Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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Greece adopts new rules on #RouterFreedom 🎉!
The @fsfe acknowledges the efforts of EETT introducing freedom of terminal equipment in Greece.
We regret that this decision is excluding FTTH, but consumers will be better served with this regulation.
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"too big to fail"
"never should have been allowed to grow this big in the first place"
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Our initiative Laptops for Ukraine has just gathered an additional 13,000 digital devices!
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we have already shipped 12,000 devices such as laptops, mobile phones, and tablets through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. The new devices will be transported in the coming weeks.
These devices will support schools, hospitals, and municipalities affected by the war.
Head to LaptopsForUkraine.com for more information on how to donate.
No bailouts for #SiliconValleyBank or its depositors. Insurance has always been there, and those companies that didn't buy it are the ones responsible for taking that risk. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/12/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-no-bailout-janet-yellen
The real #privacy protections of using a #VPN come from putting all your eggs in one basket: force all your DNS and traffic through the VPN provider. Then nobody else sees your real IP address, etc. As long as the VPN provider does everything right, doesn't get hacked, or doesn't have to comply with secret government orders, it does provide a real privacy improvement. But I have a real hard time buying into putting so much trust into one service. I wonder if it is possible to be so good
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one of my favorite things to do on mastodon is to browse the local feeds of some cool instances. what are some other good ones to keep up with?
my current list:
newsie.social
infosec.exchange
fosstodon.org
hachyderm.io
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For all the amazing potential of technology to be useful it must be unrestricted. We need Device Neutrality, for example, so that users can (un)install any software they want.
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The plot thickens!
Silicon Valley Bank chief pressed Congress to weaken risk regulations
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/11/silicon-valley-bank-weaken-risk-regulations-svb
> CEO Greg Becker personally led the bank’s half-million-dollar push to reduce scrutiny of his institution – and lawmakers obliged
> [T]he bank was lobbying lawmakers on “financial regulatory reform” and the Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2015 – a bill that was the precursor to legislation ultimately signed by President Donald Trump
🤡 🤣 
One thing I haven't figured out how to do well is to simultaneously laud good acts while blasting the bad acts. For example, #Google insists that Chromebooks be unlockable so users can install any OS. That's great! The same Google insists Chromebooks cannot allow "Unknown Sources" even though #Android always has. This looks like plain old monopolistic abuse. Or the #Chromium team works in public and behaves much more like a free software project, while #Chrome forces users to login. Any tips?
Just tagged v2.2.1 of #FDroid fdroidserver tools package, and uploaded it to pypi.org, #Debian, and our #Ubuntu PPA. This version has passed autopkgtest in Debian/bookworm, so it looks like it should make it into bookworm without further work https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdroidserver
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If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230308-01.html
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The #AI #ChatGPT #Bard etc story repeats the #Bitcoin story in terms of how it will impact society. They are built on the kernel of a useful idea, but their structures heavily preference harmful use cases. #Bitcoin enabled #ransomware, tax fraud, investment scams, dodging sanctions, while only providing a slow, energy intensive payment system. #AI texts enable #disinfo, #cheating at school/work, #TechnicalDebt, devaluation of human labor, all to provide an #climate-damaging, error-prone search
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New York Times recently hired Charlie Stadtlander as its spokesperson directly from the NSA where he had served as NSA's head of public affairs https://theintercept.com/2023/03/07/new-york-times-nsa-charlie-stadtlander/ by Jon Schwarz
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@1br0wn @eighthave @spikebike I heard it from someone pretty senior in NATO (not an American) at a Chatham Rule event in 2018 or 2019. Apparently they spent years tracking down a leak that turned out to be one unit saving money by using Huawei instead.
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Let's fight chat control!
Congrats to @mullvadnet - you really nail it with your new campaign against client-side scanning! 💪🔒
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Nur eine Aktivistin notwendig: Skigebiet in Tirol lahmgelegt https://dietagespresse.com/nur-eine-aktivistin-notwendig-skigebiet-in-tirol-lahmgelegt/
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If you tell your friends about Mastodon, you’re technically an ambassador of the federation.
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Wow so the #Apple lobbyist speaking at the @EU_Commission #DMAWorkshop on #AppStores refuses to answer my question why his company should get to decide what software runs on their devices -- after he spent 15min doing PR blah blah about how #iPhone is the best. 🤦
Joined Aug 2019
