Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Growing numbers of ‘newly hungry’ forced to use #UK #FoodBanks | #Society | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/01/growing-numbers-newly-hungry-forced-use-uk-food-banks-covid

#Poverty #Inequality #Pandemic

@jordan31 @Matter @plausible
It's unfriendly to developers who want to take away other people's rights. That's a feature, not a bug.

I mean, you might as well argue that commercial software licenses are unfriendly to developers. After all, they don't let you sell copies of the software as part of your own bundles.

Law enforcement agencies in the United States are notoriously secretive. That’s why we need @PCLOB_GOV to investigate what, where, and how surveillance was done against protestors this summer. Thank you, @RonWyden, @RepAnnaEshoo, and @RepBobbyRush. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/members-congress-join-fight-protest-surveillance-transparency

International Day Against DRM is scheduled for December 4th: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/streaming_services_beware_international_day_against_drm_idad_coming_dec_4

Seems I ran my tournament very early!

One good you could celebrate is by checking out https://adrian.geek.nz/movies !

"There's been some recent discussion about whether the X server is abandonware. As the person arguably most responsible for its care and feeding over the last 15 years or so, I feel like I have something to say about that."

https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html

A new Windows malware. Linux and MacOS not affected: https://www.cert.govt.nz/individuals/alerts/malware-being-spread-via-email-attachments/

People belatedly realise that Microsoft’s plan for #Git (and for #Linux ) isn't for the betterment of those projects but for #Microsoft #monopoly http://techrights.org/2020/10/27/torvalds-assimilated/

Not sure if people heard about the vote in Chile to completely rewrite the Pinochet-era constitution. It is very exciting. This is a good listen about the campaign that lead up to the historic vote https://soundcloud.com/miradaspodcast/9-camila-vergara

"Chile, which was the laboratory for neoliberalism, needs to be the laboratory for democracy... In order for the people to have real power/the system to be accountable...people need to be organized--not just vote the preference....move from expression to decision."

AT&T and Verizon secured a massive regulatory benefit from the FCC with the elimination of the last bit of competition rules in broadband. In exchange for this massive gift, the public receives nothing.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/last-smash-and-grab-federal-communications-commission

Remember kids:

"[Microsoft] GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service

Also, can we make a point of always calling it Microsoft #GitHub from now on please? Thanks.

#youtubedl