marc0s @marc0s@librem.one

Today is Aaron Swartz birthday. Because of him, we have Creative Commons (development), Reddit (co-founder), Watchdog.net, Open Library, DeadDrop, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Demand Progress (co-founder), ThoughtWorks, and Tor2web.
#AaronSwartz

Wow, that sounds amazing! 25k clients going to run @libreoffice (and Linux?) in the government of Schleswig-Holstein? This sounds too good to be true.
#publicmoneypubliccode @fsfe

https://twitter.com/lothar_becker/status/1455901855062667265

If you're not American, ask yourself:

If America has a second Civil War - for example, if the Qanon Republicans pull another Jan 6 but this time it works - which faction will end up controlling Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure?

Do you want to bet your entire country's economy and data privacy on American Cloud systems always being operated by a friendly nation? Or even always a "not actually currently in a shooting war with us" nation?

Ten years from now? Twenty years from now?

Getarian ateratako argazki txukuna, txakolinetarako mahasti eta guzti.

Iturria: basqueforce

#DOFH excuse #88:

The software still needs python 2.

Centralised messenger Signal has just announced that they are making part of their server software closed source. They claim it is to fight spam, but by using closed source they make it impossible for outsiders to verify the truth. This is worrying.

We really, really need a fully open, decentralised alternative to Signal.

There are several alternatives being developed, please support them:

➡️ @snikket_im

➡️ @xmpp

➡️ @matrix

➡️ @delta

➡️ @briar

➡️ @Jami

#Signal #Alternatives #Privacy

There is nothing in IT support more time consuming and utterly tedious as printers.

The #XMPP Newsletter for September 2021 is out!

Sorry for the delay 🙁
News about fiscal hosting by the XSF, #Converse, #Libervia, #Mellium and much more!

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕
https://xmpp.org/2021/10/the-xmpp-newsletter-september-2021/

El movimiento pensionista registra en el Congreso 285.000 firmas para pedir una auditoría de la Seguridad Social
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/pensiones/movimiento-pensionista-registra-congreso-285000-firmas-pedir-auditoria-seguridad-social

Religion is a scam.

"Node modules"

submitted by FedorMoiseev

Encryption rules. 💪

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

Happy 25th anniversary KDE!

https://news.itsfoss.com/kde-plasma-5-23-release/

#Linux #KDE #KDE25years

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/

#Framasoft #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Français #Francais #NGO #NGOs

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!

https://alex.kleydints.com/a-post-mortem-in-5-acts-of-how-microsoft-privatized-open-source-killing-javascript-in-the-process-62ee5fc77d9e

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)

"Job Interview"

submitted by seathefullmoon