Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

So often, I'm reminded about the broken state of IT today. Barriers to entry everywhere are ridiculously high.

Self-hosting anything is incredibly stressful, often requiring you to be skilled as a system administrator to the point where you could make a living off of it.

I know why, of course.

Capitalism rewards enclosure. Money flows to companies who want customers on their terms, so solutions are designed to service thousands of people and for professionals to operate.

We need #SmallTech.

I thought all my fancy camera gear was for taking pictures of the kids, but the #cat sits for portraits better. #pet #sunlight

If you guessed "My Amazon Fire Tablet" you were CORRECT.

In the last 10 hours, my tablet has made just shy of 32000 DNS requests with over 28600 of them to api.amazon.com.

I'd really like to know what the hell Amazon is doing that it needs to phone home THAT MUCH.

German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is incompatible with GDPR

https://twitter.com/wolfiechristl/status/1596277060435345411

Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

Emails whose unsubscribe link take you to a login page should be illegal (if they are not already)

Oh wow, the new #Rust release is exciting! GATs, let-else and even stable Backtrace. This release is packed with goodies

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/11/03/Rust-1.65.0.html

So, since I just moved instances, I think it's time for an #introduction. Hi I'm maxim. I write/wrote a lot about #chatcontrol, starting out on mastodon and ending up putting everything on my blog, you can find all posts here: https://maxim.tips/tags/chatcontrol/ #Chatkontrolle #neuhier

Precedents like the German government running a Mastodon server are important beyond the obvious reasons. They reinforce the urgency of serious public funding for open code.

If we treated open code as part of the essential infrastructure of the 21st century and funded it at billions of USD/EUR as opposed to tiny grants here and there, the "fediverse" model of interconnected, self-governing communities would become the norm, not the exception.

See also (but not only): https://publiccode.eu/

Oh crap, #DeviantArt folks, all your art just got opted-in to their AI art gen.

You have to manually opt out. Go to your gallery, click edit on each piece and opt out.

I believe you have to do this per piece? Which seems catastrophically cruel? I'm not on there, so hopefully I'm misunderstanding and there's a global account setting.

(If anyone chimes in with that I'll add it in a reply/edit)

Technology is not a net good, or even a neutral force. Technology is a Force Multiplier. It reshapes the world to fit the vision of those who design it, regulate it, and wield it. Oil companies poison our lakes and rivers, slowly boiling our planet. Facebook tracks everything we do online and uses that data to make us miserable. Disney owns an outsized portion of modern folklore. The FCC decides who gets to launch a radio station, and under what circumstances. Television turns reasonable people in to rabid fans of raving monsters, and turns raving monsters in to celebrities, politicians and thought leaders.

It does not have to be this way.

https://ajroach42.com/the-small-things-manifesto/

Dozens more PyPI packages in ongoing Supply-Chain Attack

https://blog.phylum.io/phylum-discovers-dozens-more-pypi-packages-attempting-to-deliver-w4sp-stealer-in-ongoing-supply-chain-attack

Note to self:

alias tmux='tmux -u' forgives a multitude of sins.

Whoa. Mastodon (qoto) has circles now? I loved Google Plus, and know those are now in Twitter, too. Are they basically persistent chatrooms? #noxp

I'm conflicted over whether PHP being "very much alive" is a bad thing :) Unlike Clojure, it is inarguably badly designed. But by sheer inertia it has has exceeded its design and actually works well

So as I’m new again I’d better do an #Introduction
I’m a proud Yorkshireman and a former Nokia engineer.
Recently finished a BSc in Cyber Security, was part of the team behind the webOS ACL.
I’ve been a Linux daily driver for over 10 years and am currently looking for employment, preferably within FOSS, digital forensics or training users in security practises

IMPORTANT: The person who released the game on steam today is charging 8€ for it. Please do not buy it. The game is free and always will be. The steam version might contain viruses and other malware.

#FOSS #opensource #indiedev #Steam