John

@seven92.bsky.social

I love learning. Tech, open-source, human centered tech. Solar :)

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

Yesterday was a sad day for the privacy of citizens in the EU. In light of yesterday's vote, we wanted to remind you that: Chat Control 1.0 is different from Chat Control 2.0 in that providers (like us at Tuta) are not forced to backdoor their end-to-end encryption for surveillance.

Quote from Tuta CEO, Matthias Pfau: "If Chat Control passes, we as an encrypted provider have two options: sue to fight for people’s privacy, 
or leave the EU. 
And we’ve decided to fight. We will never weaken or backdoor our encryption.”

The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start. This is not democratic‼️

Norway will always be the GOAT of the energy transition. Instead of talking about the future, they proved it could be done & showed how. In 15 years, new car sales went from 0% to 99% electric, while the rest of the world kept arguing about timing and speed. #Bettrification #EV

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The math on nuclear energy really doesn't make sense anymore. "...the average cost of building new wind and solar facilities ordered this year by Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator is about 70 per cent lower than the estimated cost of a new large-scale nuclear power plant."

thestar.com

GrapheneOS opposes authoritarianism. It's a core part of why we're building privacy technology as part of a non-profit open source project. We're opposed to it regardless of whether it comes from left, center or right. The flood of people lying about what we believe and have said won't change this.

Success, that raises all our boats, is also built in communion with community — drawing on collective cooperation, exchanges of experience, expertise, wisdom, and shared creativity.

Omg it’s literally falling out of the sky for free and people still think voting for Farage in this country is a good idea when he wants more fossil fuels. I just can’t understand their upside down thinking. They’re surfs doomed to vote fore more serfdom. Turkeys. Voting for Xmas.

Android was successful due to being open source and an open platform. Google chose that approach to catch up and get near universal adoption by OEMs and carriers. They've gradually phased in illegal anti-competitive practices making it into a bait and switch. They can be forced to roll it all back.

Resolving most of Google's anti-competitive behavior with Android would be straightforward for regulators: ban the Google Mobile Services licensing model and require Google to make their apps and services work on any AOSP-based OS without privacy invasive access and massive control over the OS.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925

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"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman

There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

theguardian.com

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.