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Software Freedom Conservancy is partnering with OpenWRT (and Banana Pi) to create a wireless router (OpenWRT One) that is focused on right to repair and software freedom.

I’m interested to see this how this new proactive approach to free-software-backed hardware by SFC pans out compared to FSF’s more passive RYF’s more program.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/

#FOSS #RightToRepair

This article I wrote hit the HN frontpage again:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/you-must-read-at-least-one-book-to-ride/

Just wanted to shout out the one guy that said I seem like such a nerd that he could never enjoy time with me 😢 I've never been more owned

Black parents have historically been divided from our children by #enslavement, the modern #carceral system, + #capitalist work demands. I'm committed to being present with my #baby while maintaining my #activism and #radical tech projects. That means #crowdfunding support!

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I also survived a #racist attack on 9/15/24, I'm recovering from a #concussion + #depression, + raising a #legalfund to fight back.

https://chuffed.org/project/114004-support-a-protester-assaulted-while-defending-housing-rights

Been thinking about what the key-trust part of decentralized "social PKI" should look like.

The individual part seems straightforward: A public key, and a history of key rotations (where each key signs a message revoking itself as latest, and endorsing the next public key as latest instead.)

But how do you trust someone else's key in the first place? (Including when they lose all data and have to recreate their identity, with a new key.)

I'm very tempted to say... we can leave that to implementations, with just some strong suggestions in the spec as to how to meet different users' different needs.

One implementation could just use TOFU and notify the user if something looks wrong. Another could participate in a key-gossip system, where useragents inform each other of identity/key relationships they've seen, allowing multipath resilience against MITM. And another could go full-on PGP key-party if it really wanted to, I guess.

Does this sound reasonable? Would love to hear feedback.

#cryptography #SocialMediaDesign #PKI

We're in the Discourse Phase™ in which Dems will try to halt discussion of what went wrong.

Terms like "circular firing squad" & "blame game" will be weaponized.

They want silence so they aren't held accountable & get to keep their gigs running the party into the ground.

Latest comic: Capitulation

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #politics #democracy

“Gaza has awakened the world, and Palestine has become the quintessential defining struggle of our times. Palestine is the litmus test for progressive movements and organisations, and it is also a test for each and every one of us.” https://www.tni.org/en/article/vietnam-algeria-palestine

Grindr’s AI forays amount to “data surveillance,” EFF’s Paige Collings told Gazetteer SF. “There are real life consequences for very vulnerable communities,” and if LGBTQ+ protections are weakened, “the risk of this over the next few years is heightened.” https://sf.gazetteer.co/grindrs-ai-wingman-has-privacy-experts-concerned

So @Codeberg suffered from high traffic [1], bringing the site almost down. They managed to fix it by blocking access to one repo that attracted all this traffic for reasons (as of now) unknown to us.

What worries me are the comments under their post pointing at various proprietary, commercial services like Cloudflare, Amazon as the obvious way to mitigate. If we really are at the stage where the internet is so broken that you … (1/2)

[1] https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/113570009001800356

You've heard of the bus factor of an organization, but the prison factor seems much more relevant and likely.

What happens to your project if a core team member goes to prison?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_jailed_code_release/

There are Syrians following the news right now in the hope that a disappeared loved one is among those being released.

The scale of the suffering caused by Bashar al-Assad is incalculable. #Syria

We were not able to identify the actor who is causing the high load on our systems. We have made the hard decision to temporarily shut off access to a certain project to keep Codeberg available for everyone else.

As soon as we allow web access to a certain project, our system resources are used up within seconds.

Honestly, we are currently out of ideas on how to restore access to Codeberg.org.

We are fighting with extreme traffic and high load for several hours now, we have done the typical procedure to identify and block misbehaving AI crawlers.

However, we are currently having a hard time figuring out details about the ongoing high traffic situation.

I've been reading a lot about Australia's social media ban, and I'm conflicted in many ways.

But then I remember that this is the country that tried to ban Disco Elysium, a fucking masterwork rife with poignant and beautiful themes re: the horrific effects of alcohol and drugs on a person's life, health, and relationships, because some goddamn morons that never looked at it thought it was too pro-drug. Then I feel less conflicted.

look, this internet thing is cool and all, but when do we get color radio?

San Francisco recs please?! My adult kid, who just graduated from college, is touring the US and just got to the SF Bay Area. Would anyone care to suggest destinations or artist collectives for them? Are there any current and innovative art exhibitions? Music concerts- maybe, they like post-punk? Also, wildlife: best birdwatching or short hikes to viewpoints? I remember an urban hike around the twin peaks that I enjoyed.

I have a nasty feeling that the fascists are going to do everything in their power to drive all the good content off of streaming.

I wonder what's available on DVDs at this point? There are some series I love that are possibly in danger due to their queer content -- everything from _Sense8_ to _She-Ra_…

Framasoft the company behind Peertube which is a free and open source YouTube alternative is looking for donations to reach their budget for 2025.

Please donate if you can!

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

#tech #technology #OpenSource #DonateNow #Peertube #degoogle #framasoft

EFF supporters helped us crowdfund a legal challenge to stop the "podcasting patent." Now the U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would ban EFF and other non-profits from ever filing such a petition. Let's stop it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system

Please don’t cross the picket line.

Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

https://www.wfxrtv.com/homepage-video/amazon-worker-strike-expected/

#UnionStrong #BlackFriday