DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

Threema is now Open Source.

New Audit Confirms Threema’s Security Once Again - Threema
https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/audit-2020-en

Schlimmer geht immer.
https://www.heise.de/news/Gaia-X-Big-Data-Firma-Palantir-aus-den-USA-ist-bei-EU-Cloud-vorn-mit-dabei-4995921.html

#EU #GaiaX, neben #Amazon, #Microsoft und #Google auch #Palantir

Finds ja klasse, dass es in den 2000ern für jede Musikband einen passenden Eiskratzer fürs Auto gab, aber wozu ist diese silberne Scheibe darin?

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/