mark @mark@metalhead.club

Revealed: UK banks and investors' $2bn backing of meat firms linked to Amazon deforestation https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/04/revealed-uk-banks-and-investors-2bn-backing-of-meat-firms-linked-to-amazon-deforestation #Amazonrainforest #Treesandforests #Deforestation #Meatindustry #Conservation #Environment #Worldnews #Americas #Farming #Brazil #Food

**UK's Prince Charles says coronavirus reset is a new chance for sustainability**

"Britain's Prince Charles said the recovery from the coronavirus crisis represented a "reset moment" for the world and was an opportunity to prioritise sustainability issues, as he mad…"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-royals/uks-prince-charles-says-coronavirus-reset-is-a-new-chance-for-sustainability-idUSKBN23A2AC?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

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Testing out the new Onion-Location feature in the latest @torproject #Tor Browser alpha release.

(Announce to your site's visitors that your site is also available at an onion address.)

Here's a configuration guide you can follow: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/onion-location/

Using Nextcloud Talk means not only the content of messages and calls is encrypted, but the equally #metadata also stays on your own server! #privacy #security #selfhosting https://nextcloud.com/talk

"Google has run ads, for months at a time, pretending to be from the government. And even when they receive complaints, it’s hard to get them to act."
https://shouldiblockads.com/

@mark we don’t have bandwidth to maintain one in house, but the community is welcome to do one.

If anyone is planning to run Synapse (a #matrix homeserver) on a #rockpro64 from @PINE64, consider splitting the federation sender away from the main process to a separate worker. It made my homeserver run 100% better and it's nice and snappy now.

Does #Finland show the way to universal basic #income? | #DW | 30.05.2020

For two years Finland's government gave 2,000 #unemployed citizens €560 a month with no strings attached. It was the first nationwide basic income #experiment. The concept is slowly becoming difficult for people to ignore.

https://m.dw.com/en/does-finland-show-the-way-to-universal-basic-income/a-53595886

EU's greenhouse gas emissions continue to fall as coal ditched https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/eus-greenhouse-gas-emissions-continue-to-fall-as-coal-ditched #Renewableenergy #EuropeanUnion #Climatechange #Climatechange #Environment #Fossilfuels #Europe #Energy #Coal

A new episode of #DestinationLinux has dropped! We are joined by Dalton and Marius of UBports to talk #Linux, #opensource, thepine64 #PinePhone, and so much more! Check it out at https://destinationlinux.org/episode-175

"Seven of the top ten companies by market capitalization are tech companies. Seven out of ten are using data that they take from us, without our consent, to create their products. That is part of our labor power: those products are made with our emotional labor, our mental labor. Privacy is a way to reclaim our labor power." -- @flexlibris

https://logicmag.io/security/free-as-in-smash-the-surveillance-state-alison-macrina-on-library-freedom/

Germany’s public radio and television deploys #Nextcloud!

Read this case study to see how Nextcloud is used to provide efficient file exchange and online content collaboration for a large number of users and data.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/customer-success-story-germanys-public-radio-and-television-deploys-nextcloud/

We think that these companies should not have been in a position to censor 🛑 anyone in the first place; and certainly that governments should not be able to interfere either 📜 The web should #decentralize and protect #digitalsovereignty
https://www.cnet.com/news/president-trump-expected-to-sign-executive-order-about-social-media-on-thursday/

Google Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Chrome

Google engineers have revealed the Chrome browser has core weaknesses that will be difficult to fix...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/05/26/google-chrome-critical-security-vulnerability-warning-firefox-update-chrome-browser/amp/

https://fosstodon.org/media/oRq9Cgb8-Y7oryK_2vc

**Now Dominic Cummings is accused of breaking civil service rules**

"Just when Dominic Cummings may have thought things couldn’t get any worse, the co-leader of the Green Party has accused him of breaching special … "

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/05/27/now-dominic-cummings-is-accused-of-breaking-civil-service-rules/

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♻ RT @nuclearban@twitter.com:

Last year, the 9 nuclear armed states spent $73 billion on their nuclear arsenals. Take a moment to wrap your head around just how many zeros that is 👇 then go check out our report: https://www.icanw.org/global_nuclear_weapons_spending_2020 #nuclearban #priorities

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