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‘They wanted me gone’: #EdwardSnowden tells of #whistleblowing, his AI fears and six years in #Russia | #US news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/sep/13/edward-snowden-interview-whistleblowing-russia-ai-permanent-record

Follow me if we have mutual interests: #books, #taiwan, #yunohost, #freedombox, #selfhosting, #expat

Tiananmen Square Tank Man photographer Charlie Cole dies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49684808

Brazil environment minister to meet US climate denier group before UN summit https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/13/brazil-environment-minister-climate-denier-group-ricardo-salles #Amazonrainforest #Climatechange #Climatechange #Environment #Worldnews #Americas #Brazil

I expected terrible issues with an X1 Carbon running #QubesOS (from everything I’d heard) but so far it is behaving as good if not better than my trusty T450s

How to enable logging in #Nextcloud 16 https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-enable-logging-in-nextcloud-16/ yes, #privacy but not if the person hosting it wants to see you... up to you. #owncloud the same.

The surveillance state is growing.

A new project by @eff and the University of Nevada allows you to explore a map of where known cell-site simulators, smart street lights, and mobile biometric technology have been deployed.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwewjj/this-interactive-map-tracks-our-growing-surveillance-state

Oh wow... my talk/workshop for @mozillafestival #mozfest
""3D's: Dating, Dataportability & Deception (GDPR edition)"
Was accepted!

Did you know an estimated 15 to 20 million people relying on artisanal gold for their daily income and livelihoods?

Together with @FairtradeUK@twitter.com we #DareToCare for people and planet and are scaling up Fairtrade gold sourcing.

Read more about it >> http://frphn.co/FairtradeGold

Malcolm Turnbull says renewables plus storage are cheaper than coal and nuclear for new power generation

Mr Turnbull refers to "new coal". Leading experts consulted by Fact Check pointed out that new coal-fired power plants would most likely be required to accept a "risk premium" when obtaining finance, reflecting uncertainty over international and domestic climate and energy policy, future clean-up costs, and higher construction risks.
According to some estimates, interest rates faced by new coal projects as a consequence would be twice those applying to wind or solar projects. Factoring this in makes new coal an even less attractive proposition. The best available data suggests that under current conditions, nuclear energy would not be a cheaper source of electricity than renewables, as Mr Turnbull points out. https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e105863b96040a077fcc13da6b3c887c01b

COBOL turns 60 - Why it will outlive us all

In computing's early years, the only languages were machine and assembler. In those days, computing science really was "science." Clearly, there needed to be an easier language for programming those hulking early mainframes. That language, named in September 1959, became Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL).
"While market sizing is difficult to specify with any accuracy, we do know the number of organizations running COBOL systems today is in the tens of thousands. Any time you phone a call center, any time you transfer money, or check your account, or pay a mortgage, or renew or get an insurance quote, or when contacting a government department, or shipping a parcel, or ordering some flowers, or buying something online at a whole range of retailers, or booking a vacation, or a flight, or trading stocks, or even checking your favorite baseball team's seasonal statistics, you are interacting with COBOL." https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e109b9afb9a7a121dda7c7faccbc89d92fb

Remember to ask the young adults in your life if they've registered to vote and to sort it urgently if they're not.
Politely walk them through the process of registering and voting and why it's vitally important if needed and be helpful and empowering rather than preachy and attacking:
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
We've soon got the opportunity for an admittedly far from perfect socialist government. Much rather that than the fascist shitshow we've sleepwalked into though.

Ah fuck, I'm not confident I can make a good experience with just Open Library and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get anything useful out of the MediaWiki API. I'm worried I'll be required to store book data so it can be cleaned and made actually useful 😫

Can anyone help me find an API that's free (or cheap) that'll be good to use for getting book data? ISBNdb looks great, but it's a little pricey for a $0 budget project...

#webdev #books #api

The #Pine64 community have committed to giving all the profit from the sale of the #PinePhone (about US$10 per unit) to the developers of the OS software that runs on it:
https://www.pine64.org/2019/08/19/its-time-to-start-giving-back/

We all know that Google (with Chrome-ium) has at least close to 90% of the browser marketshare on the internet.

Which is your primary browser on your computer?

Remember that Brave, Opera and Edge are Chromium derivatives. I consider Safari to be separate since it's Webkit and not Blink.

Retoot this to get more votes in.

#poll #browser #firefox #chromium