Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
I went hiking in the mountains near Vienna at the end of January and there were flowers blooming then. I thought it was a freak warm spell, but now after a month of Spring weather, it looks clear that this year Spring started at the end of January. This is in a place where Spring used to show up in April. #ClimateChange is already here.
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Enough is enough. If Congress can't bring meaningful reform to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, they should let it expire. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-do-not-pass-a-clean-reauthorization-of-section-215
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Schools need to slam the brakes on surveillance and think about what kind of dystopia they’re creating for their students. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/schools-are-pushing-boundaries-surveillance-technologies
#BillGates promotes himself as a beneficial philanthropist these days, its key to remember that he was not a technical innovator. He innovated ruthless profiteering and marketing, selling his friend #BillKildall's innovation and cutting him out of the deal
See the history of CP/M for early details
https://web.archive.org/web/20120629044944/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm
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Security scandal around #WhatsApp shows the need for decentralised #FreeSoftware messengers, #OpenStandards in communication, and digital sovereignty
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200228-01.html #publiccode #FreeYourAndroid
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#MachineLearning is proving to be quite #exploit-able, humans need to stay in charge, with #AI only as an assistant:
"Hackers stuck a 2-inch strip of tape on a 35-mph speed sign and successfully tricked 2 Teslas into accelerating to 85 mph"
https://www.businessinsider.nl/hackers-trick-tesla-accelerating-85mph-using-tape-2020-2?international=true&r=US
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"The command line options we deserve" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/02/20/the-command-line-options-we-deserve/ - Why curl has so many options, why we can't change them and there will be more in the future. Should we add a (G)UI?
@cypnk I want to live in a building like that! here's a nice example of retrofitting: https://smartcity.wien.gv.at/site/en/green-facades-in-vienna/
After more than ten years working to remove #tracking in software, I now see that tracking usage without tracking people is possible. Tracking is essential to #AddictiveDesign, so #DataDriven #SoftwareDevelopment is still full of moral hazards
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One murky area of #FreeSoftware is what the #mirrors do with the all the #metadata they inevitably collect. Big mirrors like https://mirrors.kernel.org/ have no apparent public #privacy #policy. Purdue PLUG https://plug-mirror.rcac.purdue.edu/info.html and FAU https://ftp.fau.de/datenschutz post theirs
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#Privacy policies need not be dense legalese meant to confuse and obscure, @EFF's #DoNotTrack #Policy provides a well crafted, privacy promise for like minded organizations to adopt https://www.eff.org/dnt-policy
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The CIA literally owned Crypto AG from 1970 on, pushing out weakened crypto systems and allowing them to read messages sent around the world.
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"There was a popular idea that spying on your spouse was fair game...making it detectable was not a priority." Learn more about the fight against stalkerware from @evacide's keynote at @AppSecCali: https://twitter.com/AppSecCali/status/1224392355312103424
@hansw that's an SSH public key, aka "known_hosts", that's good to keep in git 😀
free access to medical information is a moral imperative, #coronavirus is making this clear. #openaccess publishing should be a requirement for medical research https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/archivists-are-bypassing-paywalls-to-share-studies-about-coronaviruses
The construction industry is a large contributor to #ClimateChange, destroying livable buildings makes it even worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/13/the-case-for-never-demolishing-another-building
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Without a moratorium or a ban, law enforcement agencies will continue to exploit technologies like Clearview’s and hide their use from the public. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/clearview-ai-yet-another-example-why-we-need-ban-law-enforcement-use-face
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Hey #fosdem, the #FSFE is hiring: We are looking for interns and trainees experienced in legal, policy or technical fields to join our team in our Berlin office.
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200129-01
If you are interested, get in touch at our booth.
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@Karlitschek explains at #FOSDEM why GPL is actually great for business (like it is for @nextcloud ), and why open source should not become closed/proprietary just to fight back against cloud competitors like Amazon, Google & Microsoft. #NextGenerationInternet
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The latest iOS & Android updates make the option to opt-out of location tracking very pronounced, & users are acting on it.
"Since the launch of iOS 13 last fall, the amount of background location data that marketers collect has dropped by 68%." https://www.fastcompany.com/90454921/apple-and-googles-tough-new-location-privacy-controls-are-working
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1223981147937562624
Joined Aug 2019
