Weekly Axis Of Easy #150 Last Week’s Quote was “Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of the individual have been eroded” was Fredreich Hayek. Nobody got it. This Week’s Quote: “Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power” …by […]
[AxisOfEasy] Facebook rebrands Libra as Novi to try again
Weekly Axis Of Easy #149 Last Week’s Quote was “Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one” winner was Michael Sierchio This Week’s Quote: “Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of the individual have been eroded” …by ??? THE RULES: No searching up the […]
[AxisOfEasy] FBI End-Runs Apple’s Security By Hiring Outside Vendor To Crack iPhone
Weekly Axis Of Easy #147 Last Week’s Quote was “The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved.”, was Henry B Adams, nobody got it. This Week’s Quote: “If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” …by ??? THE […]
[AxisOfEasy] Justice Department Poised To Hit Google With Antitrust Lawsuit
Weekly Axis Of Easy #146 Last Week’s Quote was “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” Was by H.L Mencken, winner was Rob Brunk This Week’s Quote: “The press is the hired agent of a […]
[AxisOfEasy] Software Model Behind Global Lockdown Turns Out To Be Garbage
Weekly Axis Of Easy #145 Last Week’s Quote was “The bulk of “misinformation” still comes from the class of people calling for censorship; they want their monopoly back” …by Matt Taibbi, nobody got it, but if came from his article “The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here“. I find I disagree with Taibbi on a few things, but he […]
Introducing Jitsi video meetings. Free web conferencing now available.
As we’ve been covering in #AxisOfEasy, with the rush to remote work and online video conferencing, several issues with Zoom have been coming to light. Not to pick on Zoom specifically, those problems are inherent to any centralized, black-box solution. Your communications and your data traverse somebody else’s platform, and you really don’t know what’s […]
