Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“I think for the layperson, it comes down to trust,” says Kyle Rankin president of Purism (@kyle). “Does this vendor that’s selling you a phone require you to trust them to be secure? And then if so, are they worthy of that trust? It boils down to that.”

MIT Technology Review mentions Purism's Librem 5 in this article by Patrick Howell O'Neill.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/19/1058243/erik-prince-wants-to-sell-you-a-secure-smartphone-thats-too-good-to-be-true/

holy crap did any of you know about Apache2's built in ACME support

Apache2 can do the exact thing Caddy does and automatically get certs from Let's Encrypt at runtime

you just have to flip it on (per domain name)

Ouch.
"He, too, worried that coöperative values in Mondragon were declining. “We have to keep something different inside of us, something more just, more humane, if we want this model of business to continue,” he said, frowning. I mentioned my own country, America, and he seemed to cheer up. The U.S. was a reminder that things could be worse."
https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-mondragon-became-the-worlds-largest-co-op

Major #sea-level rise caused by #melting of #Greenland #IceCap is ‘now inevitable’ | #SeaLevel | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/29/major-sea-level-rise-caused-by-melting-of-greenland-ice-cap-is-now-inevitable-27cm-climate

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Google has excluded all climate effects except CO2 from the emissions calculator of its Google Flights platform.

"The company said it made the change following consultations with its 'industry partners'." 🤨
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62664981

Always nice to see far-right #ToryScum get their comeuppance in public.

We’re all that lady today…

⚠️ 🔓 Unauthorized party gained access to portions of the #LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account and took portions of source code and some #proprietary LastPass technical information

(N.B.: Use #FreeSoftware alternatives e.g. #KeePassXC.)

#breach #infosec #privacy

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/08/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

Job opportunities:

Someone I know through political volunteering works at Tech Networks of Boston (https://techboston.com/about-tnb/mission/), a company that provides IT services to nonprofits, and they are evidently in a big hiring scramble right now for IT people.

Please spread the word!

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.