Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@lightweight Also, the O365 encryption is pretty shit. I've once looked into it, and they even fell for the basic crypto newbie boo boos in their implementation. Plus, it's not end-to-end, but server-side encryption only.

MS Cryptography FAIL

... my concerns to their senior IT team...' and she sent it via an 'encrypted' Microsoft Office 365 email, which required me to request a one-time key to read it. I responded that using any Microsoft technology for security was the fastest way to convince me that their organisation was a lost cause. I'm sure she's unaware all their MSFT data is available, without subpoena, to the US' spy agency , the NSA thanks to the US Cloud & Patriot acts. 🤦

2/2

I'm thinking of blocking access to content on my site to anyone not running an ad blocker.

Thoughts?

"We, concerned members of REI Co-op, believe it is crucial for the health of our cooperative that our Board of Directors act in accordance with the central principle all cooperatives are founded on, “democratic member control.” As REI Co-op has grown, this main principle has been significantly weakened by Board actions and no longer plays a critical role in the governing practices of our co-op."

https://www.coworker.org/petitions/democratic-control-of-rei-co-op-matters

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.
Don't let that fear that has been cultivated for decades dictate how you stand up for humanity. There are many anti-zionist jews who speak out.

Innocent people are being slaughtered in the thousands from US/EU backed colonial apartheid state.

#sciencefiction

Depressingly accurate.

'“Please consider how crazy this system is,” Boyd told delegates from scores of nations attending the hearing. “States that are trying to tackle the climate and environmental crisis and safeguard the human rights of their people are being forced to pay billions of dollars in compensation to the very corporations that have caused this crisis. Instead of making polluters pay, states are paying polluters.”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21102023/un-protests-isds-as-economic-colonialism/

We need sharper, principled policy makers.

#CPTPPA #TPPA

5.3 metres – the degree of sea level rise now unavoidable from West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting ALONE – is sufficient to entirely submerge most of urban Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, and an enormous area of southern Iraq (Qatar gets off surprisingly lightly).

Are they sure they want to pump YET MORE oil?

#ClimateEmergency

https://coastal.climatecentral.org/map/6/50.1713/28.1743/?theme=water_level&map_type=water_level_above_mhhw&basemap=roadmap&contiguous=true&elevation_model=best_available&refresh=true&water_level=5.3&water_unit=m

GEO Weekly Newsletter is out! This week we're celebrating two new inductees to the #Cooperative Hall of Fame: Linda Leaks and Halena Wilson 🎉

https://mailchi.mp/ddcd17483f8a/geo-weekly-newsletter-linda-leaks-halena-wilson-inducted-into-co-op-hall-of-fame

shitty health insurance, the dems would have handed Trump's ass to him in 2016. But instead, they gave us a policy that was literally written by the insurance industry, and which has proven (predictably) disastrous for most people in the proceeding years, and which left the door open for a buffoon like Trump to have a shot.

But the NYT liberals in this country seem to have given up on winning anything material & have settled for just renaming things.

Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women covers their struggles on all fronts – against colonialism, white supremacy, conservatism, patriarchy, state control – and occupation.

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1418

@sorenhave I do not think that societies in general have realised yet that between 1 and 2m of sea level rise is already inevitable - the question we seek to answer as scientists working on #IceSheets is how fast will we get there?

The answer will vary depending on where you are in the world, but also on how quickly different parts of the cryosphere melt.

I wrote that we should frame it like this for a ministry briefing last year, I don't know if my framing got through though.

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

A security issue related to Long-term Authentication was fixed and backported. Four release candidates were published for v1.21 and the documentation updated to cover the new functionalities. A service request was published for the benefit of German schools. Solutions were also identified for bootstrapping a fully Free Software hosting provider including Forgejo.

https://forgejo.org/2023-10-monthly-update/

Common Voice is a project by Mozilla to build an extensive ethically-sourced dataset of spoken word in various languages to help push forward open-source voice recognition technology like DeepVoice (also by Mozilla).

I just recorded a dozen or so sentences :)

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/

#OpenSource #SpeechRecognition #SpeechToText #Mozilla #DeepSpeech

An Israeli technology company has developed the means of delivering spyware via online ad networks. There’s no defense against the spyware and the Israeli government has given the company approval to sell the technology.

For now, take comfort in the fact that it’s a hefty $6.4 million price tag for a single ad infection.

https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or-computer-via-the-ads-you-see-online-report-213685

#tech #technology #cybersecurity

6 ways of thinking about social transformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1zRblqMrI

I gave a talk on #cooperatives and #FreeSoftware at the general assembly of the @fsfe. The very very very short of it is the philosophies of cooperatives and Free Software share an uncanny amount of fundamental values, such as #freedom, #sharing, #community, #democracy, #autonomy, #learning, and #cooperation.

They both even have a litmus test: the seven cooperative principles and the four essential freedoms of Free Software.

https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

If you're thinking of starting a Free Software company, why not extend your values into the social realm and found a new #cooperative?

I ever so often close the 🎵- player and when grabbing the 📱 I'd have to unlock it to just start the 🎵 player and then 🔒 the 📱 right away again (as there's #mpris controls on the 🔒-screen then anyway).

Hence I wrote a small #phosh plugin to add arbitrary "launchers" to the 🔒-screen via a desktop file.
This is very simplistic atm (as we e.g. don't track app-state) but gets the job done initially.

I only used it for that purpose but there's other potential use cases:

Our Newest #MediaIndigena episode 331 is out! "How might The Voice referendum echo for Indigenous peoples in Australia?" Plus three other topics from BC, Canada-wide, and X formerly known as Twitter. It's good to be back on the air with Rick Harp and Candis Callison after a several month hiatus. https://podfollow.com/1092220986/episode/7bf4860057294a5a20ce8d961ba796714352ec3e/view