cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5717757

Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.

Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and bolstering independent repair shops will turn states into “hacker meccas.” The car industry insists that making it easier and cheaper to repair modern cars will be a boon to sexual predators.

He discussing another right-to-repair story and how apple's genius bars are scamming people - Laptop owner baffled over two very different repair quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdr5RKi75NI

John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it!

#stickyourcloudstorage

Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)

We need to start talking about the Cyber Resilience Act, because according to all major Open Source organizations the CRA is a threat to Free Software itself, and it has been approved by the European Committee that was working on it.

...with Apple and Microsoft, Mutahar's turn to take a look at "Web Environment Integrity"

This video as a text article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/

Right to repair your stuff

No security or feature updates, but selling as "new." I guess they need to switch to Linux if able..

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