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what the fuck mozilla https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-in-firefox/

https://mstdn.io/media/7KevkOoE5GJPkiIC9qs

Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for social networking, group collaboration and network organizing, with the goal of creating communication tools that are tailored specifically to meet the needs of bottom up grassroots organizing.
Crabgrass is released under the GNU AGPL licence and it's built with Ruby On Rails.

RiseUp.net instance:
https://we.riseup.net/

Docs
https://we.riseup.net/crabgrass/user-documentation-index-v0-0

Code:
git clone git://labs.riseup.net/crabgrass.git https://social.coop/media/gh2UVECXzByRrLFQPwE

Another way to help indigenous earthquake victims in Mexico directly is donating to the indigenous reconstruction fund.

Besides Mexico City all of the other devastated states have a high percentage of indigenous population. This bank account was set up by the Concejo Indígena de Gobierno, which is an assembly with representatives of various indigenous groups, and part of the EZLN movement.

Link to the account numbers for local and international deposits: http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2017/09/27/bank-account-for-solidarity-deposits-for-the-indigenous-reconstruction/

btw, if it weren't for open source and especially copyleft enthusiasts totally driving the 3d printing movement from the beginning, we'd have none of this.

Instead it would be a glut of mutually-incompatible rent-seeking "model stores" crowing about how beneficent they are for "creating a marketplace" (in which they get a cut of all transactions)

The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It's because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/iso_rejects_nsa.html

Berkeley Lab advance is first demonstration of efficient, light-powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis.

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/09/18/solar-fuel-system-recycles-co2-for-ethanol-ethylene/

when you gotta measure the amount of GPL in something
https://awoo.space/media/aOCMrw8DrEbsqWSOyxA https://awoo.space/media/zZxgRi2LSWnX2QQvQEE https://awoo.space/media/S8C5VxZxVV77_L5_zY4

Sometimes people argue that, while of course DRM is unacceptable for media you *own*, it can be ok for media you're renting or subscribing to. Like Spotify or Netflix.

That's tempting, but it's wrong! And it reflects the fundamentally flawed logic of DRM advocates: that DRM is about, or effective at, enforcing a copyright or contract.

It's none of those things! But more importantly, it's running code you can't control. Don't let those jerks run unauditable software on your computer imo.

One connects to all of your devices and accesses the data, the other is a hardware standard.

Inspiring! From The Guardian: "The cleanup operation is under way across the Caribbean. One organisation that is trying to help is the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team which compiles open sourced maps of disaster zones. So far they’ve mapped 150,000 homes affected by the storm and their information is being used by The Dutch red Cross and Map Action to determine what needs to be done. They’re also on the case for the Mexican earthquake and Bangladesh floods."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/10/hurricane-irma-millions-brace-for-impact-as-superstorm-reaches-florida-live?page=with:block-59b5fbf7e4b0e3ccf89ec59d#block-59b5fbf7e4b0e3ccf89ec59d

When so many of our #IT colleagues rely by default on products and services by Google And Apple, what hope is there of ever educating laypeople on the importance of #privacy, #freedom, control of their own data and the trade-offs they make every day in exchange of convenience and ease of use?