An internet toll will penalise consumers & breach #netneutrality. Today, Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Micky Adriaansens warned against the demands of Big Telco. She calls for a differentiated analysis of the problem first, before jumping at solutions. 🧵
https://www.reuters.com/technology/dutch-warn-against-internet-toll-eu-looks-big-tech-fund-networks-2023-02-27/
@BrentToderian great example! My city, #Vienna, seems dead set on continuing to destroy with road projects, but there is strong resistance. Another awesome example is #Portland's Waterfront Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2_yNrP0hCY
If your city couldn’t avoid making a massive city-damaging mistake in the first place, do the next best thing — remove the mistake, and repair your city. Like #Utrecht, Netherlands did with its central area river, then freeway, then river again.
(Image via @BicycleDutch) #Dutch #Holland #Netherlands #freeways #cars #bikes #cities
"The idea that complex social problems are amenable to cheap technical solutions is the siren song of the software salesman"
Re the Online Safety Bill/regulatory proposals invoking harm to the vulnerable as a problem mass surveillance could solve.
As someone who grew up in the #SiliconValley and fled, this article gave me a new insight into its mechanations: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/23604908/malcolm-harris-palo-alto-capitalism-interview
#fdroid client is configured with two #Maven repos: Maven Central and the Google one. Yet running `./gradlew buildEnvironment --scan` downloads `org.gradle:gradle-enterprise-gradle-plugin:3.10.2`, which is not available on those two repositories. It seems that #Gradle is adding repositories automatically, that seems sketchy to me. I confirmed this by running `gradle --write-verification-metadata sha256 buildEnvironment --scan`
@SomaFMrusty Some artists still post albums to their own websites, I buy there when I can. Then there is always #BitTorrent then buy merch directly from the band to send them cash.
@cryptax v3.4.1 has passed all the tests, in less than 10 days, it should be part of Debian/bookworm https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/droidlysis
FYI, I patched back in the #androguard support since androguard is part of #Debian and easy to support there. I work with massive collections of #Android APKs, so I appreciate having androguard support there to parse those few APKs that the others cannot.
Wiki Unblocked is also built by #fdroidorg using the #ReproducibleBuilds process, independently confirming that the binary APK shipped on https://f-droid.org matched the source code.
Seeing the utopia that is promised just around the corner with AGI @clarkesworld closing submissions because of inundation by "AI" generated submissions. Feels like a DDOS attack.
https://dair-community.social/@clarkesworld@mastodon.online/109871320720975169
@debian nice, I was just looking at this format, since it makes it a lot easier to manage third party repositories. For example, it makes it easier to specify a signing key for that specific repository.
If you use Debian container images, please note that "debian:bookworm" images are already using deb822-style repository sources https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/apt/sources.list.5.en.html#DEB822-STYLE_FORMAT
@cryptax if you post a droidlysis v3.4.1 ASAP, I can probably get it into the upcoming Debian/bookworm release. Also, I found a bug when using newer libmagic: https://github.com/cryptax/droidlysis/pull/10
@rene_mobile @matthew_d_green Totally. I have lots of experience with US and EU banking, in both directions, e.g. while living in the US and the EU. The US system is really messed up. Another symptom is all those funny payment startups in the US trying to make payment easier. In the EU, we just do all that stuff with a plain old, cheap bank account. No extra apps, middlemen, fees, etc.
Just uploaded to #Debian the key #Android inspection tools #apktool 2.7.0 and the latest #smali from git, ahead of 2.5.2. All sorts of tools like #droidlysis #fdroid #kalilinux and more rely on these for inspecting Android APK files.
@profcarroll I'm a #EU and #US citizen and lived in both. Things like "identity theft" are common in the US, it happened to me, but are basically not possible in the EU. Personal data belongs to the person. In the US, the data collectors have rights to collect whatever they want and sell it to whoever, and opening credit in someone's name is too easy. In the EU, you mostly need to do that in person still or maybe over the phone. Some may call that bureaucracy, but it works better overall.
The EU digital identity wallet might handle some of citizens’ most sensitive data. Its success highly depends on the trust people place in it. Undemocratic behaviour & the deletion of privacy-preserving features of the new ID are certainly the wrong way to gain society’s trust.