Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 134

"Billion Dollar Brain" put out some of the best hacking music I ever listened to, but sadly the artist pretty much entirely disappeared from the intarwebs. I still have the album; maybe I should upload it somewhere. But it's too bad... the music was never released under a license where I know I can *legally* do so.

Free culture survives more easily than nonfree culture in this way, especially for obscure stuff...

I love the Guix project. Honestly, working with and contributing to Guix has been one of the best experiences in my free software life (even though using it still requires a lot of patience for rough edges)!

Join us this Thursday to celebrate your love for Free Software! https://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-Free-Software/events/258810353/

I feel like I need to sit down, stop watching stuff, look around, see where I'm totally not in favor of *Cloud, and explain that to the people who still think the Internet is something of our default infrastructure, like air, water, and land. No, no, no. This is a political thing.

BTW, I will stop using #GAFAM as a word. Instead I will use #GMAFIA for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Apple. It sounds more appropriate. This is PRISM. NSA land. Fuck them all.

Nest Secure has an unlisted, disabled microphone

https://www.androidauthority.com/nest-secure-google-assistant-mic-950134/

Wondering how many times this has been used before being offically activated? How many agencies knew, had access to it, etc?

#FuckOffGoogle
#FuckOffGoogleAndCo
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#Spying

I do appreciate the W3C "let's scribe all the meetings" requirement. In general even though it's a little goofy the IRC scribing of a voice call route works. (The main exception is that any real time meeting scheduling is hard in an international setting because timezones)

one of those days where the main thing I did was read meeting logs so I can get up to date on what is happening / what I need to do (I'm doing contracting on some web standards stuff, so even my contracting isn't totally unrelated to my fediverse stuff)

"There are very few companies in the world with the #power to take a project like this and exert subtle #influence across so many government domains. But we should be talking about an economic development plan from the City of #Toronto, not #Alphabet Inc."

#Sidewalk #Google #Privacy

https://medium.com/@biancawylie/sidewalk-toronto-the-recklessness-of-novelty-6b6f6df7e70f

Laskerstraße 4-6, Berlin

@maloki I've long been interested in a hacker/community-oriented standards org. IETF is the closest we have, but isn't quite that. Though one thing the W3C does have is its patent non-aggression policy, and the reason that works is that it's able to bring a bunch of corporate participants to the table. I don't think a hacker standards org could do that. (There's also some government groups that will only accept work that come from "official" standards groups.)

Maybe it's still worth trying.