Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
I don't think #ElonMusk is a force for good, and I'm not particularly a fan of #Twitter. But I do think it is a good thing to move to a subscription business model, where the the customer is the user, and away from the #SurveillanceCapitalism business model Twitter currently has.
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Interesting thread on Apple Analytics’ ability to identify you. https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1594515229915979776?s=46&t=ypH4xGEMqh_GZTOt0vx1OQ
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If some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.
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🇺🇳 💰 #UN #Democracy Fund #grants are open. $100k - $250k for 2-year projects improving peoples' lives in various areas:
youth engagement, law & human rights, media & freedom of information, strengthening civil society, gender equality, and electoral process
Deadline to apply is 30 November.
In the over 3 weeks since #FDroid
shipped a big overhaul of the production buildserver, there have been updates published on most days: Nov16 Nov15 Nov14 Nov13 Nov11 Nov09 Nov08 Nov05 Nov01 Oct31 Oct30 Oct29 Oct28 Oct27 Oct26 Oct25 Oct24 Oct22 Oct21 Oct20
And now, even more exciting, is that this unlocked lots of low hanging fruit that can make the process run much faster.
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"At Google, we still seem to believe that fantasy that users agreed to this."
Find out what Google employees really think about their privacy policies 👀
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1589620523595546626
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Looking forward to those new features in #Mastodon which have been funded with public money through the EU's NGI0 discovery fund (coordinated by #NLnet and #FSFE is also helping) https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1 Public Money? #PublicCode
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If you send an email with an unsubscribe link, clicking that link should unsubscribe you. No: it should not require account login.
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In a world where your servers are operated by volunteers rather than big well-resourced SV corporations with security teams, it’s interesting to think about how we can make identity and authentication require fewer shared secrets.
Amsterdam police chasing around bikers in safety green while they cycle loops around private jets is a truly wonderful spectacle
https://nos.nl/artikel/2451147-ruim-200-klimaatactivisten-gearresteerd-op-schiphol-alle-actievoerders-weg
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The Procurement Chamber in the German state of Baden-Württemberg decided that the transfer of personal data outside of the EU is not #GDPR compatible.
"It’s a landmark decision that has a huge influence in Germany & the rest of Europe"
#GDPR #SchremsII
https://nextcloud.com/blog/baden-wurttemberg-procurement-chamber-decides-us-cloud-services-are-not-gdpr-compliant/
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In the span of 7 days, Infosec.exchange has grown:
From 3000 total accounts to 5100 total accounts
From 180 active users to 2500 active users
From 90000 posts to 104000 posts
That is pretty incredible. I am very happy to see the community here on the fediverse.
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WIRED: Pernille Tranberg, cofounder of Danish think tank Data Ethics EU, who says she has been trying to convince Danish schools to use European school software such as Nextcloud for years.
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Uber is planning to expand their advertising platform in a privacy-problematic way: they'll allow targeting riders based on their travel history and their locations.
https://gizmodo.com/uber-ads-ride-share-uber-eats-1849678092
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1588527810217664513
This video captures how I often feel running large scale systems with minimal resources
@fdroidorg@mastodon.technology here's a classic #Google tactic: use "open source" to get devs hooked, then gradually slip in proprietary bits. #AOSP's core apps move ever more towards proprietary, and they also do this with libraries like com.google.ar:core https://github.com/google-ar/arcore-android-sdk/issues/1538
@fdroidorg@mastodon.technology is dedicated to enforcing #FreeSoftware for #Android apps. There is big money pushing hard to make people slip, Google is one of those. I've been working on free software since 1994, and from what I've seen, this approach is the only way to make progress. If no one enforces it, then everyone just slips into proprietary software.
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Today's agreement on the #DigitalServicesAct is historic!
We are now one step closer to new ground-breaking rules that will:
⛔️ ensure online platforms are held responsible for tackling harmful content
🛡️ better protect internet users
🚀 help smaller platforms grow
#Kotlin Native download executables from the internet and executes them. It bypasses the gradle verification methods. Anyone know if it does any of its own?
Anyone in "the West" having a hard time understanding why Russians follow Putin, think back to Cold War days. We were taught that Soviets were just itching to kill us, and we needed a strong defense. For example, Red Dawn was taken seriously in 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc
Joined Aug 2019
