jotbe @jotbe@chaos.social

Der Negativpreis »Verschlossene Auster« des Netzwerks Recherche geht dieses Jahr an den Bürgermeister von Burladingen.
Dem AfD-Politiker gefiel die Berichterstattung nicht und so drohte er mit Strafanzeigen, erteilte Hausverbote etc.

https://netzwerkrecherche.org/blog/verschlossene-auster-2018-fuer-den-buergermeister-von-burladingen/

Sicherungsverwahrung, weil man Spraydosen fand:

Antifaschist vor AfD-Parteitag in Gewahrsam (neues deutschland)

Die Augsburger Polizei setzt im Vorfeld des AfD-Bundesparteitages ihre Strategie der niedrigen Einschreitschwelle um und nimmt einen Aktivisten in Gewahrsam. Eine Antifaschistin erhält derweil Stadtverbot.

https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1092745.proteste-gegen-afd-parteitag-antifaschist-vor-afd-parteitag-in-gewahrsam.html

https://mastodon.social/media/IynMcfYq09Tm53r2KnA

I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten

@bob @FuckOffGoogle Unfortunately not just gossip, it's all out there. This article is a good jump in point with regard to where this all started.https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
The Google office in Kandahar in 2009 was right next to the 62nd RS, & I saw server stacks inside. That's where I learned about this. If you wanted to order a future FOIA, I'd request information on Google's collaboration with DGS 1-5, and DCGS. These are intel fusion/ processing centers that build target packages for strikes

This is a good opportunity to follow US drone whistleblower Cian Westmoreland (@weltschmerzundsonder) and to re-watch his talk from #33C3:

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8425-the_global_assassination_grid

Also, if you haven't done so yet, please watch the movie "National Bird" by Sonia Kennebeck. Highly recommended.

The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks!

However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out

This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.

So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:

https://switching.social/unofficial-kobo-search/

Any feedback very welcome.

#eBook #eBooks #Books #DRM

@aral While I'd agree with on the Windows trainwreck, this story is actually Microsoft backpeddaling in damage control mode, so therefore a good thing.

See, 10 S edition was a sort-of PR disaster for Microsoft so with this announcement they say:

* Windows 10 S edition is permanently cancelled and all S-only installs are upgraded to Home free of charge.
* If you still really really want to use S-mode, you can choose to switch in and out of it, freely, from Home and Pro.

Rest In Pieces, general-purpose computing.

While I wasn’t watching (because, seriously, life’s too short to care about the train-wreck of an operating system that is Windows), Microsoft apparently outdid Apple last year by releasing an app-store-only flavour of its desktop OS & now it’s expanding that as an option to its other versions (Home and Pro).

Soon devs may be left as a special privileged class able to use Windows machines as general-purpose computers.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/03/07/windows-10-s-mode-coming-soon-editions-windows-10/

Innenministerium erklärt, ZITiS-Stellen seien frei ausgeschrieben worden: Die Abteilungsleiter von #ZITiS kommen von Rhode & Schwarz, T-Systems, Siemens http://investigativ.welt.de/2018/06/29/hackerbehoerde-zitis-wichtige-leitungspositionen-besetzt/

@rysiek @scroom
Any non-geek buying a win10 pc and clicking through will be sending a *mountain* of info to redmond.

Even a geek can't stop it entirely during install on a business pc. The only 100% cure is to cfg the router I suppose.

For a friend I'd... <screech!> ... well, I wouldn't let a friend use the thing or any ms code.

20 years ago I told everyone if they wouldn't use gnu/linux or bsd they could find another someone to help them. Lost exactly zero friends, but lost a lot of probs

“In computer science, it’s easier to keep everything. It just costs space on a disk. Forgetting is hard. And thus, being lazy, we decide to build a world that makes it easy to undo all our mistakes, to prove all our mistakes, to keep all our records, and so the road to the police state is paved with good intentions.”
As software developers, we often find that designing humane software is harder then ignoring human needs. But it’s what we need.
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Kept_Pages
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“The current political situation is a situation of constant surveillance. Not only are we constantly watched and monitored, we are also constantly being recorded. Any collection of data becomes a treasure trove of information. A target.”
A long time ago, Sunil Shah convinced me that Kept Pages are better than keeping old revisions of wiki pages forever. This is unlike a source code repositioned. We don’t need version control software for conversation.
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Kept_Pages
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