Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Microsoft continuing it's frankly predatory behaviour. Thread on how this will abuse poorer consumers.
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RT @GossiTheDog
Microsoft added Buy Now Pay Later into Edge (and so Windows 10 and 11 base OS), a thing which is known to be abused to harm people.

The tags on the post on Microsoft’s website say it all. Keep speaking out.
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1465613506376613894

The Token Disconnect

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/disconnect.html

The customer *isn't* always right.

There. I've said it.

As reported by @derspiegel and @politico, Nextcloud has filed a complaint with the EU as well as the German anti-trust authorities over the behavior of Microsoft.

Find input from all the supporting organizations on our website https://antitrust.nextcloud.com

https://nextcloud.com/blog/eu-tech-sector-fights-for-a-level-playing-field-with-microsoft/

#GitHub is down.

Can we please have #OpenSource federated forges now?

Still true.

#GoodDeeds #quotes

The newly-agreed #German government coalition called for a Europe-wide ban on public #facialRecognition and other dangerous biometric #surveillance, as part of negotiations over the forthcoming #AI Act.

https://reclaimyourface.eu/new-german-government-calls-for-european-ban-on-biometric-mass-surveillance/

Poorly designed regulations cause more problems than they solve. To assert control over online platforms, government in #India granted itself expansive #censorship and #surveillance powers through "IT Rules" that include provisions to undermine #encryption. Now the rules are the target of multiple lawsuits. Here's why no one should back off.

https://scroll.in/article/1010778/how-the-modi-governments-new-it-rules-jeopardise-the-right-to-privacy-and-free-speech

#privacy

Fingers crossed for a change to the brutal regime

‘Hundreds of fake Twitter accounts have spread authentic-looking lies about Castro; fake opinion polls appear alongside real ones; 300,000 voters still don’t have the identity cards they will need at polling stations.’

John Perry on Honduras’s elections:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/november/end-of-a-narcostate

Here's the theory behind Europe's GDPR: if an online service wants to collect, store and/or process your personal information, it has to obtain your real, informed consent for each of those activities. In theory, this should have exterminated surveillance-based "behavioral" ads. In practice, nothing of the sort has happened...yet.

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My late husband J-P was one of those who resist the attempts by marketers to shoehorn "Black Friday" into the celebrations of a country that doesn't even celebrate Thanksgiving.

He created this very simple website - please share it widely today!

http://www.isitblackfridayintheuk.com/

did you know that #mastodon web UI has OCR built in? so when you are posting screenshots of text, a transcription of the text to put into a description of the image is literally one click away. when uploading image into a toot, just klik 'Edit' and then 'detect text from picture'. that's it.

please help sighted people. it's costing you two extra clicks.

#accessibility

An English language version of a story I posted in German earlier in the week... https://news.itsfoss.com/german-state-foss/

Sad to see this Adobe / Docusign pseudo-security bollocks gaining ground. I guess it makes some people rich, but it adds nothing in terms of security or legal standing.

There are plenty of ways to electronically "sign" a document without trying to fake my own signature with a mouse on some proprietary website. *sigh*

We are thankful for @StanfordLibs KNOW Systemic Racism project for helping us create the first ever index of California law enforcement policy manuals. https://www.eff.org/sb978-Apr2021

Psst... we're hiring!! Many (many) positions now open, including #embedded #Linux developer, #CI, #MachineLearning, #Debian, #GStreamer, #Rustlang & more! Join us! http://openfir.st/jobs #OpenSource #remotework #hiring #remotejobs #careers #softwareengineering #jobsearch

Support our mission: The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that believes in a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust. We support this by building a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem. https://www.gnome.org/donate/

#GNOME #FOSS #SupportFreeSoftware

I just want you guys to know that the multiple *years* I've had my music on Spotify and iTunes have still made me less money than the first two weeks of the same albums on Bandcamp.

Please support artists directly if you can.

The new German coalition treaty: “We stipulate open standards for public IT projects. Procurement for software development will usually commissioned as #opensource the corresponding software is made public as a matter of principle.”

We welcome that the new government wants to focus on the use of Free Software. We will now closely observe and accompany the concrete implementation.

#FreeSoftware #PublicCode