Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Really cool work! Anarchist building simple tiny homes out of pallets for homeless people that want them https://narratively.com/the-undercover-anarchists-secret-construction-collective/

Best POTUS ever, amiright?

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1435637655501512712

I'm not an audio book guy (with the exception of the occasional librevox recording), so I had no idea that Amazon owns Audible. And I had no idea how frickin' terrible they are for authors.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/somebody-will/#acx

Judge orders Apple to change its App Store practices in long-awaited decision in antitrust trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/10/apple-epic-decision-judge-market-monopoly/ #bigtech #apple #purism #librem5

@yojimbo Here's a first cut. https://davelane.nz/principles-engagement

I just had to break it to one of my consulting clients - who requested me to take part in a meeting with their staff and other consultants - that I don't use MS Teams. Or any other MS software. It's (my) company policy. I provided them with a link to one of the BigBlueButton instances I run onshore in Aotearoa instead. Which'll be better in every way in any case.

VICTORY! Both SB 4 and AB 14 have cleared the California legislature and are headed to the governor's desk. Thank you to everyone who supported #broadbandforall. https://t.co/NsvSKQ0bxE

Nearly All the Unburned Coal Must Stay in the Ground to Avert Climate Catastrophe
https://gizmodo.com/nearly-all-the-unburned-coal-must-stay-in-the-ground-to-1847645357 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

The best article I've read about this whole fiasco just came out in Real Clear Science. Well worth a read, imo.

https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2021/09/08/lessons_from_the_ivermectin_debacle_793483.html

Great conversation on organizing in "flyover country" on This Is Revolution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnrEbZtMdgI

Pay what you want for the @nostarch Machine Learning Bookshelf bundle, and benefit EFF with your purchase! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/machine-learning-bookshelf-no-starch-press-books?partner=8443

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Here's a little thing that may not be obvious to many people....

When you install an open-source app from Google Play or the Apple app store, there is no guarantee that what you install actually matches the public code.

@fdroidorg are doing a great service. They independently build the public source code for apps from scratch, review for common issues, and publish their builds. Thanks to "reproducible builds" it's possible to verify they do not tamper with the code.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/

Who would have thought that a tech company would use a feature marketed as being for security to exert remote control on their customer's computers instead? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/riot-games-anti-cheat-software-will-require-tpm-secure-boot-on-windows-11/

So I just posted a comment on a Facebook post by our NZ Privacy Commissioner bemoaning the privacy threat of the mega multinational tech social media (Google/Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)... while remaining in complete apparent denial that there's another way - yes, the Fediverse. I posted a comment citing https://joinmastodon.org ... and Facebook autoblocked the submission of the post... and without explanation of why it was blocked (I also put links to a few Mastodon instances in it).

USB-C is annoying. I thought my laptop dock was failing--the screen blanked out whenever it moved on the hinge and it kept getting worse. I initially blamed a weak wire between the screen and base but on a whim replaced the USB-C cable with a new, higher quality version and all the instability went away instantly.