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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HP's ink DRM instructs your printer to ignore the ink in your cartridge when you cancel your subscription
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
Wow, this BBC article paints the bringing of highly targeted advertising to podcasting and centralising of podcast content onto corporate mega platforms in such a favorable light. So misguided! #surveilencecapitalism
BBC News - Spotify and the potential for targeted podcast ads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-4715331
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.
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
Learn Python from Harvard's CS50
Learn the foundations of Python from Harvard.Harvard's CS50 is one of the world's most popular computer science courses and we are posting it on freeCodeCamp's ad-free YouTube channel
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-python-from-harvards-cs50/
@jon I also recently bought a DRM-free FLAC album from Bandcamp, without any issues. I wish there were more online stores like them!
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?