Currently stranded at an airport thanks to Crowdstrike, like so many others.

What I find most infuriating about the whole thing is how many governments continue to throw billions of dollars at Microsoft, instead of jointly funding secure open source infrastructure for all.

Imagine all schools, libraries and roads were run by SchoolCorp, LibraryBiz and RoadWare. For some reason we accept that for 21st century digital infrastructure.

30 years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive

Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/30-years-later-freedos-is-still-keeping-the-dream-of-the-command-prompt-alive/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

1865: The 13th Amendment codifies prison slavery, so racists passed vagrancy laws to criminalize people on the street—forcing many formerly enslaved people back into prison slave labor.

2024: SCOTUS criminalizes homelessness, forcing people on the street into prison slave labor.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — the U.S. Supreme Court has been the single biggest blockade to progress and justice in America. They’re proving it again this session.

Real 🐧

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Google asks every app to have a Privacy Policy to be accepted in the Play Store. So, xScreenSaver had to write a privacy policy.

Here you go:

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html