Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Elon Musk’s Twitter Quietly Fired Its Democracy And National Security Policy Lead
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/02/24/elon-musk-twitter-democracy-and-human-rights-layoffs/?sh=37b1122c6b97

Twitter has laid off hundreds of workers in another chaotic incident, some of whom were die-hard loyalists to Musk's new regime.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adxyv/twitter-lays-off-manager-who-slept-on-office-floor-after-musk-takeover
#Technews #Twitter #elonmusk #layoff #esthercrawford

Signal CEO: We “1,000% won’t participate” in UK law to weaken #encryption

@signalapp says it is ready to exit countries where E2EE is threatened/backdoored.

Encryption keeps us all safe. Tell your friends.

#infosec #cybersecurity #privacy

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/signal-vows-to-defy-uk-legislation-that-puts-e2e-encryption-in-the-crosshairs/

Microsoft has addressed a known issue behind unsupported computers being offered Windows 11 22H2 upgrades and being unable to complete the installation process.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-bug-offering-windows-11-upgrades-to-unsupported-pcs/

The 'Camera Shy Hoodie' renders its wearer anonymous to night vision surveillance cameras, using infrared LEDs usually found in the cameras themselves.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7awa/this-hacker-hoodie-uses-surveillance-camera-parts-to-blind-surveillance-cameras
#wearables #CYBER #privacy #SURVEILLANCE #DIY

#dogs and #dogsofmastodon

Why aren't ISPs that are bringing fiber get the same red carpet treatment as somebody bringing a new factory to a community?

https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2023/02/27/fiber-networks-as-community-development/

Want to try NixOS? Get started by installing it on a virtual machine.

https://itsfoss.com/install-nixos-vm/

#linux #nixos

About yearly, we seem to get another article saying "look! #BigTech are the biggest contributors to #OpenSource". These articles come across as PR pieces since they point to data saying who is the biggest contributing company without putting it into context. Like, does #BigTech contribute 0.5%, 5% or 50% of all activity? Instead the talk about things like "the top leading corporate contributors", leaving out non-"leading" contributors, non-corporate contributors, etc. https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/who_writes_open_source/

I see lots of people commenting about the release of a new #Mastodon client for #iOS #iPhone and asking the dev:

Why is it free? Why don't I have to pay? How're you going to monetise this?

It's really odd how people just accept the Apple way of paying over the odds for something they could get for free on #Android. Android has several fantastic open source clients, which fits really well with the general Mastodon ethos. #FOSS

Apple is just marketing over substance. Better alternatives exist.

This morning, I find myself wishing we got #Ubuntu #GNOME back. Not even as an official flavour, so it can stay away from Snaps and deliver Flatpaks out of the box alongside a vanilla GNOME experience.

I remember it fondly.

I like #Fedora, but there's something about Ubuntu that just *works* on my hardware.

Head of Twitter Blue, Esther Crawford, was just fired from Twitter. This is her first tweet since the news broke.

I’m not jeering or mocking her.

But her “optimism” was a mistake, and her hard work was pointless. Sounds harsh, I know.

Elon Musk has no loyalty to anyone but himself. And his deadlines were arbitrary.

Getting laid off is tough but this is a learning moment.

I hope Esther spends time with her her children, and treasures those moments with family.

https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1630040219880914945?s=20

"We don't do that here" is one of the best community management phrases and it's even more powerful when used by a fellow community member.

There's a special hell for these folks: https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-healthcare-sharing-ministries-obamacare

Dilbert "tribute."

#Donebert #RacistDilbert

Big Journalism bans racist cartoonist from its own media but continues to support an extremist who defends him racism. Media hypocrisy has no upper boundary when it comes to confronting -- that is, not confronting -- what it means to stay on Twitter.

Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:

1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made

Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant