Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Spotify resets passwords after a security bug exposed users’ private account information"

In a data breach notification ... the music streaming giant said the data exposed “may have included email address, your preferred display name, *PASSWORD*, gender, and date of birth only to certain business partners of Spotify.”

Wait, wat?! Passwords?

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/spotify-resets-user-passwords-after-a-bug-exposed-private-account-information/

We - open organisations and communities - need to avoid dependencies on listed corporations. They use open communities to launder their reputation (at best) or to co-opt them and shut them down because they're represent a threat to that corporation's profitability. Because of their incentives, they do not act in a benevolent way in the medium to long term. They are not allies, except of temporary convenience, and dependencies on them undermine our credibility & cloud our own values.

As always, Giridharadas is worth a read... this article especially (for folks here in the Fediverse): https://the.ink/p/we-can-have-democracy-or-we-can-have

#phosh 0.7.0 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.7.0

This features automatic media mounting, initial support for background XML, handling of per app `show-banners` notification setting and fixes for swipe window closing by @exalm@floss.social

#librem5 @purism #gnomeonmobile

.@senjudiciary is currently discussing the Online Content Modernization Policy Act. We urge them to reject this unconstitutional mess of a bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/online-content-policy-modernization-act-unconstitutional-mess

It’s shocking that politicians pushing for a more exclusionary Internet are doing so under the banner of free speech; it’s even more shocking that the president has dubbed it a matter of national security. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment

Looking forward to working with colleagues at COL in progressing open courses for technical and vocational skills development. #CTVSD2

Frankly, I don't care if "hackers" get copies of how a Covid-19 vaccine works. It shouldn't be proprietary information in the first place.

autism, ableism/disability discussion

This: "Software? Fusion360, Adobe Creative Cloud, John Deere tractors- a tradesperson can’t even own their own tools anymore. We’re all sharecroppers. Everything is rented." ... "Every single thing we own is being taken, put in the cloud, and rented back to us. Willingly. Because no one wants to know how to do anything beyond a narrow scope. We’re a world of carpenters willing to rent sharp chisels and saws rather than learn to sharpen them ourselves." https://xyzdims.com/2020/12/08/infinite-z-cr-30-aka-3dprintmill-creality-acknowledges-prior-development-commits-to-open-source-2020-12/

Congress can't trump your right to criticize elected officials. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment

Technologies for Liberation:

https://www.astraeafoundation.org/FundAbolitionTech/

CUNY is offering a #Cooperative Management course:

https://slu.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cooperative-Management-for-a-Changing-World-r2.pdf