Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Whatever happens, always remember: we're the good guys.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/10/supreme-court-torture-at-cia-black-site-is-state-secret/

Prototype Fund announced that a next funding round call is open until the end of March! All FOSS ideas in the areas of data literacy, data security, civic tech, and software infrastructure are welcome.

Listen to this podcast episode and find out more!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-podcast-15-interview-about-collectives-app-and-prototype-fund/

Live NOW 3/11/2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQe0gthe_c

@dajbelshaw I've had a change of heart. I no longer think the "tech vegan" label is appropriate. I'm the tech equivalent of "I only buy what's (certified) fairly traded". All the other options are exploitative malware from ransomware producers, who're only considered legit because they pwn the regulators of these things (e.g. the US government). Being called a "vegan" suggest to the mainstream that I miss out. I don't don't. I eat far better than those who use the digital colonials' tools.

Don't forget: If there are topics and keywords you don't want to see on #Mastodon, be sure to set up appropriate filters:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#filters

🐭 #Disney is using its newly-granted full control of #Hulu to build an #adtech giant to compete with #Meta #Google et al. #privacy #advertising

https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/how-disney-is-using-its-audience-data-and-hulus-ad-tech-to-compete-with-google-meta-and-amazon/

👀 60% of workers said they have been subject to some form of #surveillance or monitoring by their employer, with three in 10 agreeing these practices had increased since the start of the #pandemic. This marks an increase on the 53% who said they had been subject to workplace surveillance in 2020.

#privacy

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252514006/Workplace-surveillance-spiraling-out-of-control-says-TUC

I've always wondered what happens to that number you still use for messengers but don't own anymore:

Why tech companies should stop using phone numbers as user IDs - a super weird story in a thread ⬇️

Tweetstorm ETH and nicely documented social engineering scam https://dt.gl/tweetstorm-eth-and-a-nicely-documented-social-engineering-scam/

LibreHealth is a volunteer community creating free open source software for healthcare orgs, doctors, hospitals etc. You can follow at:

➡️ @librehealth

Their website is https://librehealth.io

Their current projects include a health record system, radiology software and an API for building other LibreHealth software.

LibreHealth is a member of @conservancy

#LibreHealth #Healthcare #Health #Medicine #Medical #FOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Hospitals #Doctors #NGOs #Productivity

@lightweight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWrjYdD0Tg0 because you have to understand this one :-)

(4/3) TLDR: Just as the OSI said at https://opensource.org/osd-annotated ... #OpenSource by its intrinsic nature requires free redistribution and allows anyone to do so.

"If we didn't do this, there would be lots of pressure for cooperators to defect." -- OSI

If you want to pick and choose who gets your software based upon what country they're in, that's proprietary software.

🇺🇳 If #FreeSoftware is considered as an aspect of the #HumanRights of education and expression, then access to that scientific work should be made available equally to all human beings without regard to nationality, race, religion, country of origin, or other status.

(3/3)

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

Job opening for a co-op developer in Denver metro: https://www.communitywealthbuilding.org/were-hiring.html

"In banking, electricity pricing, the telecommunications sector and the supermarket industry, the hallowed “free market” forces never really did have a dog’s chance of functioning adequately in a country as small as New Zealand. Markets simply converged. What we got landed with were cartels, duopolies and near-monopolies. Which has meant that the consumer continues to be screwed."

- #GordonCampbell, 2022

We'd like to make a call to help out our friend colleague Brian Tinoota, from Multi-Talented Makerspace, Zimbabwe. He dedicates so much time and effort for the betterment of his community. Now he's received a great opportunity to work on his own passion in the Storytelling Beyond Words course at Emerson College in the UK. All the logistics are already in place – can we come up with the funds to help him do this?

https://cutt.ly/7ATwSfP

Was just informed of the existence of this resource, which I still need to fully explore, but I sense it's important: Sociocracy 3 - it's ticked pretty much all the boxes right off the bat. https://sociocracy30.org/ Are others aware of this already? If so, what do you think? Do you use these resources?