Notices by Mh. Jeff Cliff, BSc(CompSci) (jeffcliff@niu.moe)

this is what we should have been afraid of: that the US government would strong-arm nsafacebook into taking even what could have been a good thing (a decentralized network, like bitcoin) and turning it into a tool of global oppression by adding "spy on your customer" mechanisms right into the payment network https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/07/19/2349224/facebook-backpedals-from-its-original-ambitious-vision-for-libra

people sometimes ask 'why GNU? Why free software?'

because it was only 29 years ago that people could be thrown in jail for most of their life for sharing the source code to the operating system they used, for what was basically an academic discussion of how it functioned. It would be another ~1-3 years before GNU/free versions of BSD(eg FreeBSD) were available/free and worked at all. That was what life in a proprietary world was like. That is what Microsoft would bring us back to.

aw

29 years ago today, Steve Jackson games was raided by the US Secret service. A company that published RPG books about a fictional universe with hackers in it was enough to have the owner of the company arrested & all their assets seized at gunpoint. That's how almost as far the moral panic about hackers, post 'wargames' went without organized resistance.

from branwen stroll:

https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/556643798110238/photos/a.556645298110088/596591697448781/?type=3&theater

@lnxw48a1 no they aren't. #DRM #EME includes tracking

ie "embrace your inner child" is a euphemism for "commit murder when and how you feel like it"

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/10/216238/exploit-vendor-drops-tor-browser-zero-day-on-twitter update your torbrowser. #torproject

https://github.com/upend/IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT/issues/38#issuecomment-394516549 #fuckinggithub

What's extra funny about Brad Wall moving to Alberta is that, after trashing the long-term prospects for #Saskatchewan...he moved to a #NDP -run province for a stable job. #skpoli #bradwall

https://twitter.com/vgcerf/status/988973211915313152

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/988467022869610498 #birdsite #censorship

@lain relevant: https://fediverse.party

http://d.shpg.org/404592375f #c51 #c59 #canada

RT https://quitter.im/notice/3507959

RT https://quitter.im/notice/3507794

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What kind of country arrests the leaders of it's political parties at peaceful protests?

#canada that's what. #FreeElizabethMay

https://twitter.com/animalculum/status/976428489040711685/photo/1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!