Paul Tötterman @ptman@librem.one
Joined May 2019
@brion@mastodon.technology people need to switch to altenatives, like activitypub-federated lemmy https://lemmy.ml/
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The EU Council is pushing for encryption backdoors to messenger apps such as WhatsApp and Signal to fight terrorism (German article): https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/
Despite the fact that errors of investigation in Austrian authorities had made the attack possible in the first place and not a lack of digital surveillance powers. Politicians must start to understand that more surveillance will not lead to more security. That's why we fight any attempt for an encryption backdoor: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/
@liw Indeed. A perfectly valid reason. But just to clarify, there's no comparison yet?
@liw I'm sorry if you've covered this somewhere (your blog has a lot of old obnam articles dated 2020), but what sets obnam apart from borg and restic? what's the reason for it existing instead of improving something else that's close?
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Last Sunday the UK/US/CA/AU/NZ/IN/JP govts issued a statement asking tech companies to add backdoors into E2E encryption. This is a big deal: unfortunately *backdoors do not work*. Read about our alternative: combating abuse via decentralised reputation.🔒 https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors
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All source code of abandoned software should be open sourced. Manufacturers should be forced to do so on the end of service date.
Paul Tötterman
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The copyright battles of Sherlock Holmes are an example of the overreach of the current copyright regime.
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BIG NEWS: Huge welcome to @gitchat@twitter.com, who are entering Matrix!! Gitter is moving from @gitlab@twitter.com to @element_hq@twitter.com & building the ultimate Matrix bridge, showcasing how a large chat app can natively talk Matrix, while bringing Gitter goodness to Element! 🚀🌉🎉 https://matrix.org/blog/2020/09/30/welcoming-gitter-to-matrix
@danarel@mastodon.technology I use wallabag, since in the past 20+ years I've lost too many working bookmarks to sites disappearing (and wayback machine doesn't always help)
@liw As you probably know, matrix.org is the modern replacement. Most of the upsides and few of the downsides of IRC
@tripofmice some ideas that might help: use shellcheck, don't use bash, use bash scripting more, e.g. in one-liners during interactive use
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Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦♂️
PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE
And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)
Boost if I'm right.
Paul Tötterman
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Got some GNU info manual you want to read but you don't like the info reader? Just pipe it to less:
info grub | less
That spits out the whole manual into the less pager so you can move around like manpages.
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Try our app, it's exactly like our website down to the pixel except for how it accesses your contacts, location, microphone, pictures and camera and it's not always nagging you to try our app.
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RT @element_hq@twitter.com
👊🇪🇺The Privacy Shield ruling makes decentralised communications all the more relevant; for governments and all organisations with EU operations. Check out analysis by our DPO @denisersalmeida@twitter.com and how @matrixdotorg@twitter.com and Element fit the picture! 🇪🇺 👊
https://element.io/blog/privacy-shield-judgement-points-to-a-decentralised-future/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1292808920042475522
Paul Tötterman
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Sharing web pages via screenshots, just as TBL intended.
Joined May 2019
