Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
For me, #MLK gave the clearest ethical explanation of #CivilDisobedience, starting with "I don't think any society can call an individual irresponsible who breaks the law and willingly accepts the penalty if conscience tells him that that law is unjust." Listen to the whole thing: https://youtu.be/fAtsAwGreyE?t=798
#ExtinctionRebellion #climatejustice #klima #LobauBleibt #Luetzerathbleibt #FridaysForFuture #FFF_Austria #LetzteGeneration #BlackLivesMatter #RomaLivesMatter are demonstrating this right now.
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“Imagine if you use a phone for twice as long…that means you only have to produce half the amount of phones and you have half the amount of waste”. 🌍 💚 #Fairphone Founder, @basvanabel@twitter.com, spoke to the team at @WhatDesignCanDo@twitter.com: https://youtu.be/LYhQji59dGY
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EU countries are stepping up the fight for digital sovereignty for their citizens, in their schools, and in government.
See how France, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany do this in our blog!
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“It’s a cruel jest to say that a bootless man he ought to lift himself up.”
—Dr. King, 1967
There is a certain "warrior culture" of coding, where young devs spend long hours deeply focused on creating "epic" software, and coders age out rapidly. This has upsides and downsides. There are other cultures of coding too, but this warrior culture created large swathes of computing as we know it, and the culture is still embedded. #Java and #Windows are examples. Bill Gates hasn't contributed code to Windows since 1985. #Python shows a different culture, the old are still contributing code
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Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.
Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.
"Elsevier’s prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.
via https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/pressing-pause-on-elsevier-subscription/article_93c07dec-9120-11ed-8ce9-abbca97ab954.html
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter
I'm sad to say that my new #laptop still needs non-free firmware blobs for working WiFi, Bluetooth, audio, and power management. Now #Debian will include those in the installer. Are we losing this #FreeSoftware fight? At least the graphics driver is #free and included in upstream Linux, that is progress. I specifically avoided #nvidia for that purpose.
How are others feeling on the firmware blob fight?
Everything was clearly better in the past, we can't even get #radioactive toothpaste anymore!
One effect of the #UkraineWar is that it gives the #US #UK #NATO #Saudi etc a case to use to rehabilitate the idea they focus on: that military power is a force of good. #AfghanWar #IraqWar #LibyaWar #YemenWar provided a template for #Putin to follow. This is really not discussed enough because people want to support Ukraine in this difficult time, but it must always be part of any discussion of providing military support. Kudos to #politico for running this political cartoon linking these.
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If a major platform exploiting extensive personal data on most Europeans without a GDPR legal basis does not result in a max fine, then what does?
Processing orders are powerful too, I know. But almost 5 years into the GDPR we really should have seen multiple massive 4% fines.
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What makes a program secure? 🤔
It has to be audited, checked, and corrected. Free Software allows more people to audit. More people are allowed to read the code and discover vulnerabilities.
Ultimately #FreeSoftware creates a culture where people are ready to answer to criticism on systems and software. However there is Free Software that is not audited too so its security is not confirmed. (2/3)
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i guess we bigtime. "Want Drivers to Stop at Crosswalks? Slow Them Down First."
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/01/11/want-drivers-to-stop-at-crosswalks-slow-them-down-first/ #trbam
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People from all over Europe want the right to install any software on any device! New signatures to our open letter:
🇮🇹 Italy
Wikimedia Italia @wikimediaitalia
LinuxTrent @linuxtrent
🇩🇪 Germany
Do-FOSS @do_foss
Werkkooperative der TechnikfreundInnen @HackerGeno@chaos.socia
🇪🇸 Spain
Pangea @pangea_org
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Open Nederland @opennl
🇫🇷 France
Fédération des Fournisseurs d'Accès Internet Associatifs @ffdn_channel
Sign now! https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html
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"Medium has pivoted so many times it has now come full circle" https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/medium-has-pivoted-so-many-times-it-has-now-come-full-circle.php
"Medium Pivots Again, Offers Voluntary Buyouts to Editorial Staff" https://www.thewrap.com/medium-pivots-again-offers-voluntary-buyouts-to-editorial-staff/
So I mean feel free to hop on that scorpion's back! You might have an awesome trip across the river and everyone will be super chill and friendly forever. But maybe check out the history before you hype up their new Mastodon experiment and keep your eye on the exits.
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@ljacomet I just saw your slides for your talk "Protecting your organization
against attacks via the
build system", a great overview! I'm a #Debian dev who has worked on packaging #Gradle. We'd love to make it as close to your version as possible. There is a proprietary build dependency that blocks that from happening. https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/16439
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#Mastodon is hiring!
› Remote-only
› Full-time
Looking for:
› DevOps Engineer
› Product Designer
It could be you! Apply now:
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This is the year, folks. I know some of y’all are already there.
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Surveillance footage of Tesla crash in San Francisco’s Bay Bridge hours after Elon Musk announced “self-driving” feature https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/
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Phil Ting's #FreedomToWalk Act is now law in California. You can cross the street anywhere as long as you're not creating a hazard.
#Jaywalking, the fake "crime" created by automobile industry lobbying to blame victims of #TrafficViolence, no longer exists in California.
Enjoy your freedom to walk! https://ktla.com/news/california/new-law-allows-californians-to-legally-jaywalk/
There seems to be a common mode of thinking about #software these days that is something like "updated software is always best". I agree there is some truth to that, but it is unfortunately not that simple. Most vulns were introduced in an update, they were not there from the beginning. "Security is a process, not a product", so how the software is developed changes the relationship between updates and #security, e.g. software that never issues stable updates vs. software with stable releases.
Joined Aug 2019
