Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

From @Riana_Crypto a🔥 takedown & dissection of another vague, menacing UK anti-privacy proposal. This one would criminalize “sophisticated encrypted communications devices"

When the UK swings for fundamental rights they really put their back into it.

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/02/my-comment-uk-government-its-proposal-ban-%E2%80%9Cbespoke%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Csophisticated%E2%80%9D-encrypted-phones

Big news day! Together with EU Gov't organizations, we built Nextcloud Tables to have a full SharePoint replacement for organizations that care for compliance, privacy and on-premises collaboration.
#opensource #privacy
https://nextcloud.com/blog/eu-governments-bet-on-nextcloud-to-replace-sharepoint/

I can't helping thinking how great it would be if Microsoft released a 'ChatGPT-enabled-Bing' and everyone just laughed and ignored it.

We'll all learn to do that eventually anyway when we realise that the entire thing is a useless pyramid scheme of hype (built on copyrighted data without copyright holder permission).

Microsoft has never been competent at anything but lawsuits, extortion rackets (trolling with weak patents), & using monopolies to ruthlessly exploit users.

Apparently there's going to be a new Three Musketeers movie with a Black D'Artagnan, and the usual suspects are doing the usual howling about wokeness and ahistoricity and so on. So here's your regular reminder the The Three Musketeers was written by a Black man. Dumas' father was the son of an enslaved African woman and a French Marquis (not a pretty story there), and he rose to become a hero of the French Revolutionary Wars and a General-in-Chief in the French army.

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

For me personally Mastodon has reached a tipping point where a significant portion of the people who I wish were on here, are on here.

Enough that I'm like "well, if the rest don't show up, whatever"

Do you love #selfhosting? What about providing service to the public via #Codeberg?

We are looking for maintainers that take on adding code search features to our #Forgejo instance to reduce the load on the existing infrastructure team and bring this project forward.

Please see https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/904 if you are interested.

We are looking forward to your contributions. Thank you a lot!

@briankrebs reports that T-Mobile appears to have been breached more than 100 times in 2022 by hacker groups providing SIM-swapping-as-a-service. The groups actively phish T-Mobile employees in an attempt to gain access to internal company tools. When successful, the groups take to Telegram channels and post "tmo up," signaling that a window has opened for customers to order SIM swaps against targets.

Not surprisingly, T-Mobile isn't saying anything useful in response. This report isn't likely to give T-Mobile users a warm fuzzy feeling.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/hackers-claim-they-breached-t-mobile-more-than-100-times-in-2022/

Since the Murdoch family launched Fox "News" several decades ago, Big Journalism has consistently endorsed the fiction that the outlet is journalistic in nature. There was an element of truth to that early on.

Bur for the past decade and longer, Fox "News" has been a thoroughly dishonest, relentless propagandist. It accumulates power and money by poisoning our public sphere.

Yet the journalism trade persists in calling it a news outlet, compounding the dishonesty.

It's disheartening.

Since we're probably not going to have a fully-written manual by 1.3 stable, we're going to remove our help system and make all documentation online only. We'd otherwise have to update all existing help links in Tenacity, none of which exist yet.

If you'd like to help us write our manual so that we have at least some content, you can contribute here: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity-manual

In 2019, the so-called progressives in Congress raised a hell of a stink over a Trump admin plan to cut a bunch of people off from SNAP (food stamps). The courts stopped that from happening, thankfully.

Now, a Democrat administration is preparing to do exactly the same thing - literally take food off the table of 41 million people, and Bernie, AOC, and the rest of the supposed progressives haven't said a thing.

It's almost like they only care if Repubs do it. 🤔

Evidence of an owl hunting.

#MeanwhileInCanada

This argues that - because of the "perils of a public good in private hands" - not just discussion should move from twitter to mastodon, scholarly institutions should now also create instances in the fediverse that make publicly available: papers, data & code.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

“A sugar replacement called erythritol has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study. ‘The degree of risk was not modest,’ said lead author Dr. Stanley Hazen”

Wow. This is important news if you use sweeteners that may contain erythritol. Or regularly have drinks/other products possibly sweetened with it. Check your ingredients list carefully.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweetener-heart-attack-stroke-wellness/index.html