According to @Washingtonpost, Oregon police are broadly using Amazon’s “Rekognition” face recognition tech—even for the lowest level crimes—but they won’t disclose it in arrest reports so suspects & defendants don’t know about it, & its use isn’t audited. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/30/amazons-facial-recognition-technology-is-supercharging-local-police/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c51b8f41ec9d
On this International Worker's Day, ask your friendly American friends if they have ever heard of the Haymarket affair.
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/571.html
(This is the Haymarket memorial in Chicago, and the two American friends who happened to be with us when I took the picture had not heard of it.)
"Most people want to opt-in to what they want to follow, be that a news feed, a celebrity, a friend, or family. Most people do not want to be force-fed a constant stream of manipulated content to catch and keep their attention." #LibremOne
https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea behind LibremOne from @purism. We, the decentralized internet advocates, are quite far with the tech. What we desperately need is a touch of marketing, bundling, and consumer-friendliness. #LibremOne is doing exactly that. Bravo, and I hope them the very best of success.
#LibremOne
What did we say to Albin?
Not Today.
What did we say to Eunomia?
Not Today.
What do we say to failing tests?
Not Today.
@jeremiah_
that seems to be irelevant to the critic.
framasoft, to make a counter example as everything as "their" software stack, incl. having every service they offer branded as "frama..." and still explain what software they use to do so, educate and sometimes aso help to fund it's development.
https://todon.nl/@paulfree14/102021523711649155
#framasoft is an organisation that works on education, development, funding and hosting of #freesoftware.
For their hosting they have their own software stack, and branded them as frama...
For every service they offer, they explain what software they have used to do so.
They do this also when they changed parts of the code and when they have their own branding.
Sometimes they also help to fund the development as they did for #peertube.
That's the kind of freesoftware culture I love!
and see, how much they have to offer:
https://framasoft.org/en/full
While I publicly applaud and support the efforts from @purism to deploy and run #LibremOne services' platform, I think there are some valid concerns that need some public clarification: upstream projects not explicitly mentioned (not everybody will go check commits sent upstream) or features explicitly removed that hurt interoperability (mastodon reports or public/fed timeline) to name two. IMHO if that information is not ready/curated, public launch should have been delayed.
Any #floss recommendation of email webclient? I just have experience with roundcube but I don't know if there's something else around. I'd want something that's also mobile-friendly #selfhosting
Are we all generating high loads on librem.one matrix homserver now, maybe? I've noticed a slowdown in the app from login to channels' list display. @purism
"The purpose of this new suite is to give people legitimate alternatives to mainstream products, while still respecting their privacy."
We have some exciting news! The team at Purism are thrilled to announce the launch of Librem One https://librem.one Private and secure email, chat, social and VPN. #LibremOne
Our Primary account is now https://social.librem.one/@purism