Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. Here are some common considerations to help guide campus activists. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/surveillance-defense-campus-protests

Cell-site simulators are fishing with a net: people in the vicinity are caught in their widespread data collection, even those who have not been involved with a crime. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/next-generation-cell-site-simulators-here-heres-what-we-know

Microsoft neglected a critical vulnerability for years, paving the way for the SolarWinds cyberattack, one of the largest ever experienced by the US.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

Whodunnit?

"An unknown IP address had replayed the exact same HTTP request just 10 seconds later.

"Wow, that’s seriously weird," I thought. Somewhere, between my home network and the AWS box, someone had intercepted and replayed my HTTP traffic. This traffic should not be accessible. There is no intermediary between these two systems who should be seeing this. My immediate thought was that my computer had been hacked..."

https://bit.ly/3VjYMBz

#Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. #Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says
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Former employee says software giant dismissed his concerns about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business.

#Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National #Nuclear Security Administration, among others.

#News #Tech #Cybersecurity #SolarWinds #Security #Business

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

Ubuntu Talks Up A RISC-V Octa-Core Laptop

Ubuntu maker Canonical put out a news release today around the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II that is an octa-core RISC-V laptop shipping soon with Ubuntu Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DC-ROMA-RISC-V-Laptop-II

Multiple #Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign
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Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more.

If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.

#News #Law #Courts #CriminalJustice #DonaldTrump #Politics #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

TUXEDO Developing A Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop

Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers is working on bringing a Snapdragon X Elite powered laptop to market...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Snapdragon-X-Elite

Story is probably not new: using a #Librem5 (linux mobile) and everybody insists on using WhatsApp. I didn't care. But all activities the kids want to take part: #WhatsApp.

I could try to evangelize all these football trainers, parents representatives at schools, parents of friends to use something that I'm able to use on my linux phone, but I can't: lack of energy, lack of time, lack of alternatives with the same feature set and stability.

Got out an old Sony Z1 running #CarbonROM. Really old software. Got an so far unused SIM. I used Aurora Store from F-Droid to install WhatsApp from the Google Store on that Android. Registered to WhatsApp and it worked fine sending one test message that never arrived, because the other side didn't have my phone number in their contacts (I guess).

I installed #conduit as a #matrix server on my #yunohost and put mautrix-whatsapp #bridge on its own system using the latest docker image following the documentation to get a minimum configuration running.

Yeah, works. Coupled WhatsApp on the Android Z1 with the bridge and send two test messages resulting in This account can no longer use WhatsApp due to spam shown on the #Android device.

Is that most likely because of my 10+ years device + rooted + Magisk + fake google app store #Aurora or is it something others are experiencing when trying to use the bridge with of the shelf devices, too?

My plan has been to run an independent phone number for WhatsApp on a device that only has contacts for WhatsApp in its phone book and make it available to family members through matrix.

Our participation in society relies in many aspects on the goodwill of a few monopolistic companies that we depend on. They write the rules which device (Android or iOS) and which software (only their own doing whatever they program it to do) we're supposed to use. They train the algorithms that can cut you off our participation.

I wouldn't care the least. I'd even smile when reading this thinking that it's exactly what people supporting companies like facebook/whatsapp deserve. But if the participation of my kids in society is at stake (and not my own which I well can organize without any messenger) it makes me sad.

A scary time to be non-binary. A scary time to be intersex. A scary time to be Jewish. The scariest time to be an Israeli Jew abroad. But I don't let fear stop me. None of us ever do. #Jewish #Israel

@arunmani recently added folder support to #phosh 🚀 . Here's a short demo:

I'm enjoying the good weather and testing the integration of #PineTime #InfiniTime in #MyGNUHealth !

@PINE64 @meanmicio

Just want to quickly share with #linuxmobile folks that the new #libcamera softwareISP does indeed work with the #librem5 - and with a #PipeWire + #GStreamer pipeline. Here's a first image with Warp (from Flathub) running.

There's still some stuff to iron out to make this work reliably and ship to users - but things are falling into place.

Bad enough that Wired @willknight continues to call Llama 3 "open source", spreading Meta propaganda. Error is compounded when it's in the context of an article where at least one of the other models discussed actually *is* open source (taking Mistral's Apache 2 license statement at face value).

https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-3-nipping-at-openais-heels/

https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source by @ed

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme Llama 3 license same problems as Llama 2 license

Happy First Contact Day!

In 39 years, Vulcans will set foot on Earth. More importantly, the Phoenix will be the first human ship to reach Warp 1!

Incidentally, it's also the birthday of the son of Ronald D. Moore, co-writer of Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Happy birthday, Jonathan.

Trying to package #Amazfish into #flatpak. Flatpak doesn't provide way to start back end as systemd service. Otherwise it looks working. It needs to be polished still. Your feedback and tests are welcome. https://github.com/jmlich/harbour-amazfish-flatpak

We need your help! Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on reauthorizing and expanding Section 702. https://eff.org/risaa

Just a reminder that the @mobian repo, image downloads and website arr still down due to a hardware issue. There are backups of everything but the bring up is taking longer than expected.

Had we known it takes this long, we would have provided a temporary solution. Sorry, but we'll be back! 💪