Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

The recent CrowdStrike outage is a wake-up call: centralized services are a single point of failure.

For true digital resilience, we must decentralize and diversify our technology. Read Nextcloud's take on this event.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/global-outage-shows-lack-of-digital-sovereignty-and-resilience/

Introducing NextGraph

Why centralisation is bad for us ?

https://nextgraph.org/introduction/

Apple is *absolutely* spending more in every state and government capital around the world to defeat browser choice than they are to push for real privacy. They're spending *boatloads* more to scupper right-to-repair than they are to make privacy a reality by *killing the model brokers rely on* and legally prevent re-identification without consent.

But boy howdy, those ads. They sure are purdy.

CrowdStrike https://xkcd.com/2961/

Inside the Risky U.S. Probe of Allegations That Drug Mafias Financed a Campaign of Mexico’s President López Obrador
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Documents obtained by ProPublica show how the DEA risked a #political furor to try to penetrate López Obrador’s campaign.

The 2010 probe found no proof of his involvement in cartel donations before it was shut down.

#Mexico #Crime #Politics #Elections #Drugs #Government #AMLO #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-amlo-dea-probe-cartel-campaign-donations

“CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly

How the Dominance of Microsoft's Products Poses a Risk to Security“.

Dan Geer was fired for highlighting this issue, but it remains a significant concern.

https://cryptome.org/cyberinsecurity.htm

Sue Mi Terry, wife of WaPo columnist Max Boot, has been charged with acting as an agent of South Korea; the indictment cites a WaPo column she wrote with Boot (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/16/terry-south-korea-cia-fara/
http://mediagazer.com/240718/p18#a240718p18

The DOJ Antitrust Division isn’t afraid to go to court https://www.theverge.com/24186099/doj-antitrust-division-litigation-apple-google-ticketmaster

An investigation by India’s antitrust body has found that Apple exploited its dominant position in the market for app stores on its iOS operating system, engaging “in abusive conduct and practices”, a confidential report seen by Reuters showed.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/12/india-calls-out-apples-abusive-conduct-and-practices-with-app-store-as-antitrust-woes-continue/

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.

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