McSinyx @mcsinyx@librem.one

Complaining about the ecological impact of the blockchain is wrong because it implies the idea that it is useful enough in the first place to talk about the downsides.

tonight the @mobian developers @devrtz and undef have reviewed the source code and packaging of wake-mobile which can serve as a stopgap alarm clock capable of waking up a suspended phone.

We'll try to make it available for mobian shortly.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/kailueke/wake-mobile

If the EFF says "...reject FLoC and other misguided attempts to reinvent behavioral targeting. We implore Google to abandon FLoC..." that's good enough for me. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

My birdsite timeline lately: Facebook employees and NFT people delivering sick burns against each other over who's doing a better job destroying the world.

RT @thepine64@twitter.com

Video calls on the #PinePhone! You can now hold a video conference call using Matrix @element_hq@twitter.com in Firefox.

Article (in German): https://marius.bloggt-in-braunschweig.de/2021/03/04/pinephone-willkommen-bei-element/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1367452360272973827

oh there is an IC shortage. I see. I see.

Portfolio 9.10 by is out! #foss #pinephone #linux https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2021/03/01/portfolio-0-9-10/

TIL: many #pascal compilers allowed identifiers of any length, but only examined the first 8 characters to determine what the identifier pointed at.

So `foobarbaz` and `foobarbazqux` are both valid, but refer to the **same** variable!

What I _didn't_ learn was why anyone thought this was a good idea. I assume it was for performance reasons, since Free Pascal doesn't do it anymore (https://wiki.freepascal.org/Identifier#Significant_characters) and 8 makes me guess it has something to do with memory representation.

Anyone know?

Privacy-focused, not-for-profit DNS provider Quad9 moved HQ from L.A. to Zürich.

The Swiss government produced findings of law that Quad9 is exempt from both law enforcement and intelligence data-collection and retention requirements, as well as KYC.

Still funded by sponsors an ddonations : https://quad9.net/about/sponsors/

Use 9.9.9.9 as your Name Server.

Public comparisons :
https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers
https://www.andryou.com/2020/05/31/comparing-malware-blocking-dns-resolvers-redux/https://www.skadligkod.se/general-security/phishing/malicious-site-filters-on-dns-in-2020/

https://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-public-domain-name-service-moves-to-switzerland-for-maximum-internet-privacy-protection/

#DNS #Quad9 #Privacy #Switzerland

RT @alturiak@twitter.com

Wrote a short guide on how not to lose your encrypted messages on @matrixdotorg@twitter.com as I think this topic isn't easily understood, especially by new users. https://gerstner.it/2021/02/matrix-and-e2e-encryption-or-how-not-to-lose-your-messages/
Any feedback is appreciated.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alturiak/status/1365679785398194178

@Sumana Harihareswara nice😃
I think to get open source healthy we need more people using open source services. Therefore they would need to know about them. And there needs to be good content, so people stay with the open source service and spread the word.
But on that closed source github site there is only your twitter and not your mastadon account. Maybe the talk could also be streamed with open source services like @PeerTube or #owncast.😃

I missed this post when it came out in December: In Defense of Blub Studies, https://www.benkuhn.net/blub

Some really excellent points:

> Blub studies is a never-ending treadmill of engineering know-how. It’s the fiddly technical details of how Git stores data, or how Postgres locking semantics [work], or why pip install failed this time.…Blub studies is more generalizable than it seems, and has its own way of compounding over time, too. That makes it a lot more useful than you’d expect

♲ @fsf@status.fsf.org:

According to the FTC, Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years. This is one of the obvious perils of nonfree software: you can't verify that the software isn't abusing you, you just have to take their word. https://u.fsf.org/371
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says