Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Geeky YouTube Terminal Workflow auf @gnulinux https://gnulinux.ch/mein-youtube-terminal-workflow #nt

Security researchers, journalists, & online activists should sleep easier tonight knowing that the Supreme Court has rejected the many overbroad interpretations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act which have previously deterred or chilled their vital work https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/van-buren-victory-against-overbroad-interpretations-cfaa-protects-security

Did you know law enforcement can seize money from a person that has not been found guilty and never will be? This money often goes straight to funding surveillance technology. https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2021/5/11/22425299/cpd-chicago-police-drone-secret-emails-hack-lori-lightfoot-dodsecrets-city-hall
Learn more:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/end-two-federal-programs-fund-police-surveillance-tech https://t.co/5iyy7Jackc

MusicBrainz’ dream of a communally built music database arose with the early hopes of the Internet. After 20 years, it's proof that the internet can support & expand a long-term public good, as opposed to a proprietary, venture capital-driven growth model https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/organizing-public-interest-musicbrainz

The most recent shutdown of a PayPal account isn’t worrisome just because of its effect on one user, but because of the societal harms from patterns of account closures. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/paypal-shuts-down-long-time-tor-supporter-no-recourse

@lwriemen

If people with power don't make the changes, the people won't need to fight it at all, and I don't think there's a plausible mechanism for getting those in power to do the right thing, if not by leveraging the power of the people.

Twitter announces "Blue", a subscription service for a monthly fee, that unlocks a bunch of extra features.

Editing tweets is among them apparently.

Why that is a horrible idea:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/if-you-could-edit-tweets/

@bhaugen @codeberg I use Codeberg for my scientific code. Science is global and GitHub blocks several countries due to US trade sanctions.

Enlightening scientific article: The varying openness of digital open science tools https://f1000research.com/articles/9-1292/v2

Why Can’t We Call It an Emergency?
https://gizmodo.com/why-can-t-we-call-it-an-emergency-1847020403 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

We need more leaders like this: has transparent values and sticks to them even if it's unpopular with some powerful people. Doing the right thing is often quite dangerous. But now's when we need leaders who're up to it in our gov't declared Climate Emergency. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/300322473/oh-god-sorry-dunedin-mayor-gets-emotional-on-climate-change-and-floods

I despair at listening to RNZ's coverage of the Waikato hospital ransomware attack... I suspect that the wrong conclusions are being drawn from advice taken from people with vested interests in foreign corporate businesses. It's only going to get worse from here.

The problem is serious, but it's not about the amount of money being spent (as suggested by the pundits), but rather broad ignorance among the *pros* who've been entrusted with managing these networks. Education, not $, is the issue.

Read: Governing the Information Commons.

Nice article about building governance layers into platforms. Following Elinor Ostrom’s 8 principles for managing a commons. The part that resonated most for me on first reading is the need to understand the many patterns of governance that exist. From there we can move from the simple defaulting to private property based models.

https://www.glizzan.com/2020/03/04/governing-the-information-commons.html

"far too ready, even after investigations that clearly included the express discovery of bugs in code, to ascribe possible user error to the effect of bugs, errors and defects"

@johnnymac @GuerillaOntologist @ntnsndr

This looks like a must-read: https://tcf.org/content/report/roadmap-rebuilding-worker-power/?agreed=1

@johnnymac @GuerillaOntologist @ntnsndr

Check out this 2016 piece by Chris Brooks:

"It’s called the Independent Drivers Guild—but the new organization for New York City’s estimated 35,000 Uber drivers is “independent” in name only.

"Co-founded by Uber and the Machinists union, it's not a union, it has no collective bargaining rights, and it receives financial support from Uber..."

https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2016/08/putting-con-gig-economy

@GuerillaOntologist @ntnsndr @Matt_Noyes cab driving is a public conveyance and regulations are there to protect drivers, passengers, and the general public. A co-op that doesn't consider the effect of its business on the larger community (and make adjustments to protect and nurture that community) is a co-op in name only. #coops