Re: [libreplanet-discuss] We need clear advocacy for software freedom, not proprietary greenwashing (Aaron E-J)

2016-08-18 Thread arthur_torrey
d become important to oppose any such group. > Greenwashing (or as Brad Kuhn put it, "openwashing"[1]) is a real > problem with groups like this because they're often corporate shills > looking to preserve the status quo in service to their interests and > the interest

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Readability with gnu.org

2016-08-18 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
El 19 de agosto de 2016 02:39:22 GMT+01:00, Mike Gerwitz escribió: >On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 19:01:30 +0100, amunizp wrote: >> Using fennec for Android (found in f-droid). The readability button >us not offered. >> Is this meant to be? > >Websites don't dictate the availability of that mode---it g

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Readability with gnu.org

2016-08-18 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 19:01:30 +0100, amunizp wrote: > Using fennec for Android (found in f-droid). The readability button us not > offered. > Is this meant to be? Websites don't dictate the availability of that mode---it guesses the best it can based on content. Unless Fennec is doing somethi

[libreplanet-discuss] What happens when your sex toy gets hacked?

2016-08-18 Thread christopher Lucy
https://news.fastcompany.com/what-happens-when-your-sex-toy-gets-hacked-4017116 Its the new digital frontier!

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] We need clear advocacy for software freedom, not proprietary greenwashing

2016-08-18 Thread J.B. Nicholson
I posted "Mail-Followup-To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org" in the headers of my post to this list. Please choose a mail client that respects this header and do not send me copies of your mailing list followups. I will pick up any replies you post to the list on the list. Aaron E-J wrote:

[libreplanet-discuss] GNU Libreboot, version 20160818 released

2016-08-18 Thread Leah Rowe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GNU Libreboot 20160818 This is a brand GNU release. Libreboot joined the GNU project on 14 May 2016. This 18 August 2016 release is the first GNU release of libreboot. Get it from https://libreboot.org/download/ NEW BOARDS ADDED: * ASUS Chromebook

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The (Amost) Everything WeChat App

2016-08-18 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
With many years of observation of the past efforts to bring people to use free/libre software that I have studied, **almost** all of the attempts so far lack the important points: * Free/libre software doesn't aim to be "secure", "privacy-respecting", "user-friendly", "stable", "gratis" and so on.

[libreplanet-discuss] The (Amost) Everything WeChat App

2016-08-18 Thread Mary-Anne Wolf
This is a video about an app in China, WeChat, which combines the functionality (and thus the collected information) of multiple apps and websites as many people use them in the USA. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/technology/china-homegrown-internet-companies-rest-of-the-world.html?smid=fb-ny

[libreplanet-discuss] Readability with gnu.org

2016-08-18 Thread amunizp
Dear all, I was reading this page: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.es.html Using fennec for Android (found in f-droid). The readability button us not offered. Is this meant to be? in libre planet, for example, it does work. -- -- Andres (he/him/his) Ham United Group Richmond Maker

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Golden Rule Angle for Libre Software Advocacy

2016-08-18 Thread Jbumstead
You guys might enjoy watching the Cory Doctorow keynote presentation from the HOPE conference that several of us went to a few weeks ago. He discussed at length section 1201 of the DMCA, which is the law that makes it a federal crime for us to break the digital lock on any of our devices. This l

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] We need clear advocacy for software freedom, not proprietary greenwashing

2016-08-18 Thread Aaron E-J
I guess where I was going with my line of reasoning is not to limit information on how to modify a device but actually do the opposite – make modification be easy and safe. It is the fact that there is often little documentation on a device that contributes to accidents. At the same time, it is i