Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 38

@InvaderXan "But I own my TV" cry the petite bourgeoisie as the TV manufacturers stop updating the proprietary OSes in their 3-year-old "smart" TVs and leave massive security vulnerabilities in them as a result in order to make users buy new ones.

It never was your watch. All tech gadgets are never yours. Fitbit is a gadget you never really needed in the first place. Google taking over fitbit does not change anything.
Trash your gadgets and stop crying.
Or keep buying and accept being watched.

Commented Links for 2020-06-21

https://blog.juliobiason.me/links/20200621/

Google Lawsuit for Ignoring Incognito Mode, Chrome Exploit in the Wild, Benchmarking HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0, Creating Tables in C++, Understanding Emacs, Open Source Licenses, Builder Pattern in Rust, Why Leave Medium.

Hey! What's the single board computer that isn't a raspberry pi world look like right now?

I'm especially interested in low end/cheap stuff.

Does anything exist in the sub$10 range that is worth looking at? Ideally with on board storage?

I want to put together some set top boxes for playing media and games, as cheaply as possible. (I have two other related projects as well, I might talk about them in a few minutes, but something like a Chip is what I'm after.)

Open Technology Fund ha estado financiando muchos de los proyectos de software libre que usamos para acceder a Internet de forma más segura asi como para comunicarnos! Los cambios que se vienen en la organización muestran que los fondos para estos proyectos se estarán moviendo a proyectos de código cerrado

I just donated to get #peertube closer to its live streaming goal https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap

😍

Hey fediverse!

I'm looking for some motivated computer programmers to learn and collaborate with.

I am the sole developer at my job, and the (mostly) sole developer for all of my side projects; and to be frank, I've been lonely.

My goals are to further study mathematics and computer programming fundamentals in order to become a true professional and not just some "guy who makes webapps". I want to contribute meaningfully to my field and the world.

Feel free to boost, dm, and share links.

Please avoid using the propaganda phrase "rubber bullets" and try to use a phrase that more accurately describes these dangerous and sometimes lethal weapons:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/06/08/the-deadly-truth-behind-rubber-bullets/

Uh, keys.openpgp.org offers Web Key Directory (WKD) as a Service. Pretty cool. https://keys.openpgp.org/about/usage#wkd-as-a-service

#PGP

Nuestro repaso semanal #SábadosdeComunes:

hoy con temas de vigilancia en el teletrabajo, #5G , tecnología de rastreo, descolonizar los datos, curaduría en la #CulturaDigital y más..

https://sursiendo.org/blog/2020/06/hay-un-sabado-de-comun-denominadores-396/

#HatTip to @alcinnz for the link to this.

For those who want to reduce the #Javascript on their sites to the absolute minimum but don't know how, there's some really good advice towards the end of Eevee's brief history of #HTML and #CSS layout tools:
https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/

"There’s no good reason for any of this. These aren’t cutting-edge interactive applications; they’re pages with text on them. We used to print those on paper, but as soon as we made the leap to computers, it became impossible to put words on a screen without executing several megabytes of custom junk?"
https://eev.ee/blog/2016/03/06/maybe-we-could-tone-down-the-javascript/

#MakeJavascriptOptional!

Sri Lanka Telecom not only failed to provide a functional website to register for the so-called ebill service; they also disconnected our phone/broadband/TV without delivering the bills. We received two bills days later. It was the worst service we had during the lockdown period.

Don't just be a LibreOffice user – be part of the community that makes it happen! Build up your skills, meet new people, have fun – and make LibreOffice even better for millions of users around the world: https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/

But #Scoop, #theSpinoff, and now #Stuff, show us that there are other ways media organisations can be owned, managed, and even funded. A brave government would set up a media democracy commission, with antitrust powers to break up struggling media empires, instead of subsidizing their investors at public expense. The broken up entities could be sold to their workers or their audiences/ communities, or both, using the most suitable option from a standardized set of cooperative ownership models.