Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

You probably heard of #OsmAnd, the swiss knife map app that uses #OpenStreetMap data, but do you know that there's a web-based interface, too?

Check out https://osmand.net/map, and plan your trips with routing, and various map rendering options, while doing so in the comfort of your desktop browser.

It even includes weather forecasts, if you're trying to avoid getting wet for your weekend ride.

You don't even need to register for an #OsmAnd, or #OpenStreetMap account to use it.

I remember, years back now, coming across someone arguing with fervor that proprietary software was better than open source software because it was more secure. It was a culture shock to me, because usually I am surrounded by people for whom the benefits of open-source software are self-evident. I got the same feeling today arguing with some folks who genuinely believe that being locked into a proprietary, centralized silo is actually better than having control over your own platform...

New study suggests that space tourism has the potential to not only aggravate global warming at a disproportionate scale, but also to cancel the last decades' recovery of stratospheric ozone.

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-climate-space-tourism-urgent-mitigation.html

As usual, billionaires don't play on the same league, whatever you do, they can do worse (probably 500 times worse with each go, in this case).

Direct paper link is https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002612

#science #space #climateChange #globalWarming #ozone #billionaires
@oneabstractaday

Deceived by Design — 2018 Norwegian Consumer Council reports how Facebook, Google, and Microsoft use “dark patterns” to manipulate users into selecting less-private privacy options.

#ux #digitalprivacy #medialiteracy #socialdilemma

https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf

Time to turn off your fitness trackers, USA-ians. If you've got a uterus and the fitness thing does core body temperature it's a decent predictor of ovulation and pregnancy :(
#privacy

Thawing permafrost is shaping the global climate
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220629121156.htm #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #LeadOnClimate

The day has come! 🚀

We've been working hard on bringing to you a space where you can truly get in touch with the whole Penpot Community as well as the Penpot core team.

We’re launching Penpot Community space on Discourse and we’d love to have you onboard😍!

For us, this is an honest way to build a truly open-source inclusive, accessible and diverse space that makes everyone a contributor to the rest of the community.

Join today!! https://community.penpot.app

#opensource #dev #ux #ui #design

And, according to the interview, it only runs on platforms that lock those people with the disabilities into nasty proprietary software monocultures than, ironically, exist to remove their new-found freedoms from them. Sad. Easing suffering should not be profit driven 2/2

Listening to this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018847654/using-technology-to-give-voices-back-to-asl-sufferers on RNZ I'm struck how wrong it is that this work is being done with a profit motive. Rather than improving things for people suffering pretty horrible disabilities, it's seems focused on improving bottom lines for shareholders. 1/2

In case you haven't heard, the EU is now implementing new so-called e-evidence rules. Basically, member countries can obtain access to transactions and data on suspects in (criminal) investigations. Here's the fact sheet:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_18_3345

Note especially the "types of data" section on what can be requested.

If you don't want this type of data leaked, maybe consider not using somebody else's servers (euphemistically known as "the cloud").

#cloud #privacy #selfhosting

⚠️ TIL

If you use #Microsoft #Outlook, it scans all of your arriving #email and sends the URLs to #Bing for indexing.

😬 #infosec

https://scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-links-can-end-up-in-bing-search-results-rendering-them-useless-37def0fae994

@lightweight @mike_hales @FreeScholar @jamiem @Wtebbens @homegrown @dajbelshaw

This is another fascinating thread, following closely after that strategy thread: (which I hope I can find again...)

Anyway, consider a cooperative project to create viable infrastructure for cooperatives. Why not? @bonfire would be a good starting point and they have already offered to work on it.

Some fun history regarding how Bill Gates got to where he is today by leveraging his family connections to get IBM to do free work for his company

This is heartening! https://www.smh.com.au/national/abandoning-god-christianity-plummets-as-non-religious-surges-in-census-20220627-p5awvz.html Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi! Based on the trend as the last census, Aotearoa NZ went majority non-religious sometime last year. I'm very very proud to be part of that.

⚠️ The article rightly points out the thin line between national "#digitalTransformation" & "digital #authoritarianism" -- through governments, or the corporations those they coddle/empower.

It also reminds us that for non-US leaders, "increasingly, the biggest threat to the future of the internet is the United States".

(Including nonprofits, who've increasingly been exposed in building and deploying systems that are misused to abuse human rights like privacy.)

2/4

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/us-tech-companies-government-contracts-data-google-facebook-microsoft-amazon/