Zed Ex Fuuma @fuuko@mastodon.sdf.org

@kensanata I love Abebooks and bought many used photobooks from them. It turns out that they're actually an amazon subsidiary (just like goodreads!) though :(

The sale of the .ORG registry threatens nonprofits globally by giving private equity the power to censor the speech of nonprofit organizations and to extract ever-growing monopoly rents from those same nonprofits.
We can stop it. https://act.eff.org/action/help-stop-the-sale-of-public-interest-registry-to-a-private-equity-firm

Interesting video, while ostensibly about the end of the Blackberry / TCL partnership; is kinda an indictment of how modern ad supported tech journalism creates marketing death spirals for niche players. As reviewers are incentivized to take their leads from hit metrics. Turning everyone into shills for the most popular brands.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=ofbGXCP_Jwk

The Ring Doorbell isn't just spying on you, it's literally packed with trackers and is sending PII to advertising companies.

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#otp #infosec

https://otp.substack.com/p/the-otp-feb-10th-2019

Listening now to the fantastic lo-fi & hip-hop mixtapes by the great @cat!

You can download them via gemini on:
gemini://konpeito.media

or on the regular interwebs on:
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/konpeito.media

The people at #openbsd really take the documentation seriously.

This commit fixes HISTORY mistakes in some man page after finding more accurate dates in a 1986 book

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=158112421816183&w=2

Hello, I am a progressive transgender dem candidate. I have officially filed for the race for Texas House of Representatives District 83.

I am facing a conservative dem candidate in the primary and then facing an ultra-conservative incumbent in the general. He's the one that co-authored the bill in the past to try to ban transgenders from using the bathroom which aligns with gender.

I am pro-choice, pro-union, pro-equality.
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the 588th Night Witches were a squad of russian bomber women who earned their name Nachthexen from the nazis because they would fly by night, turn off their goddamn engines to swoop in their outdated planes (often crop-dusters), whoosh over the target making this amazing sudden "witch's broom" RRSSSSH sound and manually eject bombs on german targets. they sometimes used their chart pencils as eyeliner and did not use radios and minimal metal so they couldn't be detected. No parachutes, no nothin. fuckin' ride or die. Marina Raskova assembled and trained this all-female team of fighters, many of whom were rewarded prestigious medals and in total over thirty thousand missions were completed. Thirty pilots were lost. They were hated and feared by the nazis who would receive high honors if they could actually take down one of the Night Witches and also assumed they had been experimented on so they could see in the dark. uh sorry, douchebags. but the witches are just better than you.

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents detail the origins and growth of the indoctrination program in Xinjiang, where a million or more predominately Muslim minorities have been held in a vast network of detention centers https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html

Chinese authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years.

Full document, note the euphemistic terms they use: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-detention-directive.html

Google/Microsoft/Apple's push to make all software "cloud"-based seems really anti-user to me. Setting aside any privacy concerns, it makes software inconveniently slow and gives me more passwords to remember!

I really notice this when comparing Apple's AppStore (a "hybrid" web/native app) to elementary's AppCenter (an offline AppStream-compliant database).

Libraries are honestly saving me so much money right now.
Thank you libraries. I can't afford all these damn books.

I will personally make an arch linux install script suited for your personal needs if you PayPal me $20

Smh whoring out my tech skills just to get a place to live

Get 40% off of all ebooks at @nostarch with coupon code DRMFREE40 - nostarch.com - for Day Against DRM.

Also: DRM is stupid.

Latest uBlock Origin Update Rejected from the Chrome Web Store. No time like the present to switch to Firefox.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745

I think Wine (and emulators in general) are going to be key for keeping control of our computers from being wrestled away from us. Personal Computing (not just PCs but computing in general) is being subsumed by cloud providers and subscription models and I for one am not about to give up the idea of Personal Computing.

If there's anything that I've learned from 30+ years in computing is that corporate interests are never in the users long-term interests. Ever.

Elizabeth Warren was asked how she would respond to a person who says that marriage is "between one man and one woman"...

"I'm going to assume it's a guy who said that, and I will say, then just marry one woman… Assuming you can find one" Warren said.

BAM! 😆👍