DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

Looking for something fun to occupy you for an hour or so this weekend?

@nuhn made an adorable fantasy adventure with prophecies, jokes, and a haunted forest.

Free to play. :) Take a look!

https://nuhn.itch.io/the-cursed-one-part-i

Adaptive preferences window in Files by @KekunPlazas looking fresh 🤩

I have seen worse Conspiracy theories.

It felt so freeing to finally speak my piece about this Forbes bullshit. Thanks for letting me rant.

See, that only made people write more clickbait. It emphasized being topical instead of writing evergreen content. Words that LAST. It encouraged quantity over quality. To be quite blunt: fuck that.

Nevermind the 72 trackers on the site and the extremely aggressive ads.

The context: banners which say something to the effect of "by continuing to browse this site you agree for us to track you" are illegal. You cannot withhold services because the user declines to consent to your tracking garbage.

Quoting the GDPR:

>Consent is presumed not to be freely given [...] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.

#SolarWinds wrote a blog post a in 2019 about how #FLOSS is dangerous because anyone can push malicious code to FLOSS projects:
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Geek-Speak-Blogs/The-Pros-and-Cons-of-Open-source-Tools/ba-p/478665

The irony could not be sweeter.

#InfoSec #IronySec #SupplyChainAttacks

/via @cguess

December Update: The Longest One Yet - Lukasz Erecinski @ Pine64: https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/15/december-update-the-longest-one-yet/

I was saying for years that OSM is worth supporting and investing in, and it will catch up one day if we continue to support it despite its limitations.

Turns out it WOULD catch up one day, but I was wrong when it comes to the reasoning: it caught up because the cost of producing a new set of up-to-date proprietary maps is too high, and it's more cost-effective for corporations that need that dataset to contribute to OSM as a commons.

I wonder if a similar process will be (or is being) seen in other domains.

Have your data on Google, Dropbox or OneDrive and you'd like to migrate to a private cloud? 🌞 Today we introduce our migration apps that automate this for you! Learn more in our blog. #GAFAM #privacy
https://nextcloud.com/blog/easy-migration-to-nextcloud-from-insecure-and-privacy-unfriendly-platforms-now-available/

Nicht alle Cookies sind böse.
Aber aus den Informationen lassen sich eben auch detaillierteste Personen-, Persönlichkeits- und sogar Bewegungsprofile erstellen, die weit mehr über uns verraten als nur Alter, Geschlecht oder wann wir das letzte mal einen schlechten Internet-Porno geguckt haben.
https://www.gutjahr.biz/2020/12/wir-pfeifen-auf-ihre-privatsphaere/ #cookies #Datenschutz #TMG #eprivacy

Wer sagt: "Das sind Leute die sowieso gestorben wären" sollte sich klar machen: Im Mittelalter lag die Lebenserwartung bei 30 Jahren. In einer Welt ohne Wissenschaft wären die meisten von uns längst tot. Finde es menschenverachtend so über die Eltern anderer Menschen zu sprechen.

FOSS projects, FOSS platforms. No ifs, ands, or buts. Or butts.