Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

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

World: Can the US please just use the metric system, instead of making up weird measurements no one else understands

US:

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

Something that stuck with me from a previous job is the quote: “don’t underestimate things that have survived many attempts to kill them.”

Think: DNS, bash, C, TCP.

These things have survived this long for a reason. Find out the reason.

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.

As a committer on a couple of medium-popularity projects I couldn't agree more with this:

"Maintaining a successful open source project is Good Will Hunting in reverse. You start out as a respected genius, and end up being a janitor who gets into fights."

— Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart@twitter.com)

I spent the morning poring over the Android 14 DP1 materials, especially the API differences report. Which means, once again, I have some random musings: https://commonsware.com/blog/2023/02/11/random-musings-android-14-dp1.html

As usual, the early developer previews have the most stuff to report on. Thankfully, these posts get shorter as we march towards beta releases.

And, as usual, I don't pull many punches.

All the hype about souped up developer productivity using LLMs for coding reminds me of the original title of this 2014 paper, before it was milquetoasted in 2015 acceptance.

LLMs can help you rapidly acquire semi-plagiarized fragments of well-traveled code instead of using a quality library with vision of the problem domain. Might be great for KPIs, but this debt will come back to bite you, unless you're already gone. Will be painful for orgs to adapt.
https://research.google/pubs/pub43146/

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

I have never really liked discussing whether you have something to hide, as an argument for or against security or privacy. First, it's irrelevant - everyone has these rights no matter what. But also, once you start talking about "hiding", you have already lost the discussion - because it's a word that is associated with negative connotations.

I think we should change the discourse. I don't have anything to hide. But I do have many things to protect. I have the right to protect my privacy. I have the right to protect my communication. I have the right to protect my work. I have the right to protect my friends and family.

#SomethingToProtect #Privacy

#metalab

@fdroidorg @guardianproject @eighthave gives opportunity to the free software community to release and distribute apps into this pilot - European Commission will open tenders on the website to help deliver on these goals of alternative open app stores #fosdem

And now @eighthave discusses what it takes to actually publish your mobile apps as free software on four freedom compliant app stores that respect and build trust with your users #fosdem