Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Why the business of data mining puts data first and human rights, last: https://puri.sm/posts/data-double-dipping-when-companies-mine-paying-customers/

Wow, lots of Windows techs on Facebook these days. Point out any of the major, fundamental failings of any Microsoft software these days, and these guys (bots perhaps?) jump all over you. I guess they think that if people start believing what people like me are telling them, then the Microsoft gravy train (on whose margins these guys are eking out an existence) might scream to a stop. The world would certainly be better off for it, even if these poor sods wouldn't be able to adapt fast enough.

Uber is (still) a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). And every bezzle - *every* bezzle - ends.

Uber entered the market with an absurd proposition, which they papered over with an *idiotic* narrative...which the world ate up with a spoon.

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So the main reason I wrote the Visual Voicemail App for mainline linux phones is because my mother leave voicemails if she can't get a hold of me to check up on me and gets worried if I don't call her back.

I'm glad to share that my mom can still do that since I switched to a #librem5

(and yes, I did call her back both times!)

Wow, Mozilla haven't just jumped the shark as a privacy-focused organisation, they've gone back for a second jump too

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/

A Brief History of Black #Cooperatives in the U.S.

https://www.shareable.net/the-deep-roots-of-african-american-cooperative-economics/

I finally fired Google. In this post I write about how I got locked in, how I got out, and what took me so long. #privacy https://puri.sm/posts/i-finally-fired-google/

The GEO Weekly Newsletter is out. #WorkerCoops #SolarEnergy #Italy #Cooperatives

"The sign of vitality is not to endure but to change, and to try to have the future as an ally." ~Don José María Arizmendiarrieta

https://mailchi.mp/601879bcbeae/scaling-co-ops-through-a-multi-stakeholder-network-italian-co-ops-hire-inmates-geo-weekly-newsletter

After Austria, France's regulator @CNIL just confirmed that usage of Ggoogle Analytics violates #GDPR and therefore is not legal. 👏👏👏

#privacy #mydataisMYdata #GDPR #RGPD #CNIL #GOOGLEANALYTICS

https://www.cnil.fr/fr/utilisation-de-google-analytics-et-transferts-de-donnees-vers-les-etats-unis-la-cnil-met-en-demeure

My friend and colleague has this article in NPQ today: https://lnkd.in/giVtm9bi. You can learn more about the toolkit that she developed this Friday at the Union-Coops Council General meeting. The meeting is Friday, February 11 from 10:00 am pacific time (1:00 pm eastern) until 11:15 am pst/2:15 pm est. You can register for the meeting here: https://lnkd.in/gZ6UupDv #unions #cooperatives #union-coops

The #EARNITAct is a danger to free expression and privacy. That's why it's being opposed by @CenDemTech, @ACLU, @NCLRights, @spj_tweets, @PENamerica, and many other civil society groups. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/activists-writers-and-security-experts-all-oppose-earn-it-act

Cool, cool.

In order to participate in the #RightsCon annual conference for digital and online #humanRights, I have to agree to the Terms of Service of their third-party proprietary service, which demands the rights to do basically anything they want with my profile information, metadata, & whatever I write.

Rights con, indeed. 🤦🏽‍♂️

You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon. All links count as 23 characters no matter how long they really are.

Also, links on Mastodon stay in the form you wrote them. This is much better for privacy than Twitter.

Twitter quietly changes all posted links to go via Twitter's domain t.co so they can track people. This doesn't happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse.

You can see this hidden conversion in Twitter by hovering your mouse over a link there, the link appears to show a normal address but Firefox and other browsers will indicate the true t.co address in the bottom left corner of the screen. If you try this same check on Mastodon or the Fediverse, you will see your links stay just as you wrote them.

#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse #Privacy #Twitter #LinkShorteners

The Traxide is a punk and underground venue in Montréal.. They had to cancel a couple of months of show for a second time since the beginning of the pandemic and this time it hits hard. With a couple of band of the scene they release compilation to get some money and pay the bills.

If you have some money to spend on music, it's pay what you can (minimum 1 CAD) and it could help a really nice venue survive de pandemic.

https://traxide.bandcamp.com/releases

2/ So, #Docker, a for-profit corporation, is mooching even more out of the #FreeSoftware community because I was tired of manual-built images. So I build my images on #salsa, which is run by the non-profit @debian . Alternatives to Docker Hub that are better?

"The lobstermen—a title claimed by women as well as men who catch and sell lobster for a living— partnered with the Machinists Union (IAM) to create both an affiliate union local and a marketing cooperative. Their success demonstrates how union membership coupled with worker ownership can strengthen worker power."

https://labornotes.org/2022/02/how-lobstermen-formed-union-co-op-claw-back-fair-prices