Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
Just migrated my #offline #gnupg and #ssh key setup to a new #smartcard. This only took about 8 hours whereas when I last did this in 2015, it took much longer. I guess this is a sign of process! But these things are still too painful. At least now, the software just works right out of #Debian.
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Persistent surveillance sold as a cure for loneliness (alienation, isolation, etc) is, IMO, one of the central marketing narratives of the surveillance business model.
But it's rarely put as plainly as this!
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The US #Supremecourt has declined #Twitter's legal challenge to publicly disclose national security subpoenas. 👨⚖️
At Tuta, we pride ourselves on #privacy and #transparency. Our warrant #canary is live and regularly updated. This is one reason among many that keeping your data securely #encrypted within the EU has major privacy advantages over the US. 📣
You can check out our transparency report and live warrant canary here:
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/transparency-report
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🧑🎨 Du hast Lust, die Netzpolitik anschaulicher & bunter zu gestalten und den zivilgesellschaftlichen Impact zu erhöhen? 📢 Dann komm in unser Team als ehrenamtliche Grafiker:in! Wir suchen immer projektbasierte Unterstützung. 😊
https://epicenter.works/jobs/ehrenamt-grafikerin
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The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun - https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-largest-us-dam-removal-effort-to-date-has-begun/ great to see - more please....
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Build your phone app on your phone https://f-droid.org/en/2024/01/11/twif.html
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This week in F-Droid (TWIF) was published again. We have some short sentences about:
- The new app AndroidIDE: no NDK support and F-Droid client does not build (yet)
- NewPipe updates still not reproducible
- SimpleX Chat update also for arm64
- Smoke and SmokeStack with new icon and older Android versions
On top of that, we updated 75 more apps.
@FAU oops I mistranslated the country code ES, it should be Spain not Estonia.
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The NGI0 Commons fund is now up and running with 21.6M€ available for open source projects:
https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20240109-CommonsFund-starts.html
First call will open 1st February. Stay tune.
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We invite you to our webinar on security audits tomorrow, Thursday January 11, at 13.00 CET.
Radically Open Security / @ros 's Melanie Rieback and Andrea Jegher will explain and demonstrate how security audits work.
ROS is the world’s first not-for-profit computer security consultancy company. As an NGI0 partner it offers security audits to all projects within the #NextGenerationInternet initiative.
The webinar is open to all and no need to register.
https://nlnet.nl/events/20240111/index.html
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The American Dialect Society has announced that its 2023 Word of the Year is "Entshittification". 💩
The decline in quality of service and content from #google and #amazon is plain to see, but this doesn't need to be the future of the internet. 🤖
You can help make the web a better place by choosing free and open source alternatives to #BigTech! ✊
👉 https://tuta.com/open-source
Countries by percentage total bandwidth usage in 2023:
44.88% Germany
11.30% China
9.52% United States
3.25% Italy
2.33% United Kingdom
2.04% Russia
1.96% Estonia
1.88% Austria
1.85% France
1.59% Canada
1.50% Switzerland
1.40% Netherlands
1.25% Poland
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So I messing around a bit more with stats data from the f-droid.org mirror hosted by @FAU in Germany:
* About 25% of the bandwidth of the mirror is for #FDroid
* Countries by percentage total bandwidth usage since /fdroid/ was added in 2019:
47.83% Germany
9.04% United States
5.13% China
3.68% Italy
2.69% France
2.55% United Kingdom
2.07% Russia
1.93% Switzerland
1.87% Estonia
1.82% Poland
1.70% Austria
1.40% Netherlands
1.38% Czechia
1.28% Canada
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We are happy to announce the launch of the new NGI0 Commons Fund. It's aim is to reclaim the public nature of the internet.
Offering small and medium-sized grants for free and open source projects across the entire technology stack.
First call opens February 1. If you are working on a project that contributes to reclaiming the public nature of the internet, do apply.
With many thanks to the @EU_Commission 's #NextGenerationInternet initiative.
Assessing the #security of computer systems is really hard because of "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns". For example, there are lots of reports about #NSO #Pegasus being found on #iPhone but few about #Android. One might be tempted to conclude that Android is more secure. The truth is unfortunately much harder to pin down. For example, it is harder to detect and confirm Pegasus on Android, although it is clear that there have been plenty of infections on both platforms.
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In This week in F-Droid (TWIF) we talk about:
* SimpleMobileTools and it's fork Fossify, and specially about the Gallery app
* SimpleX Chat update only for armv7
* the Arcticons apps are now reproducible and have to be reinstalled
* Screenshot sharer was replaced by QuickShot
* Tux Paint is now almost 250 MB big
* NewPipe has a 2023 recap blog post and maintainer changes
Total we had 2 more apps added and 138 more apps updated.
When reading about things like "almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/02/social-media-addiction-teenagers-study-phones
It is important to remember that #SocialMedia was designed to be addictive using science and techniques developed by universities like #Stanford and widely taught https://stanfordreview.org/how-stanford-profits-tech-addiction-social-media/
#SurveillanceCapitalism and #AddictiveSoftware came from the same forces as generated the dominant forms of explotation in the 20th century.
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Mickey's red shorts and yellow gloves might also be public domain thanks to a color poster from 1928 that was auctioned a few years ago: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8AT04E/
Joined Aug 2019
