PJ Brunet @[email protected]

Beer delivery you say?

Last year, I paid ~$600 in red light fines. In LI, you can turn right on red, I suppose I missed the signs that advised against those particular red lights. <Grumble>

“In the past weeks, Gov. @GregAbbott_TX has:
- Banned red light cameras
- OK'd beer delivery
- Protected free speech on college campuses
- Allowed kids to run lemonade stands
- Signed the Save Chick-fil-A bill
- Banned deceptive telemarketer calls
Let's all be more like Texas.”
https://twitter.com/liz_wheeler/status/1139659807080636416?s=21

These are hardware kill switches.

Not a webcam cover. Not software disabled Wi-Fi. Kill switch.

Laptops should have these.

Ours do.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/

Under GDPR, companies are required to erase consumers' personal data when a user withdraws their consent.

In the EU? Use Opt Out (free & open-sourced) to exercise this right by generating GDPR Erasure request emails to have your data removed. https://opt-out.eu

RT @[email protected]
Keep in mind that these entities are each paying $10 million for the privilege of running a node aka unlimited access to transactional data. What this announcement *actually* means is that now Visa, MC, PayPal *and* Facebook are *each* getting unfettered access to users' data. https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1139295338924261376

the real problem with discord that makes them truly evil is that they sell their solution as being something that provides self-determination.

when you move your community to discord, you start a what they call a "discord server."

to be clear, there is not really any such thing as a "discord server," this is just marketing terminology for group functionality.

they call it a discord "server" on purpose: they want to communicate the idea that you have full autonomy on your own "discord server," when in reality you are still at the mercy of discord as a service provider. this is truly evil, this goes beyond a lack of transparency to actively lying to potential users. not even Slack does this.

we must build real alternatives to these predatory services.

Firefox on Android had been my jam for a minute now but holy hell have I fallen in love with Privacy Browser.

https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser/

Tweet from ABC News:

A F-35 Marine Corps fighter conducted a flyover of the White House to mark Polish president Andrzej Duda's visit and Poland's agreement to purchase the advanced aircraft from the U.S. https://t.co/6ROLjuq5Q1 https://t.co/d1NAHxf6qj

#ABC

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1138878147800252417