Sparky J @jon@jonspark.com

Jeff Bezos Protests Privacy Invasion, as He Builds Surveillance State
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/08/jeff-bezos-protests-the-invasion-of-his-privacy-as-amazon-builds-a-sprawling-surveillance-state-for-everyone-else/

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I am deeply suspicious of Spotify's move into the podcast market with the purchase of Gimlet Media and Anchor

HP's ink DRM instructs your printer to ignore the ink in your cartridge when you cancel your subscription

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html

German Regulators Just Outlawed Facebook's Whole Ad Business at https://www.wired.com/story/germany-facebook-antitrust-ruling/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/sb9tjq3f38 #freepost

Tired: Trump circus
Wired: AOC
Inspired: Pelosi walrus-clap

I have an old Macbook Air that I put Elementary on to make a "just write, don't tinker" machine. It's quite nice.

For me the determining factor in picking a distro is how much I'll be tempted to fiddle with it, not will it run well. When I have Manjaro installed I can't help installing updates, trying new software and changing to some new exciting theme color.

I feel like I have to provide "parental controls" to keep my own inner 6 year old from going nuts.

#unsolicitedopinion #distros

PipeWire Should Be One Of The Exciting Linux Desktop Technologies For 2019 at https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PipeWire-2019-Looking-Good - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/ngxmllvmdw #freepost

“Metering” is Google’s funny word for surveillance.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/google-screenwise-unwise-trade-all-your-privacy-cash

You want to crush surveillance capitalism? It has to be made illegal. Companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Disney, etc. need to be regulated so tightly they can't even breathe without an audit.

You champion open governments, using nothing but free+libre OSS. If they have a need for something that up to now doesn't have a good FLOSS alternative, gov't and universities work together to *make* one.

@jon I also recently bought a DRM-free FLAC album from Bandcamp, without any issues. I wish there were more online stores like them!

the worst part of being an adult is how like, you definitely grow up to become about 60-70% of an adult, but that last 30% just isn't there, and never will be, it doesn't exist, it was just something adults pretended to have when you were a kid so that you (and they) felt like they were adults

UK fashion label says it owns trademark on “collusion,” EFF says no way at https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/uk-fashion-label-says-it-owns-trademark-on-collusion-eff-says-no-way/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/xfl4zywjhy #freepost

tired: properly fixing software bugs

wired: using TLS as a generic internet condom and praying that a root certificate authority is never compromised by … hang on … you say CNNIC Root CA was a front for the Chinese government the whole time?

PS. While we’re at it, let’s entrust all our freedom of speech to Google also.