Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Former UK Supreme Court Judge Calls Out Online Safety Bill As Harmful By Itself - https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/24/former-uk-supreme-court-judge-calls-out-online-safety-bill-as-harmful-by-itself/

#NGINX "gets back to [their] #OpenSource roots" ... by announcing their use of proprietary platforms #Microsoft #GitHub and #Salesforce #Slack. 🤦🏻

https://www.nginx.com/blog/future-of-nginx-getting-back-to-open-source-roots/

Jeffery Sachs speaking some much needed truth.

https://johnmenadue.com/the-wests-false-narrative-about-russia-and-china/

Eventually figured out that I could only achieve the basic task of specifying the authentication username (hint, it's the same as the email address!) by using the now long obsolete "control panel" mail settings functionality. Windows almost seems deliberately set up to make any non-Microsoft workflow neigh on impossible, but it's probably just incompetence. I ferl bad for folks tgat are dependent on that rubbish. Rant over. 2/2

It' s not like this is a new thing... e.g. https://www.hrw.org/report/2022/05/25/how-dare-they-peep-my-private-life/childrens-rights-violations-governments our educational policy makers have been asleep at the wheel for a generation when it comes to anything to do with digital technology in schools.

Headline on RNZ right now: "For environment's sake is it time cruise ships sailed into sunset?"

Ignoring the weird syntax, I'd answer "Yes!". https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/473378/cruise-ships-back-in-nz-waters-should-we-really-be-welcoming-them

They are obscenely unsustainable, and bring us nothing of value. Let's give them a big miss.

Yup - finally we're seeing some questioning about the rampant use of Frightful Five technologies in our schools and the privacy implications. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018855220/report-warns-protections-against-spying-on-kids-too-weak It's something that's bugged me since I've had kids in schools here... It's an elephant in the room: https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards

Permanent access to at-home #abortions to be granted in #England and #Wales | Abortion | The Guardian

Some good news

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/permanent-access-to-at-home-abortions-to-be-granted-in-england-and-wales

#UK #Health #WomensHealth

Foreign intelligence agents working at #Twitter? Terrible security practices? Management unconcerned with #security? Color me shocked. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html

Twice as many people died with #Covid-19 in #UK this #summer compared with 2021 | #Coronavirus | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/twice-as-many-people-died-with-covid-in-uk-this-summer-compared-with-2021

#Pandemic #2022

Publicly financed software should be available to the public. We should be able to use, study, share, and improve the code that has been developed with public money. Show your support with a 'Public Money? Public Code!' sharepic. #PublicCode #FreeSoftware

https://publiccode.eu/sharepic

Feminist Hack Meetings* will happen in Athens, 9 and 10 of September as part of the project A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers, supported by the European cultural foundation. In case you are in the area, the workshops will be in English and Greek. And there will be a live stream too for those who aren't :)

More details about the program available here https://fhm.varia.zone/
(english at the bottom of the page)
* co-organized with @anglk and @estragon

#feminist #internet
#feministhacking

Rightwing politics the world over right now: bereft of ideas for how to solve the crises their myopic fetishisation of nationalistic capitalism has inflicted on us:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/21/gps-reject-treasury-plan-for-them-to-prescribe-money-off-energy-bills?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Yangtze river dries up in drought, causing 50% drop in hydropower output in China's heavily populated Sichuan province, impacting surrounding cities like Hubei. Aside from disruptions to shipping, thousands of factories incl. Foxconn (Apple devices), Tesla, and Toyota have suspended operations until supply resumes https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower

#NicolaJennings on trouble signalled by #Tories – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/aug/21/nicola-jennings-on-trouble-signalled-by-tories-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire #RishiSunak #LizTruss

Imagine - lobbying corporate agriculture got a water pollution report's recommendations watered down: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/300665073/freshwater-reforms-reveal-difficulty-in-sciencedriven-policy-report-says - not the first time secret 'back room' lobbying (outside of the formal process) has tried to derail broadly supported policy reforms - another example: https://softwarepatents.org.nz

We need to kneecap the lobbying process by requiring it to be completely transparent. Currently, it smells a whole lot like corruption.

This does seem optimistic. I hope @doctorow is right! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/24/ive-been-waiting-15-years-for-facebook-to-die-im-more-hopeful-than-ever it does seem plausible. #endfacebook

@tarkowski

Fediverse servers are entirely independent, it's up to the owner(s) of a server to decide how it's governed.

The protocols on the Fediverse just cover how servers talk to each other, they don't say anything about how each server is run.

If a community wants to own a server (or anything else!) collectively, they could form a co-operative which would share decisions and costs. I am not a lawyer, but I think co-ops give each member a legal right to participate in how the server is run. I think social.coop is run by a co-op?

Alternatively, every user could have their own single user instance, which would give them total control over governance.

It's rare though as most people just want to be an end user without thinking about governance or self-hosting.

But there's nothing to force it to be rare, if everyone wanted to have a co-op or personal Fedi server it's very easy to do technically, and costs start from about 5-10 euros a month:

https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network

Now they're calling adblockers "content blockers". Moving the goalposts much?