Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/new-hampshire-residents-make-your-voice-heard-on-january-11th
New Hampshire residents and those in surrounding areas can support a new piece of free software legislation to be introduced in the New Hampshire state legislature on
**Tuesday, January 11th** at 10:30 a.m. EST.

House Bill (HB) 1273
Our Freedom to Write and Read Everything" (SOFTWARE) Act

The 77th edition of my weekly collection of news about #LinuxPhones (@PINE64 #PinePhone, #PinePhonePro, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!

https://linmob.net/linbits-77-weekly-linux-phone-news-week51-52/

The end of the year in Linux Phones, let's have a last LinBits: A new #Maui Shell for phones and tablets, #postmarketOS v21.12, #Mobian on the PinePhone Pro, #GTK 4.6.0, an app-list replacement prototype and more!

Of the companies that market stalkerware—sometimes under the guise of child safety or employee-monitoring software—@evacide told the TED audience, “Do these companies know that their tools are being used as tools of abuse? Absolutely.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/watch-eff-cybersecurity-director-eva-galperins-ted-talk-about-stalkerware

RT @kwiens: And the winner for Privacy Worst in Show #ces2022 awarded by @eff is a light bulb that spies on you. Boo! https://t.co/af17ipuz…

So grateful for having a real winter this year. ❄❄❄🙏❄❄❄

One of the worst outcomes of the Trump admin has been the Dem leadership deciding that their old neo-con adversaries are actually cool now, as long as they're critical of the Orange Menace. I suppose it's inevitable if you belive "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." If you welcome anyone who's against the thing you're against -- even if they should be on trial for war crimes at the Hague -- pretty soon you've got Dick Fucking Cheney as a friend. Nice. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/06/dick-cheney-surprise-visit-capitol-jan-6-riot/9122457002/

Privacy Workshop: Surveillance Capitalism
Why should we care about our personal privacy?
Manipulation of your thoughts, is not a myth... it is a well funded science.
Join us at 3pm or 7pm ET - Wednesday the 12th of January
See more details here https://communitybridge.com/privacyworkshop

#Mozilla blinked

#cryptocurrency

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/01/mozilla-blinked/

#Tory #peer #MichelleMone secretly involved in #PPE firm she referred to #government | #Coronavirus | The Guardian

This is why the #UK is not a democracy. Characters like this woman get put into the unaccountable and #unelected #HouseOfLords and then engage in #corruption. The #Tories are synonymous with sleaze.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/tory-peer-michelle-mone-involved-ppe-medpro-government-contracts

#Politics

☣️ Malware gonna #malware:

"#Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a #cryptocurrency #mining program on its customers’ computers."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/

From democracy now this morning, despite being stonewalled by us gov, doctors at Texas Children's developed their own patent-free COVID vaccine and production is now underway in India
@news
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/3/patent_free_vaccine_in_texas

France fines Google and Facebook €210m over user tracking https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/06/france-fines-google-and-facebook-210m-over-user-tracking-cookies

I got some positive feedback about my articles from a stranger and it surprised me just how much it meant. I've made more of an effort recently to tell people when I appreciate their work because of how rare (but meaningful) positive feedback is.