Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The true #hacktoberfest challenge: submit a PR on any platform OTHER than github (@codeberg or #gitlab) and as a reward, you can boast about supporting truly open source platforms and none of that corporate surveillance crap.

#truehacktoberfest

Kick-off for Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com

Unfortunately people seem to spam projects with invalid PRs a lot this year: https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ 😒

Huh. Just had quite a good experience with DigitalOcean support. Far more responsive than MS Azure support (we've stopped using Azure), and keen to help us sort the problem (system error updating payment methods), now resolved (system issue on their end).

Click on just one moderately political youtube video...
Spend the next three days scrolling through angry rants the algorithm thinks it has a shot at making you binge watch. :/

I'm sorry, but watching this debate is unbearable. They have the debating skills and attitude of a bunch of 10 year olds.

#debates2020

“Has anyone started having discussions with their CIO/CEO about moving back to an in-house mail server? I advocate for it” https://www.cbronline.com/opinion/microsoft-outage Heh heh. Yup.

Yes, we need all of these gone. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/bust-em-all-lets-de-monopolize-tech-telecoms-and-entertainment They have way too much power, and no one's providing oversight. They're a law unto themselves and that bad for just about *all of us*.

The Azure Government Cloud is the $10 billion contract, I think?

Maybe not a good idea to annoy the people who buy aircraft carriers in bulk, but, on the other hand, also not a good idea to annoy the people who can turn off all your computers

This is what they call a Seattle Standoff

Yes, this modus operandi, used by Microsoft and other faux-#FOSS "friends" does ring very true, especially if we consider the Linux Foundation: http://techrights.org/2020/09/27/proprietary-monopoly-github/ This is how the proprietary incumbents can use their exploitative profits to destroy those with far better ethics (and software).

Victory! @CAGovernor vetoed A.B. 2004, which would have forced a hasty "immunity passport" program on Californians, harmed privacy, and further hurt vulnerable communities. Thank you to everyone who took the time to speak out against this bill.

The most important feature is missing........

PRIVACY!

Microsoft Edge for Linux will Ship With These Features Missing - OMG! Ubuntu!
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/09/edge-linux-missing-features

Me looking at Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection:

Wow this sure is a lot of extremely fine-grained detail about every corporate workstation on the planet that Microsoft is storing on their servers

I wonder if the US military, a $10 billion customer of Microsoft, would ever be tempted to do anything unusual with this data

I'm sure this is all probably extremely okay and nothing bad will likely ever come from handing the nice people running the USA this level of raw power over others

the only trickle down economics I support is where the richest person pays for the budget and when they run out of money, we trickle down to the next richest person