McSinyx @mcsinyx@librem.one

I'm getting into the #fosdem mood.

"Masks and vaults: how anonymity overshadows real online privacy"

My latest opinion article projects my concerns about the fundamentally different concepts of privacy and anonymity being used interchangeably in many contexts. Slightly longer and more intense read than usual, but in the hope you will find it helpful.

https://tuxphones.com/opinion-when-privacy-overlaps-anonymity/ #linux #privacy #anonymity

Tootle 1.0 is live, enjoy

I'm already excited about working full-time on Fractal for the coming months.
https://blogs.gnome.org/jsparber/2021/02/01/nlnet-grant-for-fractal/

TIL that usb a-a cable is used to power stuffs and apparently i was able to power things through it that you're not supposed to do:

- my router (somewhat)
- a tv box
- a bt speaker (it actually bypassed the on/off switch)

wondering what else i can power... 🤔

PlantUML is my favorite Swiss knife

I think it would be VERY healthy for us to IMMEDIATELY dismantle all of this thinly-veiled phrenology hiding being machine learning. https://pitchfork.com/news/new-spotify-patent-involves-monitoring-users-speech-to-recommend-music/?mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=p4k&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

For those who can read German here is what I am talking about. It's a law that to my knowledge currently the European conservative coalition will push for and that will force providers of encrypted chatting services to generate two keys. One for the receiver and one for law enforcement and everyone who the Police thinks posted something "hateful" could be effected. There is the hope for E-Privacy but it's blocked for multiple years by now so who knows when we will get it.
https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/

When you think a feature will be build out and massively benefit the mobile Linux community and then you read this shit. I am just disappointed in Mozilla and not happy about a ton of things they do lately (The last two years basically) :/
#Firefox #PWA #FF

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/mozilla-firefox/246716/firefox-85-is-here-but-mozilla-is-killing-pwa-features

Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.

So #imadethis
In the last few months I and some of my classmates have been working on a project management system that focuses on school projects.
The system backend is written in #python with an async #asgi framework #quart-trio. It uses #rethinkdb as its main database, with #ipfs for file hosting.
Any testing and feedback is highly appreciated.
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/acanban/
Live demo: https://acanban.ga/

the fact that win10 actually refuses to let you shut off the computer *right now* without installing the updates first is perhaps one of the most user-hostile and consent-violating things i've ever seen in software. instead i hard power off, potentially corrupting the filesystem. fuck yourself, microsoft, and i hope i never learn the names of the devs who implemented this malware.

#OpenSource Licensing for Profit

https://offlinemark.com/2021/01/22/open-source-licensing-for-supervillains/

if you have advanced protection on, google will mangle all your emails, even via imap, to rewrite all URLs to the google redirector, breaking email signatures, breaking PGP crypto signatures, et c.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24818024

if you want to back up your mail in its original form, you have to do it via data takeout/export.

also google: if you want to export your email unmodified, it takes months(!) because you have advanced protection on.

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