Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This a great trend. #Apple
is going to sell replacements parts to anybody officially. #Dell
goes one step further and wants to buy old parts back and remarket them. I want more of this.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/dells-concept-luna-pc-disassembles-easily-so-you-can-reuse-its-parts/

More on the project: https://moja.global/

For those tracking the #DMA in Europe this week, a minor win but frustrating loss as Device Neutrality makes it in, but #OpenSource standards & interoperability did not, keeping the door open for unchecked #SurveillanceCapitalism from big tech.

More early reporting from @fsfe here:

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211215-01.html

Climate Justice as a Core Competency among Internet Practitioners - Michelle Thorn @ Branch Mag: https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-3/internet-practionioners-climate-justice/

@aaronpk Pretty sure moving to the proprietary walled garden GitHub where a project's data has no escape route fails at least 7/11 of the #IndieWeb principles.

❌ Own your data
❌ Make what you need
❌ Use what you make
❌ Open source your stuff
❌ Modularity
❌ Longevity
❌ Plurality

I only subscribe to the Chronicle of Philanthropy newsletter for the cringe. 😂

The rich people are feeling emotionally drained! They're trying to fix the world and people just keep asking them for checks!

More relevant than ever

#KamalaHarris Avoids #Bluetooth, Uses #WiredHeadset & Why All Heads Of State Should Follow Her

Wireless ear pieces seem to have been a feature in recent years though I never used them. They seem to be prone to vulnerability and also consume resources such as lithium batteries.

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/kamala-harris-bluetooth-headphone-556665.html

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/03/02/china-mieville-the-limits-of-utopia/

China Mieville: "We need utopias. That’s almost a given in activism. If an alternative to this world were inconceivable, how could we change it?

"But utopia has its limits: utopia can be toxic.

"What price hopelessness, indeed? But what price hope?"

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/