Siddharth Shah @siddharth05h4h@librem.one

Black Friday deal: now through forever, get elementary OS for any price you want! Exclusively at http://elementary.io 😉

Can’t write anything without it turning into an overdramatic existential crisis. Is that redundant? Why am I even writing this? Who am I to write this? Whyyyyyy?

So Europe ran out of IPv4 addresses this week: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/the-ripe-ncc-has-run-out-of-ipv4-addresses

Check out this great campaign by the @fsfe: Public money for #publiccode: https://publiccode.eu/ After having watched the video, don't forget to sign! 😃✊

Still subscribed to our old Medium publication? We’ve got news for you: we moved! Catch the latest updates from us at our new blog, and be sure to update your RSS feeds as well: https://blog.elementary.io/welcome-to-the-new-blog/

The Swedish government has also come to the conclusion that storing personal data at a US corporation is illegal under the #GDPR #DSGVO #privacy
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karloskarbrannstrom_swedish-social-insurance-agency-one-of-the-activity-6603414501897363457-zI2s/

We have given too much to cars.

What Google knows about you may be a shock: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-google-knows-about-you-may-be-a-shock-heres-how-to-download-and-manage-or-delete-your-activity/
To protect your info you can either regularly delete your activity, or you can quit for good and leave Google behind. Here's how: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/

We ❤️ open source. Your Tutanota client is fully published as open source software. 😍 We even built our own captcha instead of using Google's Captcha. Read here why: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/

Pro-tip: creating better tools to protect the interests of enterprises isn’t going to magically result in better tools to protect the interests of individuals.

If you want to earn a billion dollars making enterprise software, sure, go ahead, waste your life that way, but don’t pretend you’re working to protect human rights or democracy.

When you put yourself in puppy jail because philly won't let you eat the mac n cheese

Thea eye contact

Credit ratings based on your social media accounts. What could possibly go wrong? #privacy #surveillance
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmpgp9/credit-scores-could-soon-get-even-creepier-and-more-biased

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@navneetmathur

Do you mean something like these?

System76 will start designing and building its own #Linux laptops beginning January 2020.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/11/20/system76-will-start-designing-and-building-its-own-linux-laptops-beginning-january-2020/#34aaa8093e16

the head scratch wanter has logged on

So much to do...

Amazon confirms police can keep Ring doorbell videos forever
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/20/amazon-confirms-police-keep-ring-doorbell-videos-forever/ #bigtech #privacy #security

There are people who will tell you that the way things are is the way things have always been and will always be.

Don’t listen to these people.

The way things are is just raw material for the way things can be. And by your every action or inaction you help determine what that is.

The recording of my talk today on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament is now available to watch.

Starts at 01:14:00 at https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation

#DigitalServicesAct #SurveillanceCapitalism #Mastodon #SmallTech #GDPR #EU

CC @Mastodon @Gargron