Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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As President Trump prepares to sign the USMCA, remember that when copyright creeps into trade agreements, it's almost always bad news. #CopyrightWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/dont-write-copyright-law-secret
#hydro power is NOT #green power, it kills rivers and contributes to #ClimateChange https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/opinion/climate-change-hydroelectric-dam.html
Interesting to see that civilisation does not need to be built on rich and poor in rigid hierachies.Teotihuacan in Mexico thrived for 5 centuries without slaves, slums, or even big differences between rich and poor. This is in contrast to Rome, Egypt, Mycenae, Greece, Babylon, etc.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-archeology-teotihuacan-feature/stylish-suburbs-how-ancient-mexican-metropolis-dodged-inequality-trap-idUSKBN1YN0J2
I mostly use computers that are very locked down: everything over Tor, no Javascript by default, must copy-paste links in most apps, etc. I think this actually makes me more productive since distractions are no longer a single click away. We have sold out the #Internet to #SurveillanceCapitalism, which has changed it from augmenting human intelligence into #addictive drugs that appeal to our basest instincts Now those companies think its OK to do the same with #AI. We must stop it!
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"I believe that different providers have the right to configure their communities in certain ways" - @biellacoleman. Check out our interview to learn more about how Biella thinks about free expression: https://www.eff.org/speaking-freely/biella-coleman
I've been thinking a lot recently about the addictiveness of media, particularly of software. When users are the product, then #AddictiveDesign is inevitable: such companies need to make users present on their platform as much as possible to make more money. It has gotten so severe that software has become like addictive drugs, ruining the lives of many. We as a society have forgotten that computers were invented to augment human intelligence, not turn us all into addicts.
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Do you work with or support an organization with a .ORG website?
Then you should be concerned about the potential sale of the .ORG registry to a private equity firm, which would have an incentive to sell censorship as a service, says EFF's @mitchstoltz https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-12-12/dot-org-sale-outrage-internet-society-ethos-capital
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Unless you take precautions, your data is invasively tracked then auctioned off to the highest bidder.
"It is time for Congress to hold tech & ad companies accountable & make opting out of tracking a meaningful choice, if not the default setting." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-privacy-rights.html
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1216008617842880517
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How many of you employed by a company active in the field of collecting, cataloguing and searching personal data have read IBM and the Holocaust?
@ln4711 yes exactly, that's the alarming part, it looks like sites are removing #TLSv13 in favor of #TLSv12. This is the graph you mentioned: https://kjur.github.io/www/sslpulsetrend/index.html#protobest
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Just the fear of #surveillance can turn us into self-censors and stop us from exercising intellectual freedom and curiosity.
If we think we're being watched, our behavior changes.
Let's choose an internet free of mass surveillance. #TakeBacktheInternet https://blog.torproject.org/we-can-choose-internet-without-surveillance
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Patent troll lobbyists want us to believe that Section 101 is harming U.S. innovation. In fact, it protects the public from junk patents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/alice-doesnt-block-good-patents-it-protects-public-requiring-real-invention
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🎂Happy Birthday, εxodus🎂
[EN]On the occasion of the second anniversary of the εxodus platform, a new update on the association’s progress.
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/post/second-birthday/
[FR] Pour les 2 ans de la plateforme, faisons un point sur les projets de l'association !
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/fr/post/second-birthday/
Thanks to @gandi @maiwann @codelutin @LaQuadrature @passageenseine @geekfaeries @fosdem and @Framasoft
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We ❤️ open source. Your Tutanota client is fully published as open source software. 😍 We even built our own captcha instead of using Google's Captcha. Read here why: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/
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There is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to VPNs. https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you
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Am Wochenende hat die CDU auf ihrem 32. Parteitag beschlossen, sich der Forderung der FSFE anzuschließen, dass mit öffentlichen Geldern entwickelte Software als Freie Software allen Zugute kommen soll:
"Deshalb gilt künftig für alle (öffentlichen) Digitalisierungsprojekte in Deutschland: #Auftragsvergabe und Förderung sind an die Einhaltung der Prinzipien #OpenSource und offene Standards gebunden."
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At its 32nd party conference this weekend, the German conservative party CDU resolved to join @fsfe in demanding that software developed with public money should be publicly available as #FreeSoftware:
"This is why the following will apply to all (public) digitisation projects in Germany in the future: the awarding of contracts and funding will be subject to compliance with the principles of open source and open standards."
After a steady increase in adoption over the past year, TLSv1.3 adoption just took a pretty big drop. Anyone have any data or ideas about why? https://kjur.github.io/www/sslpulsetrend/index.html#proto
People often think of the United States of America as a decentralized, federated, government. This is not true, the US Federal Government controls 55% of all government spending in the country, including federal, state and local. The EU currently controls about 2.5% of government expenditure. So in reality, the EU is much more decentralized than the USA.
Joined Aug 2019
