Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Fall on walk from bed to desk is #WorkplaceAccident, German #court rules | #Germany | The Guardian

It was bound to happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/fall-on-walk-from-bed-to-desk-is-workplace-accident-german-court-rules

200+ newspapers are suing Google and Facebook for price fixing.

Antitrust (and not link taxes and other pseudo-copyright) is the right tool for the job

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/newspapers-vs-big-tech-antitrust-tackles-problems-copyright-just-cant-fix

EFF : "hey ! let's do a #VR meeting about how to have #humanrights in the #Metaverse"

also EFF : "hey, let's do it inside a corporate owned multiplayer VR system where you have to sign under (probably abusive) #proprietary EUA and gives personal details ... " #privacy

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We urge Google and Apple to remove from their respective app stores ALL apps that contain SDKs from data brokers that collect and sell our location data.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/apple-and-google-kicked-two-location-data-brokers-out-their-app-stores-good-now

Google is threatening to remove certain apps from its Play Store, unless these apps provide users with better information about how they harvest and monetize location data. Good.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vp35/google-tells-apps-disclose-location-data-removed-huq

TIL about funding a co-op with "revenue-based financing."

https://stwd.farm/oldsalt

PSA: There is now a CfP for the FOSS on mobile devroom @FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/foss_on_mobile_devices/

#foss #mobile #fosdem #linux

So many reasons to despise Paul Krugman.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-krugman-michael-lind

During my undergrad in econ, I got mocked more than once by professors and students with Kruggie's same brain rot, for pointing out that the assumptions their models were built on bore no relation to reality, and that their policy proposals were sure enrich the wealthy while immiserating the poor and working class. The economics discipline is an absolute dumpster fire, with very few exceptions.

Wow - fascinating. In the generally totally munted US political scene, this info drops: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=F-bpASAVEPU - US voting districts which favoured Republicans (i.e. Trumpists) last election, the rates of vaccination are substantially lower (like 40% lower). Their COVID contraction and *death* rates are also *much* higher. In tightly contested races, the Republicans have lost the natural selection race, and will likely lose the election race. Too bad, but just desserts.

Ugh. It's always ominous when you see one of your SaaS providers being acquired by someone else. The results are almost never good. In this case, Mailjet... I hope it's not 'dilution of value, here we come". Capitalism sucks.

BigBlueButton Tutorial
https://events.oeru.org/events/440930c7-0d56-4e57-bbb0-0ff713a55865

Everyone deserves #privacy. The United Nations even codified it as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

However, governments, corporations, and other powerful entities routinely block us from exercising our right to privacy through #surveillance, monitoring, and tracking.

Mark your calendars for PrivChat 6 on 2021-12-15 at 19:00 UTC:

https://www.torproject.org/privchat/

📣 We're happy to share w/ the fediverse our new website:
https://bonfirenetworks.org

We tried hard to communicate the vision and the motivations that nurture bonfire ecosystem. We also included new technical guides to setup and configure a new instance, to play with it or contribute to the development.
Any feedback is welcome :)

#bonfire #showcase #fediverse

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We are looking for a person for support role, preferably in EU.

https://tutanota.com/jobs/

We are small, we love privacy and we don't suck!

Feel free to DM me if you have questions.

Soil Care Network November newsletter as normal loads of interesting stuff
https://www.soilcarenetwork.com/2021-november
#soil
#gardening

Shell is trying hard to greenwash fossil gas as a "clean" fuel. But the reality is a dirty one: In Vaca Muerta, Argentina, @Shell is constructing a new gas field, which is being linked to numerous violations of indigenous and human rights and environmental destruction. #MoveShell

Security companies sometimes use "we're in Switzerland" to imply that makes them more secure or private. But better protection from government compulsion doesn't do much good if the company itself decides to collect and sell your location data. #privacy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-06/this-swiss-tech-exec-is-said-to-have-operated-a-secret-surveillance-operation