jahway603 @jahway603@social.linux.pizza

People around the world use sites that rely on proprietary JavaScript - often without realizing it. Nonfree JavaScript subjugates users in the same way as any piece of proprietary software. We should reject it. https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/freejs

We pay to Steam, Netflix, Amazon prime, Spotify. But not to Wikipedia, Archive.org, Librivox, Project Gutenberg, for our favourite Linux distro.

The huge asymmetry between corporate and community has not emerged naturally. It is a product of our choices of not supporting community oriented projects.

The short conveniences vs the long-term good. We always chose the former.

In face of surveillance capitalism, we must and must change.

✊ Amen Gene!

The European Parliament has proposed AND voted in favour of forcing big tech companies to adhere to open standards! 🎉
I can't wait to see a mass exodus as people finally #deletefacebook en masse.

#Nitter is an AGPLv3 licensed #Twitter frontend with all the features of the default site -- but more importantly -- it returns all of the freedom that Twitter's nonfree JavaScript takes away from you. Try it out! https://nitter.net

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When I see "we care about your privacy" I get a weird creepy vibe from it.

Like, why? Why the hell do you care about my privacy? What business of yours is my privacy?

Why don't you go ahead and care about something else? My privacy was just fine before you started "caring" for it.

Oregon State University research shows hemp compounds prevent coronavirus from entering human cells
https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/oregon-state-research-shows-hemp-compounds-prevent-coronavirus-entering-human-cells

PSA: If you have received your @PINE64 #PinePhone keyboard, the keyboard MUST BE ATTACHED BEFORE POWER ON or it will not be recognized by the operating system.

Wow, #fosdem2022 has a dedicated track for FOSS on mobile devices: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/foss_on_mobile_devices/

If you are interested in #linuxphones you should check out the schedule. There's so much going on in the #linuxphone space right now. 😎

I feel like @postmarketOS or @danctnix is the future for me (still running a de-googled android right now though).

#fosdem #FOSDEM22 #pinephone

How I see attempts to force #backdoors in E2E #encryption...

#drawing #comic #geek #government #privacy #security

In the New Hampshire area? Go testify in support of the #SOFTWAREAct on Tuesday, at 10:30 AM at the Legislative Office Building in Concord! https://u.fsf.org/3hj

What if a government passed a bill enshrining software freedom, and free software principles, into law?

I've been informed that the state of New Hampshire (in USA) is considering passing this bill:

https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2022&id=1363&txtFormat=html

My own country (United Kingdom) could take a leaf out of NH's book.

(I said earlier that it had passed the bill, but I was wrong. I was corrected: it's a reading, the bill isn't actually passed yet)

Do you really care about #FreeSoftware? But is your #code on a free platform?

Please move away from #Microsoft #GitHub, #GitLab.com, #BitBucket on to #GitLabCE, #Gitea, #Codeberg, #Sourcehut and other diverse forges. Thank you! 💙

EVERYONE WHO LIVES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE https://libreboot.org/news/usa-libre.html
PLEASE BOOST

#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. ~ Mr. Rogers

#Gitea is joining the fediverse 🎉 We can now announce we've been accepted into the #NLnet funding round that we applied to. https://nlnet.nl/project/Gitea/

Thank you to @NGIZero @dachary @forgefriends and so many others for getting us to this point.

We are very much looking forward to many wonderful things that federation within forges can support.