Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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If you send an email with an unsubscribe link, clicking that link should unsubscribe you. No: it should not require account login.
@matthew_d_green This is an essential point of decentralization. Too many pieces of internet infrastructure have shifted to requiring large teams with staffed security teams to operate. Web apps are the worst in that regard. Debian still keeps self-hosters as a key use case.
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In a world where your servers are operated by volunteers rather than big well-resourced SV corporations with security teams, it’s interesting to think about how we can make identity and authentication require fewer shared secrets.
Amsterdam police chasing around bikers in safety green while they cycle loops around private jets is a truly wonderful spectacle
https://nos.nl/artikel/2451147-ruim-200-klimaatactivisten-gearresteerd-op-schiphol-alle-actievoerders-weg
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The Procurement Chamber in the German state of Baden-Württemberg decided that the transfer of personal data outside of the EU is not #GDPR compatible.
"It’s a landmark decision that has a huge influence in Germany & the rest of Europe"
#GDPR #SchremsII
https://nextcloud.com/blog/baden-wurttemberg-procurement-chamber-decides-us-cloud-services-are-not-gdpr-compliant/
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In the span of 7 days, Infosec.exchange has grown:
From 3000 total accounts to 5100 total accounts
From 180 active users to 2500 active users
From 90000 posts to 104000 posts
That is pretty incredible. I am very happy to see the community here on the fediverse.
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WIRED: Pernille Tranberg, cofounder of Danish think tank Data Ethics EU, who says she has been trying to convince Danish schools to use European school software such as Nextcloud for years.
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Uber is planning to expand their advertising platform in a privacy-problematic way: they'll allow targeting riders based on their travel history and their locations.
https://gizmodo.com/uber-ads-ride-share-uber-eats-1849678092
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1588527810217664513
This video captures how I often feel running large scale systems with minimal resources
@fdroidorg@mastodon.technology here's a classic #Google tactic: use "open source" to get devs hooked, then gradually slip in proprietary bits. #AOSP's core apps move ever more towards proprietary, and they also do this with libraries like com.google.ar:core https://github.com/google-ar/arcore-android-sdk/issues/1538
@fdroidorg@mastodon.technology is dedicated to enforcing #FreeSoftware for #Android apps. There is big money pushing hard to make people slip, Google is one of those. I've been working on free software since 1994, and from what I've seen, this approach is the only way to make progress. If no one enforces it, then everyone just slips into proprietary software.
@ConnyDuck @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology you're contributions are always valuable! We're in the middle of a lot of things now, including a major overhaul of the guts of fdroidclient, the buildserver, setting up F-Droid as its own legal entity, etc. etc. So I've only had time recently to review things I'm directly working on. That also means that fdroidclient is working async, so your merge request won't bitrot so fast and is still valuable. Of course, we should be communicating all this more.
@fdroidorg@mastodon.technology the post is also available in other languages like Chinese and Ukrainian: https://f-droid.org/2022/04/25/from-user-to-contributor-and-beyond.html
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Today's agreement on the #DigitalServicesAct is historic!
We are now one step closer to new ground-breaking rules that will:
⛔️ ensure online platforms are held responsible for tackling harmful content
🛡️ better protect internet users
🚀 help smaller platforms grow
#Kotlin Native download executables from the internet and executes them. It bypasses the gradle verification methods. Anyone know if it does any of its own?
@tuxflo @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology
see our merge requests for examples of how apps are reviewed https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/10788
Anyone in "the West" having a hard time understanding why Russians follow Putin, think back to Cold War days. We were taught that Soviets were just itching to kill us, and we needed a strong defense. For example, Red Dawn was taken seriously in 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc
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For anyone looking to run a full fledged circumvention system, we're working to bring #Greatfire's proven software to any context, starting with https://github.com/greatfire/envoy
According to research by Erica Chenoweth, non-violent resistance is twice as likely to succeed as violent resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w
Joined Aug 2019
