became increasingly exclusive. The internet gave us true freedom of speech and the power to organize ourselves.

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