Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton, report suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/xinjiang-china-more-than-half-a-million-forced-to-pick-cotton-report-finds #china's racism and slavery #uyghurgenocide

@natecull this is not entirely unrelated to the way that the entire tech industry keeps right on trucking along (after pausing to swear at one another for a bit) every time we come across something like spectre/meltdown or notice that intel has chucked an entire extra operating system backdoor in all of their hardware, instead of going "ok actually, shit, hold on it might turn out that even vaguely trustable computers are completely impossible, what are we going to do about this"

@natecull

> and still nobody in the C-suites have figured out that there is no way for cloud compute nodes to ever be secure from sufficiently centralised prying eyes

i mean, look, i think everybody who's got sort of a basic grasp of what computers are and has thought about it for ~20 minutes is aware of this, which can't rule out the *entirety* of the executive class. a good chunk of them are perfectly aware of it. what's nearly universal is the tacit agreement to pretend it doesn't matter.

You guys know I like to bash Go, but... FUCK!

"The Go security team has determined that the root causes of the vulnerabilities cannot be reliably addressed."

Ok, your language design has some serious flaw that can't be fixed, so they are basically saying "Yup, a core library is going to be vulnerable for a long time".

Also, this is going since August 2020, according to the related post. Project Zero works way fast (30 days) to disclose issues on every other project, but on a project from their own company, 4 months.

Google surely cares about the well-being of the internet, sure.

Link: https://mattermost.com/blog/coordinated-disclosure-go-xml-vulnerabilities/

I've never thought about this before, but it seems like he might have a point here...

RT @eff: 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

Hey Siri, if Section 230 is a handout to Big Tech, why do Big Tech companies keep endorsing weakening it? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/dont-blame-section-230-big-techs-failures-blame-big-tech

If this sounds like you, apply before 10 January 2021. ✍️

#daretocare #wearefairphone #changeisinyourhands

RT @agnes_crepet@twitter.com

We're looking for a new Software Engineer at @Fairphone@twitter.com in my team. We are working on making our phones last longer from a software perspective #makeimpact #tech4sustainability 🙌 https://fairphone.homerun.co/android-platform-engineer

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/agnes_crepet/status/1338423332010680327

It's easy, tempting even, for us #decentralisation / free software nerds to say ha! Serves you right. But most people who depend on bigtech never had any meaningful choice in the matter. A great many people are working to change that.

If you're inspired today to look for alternatives to google services, check out ethical.net.

#fuckgoogle

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/12/easy-tempting

Looks like Amazon is retiring the Goodreads API, which just another step towards basically abandoning Goodreads and folding it into some other Amazon service I guess: https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API

My advice? Get off Goodreads while you still can (ie export your content) and move over to StoryGraph: https://beta.thestorygraph.com

A black-owned startup finally developing a viable alternative to Goodreads. Fuck yeah!

(Why not LibraryThings? Because, guess what.. it’s also owned by Amazon!)

The Replay Foundation, my employer, announced their liquidation today. This means no more Pinburgh. It also means I'm Officially out of a job for the forseeable, so if y'all wouldn't mind boosting a link to my other source of income Improbable Island, that'd be just super.

https://www.improbableisland.com

It's a silly online game and it doesn't pay as much as fixing pinball machines but heck it's what I've got right now, and this winter's probably gonna be a hairy one.

Angry Workers collective came on to talk about their book, "Class Power On Zero-Hours" (PM Press, 2020) lessons learned over 6 years of labour/labor organizing in far west London and revolutionary strategy. Plus, a message from Sean Swain!

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2020/12/13/class-power-on-zero-hours-a-chat-with-angry-workers/

“Cellebrites and Stingrays started out in... U.S. military or federal law enforcement, and then made their way into state and local law enforcement, and also eventually make their way into the hands of criminals or petty tyrants like school administrators."https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393

Five senators are investigating remote proctoring apps: invasive, faulty, and biased surveillance tools that threaten the privacy of the students who are required to use them. We have some thoughts. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/senators-express-privacy-concerns-over-proctoring-apps

You deserve to live without shame

RT @Rohan_Naidu@twitter.com

Deeply unappreciated fact: the most "impactful" person in science right now is this Kazakhstani hacker queen. She is the one-woman bridge to the largest repository of scientific knowledge ever collected.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rohan_Naidu/status/1298020215805169665