Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

DOJ's unprecedented expansion of DNA collection to include individuals in immigration detention brings us one step closer to genetic surveillance of the entire population. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/doj-moves-forward-dangerous-plan-collect-dna-immigrant-detainees

Debunked 'Antifa' Wildfire Rumors Cause Death Threats, Overloaded 911
https://gizmodo.com/debunked-antifa-wildfire-rumors-spread-on-facebook-over-1845029629

Facebook: Privacy Is Cool, but Have You Guys Heard of Money? https://gizmodo.com/facebook-privacy-is-cool-but-have-you-guys-heard-of-m-1845025587 #facebook #bigtech #privacy #purism

I did finally get my new site to a manageable skeleton of a framework. Looks a little bare, but I think it communicates well enough for now.

https://anarchobook.club

CSS Grid is fun!

Also... fuck JavaScript.

Corporations love to talk about empowering people of colour, while crushing their attempts to unionise.

Unionisation reduces racist sentiments, but the elites prefer cosmetic changes that blame the workers.

New article: "Corporations love minorities – unless we try to unionise" on Mutual Interest, a free online media #coop owned by readers & writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/09/corporations-love-minorities-unless-we-try-to-unionise

Become a member here, members distribute our funds using participatory budgeting:

https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

"Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it"

Great post!

https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/online_privacy_real_world_privacy

#Humans exploiting and destroying #nature on unprecedented scale – report | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/10/humans-exploiting-and-destroying-nature-on-unprecedented-scale-report-aoe

#Ecology #Extinction #Wildlife #Conservation

Nour E-Din worked on the integration of EteSync with Evolution - GNOME’s suite for managing your emails, contacts, and schedule. EteSync allows you to synchronize Calendars, Contacts & Tasks securely across your devices. See how they did it by reading their final GSoC report!
https://nourmat.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/where-to-next-gsoc-2020-final-report/

If you think these hardware cryptographic security measures are actually about customer security and not vendor control, I have printers to sell you that reject refilled ink cartridges and farm tractors you aren't allowed to repair.

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-psb-vendor-locks-epyc-cpus-for-enhanced-security-at-a-cost/

Hey #socialcoop folks - if you'd like to attend one of our instance's "strategy summits" later this month, please RSVP to this Loomio Poll: https://www.loomio.org/d/6SoVapyj/2020-social-coop-strategy-summit/53

GEO Weekly newsletter. This week we've got a toolkit for creating commons in your neighborhood, and a discussion of couchsurfing.com's problematic move to a for-profit corporation:

https://mailchi.mp/d3ccd02ac17b/design-for-the-commons-its-an-ideological-struggle-geo-weekly-newsletter

#MutualAid #Commons #Platforms

@purism And here's the #librem5 connected to a usb-c hub that has a keyboard/mouse connected via usb and driving the external screen via dp-alt-mode. Needs some hacks still but we're getting there:

libhandy 1.0.0 released. 🎉

We released it a bit in advance to let application maintainers update their submodules in time for the GNOME 3.38.0 release. 😀 That being said, we expect distros to ship libhandy as any other regular stable library. 😉

https://download.gnome.org/sources/libhandy/1.0/