kk @kraken@librem.one

Richard Branson Wants Singapore to Spare a Prisoner’s Life. We Asked Him Why. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3abv9b/richard-branson-singapore-death-penalty #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #RichardBranson #DeathPenalty #HUMANRIGHTS #WaronDrugs #Singapore #Execution #worldnews

250 of us have been laid off from Mozilla this morning.

If you have openings or can offer assistance, please use the #MozillaLifeboat tag!

@michel_slm @vfrmedia @onepict @PINE64

https://e.foundation/ went a step further and actually removed any Google calls from the LineageOS code, which is probably closest to what you're looking for

> Red Hat is currently advising users not to apply the GRUB2 security patches (RHSA-2020:3216 or RHSA-2020:3217) until these issues have been resolved. If you administer a RHEL or CentOS system and believe you may have installed these patches, do not reboot your system.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/

RT @MarshallProj: A new report by @eff finds that the San Francisco Police Department conducted mass surveillance of protesters in May and…

The right to privacy helps to protect our choices, which define who we are, and communities where we can be ourselves.

Find out why privacy matters:
https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/4113/it-protects-our-development https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1289146554717274114/photo/1

After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal #twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos

Our system of compensation in software is so backwards.

Businesses hire massive numbers of programmers who get paid an insane amount of money to basically glue together open source software.

But a lot of amazing open source software work goes uncompensated. It breaks my heart.

"Normal web browsing is easy with Tor... once you're in, you can use Tor just as you would any other browser."

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-is-tor-a-beginners-guide-to-using-the-private-browser/

RT @SLunnon1
Trafalgar Square right now, there will be no vaccine for the #climatecrisis we need to Act Now and heads up - we are failing and face losing all we cherish and love @XRebellionUK

So @tuxedocomputers sent me some awesome footage of their virgin keyboards being laser printed. Here's a still shot right as the laser makes contact. SO COOL!

I'll have all the video in the next episode of Linux + Coffee!

How do we make Free Software more approachable, easier to use and more effective? That is the discipline of User Experience design.

@emacsen and @cwebber interview UX expert Máirín Duffy about Free Software interfaces and more.

https://librelounge.org/episodes/38-user-interfaces-with-m%C3%A1ir%C3%ADn-duffy.html

So every time someone posts a #Giphy GIF in a chat and every time you open Giphy in your app / keyboard, Facebook will get data on you, did I get that right? Is that why a GIF collection was worth $400M?

Our community is working hard on LibreOffice 7.0, due to be released in early August. And you can give them a hand! You don't need to be a programmer – you can help out with testing, design, documentation and more. Build up your skills and have fun: https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org