russ @russ@librem.one

“@DuckDuckGo is a poster child for a future in which companies stand with their users and still make money...They counter the assumption that we’ve all been socialized to accept: that it is normal to hand over all your information." - EFF's @jenuhhveev https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/technology/duckduckgo-private-search.html

Fediverse drama is bigger news then Stranger Things!

This Verge article about the #fediverse Gab invasion is super well written. Bravo Adi Robertson!

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking

yeah no even fuckin' RMS agrees that tusky is still free software, as does literally everyone who actually cares about free software.

an interpretation of "free software must be usable for <any given purpose>" is a Restriction Of The Freedoms Of Developers And Users To Do As They Wish

god. these people aren't even foss people for real they're just garbage and not even the other thing

"Software is deeply intertwined with all means of production, communication, and travel. We are quickly approaching a society in which every action is determined, predicted, or prevented by an algorithm. This lack of tension, while injustice remains the status quo, is what negative peace [as described by MLK] looks like."

-- FSF Bulletin, Spring 2019

New Linux Journal #podcast @katherined Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk about moving from #Mac to #Linux.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/podcast/episode-21-mac-linux

New York: Tell your lawmakers to support two right to repair bills that would make repair of phones, tablets and other digital electronic equipment easier and more accessible for New York residents. https://act.eff.org/action/new-yorkers-demand-your-right-to-repair-ebf1e186-a3b0-4329-b6a1-a203fe235085

remember
you don't own the device if you don't have root

Interesting interview with Jaron Lanier (2018): https://www.vox.com/2018/7/27/17618756/jaron-lanier-deleting-social-media-book-kara-swisher-too-embarrassed-podcast

Question: “How [do you] respond to the argument that without viable alternatives, walking away from Facebook or social media more generally is a privilege?”

JL: "If you’re privileged enough to have the option of walking away from social media, and yet you don’t, you’re failing to use your privilege to defeat a system that traps other people who are less fortunate than you."

My mind is like my internet browser:

19 tabs open
3 of them are frozen

& I have no idea where the music is coming from

@ted @freakazoid I had a class that required using ssh so the professor linked to puTTY. Cue all my Mac-using classmates installing a windows VM to be able to run it

Here’s something of a love letter to Linux in general, @purism in specific, and a handful of great programs as well: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/hello-again-linux. Thanks for publishing it, @linuxjournal!

#Linux #Purism #i3 #emacs #suckless #cli

Apple's hardware aesthetics have an almost terraforming effect: the sleek MacBook makes the rest of your desk look cluttered and irregular, their stores feel like alien temples you must assimilate into the customs of. I would like technology to feel more like going down to a local co-op hardware store where a lesbian sells you a hammer you will own for 30 years.

#Unicode