Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Elon gave me no warning.... plus he suspended all of my accounts, half of which track aircraft (NASA aircraft, experimental aircraft, weather, airforce etc). not people including my personal

Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ

"A passionate and bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country’s largest technology companies collapsed this week, the victim of an epic lobbying campaign by Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-20/big-tech-divided-and-conquered-to-block-key-bipartisan-bills

Tech giants are now spending hundreds of millions to systematically shape policy across the world, including donations and funding to policymakers, civil society orgs, media orgs and academia.

A decade ago, this may not have been clear to everyone. Now it really should be.

@lauren #FreeSoftware and audits are the only way to provide trustworthy #E2EE. Apps like #DeltaChat, #Matrix with #Olm/#Megolm, #XMPP with #OMEMO, #Signal, #Threema provide trustworthy E2EE because they are built on open standards, free software, and have been publicly audited. That is the standard all services should be held to in order to be labeled trustworthy. Anything else just means you have to trust the service operator. 2/2

@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

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.

More info: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

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.

How it started. How it’s going.

Why curation and #decentralization is better than millions of #apps.

https://f-droid.org/2022/11/23/why-curation-and-decentralization-is-better-than-millions-of-apps.html

#AppStore #GooglePlay #iOS #Android

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 ;-)

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

This hurts my brains. (But it’s neat.)

I have finally said something substantial about this topic.

https://www.wired.com/story/effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence-sam-bankman-fried/

"#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