Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The digital sovereignty discussion is growing louder in the EU... https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/french-government-seeks-to-speed-up-deployment-of-open-source/ Wouldn't it be refreshing if our NZ government caught up, and codified our national sovereignty (and use of open standards and #FOSS!) in its new Digital Strategy!?

This is some great reporting. We need a lot more of this. I don't want to hear what some talking-head pundit thinks, I want to hear from the workers.

The year in staff resignations: Food industry workers recount what drove them to quit en masse

https://thecounter.org/solare-seattle-fleishers-dollar-general-burger-king/

Our local regional council seems to have been asleep at the wheel... or it's been corrupted by corporate interests. Or both. We need better local government and regulators, because the corporates will privatise profit and externalise costs 'til the cows come home. We need better people to hold them (who, in many cases, aren't great people, no matter what they might think) to account. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ecan-exposed-regulator-hides-damning-report

O.K., brits. I got word back from New Zealand's negotiators of the UK-NZ free trade agreement on my opposition to copyright extensions.

Apparantly "The Agreement in Principle confirms changes to some aspects of New Zealand’s copyright law will be required." I need your opposition too!

Seriously! How are we supposed to reel these unjust copyright laws back? If we can't halt copyright term extensions, how are we supposed to revoke anticircumvention laws!?

How to Cheat in an Argument
(or, even better, how to catch yourself doing it):

https://leanlogic.online/how-to-cheat-in-an-argument/

Sign this petition to demand a living wage for workers at REI #Coop ✊

https://www.coworker.org/petitions/a-living-wage-for-rei-greenvests

$2000/month to every American #moneyforthepeople #covid19

https://chng.it/Q7wwFTJnxW

Hot taker: “the problem w/ open source is…”

Me: no, it’s time and money

HT: ok but what abo…

Me: no, it’s time and money. Everyone is telling you it’s time and money.

HT: surely it’s…

Me: what is motivating you to pretend it’s something other than time and money?…

I recently decided to go all-in on trying to have a "writing career" without giving in to monopolistic corporations like Amazon and Google.

I'm selling my fiction directly to fans, Patreon-style, instead of putting myself thru the endless stress of subbing to magazines.

Check it out!
https://newsletter.eleanorkonik.com/the-laundress/

I'm using open-source software, no cookies or trackers. The only "middleman" is the credit card processor (stripe).

I'm really proud of myself.

For Microsoft, it's all about cultivating total dependence among its users: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/microsoft-edge-protocol-competition.html There's nothing admirable about their approach. They jealously guard their ability to frame most computer users' every interaction with the digital world. Despicable.

"If trillions of dollars can be found to sort out the banking crisis or the Covid pandemic in a few weeks, then it can surely be found to help countries transition into a low carbon world..." #COP26
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/13/heres-the-truth-our-leaders-at-cop26-have-failed-us-the-rest-is-spin

Open source solar power for anyone - A new book teaches how to build your own solar power system at any budget

See https://opensource.com/article/21/11/open-source-solar-power

#technology #solarpower #environment #DIY #tocatchthesun

World’s #militaries avoiding scrutiny over #emissions | #GreenhouseGasEmissions | The Guardian

The elephant in the room.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/11/worlds-militaries-avoiding-scrutiny-over-emissions

#Environment #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Cop26

@lightweight @alcinnz Many years ago at OSCON Danese Cooper gave a talk with a phrase I have (with permission) reused since with these types of folks: copyleft is the only viable license strategy if you need to ensure 'evergreen openness'.

They never talk about #FOSS, because there's no money in that for them, even though it would definitely be the better thing for non-profits. Instead they take money from the big proprietary players to keep non-profits hooked into the surveillance capitalism/data-as-hostage game.

For anyone who's heard of TechSoup (supposedly helping non-profits make better use of/get better value from technology) - this is the sort of shit they're shovelling down the non-profit sector's throat: https://email.connectingup.org/t/ViewEmail/i/CACB9E037E53D3802540EF23F30FEDED/21386AD034D32EE474AF8F7A76570606 I'm really not a fan. Not one bit.

Nextcloud cares about privacy and data sovereignty. Who owns and controls our documents, photos, chat logs, and calendar items matters, and we think it should be you!

Own your data! Learn more about migration options.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/easy-migration-to-nextcloud-from-insecure-and-privacy-unfriendly-platforms-now-available/

How to Set Up Your Own Self-Hosted Open-Source Secure (Access) Email Server with Mailcow

See https://lifehacker.com/how-to-set-up-your-own-secure-email-server-1848026797

#technology #privacy #email #mailcow #opensource

“America's CLOUD Act, … would require those companies to hand over data to the US Government. ‘While both Microsoft and Amazon are … building local data centres, which means data they hold will ‘reside’ in NZ, data residency is not data sovereignty.’”

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/challenge-to-bring-home-nz-data-from-overseas-owned-clouds