Joe Ortiz @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org

Heads up for people living in the United States:

The Senate is moving forward with the EARN IT Act AND have introduced a bill that if passed would in fact plant a nuclear bomb into our privacy, our security, AND our online freedom of expression.

Please pay attention and fight this! #privacy #security #cybersecurity #freespeech #Section230 #internet
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200622/17004044763/terrible-dangerous-earn-it-act-set-to-move-forward-senate-attack-both-encryption-free-speech-online.shtml

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200623/17050744767/senators-launch-full-nuclear-war-against-encryption-bill-will-require-broken-encryption-putting-everyone-risk.shtml

Activists rally to save Internet Archive as a lawsuit from publishers threaten to shut it down https://decrypt.co/31906/activists-rally-save-internet-archive-lawsuit-threatens

If people are smart, it's time to archive the Archive right now. In other words, fork it and turn it unto a decentralized platform. I hope someone out there is working on that.

Plus you have to think libraries need some decentralization as well as this lawsuit could kill libraries as we know them.

#library #libraries #books #reading #archive #decentralization #web

Publishers/authors are trying to officially kill the Internet Archive https://torrentfreak.com/publishers-sue-the-internet-archive-over-its-open-library-declare-it-a-pirate-site-200601/

It's become very clear that these publishers and authors want to kill libraries and it would be a dangerous precedent if they win.

For example: libraries never needed permission to lend books, and these same publishers are trying to change that with this suit. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200519/13244644530/libraries-have-never-needed-permission-to-lend-books-move-to-change-that-is-big-problem.shtml

#library #libraries #books #reading

For those new or want to be reaquainted, here's some hashtags to what I'm all about. If you relate to any ot these, I would love to meet you!

#culture
#tech
#coding
#programming
#podcasts
#software
#opensource
#fandom
#diversity
#windows
#linux

I always love looking at the die of processors. This read is no different. It's a Intel 8086 microprocessor http://www.righto.com/2020/06/a-look-at-die-of-8086-processor.html

#retrocomputing

Internet Explorer needs to be killed already. Like now.

This really is an excellent piece and surprisingly from a mainstream news outlet, it was well researched. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/trump-twitter-facebook-and-the-future-of-online-speech

Especially that it correctly points out that #Section230 is NOT the DMCA.

This from 2015 by my friend Elissa still resonates with the continuing Crypto Wars: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2015/0723/Opinion-Why-the-US-government-must-lose-cryptowars-2.0

"A backdoor for law enforcement is a backdoor for bad actors as well."

Tech trade groups, cyber experts, and civil-society groups warn the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act's sponsors about the dangers of this anti-encryption bill: https://www.globalencryption.org/open-letter-against-laed-act/

This is what's going to happen if you all don't act now.

#encryption #privacy #security

I feel Big Theater must die now. A long overdue time.

Some bit of good news: SCOTUS sided with consumers on no longer letting debt collectors making robocalls to people's phones. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/robocalls-by-debt-collectors-are-illegal-again-thanks-to-supreme-court/

I had to do some registry editor changes on one of my computer which has Windows 10 Pro due to some changes that Microsoft has made. If you have Pro/Enterprise/Edu you should read this in order to defer updates going forward. https://www.ghacks.net/2020/06/27/you-can-now-set-the-target-windows-10-release-in-professional-versions/

One Ethernet port after another.

Testing after Testing.

All Go.

Illegal fireworks and legal fireworks combined and for a moment, we may be invaded by a Brotherhood of Steel

Sixpoint beer and several sandwiches for my holiday dinner and Vinyl records. Fitting night!

For those who are celebrating the Fourth safely I hope, here’s some Muppets for ya. https://youtu.be/eXeIxtI--uc

At this point, shutting down all sports is surely the best move.

And COVID-19 has penetrated the NASCAR bubble. Yikes! https://apnews.com/b9aac0e445a76b132574a9015bcdd684

cc @Ricardus @sparcipx @xmanmonk

Random bartender when there's a crisis: "Prepare to Please Stand By"