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1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2020 01:53:04 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   Social Responsibility Amid COVID-19 Outbreak:https://mikegerwitz.com/2020/03/social-responsibility-covid-19 As an activist for user freedom, I focus primarily on issues of social freedom and equality through the lens of technology. I think about how to level the playing field, to help those who are vulnerable. But some of the most effective things we can do today to make …
2. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2020 23:44:31 EST Mike Gerwitz

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   I'm sorry to say that I've decided to cancel my plans to attend #LibrePlanet2020 this year. My wife has had a rough pregnancy so far and will be just about in her final month during the conference, on top of having to care for our other two children solo for the weekend, and I don't want to put her in that position.
   
   I hope to see everyone next year, and I'm sorry again to those I was going to meet up with.
3. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2020 00:11:59 EST Mike Gerwitz

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   Looking back on 2019, one thing I'm happy to see is that #privacy concerns are becoming much more mainstream. When I gave a talk at LP2017 just three years ago, I began by saying "this is not a tinfoil hat presentation". If I were to give that talk today, I could confidently omit that line, because 2019 has created a far more fucked up narrative than I ever could have. (O…
4. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2020 02:10:36 EST Mike Gerwitz

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   I chose not to submit a talk this year because I'm too busy, but I'm still planning to attend #LibrePlanet2020. I'm excited for the extra social time that I'll have---the previous four years I've confined myself to rehearsing my talk in my hotel room. If you're planning on attending, please lmk. If not, then please consider! FSF Associate Members are not charged for admis…
5. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2020 00:45:24 EST Mike Gerwitz

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   Happy GNU year, everyone!
6. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2019 00:50:51 EST Mike Gerwitz

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   Over the past year, my GNU Social timeline has gone almost completely silent; it seems that many people have moved to Mastodon and maybe those instances have stopped federating. Further, GNU Social development has been stalled for a long time. So this seems like an inevitable decision to give Mastodon a try. I'll start by following people and will post both on here and GN…
7. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2019 22:22:41 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   Actually, trying to clarify a potential misinterpretation may have opened up another.
   
   To be clear: I continue to support the FSF, and I respect the opinions of the GNU maintainers who signed the statement. And to those who support rms: please note that he has called for people to support the FSF as well.
8. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2019 21:38:44 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   I'm deeply disturbed and disappointed by the hatred, bigotry, and tribalism I've observed from certain groups over the past number of weeks. The free software community should know better than most that people have differences in opinion---we fight for freedoms many people don't even see as something worth fighting for. Every day is a brutal, uphill struggle against force…
9. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2019 22:59:59 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   Holy shit...
   
   I'm going to continue to withhold public comments until I get more information, and more thoughts in order.
10. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2019 22:23:10 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    Mischaracterization of an individual is an injustice regardless of your differences.
11. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2019 23:55:47 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    Those times where you spend nearly 2h writing, proofreading, and re-writing a fairly short email that should have probably taken ~5m, and then decide to stash it in your drafts and possibly never send it at all, and then complain about it on social media as if that'll somehow make your time feel a bit less wasted even if you never send the message. I suppose I could take …
12. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 21:45:06 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    ACLU: "Should You Buy a Ring Doorbell Camera?"http://status.hackerposse.com/url/19045 This article presents a number of good, important issues with these devices. And to be clear on my position: no, you absolutely should not buy a Ring camera. In my LibrePlanet 2017 talk, I asked surveillance camera owners to make sure that they are only recording their own property, not …
13. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2019 00:14:03 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    • Free Software Foundation
    • Alexandre Oliva
    I'm really pleased to see this, @lxoliva! Congrats!
14. Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2019 13:14:16 EDT Free Software Foundation

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    Exciting news: Alexandre Oliva, chief developer of the GNU Linux-libre project, and recipient of the 2016 Advancement of Free Software award, has joined the FSF board of directors! Let's all give him a warm welcome. https://u.fsf.org/2wi https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1337982
15. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2019 23:00:25 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    I find it difficult to express how much I enjoyed this video on APL from 1975, using a teletypewriter:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA
    
    (YouTube requires non-free software to run; please consider entering the URL in your favorite video player or downloader instead.)
16. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2019 23:08:50 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    ACLU: "Say No to the 'Cashless Future'":
    
    https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/consumer-privacy/say-no-cashless-future-and-cashless-stores
17. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2019 22:20:22 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    Another good article from Cory Doctorow about adversarial interoperability, this time about IBM and the Phoenix BIOS:
    
    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ibm-pc-compatible-how-adversarial-interoperability-saved-pcs-monopolization
18. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2019 22:53:28 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    • Christopher Lemmer Webber
    @cwebber Great episode! Just had a listen.
19. Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2019 17:48:40 EDT Christopher Lemmer Webber

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    • Libre Lounge

    There's a new episode of @librelounge out where we interview Ludovic Courtès about Guix! Functional programming? Functional package managers? Distros? Reproducibility? It has all the cool things! https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-23-guix-with-ludovic-court%C3%A8s.html

20. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 23:04:47 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    I decided to occasionally pop back onto IRC when I'm free at night. I miss the real-time chat, but I don't often have time for it.
    
    Catch me on freenode, nick mikegerwitz. I'll be in #gnu, #fsf, #guix, and some others.

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