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governments ignore the law when it's convenient for them, citing national security. you should ignore governments when it's convenient for you.

politico.eu/article/data-reten

one less militaristic hawk in the world is not something to cry over.

it really bothers me that masto deletes/hides information on my own server based on actions of remote parties (block). it should not delete or hide records from my own machine without my consent.

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Improved EC inside! Starting with release 1.9 of the EC firmware we made a couple of changes for the Librem 14. Here is a detailed post by Purism CTO, Nicole Faerber.

puri.sm/posts/unleashing-the-l

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It wasn't until Nicole started writing about her work on Librem EC that I realized just how much the embedded controller is responsible for on modern computers, and therefore how important it is that it runs open firmware.

social.librem.one/@purism/1086

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Lennart Poettering does not deserve the hate he gets.

yes just be responsible and law-abiding and provide your full name and address and DOB to the state they will safeguard it and take care of you and everything will be fine

theguardian.com/us-news/2022/j

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People talking about F-Zero X on the Nintendo 64

:ffoxterrified: <- me, who played a lot of orginal F-Zero on the SNES

the number of instances that have defederated me because i federate with everyone who speaks the protocol (like email) is astounding

100% of the people on fedi who have been the most aggressively rude and threatening to me have been transwomen. is this due to trans overrepresentation on fedi or something else?

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@sneak @mike I’m guessing the android equivalent is avoidable at least?

The sad part is all of those things except cellular vpn blocking and degrading is mostly anti-fraud and marketing.

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Things that exist in Europe in just as great of numbers as the US:

* Pro-lifers
* Religious people
* People who hate trans people
* People who think queer people should just be quiet
* People who really believe giving up freedom can make them safer
* CCTV (actually, more)
* Doctors who gatekeep the fuck out of everything
* Medical insurance (yes, really!)
* Shitty infrastructure (though their trains are better, a lot of public transit is busses now...)
* Poor people

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