Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

@Shamar Criticizing the web using… medium. Makes perfect sense.

“The hacker ethos once championed as a method of subverting prevailing power has become at last its greatest lieutenant … I am not hoping for programmers to organize as a class, not anytime soon – you dudebro losers haven't got the guts – but good software simply won't be possible until we accomplish at least that much. There will never be the time or money to satisfy the guarantees our ethics require until we demand them with all the power we possess.”

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/software_from_another_world.html

Ridículo como animales e insectos caen en las trampas, pero no tanto cuando...

El conocimiento, la tecnología libre y el self-hosting nos salvarán de GAFAM y otros males.

#NoGAFAM #Mensaje

Breakfast at Nannini, an iconic pasticceria in Siena 😋

La pandemia ha fatto bene all'economia dei #GAFAM, ma qualcuno deve iniziare a occuparsi di questi ca**o di informatici!
Di @Shamar alla conferenza #AIUCD2021
http://www.tesio.it/2021/07/23/AIUCD2021_Lobbista_per_5minuti.mp4

In 2014, I gave a talk called Free is a Lie at a run-of-the-mill, dime-a-dozen, Silicon-Valley-worshiping Big Tech/surveillance capitalism conference in the Netherlands.

Yesterday, I learned that they unlisted my talk on *spit* YouTube and that it might be removed.

https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/1418262501704282115

https://twitter.com/l18cp/status/1418281939778277380

Today, I archived it so you can keep watching it for as long as you want to.

https://vimeo.com/578393679

#FreeIsALie #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism

Libreboot pre-installed laptops are back in stock on https://retrofreedom.com/

@rysiek@mastodon.technology

It’s not that simple.

In the article you liked #OCCRP explains

This is normally done through the target’s mobile operator, which some governments can access or control.

How many CA are state-run agency? How many CDNs (behind HTTPS) can be subject to similar impositions?

If a state can impose to a mobile operator to track a citizen, why do you think it cannot impose to serve certain DNS records, certain TLS certificate and so on to certain people only?

Also, HTTPS leaks a lot of information about every visitor to the site owner (IP, cookies) and you are assuming the hosting/cloud provider is not malicious, while often it is.
And these leaks apply to everybody, not just to targetted victims.

You just need to control/compromise a single hosting/cloud provider and attract the victim on one of its HTTPS websites to install the same malware without the website owner knowing anything AND without the victim suspecting anything (it’s HTTPS, so it’s safe, isn’t it?)

On the other hand, HTTP proxies can cache requests and hide you from the server.

It’s dumb to blame http website owner for the victims killed by criminals and governments: it’s the whole Web that is broken and insecure at heart, HTTPS or not.

We need people to understand how it works in depth so that they can foresee the risks.

A false sense of security is MORE dangerous than a known state of insecurity.

It was hard for me to tell how serious the Audacity stuff was

but the original version of this comment (see edit history) is a threat of deportation and insinuation that if they don't comply with a takedown you hope they'll be imprisoned, killed, or tortured by their country of origin https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335

and so yeah okay thanks for making that clear

(also thx for the link @Claire)

Edward #Snowden calls for #spyware trade ban amid #Pegasus revelations.

#NSA #whistleblower warns of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers if no action taken.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/edward-snowden-calls-spyware-trade-ban-pegasus-revelations

#privacyMatters

Massive data leak reveals over 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets for clients of spyware company NSO.

These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi’s family.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/07/the-pegasus-project/

found at: https://twitter.com/AmnestyTech/status/1416834680553414657

A Silicon Valley VC-funded startup succeeds or fails based on how fast it can grow. At the start, it needs YOU to grow. It will put its best face forward and promise to be nice. Once it has grown enough and it no longer needs you (see: network effects), you have little to no power to affect its behaviour. That’s when you get screwed. Maybe not all at once (see: slowly-boiling frogs) but eventually, sure enough.

So exercise your power when you have it. At the start. By looking the other way.

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#LibriVox #PubblicoDominio #PublicDomain

@chjara @io it works really well for me though!

but just, what the fuck is going on in the free software community? google sabotaging linux in general, attempts at cancelling people who have done more for free software than anybody else, some coke-sniffing californian killing freenode, this shit with the LAC, then audacity

are we all failing to stand up to schoolyard bullies?

Wow.

"Edsger W. Dijkstra: a Commemoration

This article is a multiauthored portait of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra that consists of testimonials written by several friends, colleagues, and students of his. It provides unique insights into his personality, working style and habits, and his influence on other computer scientists, as a researcher, teacher, and mentor."

PDF at [ https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/commemoration/EWD-commemoration-2021.pdf ]

#ComputerScience #EdsgerDijkstra #Computers #Programming