TechZerker @techzerker@librem.one

"The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do."

-- Marc Andreessen

It's been some time since our last release, but CryptPad v3.21.0 (VietnameseRhinoceros) is now available on https://CryptPad.fr. Its source and release notes can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/releases/3.21.0).

You don't have to finish it all today.

Well, I know what I won't be buying... 😑

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/18/21372435/oculus-facebook-login-change-separate-account-support-end-quest-october

I am not in the market for a VR headset but if I was, there is a brand I know I wouldn't touch even with a 10-foot pole.

I know Oculus is a Facebook company, but tying hardware to an online account is a very bad idea.

And tying it to a an advertising and data collection platform that requires that you send them a piece of ID in order to open an account with them is beyond ridiculous.

https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-and-unlock-social-features

Google Street View coverage in Europe

A few months ago I teamed up with Liam from @gamingonlinux to produce a video about Mindustry. In response, a viewer went above and beyond, and posted this lengthy list of open source games.

I felt it deserved wider visibility than being buried in a comment section. He even includes a short note about each title and where you should be able to obtain it.

https://listed.to/@jasone/17516/note-to-self-check-out-these-open-source-games

My apologies to @gardotd426 that I forgot and which did most of the work to port Regolith to Archlinux (see https://github.com/gardotd426/regolith-de )

awesome job, thanks for it!

The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services wants to greatly expand its processing of our personal information, in the name of containing COVID-19, but without showing actual benefit to public health. We oppose this data grab. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/no-expanded-hhs-surveillance-covid-19-patients

Wow, after a single week of on-campus instruction, student/staff COVID-19 infections went from 10 to 177, prompting UNC-Chapel Hill to move to remote learning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/unc-chapel-hill-coronavirus-cluster/2020/08/17/8ebce060-e0ab-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

Yes! Telegram video calls are here! And end-to-end encrypted! 🥰

(group video calls coming later this year too)

https://telegram.org/blog/video-calls

Just opened the app store on my phone and saw "Simple & Privacy-Friendly Flashlight App" listed.

Crazy that it is necessary. Every flashlight app should just be a flashlight app and not a way to collect and share user data 🙄

What a world we live in 😂

So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?

If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.

That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.

Before you start your day, try to make a list of the 3 most important things to focus on that day.

Mozilla is laying off 250 employees (I believe that's about a quarter of their staff).

Their stated reason for laying off 250 employees is... to develop more Mozilla products. Typically you don't need to have less employees to build more products...

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/112624/mozilla-is-laying-off-roughly-250-employees-i-believe-thats-about-a-quarter-of-their-staff-th

I've officially joined @privacytools as a Team Member 🎉

We're currently updating the Email Clients page, and we have a lot of other things planned!

https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/pull/1990

@kev Create a cron job that runs every 10 minutes that has a 10% chance of shutting down your computer without warning? Easy enough.

I talk about my imposter syndrome and how it can slow down or even halt writing entirely.

😓 📚 The Fear of Being Found Out: https://victoriacorva.xyz/2020/08/12/the-fear-of-being-found-out/

(Originally posted supporter-only, now free for all!)