Simon Ser @emersion@octodon.social

I bought a domain to illustrate my point:

https://shouldiusethreads.com

MNT Reform (open hardware laptop) campaign is live: https://crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

And here's the Launch Announcement:
https://crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/the-campaign-is-live

Thanks to everyone who helped and supported us to make this happen.

Keybase, the company that asks you to upload your private keys to their servers, has just been acquired by Zoom, an essentially Chinese company notorious for having terrible concepts on how encryption should be implemented.

Even if you gave Keybase the benefit of the doubt beforehand, this is corporate suicide at it's most graphic. Delete your Keybase keys. Close your account. Rotate everything that Keybase touched, be that password or cryptomaterial.

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering/

weenies: "tech workers don't need unions"
reality:

We commend ICANN on hearing the concerns of nearly a thousand organizations and over 50,000 people who demanded it reject the sale.

Your voices protected every .ORG website, and everyone who depends on them. https://savedotorg.org

Announcing the SourceHut project hub 🎉

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-the-sourcehut-hub-is-live/

I don't usually explicitly ask for shares, but this is a big deal for SourceHut - the project hub solves one of our major goals for the alpha. Please help spread the word ❤️

Help wanted at LWN

https://lwn.net/Articles/818609/

Man, rewriting sway from wlc -> wlroots really was a gargantuan effort

Software Forge Performance Index

https://forgeperf.org