Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Guys, am I the only one who didn't know about #Twitter lending all of users' data to #Google?

https://cloud.google.com/twitter

One of the most damaging philosophies #infosec copied from IT is a belief in user inferiority. Too many security decisions are rooted in a patronizing notion that users are children and that trust and agency must be taken from them and given to infosec staff/vendors.

It blew his mind that a single deck of cards you can buy for $1 could mean a hundred different single and multiplayer games. I immediately taught him solitaire, and cribbage is next. Society would never invent such a thing today.

I'm a free software nerd because explaining what a deck of cards is to my son became an object lesson in open standards and vendor lock in.

For hundreds of years a new card game meant new rules but the same deck. Now everyone has to monetize w/ custom cards and expansion packs.

Police use face recognition, drones, automated license plate readers, and an arsenal of other invasive tech. Atlas of Surveillance is a searchable map containing thousands of datapoints that allows you to see what is deployed in your area.

https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

State and Police Violence Against Protesters Escalates As Demonstrator Shot in Head with Impact Munition https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-police-violence-escalates/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Whenever you think or someone says to you that your good idea can't be good because if it was, someone else would've already done it remember this.

The Dutch ministry of justice paid for a #privacy test of Office 365, finding a series of issues. Just one of these: 6 different companies receive user data including file names, without even a privacy policy.
https://www.privacycompany.eu/blogpost-nl/onderzoek-naar-microsoft-office-365-for-the-web-en-apps-microsoft-belooft-nieuwe-maatregelen-om-hoge-privacyrisicos-te-verlagen

California's Attorney General began enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act on July 1. Here are answers to 10 common questions about the CCPA and what it means for you: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ten-questions-and-answers-about-california-consumer-privacy-act

They also took the streets to remind people of the ongoing targeted and systematic state violence that is carried out by the police against Black, Indigenous and People of Color.
#BlackLivesMatter #Fuck12 #fuckthepolice

Librem 5 Dogwood: Update 3

"The Librem 5 Dogwood batch has finished our manufacturing and is finalizing testing and fulfillment all from Purism headquarters before shipping to those who are part of this batch."

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-dogwood-update-3/

#freedom #privacy #librem5

The "non-commercial" (NC) option in the Creative Commons suite of licenses introduces more confusion than it eliminates. I wrote a short essay to sum up the main problem, as I see it. This core problem can get lost in discussion of more technical issues. I'm hoping this short statement will be useful to share with well-intentioned copyright owners considering NC. But this "first draft" could probably use your edits or comments! https://freedomdefined.org/The_non-commercial_provision_obfuscates_intent

For those who want a written summary of the discussion, RNZ have since published this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018754514/anand-giridharadas-beware-of-billionaire-do-gooders

The solarpunk hero we all need

Snap, Flatpak, AppImage, etc - are all attempts to make Linux more palatable to either proprietary software, or to software with reckless runaway complexity. Personally, I want neither, and will give no quarter to "solutions" for their "problems".

“I Thought A Few Guys Might Cry”: Patriot Front Rally Was “Complete Failure” Reports Undercover Antifascist https://itsgoingdown.org/patriot-front-chicago-failure/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Yup - this rings very true. http://techrights.org/2020/07/02/microsoft-article-by-alessandro-ebersol/

Well, that was fast!

At least until such time as I need to get a "real job," I'm pleased to announce that I will be spending 50% of my time working for the Libre-SOC project, working on Libre-licensed open hardware designs.

See https://libre-soc.org

This will be my first exposure to "real-world" semiconductor logic design, and I'm happy that I'm being afforded the opportunity.

With any luck, this will turn into a paying gig which can help support me and my family.

Climate Change Could Make Arctic Waves Two Stories Higher
https://earther.gizmodo.com/climate-change-could-make-arctic-waves-two-stories-high-1844311611 #climatechange #climatecrisis

How to tackle climate change, food security and land degradation
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200707140929.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis