Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Chrome continues to be the only major browser without meaningful built-in tracking protection. Web extensions need more freedom to operate on their own, which means first-class access to browser APIs and persistent memory. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Reminder: the E2E encryption in WhatsApp and iMessage is backdoored, and cannot be trusted:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/whatsapp-imessage-facebook-apple-fbi-privacy-1261816/

Bugs across globe are evolving to eat #plastic, study finds | Plastics | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-across-globe-are-evolving-to-eat-plastic-study-finds

#Nature #Evolution #Waste #Ecology #Bacteria #Biology

Experimenting with communications options for a new team. Set up a #Matrix homeserver, a #Snikket server, and a #Mattermost instance to compare/contrast with my #Rocket.chat experience.

We've got an awesome opportunity to join the @eff team. Please apply to be our Senior Fellow for Decentralization today.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/dream-job-alert-senior-fellow-decentralization-eff https://t.co/DtasZAh4mY

We are disappointed that the British courts have ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US. We joined with many press freedom groups to urge President Biden to drop this pursuit: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/eff-joins-press-freedom-groups-asking-us-drop-assange-extradition-efforts

Kailash Nadh on #log4j and #FLOSS funding:

"Modern economic systems and civilisation are so intertwined that one cannot even begin to think of ways to untangle them to carve out a better situation for #FOSS when these are the same systems that are responsible for graver problems like extreme income inequality and planetary destruction."

Read the rest of "#OpenSource is not broken":

https://nadh.in/blog/open-source-is-not-broken/

Yup. We need degrowth. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=0MXP2E09dJQ

New Toyota car owners will need to pay a $8/mo so their key fob can remote-start their car. Cars before 2018 are excluded, because their internal 3G networks are about to go offline, disabling Toyota's remote control. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-pay-8-mo-to-keep-using-their-key-fob-for-remote-start/

One of the worst aspects of capitalism is that it's often much cheaper to prevent crises but we don't because there's cost involved. If the crisis never happened, we don't measure that as a success in terms of resources, and those prevention costs become "inefficiencies"

By lowering its standards to coax companies into compliance, the Uniform Personal Data Privacy Act leaves consumers twisting in the wind. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/not-privacy-bill-youre-looking

Via Lawfare: "The Cyber Monoculture Risk"

"Of course, monocultures are not often seen in nature. The reason is obvious—when they occur naturally, the herd usually dies out. ... In the cyber world, by contrast, enterprises love monocultures. Every company in America (or almost every one) is a nearly pure information technology (IT) monoculture."

#GitHub #Slack #Discord #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

https://www.lawfareblog.com/cyber-monoculture-risk

On December 15, the #DMA will go through plenary voting at the European Parliament.

The FSFE calls for consolidating #DeviceNeutrality to enable fair and non-discriminatory use of #FreeSoftware in digital devices.

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211213-01.html

Great report from @technicallynotdeaf on their journey getting started contributing to #OpenStreetMap with the StreetComplete app. Give it a try if you haven't yet (or recently) taken a look!

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TechnicallyNotDeaf/diary/398146

Let us not forget.. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/07/rein-s07.html

EFF urges courts to clarify that, while schools may punish students who engage in bullying or harassment wherever it occurs, students can generally express themselves in their private lives without fear that their schools may punish them for it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/first-circuit-affirms-schools-punishment-students-online-social-media-posts