Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Anyone here involved in a cooperative that would like to have other cooperatives promote it in their email newsletters and social media? Especially (but not by any means exclusively) looking for coupon codes or similar offers, crowdfunding campaigns, etc. But anything goes!

#DeceptiveDesign 3/5

💲1️⃣3️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ was spent by Microsoft's LinkedIn to settle a lawsuit over its use of deceptive design to collect new users' email contacts:

https://themarkup.org/2021/06/03/dark-patterns-that-mislead-consumers-are-all-over-the-internet

#DeceptiveDesign 2/5

2️⃣1️⃣% more time is spent by customers to ticketing site StubHub if they are not shown all fees upfront, a pattern known as drip pricing, according to UC Berkeley Professor Steven Tadelis:

"I can’t think of a good reason to allow this practice in any country as the harm to consumers is clear from our study."

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/buyer-beware-massive-experiment-shows-why-ticket-sellers-hit-you-with-hidden-fees-drip-pricing/

In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer #hackers of the era.

Then she disappeared. 💥

https://www.theverge.com/c/22889425/susy-thunder-headley-hackers-phone-phreakers-claire-evans

📰 ICYMI: A Paris court has ruled that #Twitter must reveal its measures for fighting hate speech, in one of several cases thrashing out whether the French justice system has jurisdiction over the US #SocialMedia giant. The case had been brought by several anti-discrimination groups over what they said was the company's longstanding failure to properly moderate posts.

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-french-court-twitter-reveal-online.html

Wiley's new "Become a Cybersecurity Expert" book bundle includes 27 titles from authors including @marcusjcarey, @rogeragrimes, @MaxieReynolds, @humanhacker, and Bruce Schneier. Pay what you want and benefit EFF, too! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-2022-wiley-books?partner=8443

Some good stuff in this interview with cooperator and attorney Neil Helfman #WorkerCoops

"...worker cooperatives are paying money into the unemployment insurance fund and have no possibility of ever collecting. So what do we do?"

https://geo.coop/articles/labor-law-co-ops-and-innovation

copied from the Union-Coop Council listserv: "For anyone who is an REI member, consider adding your voice to these threads in the Co-op Members section of the REI website. There may be other threads, these are just the ones I found:
https://www.rei.com/conversations/ask-an-rei-employee/soho-union-drive/td-p/48340
https://www.rei.com/conversations/new-york-city/labor-rights-for-our-awesome-rei-employees/td-p/48363

One person in the thread recommended that REI members email the Board of Directors at board@rei.com and let them know as a member that you:
" #unioncoops #cooperative #rei

The first Union Coops Council call of the year is on their calendar for Friday, February 11 at 1800 UTC! We'll be hearing from Rebecca Lurie about the Union Coops Council toolkit, having some space for discussion. Register here and/or look out for attendance information coming on the listserv later on. Union Coops Council Feb 11 Registration Link: https://info.usworker.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=541#cooperatives #unioncoops

#TerryPratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for #VimesBoots #poverty index | #Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchett-jack-monroe-vimes-boots-poverty-index

Excellent reporting today from #ProPublica as #DataPrivacyWeek continues. From the author:

"Companies are leaving so much data exposed online with little or no security that stealing sensitive personal info is becoming the equivalent of grabbing jewels from the seat of an unlocked car in a high-crime neighborhood."

#privacy #infosec #cybersecurity

https://www.propublica.org/article/identity-theft-surged-during-the-pandemic-heres-where-a-lot-of-the-stolen-data-came-from

The US Federation of Worker Co-ops weighs in on the REI unionization attempt in NYC: https://www.usworker.coop/blog/co-ops-and-labor-unions-work-hand-in-hand-usfwc-supports-rei-workers-right-to-unionize/

Politico: Microsoft heads for second big EU showdown.
https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-activision-eu-showdown-video-game/ Microsoft has over the past years reappeared on the radar of EU antitrust officials following complaints from communications platform Slack and German file-hosting service Nextcloud

EU to fund bug bounty programs for LibreOffice, Mastodon, three others https://therecord.media/eu-to-fund-bug-bounty-programs-for-libreoffice-mastodon-three-others/

This is why I'm so supportive of 3rd party services like #Mycroft. This app isn't even required. It's a shortcut, and it still has a billion installs. Google listens to billions of people, all the time. The amount of data this allows them to gather on everyone, not just users of their devices, is unfathomable.

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-assistant-app-installs-double-to-1-billion-in-just-7-months/

I'm proud to announce the release of #Squeekboard 1.16.0 . Squeekboard is part of the #phosh shell originally built for the #Librem5

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/merge_requests/522

Copyleft trolling • Greedy lawyers exploit a foible of Creative Commons licensing to demand payments. Absolute bad faith, the exact opposite of what CC is about. https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299 #linkblog #licensingcopyrightcopyleftcreativecommonslegaltootme

phosh 0.15.0 is out 🚀 :

More improvements for every day use: Swipe notification frames, initial VPN support (indicator, authentication and quick setting), support for non-numeric password, first parts of a style refresh and more.

Check out the full release notes https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/tags/v0.15.0 for details.

#phosh #librem5 #purism #gnome #linux #mobile

From the Digital Fourth:
About Fusion Centers and your data/information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhmXYYluls

Low volume at the start but gets better. crank the volume when Emma, the first speaker starts.