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In response to the President Trump (USA)'s executive order blocking all commercial and non-commercial property transactions with Venezuela, Adobe has begun cancelling accounts belonging to Venezuelans.

Regardless of this being a continued embargo, this is a lesson to be learned to never trust software which makes it obligatory to register an account in order to use the features of that software.

[https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-productkb/policy-pricing/executive-order-venezuela.html]

Really enjoying my mandatory cyber security training

@cwebber

> Joint statement on the GNU Project guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/

I was curious about how large a fraction of the GNU maintainers these 18 names represent. I asked on HackerNews, and got the following reply:

> A small fraction. But an important one. These are some of the biggest names in GNU, like Emacs, libc, gcc, gdb and gpg [and GNU Octave –eds :D]

h/t @JordiGH who answered my question there

Backdoors into encrypted communications won't just be used by "good" governments. Authoritarian regimes will spy on dissidents, and say they're fighting terrorism. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/open-letter-governments-us-uk-and-australia-facebook-all-out-attack-encryption

> FSF is now working with GNU leadership on a shared understanding of the relationship for the future. As part of that, we invite comments from free software community members at fsf-and-gnu@fsf.org.

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-gnu

Good Morning, just a reminder to folks that the best place for Pixelfed support is the #pixelfed IRC channel on freenode

"Problematic opinions" is a charge people in power level against dissenters. Colonizers think indigenous people have "problematic opinions". The fossil fuel industry thinks climate change and peak oil activists have "problematic opinions". White supremacists think MLK and Malcolm X had "problematic opinions". Parliamentarians thought the Suffragettes had "problematic opinions". The corporate tech industry thinks the software freedom movement have "problematic opinions".

Procrastination is a real problem we need to talk about... later.

#Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen has started shipping https://puri.sm/posts/first-librem-5-smartphones-are-shipping/ #Linux #LinuxPhone #LinuxMobile #GNOME #smartphone #privacy #security

Today, the @fsfe@twitter.com's and @OpenForumEurope@twitter.com's Policy Meeting connects #FreeSoftware communities with EU policy makers. Exciting discussions about how we can strengthen software freedom, digital sovereignty, and a better collaboration in Europe together