McSinyx @mcsinyx@librem.one

the fact that win10 actually refuses to let you shut off the computer *right now* without installing the updates first is perhaps one of the most user-hostile and consent-violating things i've ever seen in software. instead i hard power off, potentially corrupting the filesystem. fuck yourself, microsoft, and i hope i never learn the names of the devs who implemented this malware.

#OpenSource Licensing for Profit

https://offlinemark.com/2021/01/22/open-source-licensing-for-supervillains/

if you have advanced protection on, google will mangle all your emails, even via imap, to rewrite all URLs to the google redirector, breaking email signatures, breaking PGP crypto signatures, et c.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24818024

if you want to back up your mail in its original form, you have to do it via data takeout/export.

also google: if you want to export your email unmodified, it takes months(!) because you have advanced protection on.

Is your company hiring for a job that's primarily about work with free software? Advertise on fsf.org/jobs! Email job-page@fsf.org for more info and to post your listing.

glad we're all equally confused

RT @mnt_io@twitter.com

J'ai écrit un p'tit article rapidement pour mes ami(e)s et ma famille, pour qu'ils comprennent les enjeux autour de WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram et Matrix, https://mnt.io/2021/01/19/bye-bye-whatsapp-hello/

À destination de ceux qui ne connaissent rien en réseau, chiffrement, sécurité…

Le gagnant: Matrix

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mnt_io/status/1351533301903863815

#Elasticsearch and #Kibana relicensed as SSPL are now business risks

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2021/01/14/elasticsearch-and-kibana-are-now-business-risks

Private companies can exclude who they want. But the closer you get to the Internet's core infrastructure, the more troubling those exclusions become. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/beyond-platforms-private-censorship-parler-and-stack

Maybe you should make it safe to turn on your computer too

Do you sign your git commits? Please share for more reach.

Ah. You're a programmer and don't like timezones. Yet you still celebrate at your local midnight. I see. Very interesting.

Happy GNU Year

Does anyone know if there exists a program that I can run locally on a Linux computer that will take a photo and replace a specified face with another face with the same expression?

Seems like it should be possible with deepfakes / animoji type stuff.

Some of my ramblings about using git with email:

https://blog.brixit.nl/git-email-flow-versus-github-flow/

#hardwarefun #rc3 #pinephone