Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

🚀 Our first interview with Mat, our Contributors Leader, is live! Get exclusive insights into the journey, challenges, and innovations of Vanilla OS 2 Orchid. Stay tuned for the upcoming release!

https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2024-07-09/interview-with-mat-insights-on-the-development-of-vanilla-os-2-orchid

#Linux #OpenSource #VanillaOS #VanillaOS2 #Dev #Interview

if you're a data 'anything' and wonder "why is R still a thing?" maybe this answer I wrote on Reddit will help #RStats #pydata #datascience

FTC unanimously moves to block $4 billion merger of mattress giants | CNN Business

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/business/ftc-sealy-mattress-firm-merger/index.html

A couple of years ago, a man in his 70s looked at my bike skeptically. "Why do your ride it?" he asked.
When I said "saves money," "doesn't pollute," he scoffed.
But he agreed when he said it was good for my health. I forgot to tell him the real reason: Joy.

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that bribery is a conceptual impossibility, state administrative capacity is illegal, and it is henceforth the only branch of government. But don’t worry, they’re all good friends who take themselves very seriously.

There's cutenomics, and there are those who don't fuck around

Front page of The Onion tonight.

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Interesting new entry into the smartphone-that-runs-desktop-Linux market. This one in particular appears to run Debian Trixie and uses Phosh as its desktop shell.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/26/furi_phone_flx1_debian_smartphone/

#LinuxPhone #phosh #debian

The fact that Microsoft Teams 🤮 contains a feature called "Teams" where actual teams can create a Team, and at Microsoft the teams working on that feature probably have a Team to discuss the Teams feature, suggests that there exists a Microsoft Microsoft Teams Teams Teams' Microsoft Teams Team.

Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185467/microsoft-teams-eu-bundling-antitrust-violations

This train platform in #Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture has no ticket booth, no entrance or exit.

Why does it exist?

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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, in 2023, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into the apartment windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off the US EPA, who sent their env cops to raid Apple's plant in Aug of 2023. The US EPA finally released the report of their enforcement inspections & sent me a copy on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

We at The Counteroffensive have been super loyal to Mastodon over the past year, becoming one of the most frequent posters on #Ukraine news and original reporting.

Now we need your help -- This is the graph that keeps me up at night.

It represents The Counteroffensive’s projected revenue for the year. I’ve taken out the numbers, but the shape tells you the story -- we've taken a hit.

My LLM assistant will polish my text to a high pitch of professionalism so that your LLM assistant can then summarize it down to a short paragraph; this is all very sensible

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

Hi Fediverse, we are NLnet. We support people and organizations who contribute to a free and open internet. We offer small and medium grants to projects that help fix the internet through open hardware, open software, open standards, open science and open data.
We're the lead of @NGIZero a coalition which runs several funding programmes for people who build free and open source technologies for the Next Generation Internet. (Made possible with financial support from the European Commission).
We've been stealthily present in the Fediverse behind the NGIZero handle but have now finally set up our NLnet instance. With special thanks to @nlnetlabs for their patience :).
Another way we've been involved is we've funded many fantastic ActivityPub related projects. See the image for a visual overview.

Happy to be here and looking forward to meet you in this pleasant space.


#introduction

FTC sues Adobe over hefty hidden fees, “manipulative” sign-ups

Adobe knowingly "trapped" customers into annual subscriptions, the FTC alleged.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/ftc-sues-adobe-over-hefty-hidden-fees-manipulative-sign-ups/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Finally. The US has sued Adobe over early termination fees and making subscriptions hard to cancel: The FTC took action after receiving numerous complaints from consumers across the country. https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movies/the-us-has-sued-adobe-for-early-termination-fees-and-making-subscriptions-hard-to-cancel-165808358.html