Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The European Commission has funded an open source project to create a Gateway between the ActivityPub and XMPP PubSub Protocols, and E2EE on PubSub

See https://www.goffi.org/b/activitypub-gateway-and-pubsub-e2ee-QGqK

#technology #opensource #XMPP #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Watching Exterminate all the brutes

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/117909-exterminate-all-the-brutes

Sad, awful and unbelieveable look at the real history of colonialism. Why am I only hearing about the Haitian Revolution now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution

If you have any funds to help the people suffering from the #covid19 pandemic in #India, here is a good way to send them:

The "Quarantined Student Youth Network" is one of the organizations in the north organizing direct care action and community solidarity spaces.

If you have the time and energy, read their text, and give if you can. Please boost

https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/qsyncovidreponse2

I think we should call it DisempowerPoint instead.

How sweeping is California's vehicle surveillance dragnet?

We crunched the numbers:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/data-driven-2-california-dragnet-new-dataset-shows-scale-vehicle-surveillance

Last month, together with 15 other NGOs, we asked the Biden Administration to ask for the removal of IP barriers to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Today, @AmbassadorTai has said she will push @WTO to make it happen. https://www.eff.org/files/2021/04/28/zients_ip_and_vaccines_letter_4-19-21.pdf

Heterodox economists finally having (a bit of) a moment in the sun:

http://jwmason.org/slackwire/the-american-rescue-plan-as-economic-theory/

Have questions about mass surveillance? Ask NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and EFF's panel of experts today at noon Pacific Time! https://eff.org/fireside

Discovering security flaws is only half the battle. Our Coder's Rights project has information that may help security researchers reduce their legal risk when reporting vulnerabilities. https://www.eff.org/issues/coders

This patent troll may be trying to stretch its patents to cover anyone who simply uses routers. @Cloudflare is offering $100k in rewards to those who can collect & help publish evidence that its patents should be invalidated.https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo-redux-cloudflares-prior-art-search-bounty-returns/

If the Paris agreement fails, sea levels could rise 33 feet https://earther.gizmodo.com/if-the-paris-agreement-fails-sea-levels-could-rise-33-1846827286 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

In this blog Heather Burns explores some of the reasons why demands for imposing criminal liability onto senior managers and directors, in the context of the Online Safety Bill, constitute a series of threats to your Right to Freedom of Expression.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-abuse-why-management-liability-isnt-the-answer/

#Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia sign agreement to build region's largest wind farm - https://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/141670 that's good news #renewables

The folks whose philanthropy I really admire are those who recognise they've benefited disproportionately from the affordances of our Commons who and give anonymously, without wanting (& actively avoiding) "social credit" for their generosity. Their reward is knowing they've made a difference for someone. The crass alternative is those who trumpet & promote their generosity with the aim of laundering a deservedly bad reputation. You can guess to whom I'm referring :)

Nice article on Meet.Coop from @coopnews

"The Online Meeting Cooperative use open source software, with hardware powered by renewable energy"

https://www.thenews.coop/154366/topic/technology/democracy-youre-on-mute-a-co-op-alternative-to-zoom/