"Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users' personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent."

The Hacker News

Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection

Google fined $1.375B by Texas for secretly tracking location and biometric data without user consent.

GM #nostr land Foreign governments are tired of Micro$oft spying on them, so more are switching to Linux and Open Source Software. "Open formats and open interfaces are an important building block for the necessary transformation process of public administration in Germany on the path to greater digital sovereignty and innovation. The IT Planning Council is committed to ensuring that open formats such as the Open Document Format (ODF) are increasingly used in public administration and become the standard for document exchange by 2027. It is commissioning the Standardization Board to implement this." #OpenSource #FreedomTech #learnOPENtech #LOT

TDF Community Blog

Germany committing to ODF and open document standards - TDF Community Blog

Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limi...

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HuffPost

Why You Can (And Should) Opt Out Of TSA Facial Recognition Right Now

Do you really want to be submitting a face scan to the current U.S. government?

When something is to hot to handle, handle it differently. #OpenSource #OpenSourceRobotics #learnOPENtech #LOT

Arduino Blog

An affordable open-source robotic prosthetic arm  | Arduino Blog

For those missing limbs, a robotic prosthesis represents a real and useful way to regain capability. But such prostheses are traditionally very exp...

New faces on the Bitcoin Walk hosted by San Antonio Bitcoin Club. Some got there after we fnished so the rest went back out walking with them. Also saw a coral snake passing by a morel mushroom! #SABC #ProofOfWalk #BitcoinWalk @Brian

GOT your own MILK? #RawMilk

Tenth Amendment Center

Signed as Law: Arkansas Expands Raw Milk Sales in the State | Tenth Amendment Center

Under the prior Arkansas law, "incidental sales" (less than 500 gallons per month) of raw milk were allowed on the farm where it was produced. Sena...

Been a Linux end-user and Open Source Advocate for 15+ years. Know what isn't in Linux? An app that takes a screenshot every few seconds: #learnOPENtech #LOT #OpenSource #Linux #FreedomTech "Recall continues to demand an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned. However secure and private it is—and, again, the version people will actually get is much better than the version that caused the original controversy—it just feels creepy to open up the app and see confidential work materials and pictures of your kid. You’re already trusting Microsoft with those things any time you use your PC, but there’s something viscerally unsettling about actually seeing evidence that your computer is tracking you, even if you’re not doing anything you’re worried about hiding, even if you’ve excluded certain apps or sites, and even if you “know” that part of the reason why Recall requires a Copilot+ PC is because it’s processing everything locally rather than on a server somewhere." ↫ Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica

Windows Recall failed the moose test, and nobody will ever forget it – OSnews

GM #nostr land! Open Source Ecology ! Help build and better humanity for all! #learnOPENtech #LOT

#OpenSource #Robotics #learnOPENtech

Hackster.io

Hugging Face Makes Its Move in Robotics

Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics to bring open source, embodied AI to humanoid robots in an affordable and DIY-friendly way.

GM #nostr land Got HTTPS?...... Check your certs! "SSL/TLS certificate lifespans reduced to 47 days by 2029"

BleepingComputer

SSL/TLS certificate lifespans reduced to 47 days by 2029

The CA/Browser Forum has voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47...

GM #nostr land! How about some Open Source LLM Deep Learning Library training:

Open Source For You

Working with Apache SINGA, the Deep Learning Library - Open Source For You

Here’s a short tutorial on how to install and configure Apache SINGA, the deep learning library that has been built for training machine learning...

#learnOPENtech #LOT #OpenSource

I was like "Dude, that serape is far out! ... And he was like we only take fiat around these parts, and I was like ...Yo! I got #Bitcoin right here!" Then he was like "can I use $0.25 to phone home, and I was like, you mean Sats?! And he was all offended saying " not all of us can have that magic internet money, we aren't advanced enough...." So I just left and instead of a serape....I stacked SATs!...... #stacksats #StudyBitcoin

Breaking news! 🍄 The New Mexico governor signed legislation that will allow patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse disorders and several other conditions to legally use psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, under medical supervision. More from the ABQJournal: The approval of a state-run psilocybin program will make New Mexico the third state to authorize use of the drug in such circumstances, following in the steps of Oregon and Colorado. Several military veterans urged lawmakers to pass the bill during this year’s session, citing their own experiences with psilocybin use. Read more: https://www.abqjournal.com/.../article_ee990fc0-5762-4678... https://www.nmlegis.gov/.../25.../bills/senate/SB0219.HTML Post from Paul Stamets, on FB

#Linux Foundation Announces intent to form the Media eXchange Layer Project to Advance Cloud-Fit Real-Time Media Exchange..... Not sure if I lime this, I'll wait and see!

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form the Media eXchange Layer Project to Advance Cloud-Fit Real-Time Media Exchange

New Initiative Paves the Way for the Future of Software-Driven Media Production.

@bitcoin++ #bitcoin++ on Austin Conf page, broken link:

Someone ask @odell if his Odell.xyz TLS security cert is expired? #asknostr thanks ...Oh yes and GM 😁

GM #nostr land Today is a good day to #BuyTheDip and #learnOPENtech .....speaking of Open Source Software "Libreoffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs"

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs – Computerworld

Had a new face show up for the walk today. She used to do stocks/trading but wanted to see what this Bitcoin thing was all about. #SanAntonioBitcoinClub #SABC #ProofOfWalk #BitcoinWalk

GM #nostr land! One Laptop Per Child initiative. SugarOS is a fun project based edu platform for about Pk-5th grades. One thing I always appreciated about SugarOS is the calculator has full scientific functions in it. She educators scoffed at the idea saying it was to complex for kids. I said, what is the worst that could happen, they'll learn something?

Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

Devin Ulibarri: How Sugar Labs Empowers Education via FLOSS

Discover how Sugar Labs empowers education with FLOSS! Read our interview with Devin Ulibarri and get inspired.

San Antonio Bitcoin Club #SABC #BitcoinWalk #ProofOfWalk @Brian +1