Framasoft is a brilliant non-profit organisation which promotes free open software and libre decentralised services. You can follow them at:
➡️ @Framasoft (in French and English)
They have been around for years, and developed Fediverse platforms like @peertube and @mobilizon for example.
They depend on donations to keep going, and they're currently doing a fund-raising drive at:
https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/
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This rant about Microsoft controlling TypeScript and through that, re-centralising the whole Javascript ecosystem, is very interesting to me
because
I have always been suspicious of Typescript just because it's *compiled*. It doesn't feel like compilation is native to the interpreted, distributed, Javascript model. It's a single point of trust that doesn't need to be there, a class division that can be exploited.
And welp. Looks like that's exactly what's happening!
This new paper shows the massive failure of GDPR/e-Privacy enforcement on apps:
* 81,4% of Android apps contacted a tracking domain during start (before consent)
* 86.1% of Android apps could access the AdId
* Children apps have an increased prevalence of sharing the Ad-ID than average
And: No clear winner between iOS and Android regarding privacy
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.13722.pdf
(Via https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1447689844055027718)
Qué factores se tienen en cuenta en una Evaluación de Impacto de Derechos Fundamentales en IA
Sobirania tecnològica, Cura de dades
¿Qué factores se tienen en cuenta a la hora de realizar una Evaluación de Impacto de Derechos Fundamentales en las decisiones automatizadas y perfiles? Análisis de los Derechos Fundamentales en...
RT @_revng@twitter.com
In today's 🇪🇺 news, it has been ruled that no contract can prevent you from decompiling software you bought, if your goal is fixing a bug. 👨⚖️
https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=247056&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=6413406
RT @raquel4801@twitter.com
Pues mira, ya que Netflix no promocionan la serie "La dura verdad sobre la dictadura de Franco", de ayer a hoy hemos conseguido que más de 45.000 personas conozcan de su existencia...
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/raquel4801/status/1446541847267008512
Gajim 1.3.3 has been released 🚀
This release features improved Ad-Hoc Commands and brings back spell checking. Gajim 1.3.3 includes many bug fixes and improvements. Thanks everyone for reporting issues!
so many people convinced they are "building the future" are actually just rehashing the present and the past. like every new supposedly planet-scale system that is ASCII only on some level, or the cryptocurrency community who's wildest dreams for a future society still involve money, hierarchy, wealth disparity, centralized control. this isn't progress.
RT @zuribia@twitter.com
Ahora resulta que mandar cartas-bomba a "lldefonso Salazar, seguidor de Herri Batasuna" (@el_pais@twitter.com del 21/9/89) "era mandarlas a ETA". Se os olvida titular que esa carta-bomba mató a José Antonio Cardosa González, un joven cartero de 22 años. Otra más para el #relatodepetete
Network effects are how you get users. Switching costs are how you hold them hostage.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs
TIL that iphones regularly transmit the Mac addresses of devices attached to the same WiFi network to Apple. In addition to their geographical location of course.
So essentially you can be tracked across all locations where an iPhone is near you (and you haven't disabled your WiFi).
Wow.
Los Papeles de Pandora vuelven a mostrar cómo funcionan las técnicas de evasión y elusión fiscal. ¿Cómo se podría evitar?
Por Susana Ruíz, responsable de fiscalidad de Oxfam
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/fraude-fiscal/los-papeles-que-abren-la-caja-de-pandora
Let's Encrypt has been using a new root certificate for a long time, but some older devices are still using the old root certificate the expired overnight
If you're dependent on that certificate, please update :)
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/