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:boost_ok: :ablobcatwave: Please boost this post if you would like the EFF to join the fediverse. :ablobcatbongo:

In a survey the EFF sent me, I suggested they create an account on the fediverse, so they can reach more supporters and support innovative free software that promotes interoperability among platforms, something they've advocated for in the past, too.

If you can boost this post, maybe I'll be able to show them that there are quite a few users who would like them here!

The EFF is the infamous nonprofit organisation that fights for privacy, government transparency, and digital freedom. Their fight is very important, and the EFF is very special to me. https://www.eff.org/about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation

You can see some of their work here https://www.eff.org/work

In the meantime, you can follow @eff, which is an unofficial mirror of their Twitter.

@deutrino
Yeah, they started doing subscriptions with automatic perpetual fallback licenses in late 2015. Underrated revenue model IMO.

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If you are a student in California and you're worried about what data proctoring companies collect, let the Senate Appropriations committee know today. They are considering the Student Test Taker Privacy Act on Monday: act.eff.org/action/california- twitter.com/EFF/status/1515134

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Happy Friday everyone!

As a reminder, anticheat "drivers" that run in kernel mode are a spectacularly bad idea, and *every* MDM/BYOD policy I roll out blocks the most popular ones.

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Today I learned that unprivileged users can run "systemctl show servicename" to see all the environment variables set in the .service file.

This means if someone sets their AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY in there (or any other secret), it can be read by an attacker even if they don't have read privileges to read the .service file.

For defenders, use EnvironmentFile= instead of Environment= and as long as your environment file has the correct privileges, you will be fine on this front.

Ukraine 

@gmate8
Prayers are good, but we *can* do more, like donating to Save Life / Come Back Alive: savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

See also this sticky on Reddit: reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/

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@dreeg The GPL protects your freedom to modify those clients to use different servers. Here are a couple projects working to reimplement the server API as FOSS: github.com/aykutalparslan/Tele (GPL 3+)
github.com/teamgram/teamgram-s (Apache 2.0)

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Site.js version 17.3.4 released

Upgrades JSDB to version 1.2.2 (CJS backport of 2.0.6; details: mastodon.ar.al/@aral/107548661)

Site.js is the Small Web construction set.

sitejs.org

#SmallTech #SmallWeb

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GPL is basically the software equivalent of Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike.

Those who have a problem with it do so because they don’t want to share alike.

They want to take but not give.

So you decide how you feel about that.

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@soapdog
I agree, different tools depending on the context. I've used copyleft licenses and permissive licenses for my own work.

And yeah, copyleft definitely isn't a binary: just look at the MPL and LGPL, which are both "weak" copyleft licenses.
@rakoo

@soapdog
Factual correction: MIT is not a copyleft license, it's a permissive license.
@rakoo

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If you’re looking for an excellent app for annotating/marking up PDFs on Linux, try Xournal++

xournalpp.github.io/

#linux #pdf #annotation #app

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