Hrisskar Flat-Foot @hrisskar@qoto.org

Don't you ever think that open source software activism is not a "real world" issue

"Hospitals Need to Repair Ventilators. Manufacturers Are Making That Impossible"
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxekgx/hospitals-need-to-repair-ventilators-manufacturers-are-making-that-impossible

Pink flowers, pink sky, one night shy of the pink moon

Facebook asks users about #coronavirus symptoms, releases friendship data to researchers

#Facebook Inc said on Monday it would start surveying some U.S. users about their health as part of a Carnegie Mellon University research project aimed at generating “heat maps” of self-reported coronavirus infections. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facebook-idUSKBN21O2P3 #deletefacebook

Messaging App Signal Threatens to Dump US Market if #Anti-#Encryption Bill Passes

#Signal is calling on its users to oppose the EARN IT Act, which it fears will be used to undermine end-to-end encryption, forcing it to leave the US market. https://www.pcmag.com/news/messaging-app-signal-threatens-to-dump-us-market-if-anti-encryption-bill

I like it when even Cloudflare starts to de-Google-ify.

"We recently migrated from Google's reCAPTCHA to the independent hCaptcha. It helps address a privacy concern inherent to relying on a Google service..."

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/

Sharpless-308: The Dolphin Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Chilesope 2, Pleaides Astrophotography Team (Peking U.)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200302.html #APoD

imagine if windows was like android, and microsoft released a new windows version but you had to wait several months for dell/hp/acer/whatever to update their weird windows build with shitty custom theming and candy crush permanently installed, but even when dell finally updated their windows build from a 6 month old version to a 3 month old version, you don't get it straight away because your laptop is a t-mobile dell so you have to wait even longer, and after two years one of microsoft or dell or t-mobile say "fuck it" and just stop supplying upgrades and you're stuck on Windows 10 October 2015 Edition for all eternity

@obi Yup, I fear a repeat of 911 where the fear completely gutted basic rights.