Notices by Maltimore (maltimore@masto.themimitoof.fr), page 9

Reminder that under communism, you have to be interesting.

I feel like not enough people focus on the fact that Germany wants to outlaw hosting Tor servers. A significant amount of Tor is hosted from Germany, but more importantly, if Germany outlaws it, many other countries that so far were afraid to do so will follow suite. All intelligence agencies despise Tor and lobby their governments to shut it down. It's a slippery slope.

#Tor #Germany #Privacy

Google's way of downplaying an open calendar file standard, in order to give their own proprietary, non-interoperable calendar SaaS an edge: call it "Apple calendar": https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf/next-onair

Fat Nuts Disease in history

It's yet another piece involving these, uh, OCs? of mine:

I'd really appreciate if The #Apache Software Foundation started acting responsibly and stopped publicly offering #OpenOffice which has not been under active development for years and is insecure. Shut the shop finally down and forward users to #LibreOffice.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/80695/hacking/libreoffice-openoffice-rce.html

📊 10 most downloaded 📹 video #Flatpak apps from #Flathub:
#VLC 100
#Kdenlive 37
#Pitivi 28
#Shotcut 20
#OBS Studio 19
#Gydl 10
#Openshot 8
#Minitube 7
@gnome Mpv 7
#Avidemux 6
(relative numbers)

Capitalism in a nutshell:

1. Invest all money in businesses that exploit natural resources (the environment/people) in an unquenchable, shortsighted & illogical thirst for perpetual growth within a closed system.

2. When ramifications become visible, blame the people forced to patronise those businesses due to lack of alternatives for being irresponsible in their personal consumption choices.

Rinse and repeat until we all die because we’ve destroyed our habitat.

So, how’s your week going? :)

I just went to the hacker space #xHain in #Berlin to find people who would be willing to help me port #Signal to the #Librem5. They told me that they wouldn't use signal since it doesn't federate.

At least they're even more ideological about their choice of chat app than me, that doesn't exactly happen often :)

What would you like to see in our solarpunk future?

It's so easy to talk about what you don't want in the future, but harder to pin down what you do want. So my idea is simply to capture and share your ideas the kind of things you want to see in a solarpunk future.

You can read my post, which describes this in a bit more detail: https://cafe.sunbeam.city/~/GwenfarsGarden/what-does-a-solarpunk-future-look-like

Then feel free to start submitting your ideas, which I'll collate them and create a new post to inspire and share.

#Solarpunk #SolarpunkFuture #ClimateChange

Publishing open access usually means paying a rather large fee to the publisher. From where can an independent scholar get such money? Is that a potential problem with open access? It excludes independent scholars?

Editors dump Elsevier in favour of open access journal owned by scholars.

"They contend that scholarly journals should be owned by the scholarly community rather than by commercial publishers, should be open access under fair principles, and publishers should make citation data freely available."

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/14/elsevier-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal