#Listening to Free as in Freedom
0x60: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part I) - http://faif.us/cast/2019/jan/13/0x60/
Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 145
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Lohan G (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 07:23:08 UTC 
Lohan G
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LunaTerra - GNU/Girl (lunaterra@cyberia.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 04:45:01 UTC 
LunaTerra - GNU/Girl
Don't trust "open source" projects with Contributor License Agreements, they are effectively not open source/free software at all and cannot be trusted or forked in productive ways that eliminate corporate control. (glares at Microsoft with VSCode and Azure)
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( hellekin ) (how@ps.s10y.eu)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 05:09:59 UTC 
( hellekin )
On my way to Amsterdam for the kickoff meeting of the NGI0 consortium. Don't forget the upcoming deadline in 15 days to submit a two-pager proposal to receive EU funding for your #freesoftware project.
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Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 16:26:03 UTC 
Adonay Felipe Nogueira
@strypey https://h-node.org/notebooks/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/undef/undef/compatibility/undef/undef/undef?search_string=Macbook
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Richard M. Stallman (rms@gnusocial.no)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 01:55:10 UTC 
Richard M. Stallman
Subcontracted Facebook workers https://gnusocial.no/url/1252458 -
Richard M. Stallman (rms@gnusocial.no)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 00:55:07 UTC
Richard M. Stallman
Genetic data identification https://stallman.org/archives/2018-nov-feb.html#11_January_2019_%28Genetic_data_identification%29 -
Dausacker (dausacker@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 21:19:24 UTC 
Dausacker
Para infectar un teléfono con Pegasus, el atacante intenta engañar a su objetivo con mensajes personalizados para que haga clic en el enlace malicioso. https://t.co/vsTM5SSEWT
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Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 19:40:12 UTC 
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Today at lunch a woman dropped by our table and said our conversation was really interesting, and we invited her to sit down and join us. We made a new friend.
It made me think... when I was very young, many of the friends I made were just people I walked up to (or the reverse) and said "would you like to be my friend?" For whatever reason, this is much harder to do as an adult, though I'm not sure it needs to be.
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Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 16:11:13 UTC
Adonay Felipe Nogueira
@dausacker Uso Atomic: https://f-droid.org/app/indrora.atomic além disso a vantagem é que, segundo #FDroid / @fdroidorg , está sob #GPL 3.0 com a opção "ou posterior" ativada pelo dono (GPL-3.0-or-later). #Copyleft
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Richard M. Stallman (rms@gnusocial.no)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 15:55:09 UTC
Richard M. Stallman
Computerized facial recognition https://gnusocial.no/url/1251811 -
dust (sifr@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 12:00:53 UTC 
dust
'The New Tech Worker Movement: What's Next?'
https://peertube.fr/videos/watch/104fab5f-913f-4a92-9d1e-8b0ab9595dc4
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Richard M. Stallman (rms@gnusocial.no)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 08:55:08 UTC
Richard M. Stallman
Europe: right-to-repair https://stallman.org/archives/2018-nov-feb.html#11_January_2019_%28Europe%3A_right-to-repair%29 -
Richard M. Stallman (rms@gnusocial.no)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 06:55:08 UTC
Richard M. Stallman
Computer security on ships https://stallman.org/archives/2018-nov-feb.html#11_January_2019_%28Computer_security_on_ships%29 -
Mistah Darcy (mistahdarcy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 05:14:03 UTC 
Mistah Darcy
Sitting on a double decker bus, the girl behind me on the top row just threw up everywhere. 🤮 #FML #SaveMe #FeelsBadMan
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 06:46:08 UTC 
Strypey
#FreeAsInFreedom is back! In this episode of the #OggcCast, Bradley and Karen discuss the new wave of non-free licenses with #FieldOfUseRestrictions:
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Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 03:15:09 UTC 
Mike Gerwitz
CNBC: "California bill would curb use of paper receipts to reduce waste, push digital alternative"
https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70688
This is interesting to me because it supports a cause I'm in favor of (environmental) yet is at odds with another (privacy).
With that said, I think this is workable. Already, many point-of-sale (POS) systems give the option to print, email, or (more importantly) decline a receipt. Further, perhaps POS systems could take advantage of NFC so that a mobile device could receive the receipt anonymously.
But what is dangerous about a bill like this is that it provides a compelling legal argument for maliciously gathering consumer data, and many users may not think twice about it.
This may also be difficult for smaller shops to implement without turning to large services that implement this for them, which is also a privacy nightmare, since those services can easily aggregate mass amounts of consumer data. I think small companies should be exempt from a bill like this (if they aren't already; I didn't read it).
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Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 02:59:25 UTC
Mike Gerwitz
Reuters: "Move aside, backseat driver! New tech at CES monitors you inside car"
https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70686
(Internet Archive link because the article now 404's.)
This type of tracking of a driver and car occupants can indeed provide useful features---both safety and convenience. But I would only be in favor of this sort of thing if it were free software and the car were under complete control of the user, and the system could be wholly disabled with clearly visible and unambiguous hardware switch, which is also visible to passengers.
But proprietary systems doing this will be incentivized to sell data to third parties. The article gives some examples of some terrible uses of this type of tracking.
As we move further and further into the future where these types of things are going to become more commonplace, the goal IMO shouldn't be to resist technological progress---it should be to ensure that it _empowers_ users, rather than making them servants or products.
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Richard M. Stallman (rms@gnusocial.no)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jan-2019 15:55:08 UTC
Richard M. Stallman
Truth about privatization https://stallman.org/archives/2018-nov-feb.html#11_January_2019_%28Truth_about_privatization%29 -
Antifa is comin' to town (medic@americassweethe.art)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jan-2019 14:15:46 UTC 
Antifa is comin' to town
@sophia the best part is that our brains don't even notice ads when they're there, all evidence shows that online advertising doesn't work. The only reason they're still being sold is that ad companies lie about their click rates using bots and fake users. The entire online after industry is a big ol fraud hole
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‮r3kcahorter (retrohacker@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jan-2019 01:27:49 UTC 
‮r3kcahorter
The year is 2019 and I can’t buy a good majority of consumer technology because we lack privacy legislation and consumer protections. Example: it’s absurd that my TV came with spyware that can’t be turned off or avoided; I had to stop it from phoning home at the network level. It also came with an arbitration clause and a clause waiving the right to a class action lawsuit.
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