In this year's Who Has Your Back? censorship report, @Reddit, @GitHub and @apple came out on top. If they can achieve this level of transparency and accountability, it’s reasonable to expect other companies to also meet that standard. https://www.eff.org/wp/who-has-your-back-2019
100 Paper cuts kick-off https://bits.debian.org/2019/06/100-papercuts-kickoff.html
Colegio público obliga a alumnos de primaria a adquirir iPads bajo la amenaza de "quedarse retrasados" si no lo hacen.
Link to a Twitter thread detailing Librem One's privacy and security issues at launch. Major 0-days swept under the rug, trackers and analytics and more.
https://twitter.com/YalePrivacyLab/status/1139039274987327489?s=19
Making Tables Responsive with Minimal CSS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20154583
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Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20147015
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NEWS: #FreedomBox now supports two new hardware models: the Lamobo R1 and the PINE A64-LTS single-board computers! 🎉🎉🎉
This means that we'll publish OS images for each of these two boards whenever a new version of #FreedomBox is released.
Full story:
https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/news/new_hardware_support_June_2019/
Blender Is Free Software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20138636
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Write HTML Like It's 1999
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20133817
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Choosing a VPN service is a serious decision
https://drewdevault.com/2019/04/19/Your-VPN-is-a-serious-choice.html
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669586
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Interesting piece my the NYT. Who else thinks that it's bad idea that one company owns the location data of over 2 Billion people? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html
When considering measures to discourage or filter out unwanted activity, platforms must consider how those mechanisms might be abused by bad actors.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/dont-force-web-platforms-silence-innocent-people
Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653771
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NewPipe represents the best of FOSS
https://drewdevault.com/2019/04/02/NewPipe-represents-the-best-of-FOSS.html
How to set up an all open-source IT infrastructure from scratch
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3217713/how-to-set-up-an-all-open-source-it-infrastructure-from-scratch.html#tk.rss_linuxtycoon
Linux command line tools for working with non-Linux users
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3235688/linux-command-line-tools-for-working-with-non-linux-users.html#tk.rss_linuxtycoon
Facebook needs to #FixItAlready, before more people are put at risk. It should never have made phone numbers that were provided for security searchable by everyone. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1102201709013684231