Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The #EU #OpenSource Policy Summit 2022 is happening on Friday at from 10:00 to 18:00 CET.

Details and zero-cost registration: https://summit.openforumeurope.org/

"To take over central banks and make them issue digital currencies on a distributed ledger that makes basic income possible.To take over governments and implement personal ownership of our data. In short, no algorithm will remove the need for a genuine revolution." - Yanis Varoufakis 2/2

Wow: "In the name of liberating us from moguls, states, and even climate change, crypto zealots are turbocharging the ideology of commodification (i.e. neoliberalism). What should we do? The only thing that will work is: To take over parliaments so as to legislate a corporate law that ends tradeable shares, and introduces the one-share-one-employee principle in its stead...." 1/2

And this (which someone linked to earlier today in my stream) is fascinating in a similar vein: https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/yanis-varoufakis-on-techno-feudalism/

Was your content taken down when you think it should have been left up? The new http://onlinecensorship.org has information about how to appeal on 6 major social media platforms. https://onlinecensorship.org/pages/how-to-appeal

this is one of the many things I mean when I say "copyright as a concept is irredeemably bad". small creators can't afford to spend the time pursuing valid copyright complaints, but huge corps can use the mere threat of invalid ones to quash fully legal creative works

Protect yourself against #malware.

#Zoom

https://antiboredom.github.io/zoom-deleter/

IndieWebCamp Personal Libraries Pop Up Session

We've scheduled a date and time for the previously announced Personal Libraries pop up session. Everyone with an interest in the topic is invited to join and participate.

Date: Saturday, February 19, 2022
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm (America/Los_Angeles)

Code of Conduct: indieweb.org/code-of-conduct

We'll focus discussion on personal libraries on one's sit

https://boffosocko.com/2022/01/28/indiewebcamp-personal-libraries-pop-up-session/

Anyone know a good book about #CommunityGardens? (The organizing and impact of)

The @ukhomeoffice is moving ahead with a misguided attack against encryption. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/uk-paid-724000-creepy-campaign-convince-people-encryption-bad-it-wont-work

How the sausage is made:

https://www.singlelunch.com/2022/01/09/an-anatomy-of-bitcoin-price-manipulation/

Social.Coop, like all Mastodon instances, is what you make it by following, favoriting, boosting, listing, and above all tooting, replying, and DMing. Every player is a conductor.

For me, about 30% of the content involves some kind of ongoing engagement in conversations about collective action of one kind or another: cooperatives, commons, social.coop itself, and various projects. So Mastodon is serving as an organizing center as well as a very permeable community of interest and affection.

More fun publisher surveillance:
Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs.

Co-op Data Club is a new #platformcoop.

https://coopdata.club/

The idea is simple: any coop that wants to promote other coops and/or wants to be promoted by other coops can join. Its free and doesn't require promoting anything.

Individuals can also join by signing up to the clubs newsletter.

We are focused on email: many coops have a newsletter, and it would cost nothing for them to add promotions of other coops in the newsletters.

You can also read more here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UXOwoa_EBq5CP93YKUzkCWgeZffaCnAy3UmPs10U534/edit?usp=sharing

I'd like to move my code off #Github. But to where? #Gitea, #Gitlab, etc. are basically things in the same area. #Git itself is decentralized, and I hate to centralize it again. Yet people seem to have forgotten git send-email. #sourcehut looks somewhat interesting. Are there other takes on #Git collaboration that make efforts to preserve decentralization?

Okay, so: German court decided on Jan. 20th 2022 that sites will need to host Google fonts locally.

Visitors are otherwise entitled to receive 100€ in recompensation for Google fonts transferring IP numbers to Google servers.
Google uses fonts to track users, especially if they are logged into only one other server, where stored personal data might identify them.

Court decision text in German (Landgericht München)

https://rewis.io/urteile/urteil/lhm-20-01-2022-3-o-1749320/

#google #tracking #fonts #liability #germany #funny

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit has upheld California’s #NetNeutrality law, which was under attack from big national ISPs. Regardless of what the FCC does in the future, the state laws can now be used to keep the internet free and open. https://t.co/elSKnyiQhJ

More stories of how #nonprofits (or as one follower put it, indirectly-funded corporations) continue to abuse the most vulnerable people around the world at every opportunity ... all in the name of making donors happy and keeping the money flowing.

#DataPrivacyWeek #privacy

Read "Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions" from Politico:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-silicon-valley-privacy-debates-00002617

Palante Technology #Cooperative is hiring a new operations coordinator. #Tech #WorkerCoop

https://palantetech.coop/blog/palante-hiring-new-operations-coordinator