Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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@lauren It is important to describe the limitations here. E2EE here would be useful when emailing with third parties. Since #Gmail is proprietary software, users just have to trust #Google to do the right thing. Technically, it is easy to build E2EE where the service can get the private keys and decrypt as they like. Given participation in #PRISM etc, proprietary Gmail cannot provide trustworthy E2EE, especially considering most emails stay within Gmail 1/2
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We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!
We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).
Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.
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People rocking up on this platform and expecting it to be as rich and diverse and mature as their carefully nurtured Twitter feed, fine-tuned over a decade to reflect their interests and values, maybe give it a few weeks of actually investing in finding the accounts that interest you before writing the whole thing off as a howling wasteland.
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Why curation and #decentralization is better than millions of #apps.
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Happy to have our last version of "The Android Platform Security Model" now included in the official August 2021 edition of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448609.
Fully open access - download, read, share, feel free to use however it's helpful ;-)
"Generally speaking, warring parties do not like neutral states. Russia complains about the sanctions, and Ukraine wants Switzerland to allow the re-export of our ammunition from Germany. But criticism is a sign that a neutral state is doing its job well" https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-altruistic-state-/48103724
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We talk a lot about companies that make and sell spyware, such as NSO, but let’s not forget the companies that back them and the states that allow them to sell their products to authoritarian regimes around the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/politics/spyware-nso-pegasus-paragon.html
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I have finally said something substantial about this topic.
https://www.wired.com/story/effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence-sam-bankman-fried/
I'm happy to see our Natural History Museum Vienna start to acknowledge the historical wrongs that it has been a part of, and to start doing something in response: they have finally returned the remains of 64 people that were literally stolen from New Zealand in the name of "#science" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/rage-but-also-joy-and-completeness-bringing-new-zealands-stolen-ancestors-home
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"#FreeSoftware [...] should be considered a human right. I became a supporter of the FSFE to help make that point." – Erik Grun
Find our work for education in our annual #softwarefreedom report https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220928-01.html#education
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Oh my God.
I’ve just realised what ChatGPT reminds me of. It’s from Douglas Adams’ novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, published 35 years ago.
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Russia continues to bring death and devastation to Ukraine. It is deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, seeking to paralyse the country at the beginning of the winter.
To make the Kremlin pay for its cruelty, we have proposed our 9th package of sanctions. It will step up our pressure and complement the existing sanctions that are already biting hard.
More info: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_22_7568
#Software can be made to be just as #addictive as drugs, and that the companies that produce should be held accountable, just like companies that make tobacco and opioids. It will be interesting to see where this court case in Canada goes https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fortnite-class-action-1.6678687
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Accepted stands for FOSDEM 2023
https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-12-08-accepted-stands-fosdem-2023/
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I think I've found my new favorite Japanese word...
I work on #FDroid because I believe in #FreeSoftware. One of the hardest things about working on a project like F-Droid is when someone decides to publicly campaign against our work, and its only loosely based on fact. We get a constant stream of inquiries from people who just found out, asking the same questions again. Now I understand why companies hire PR staff. Communications can require a ton of work and stress. And when a project is mostly volunteers, no one is keen to take on that stress
"The most fashionable american dolphin wearing a ball gown" - generated by Stable Diffusion AI
@Aurimas I'd like to help improve the verification support in Android Studio. How would you recommend I engage? I've had mixed results submitting things to official Android channels, mostly I get silence, so I'd like to know if there is a channel where you think my feedback, testing and experiences would be heard.
Joined Aug 2019
