Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

@Voice not that I will read it now, but found this interesting paper on the subject + #privacy issues.. (PDF)

https://www.cs.uic.edu/~skarami/files/sw21/preprint-sw-ndss21.pdf

Interesting fact of the day: The term "patching" software originates from the fact that you would literally patch holes in early hole punch input in order to fix an issue. Attached is a picture with such patches on it from the Harvard Mark I computer.

@vagrantc

– Our goal is >4 IPC (average) with >97% branch prediction and lots of cache, deep out-of-order pipelines and speculative execution for managing cache and branch miss latency
– General long term goal is a high end server class CPU, 5GHz+, multithreaded, 100+ instructions in flight at any one time

that reads like:

"I'm not sure we need to apply any learning from Spectre & Meltdown, we really just want a big CPU like Intel has, that goes vroom. but being GPL, it won't be controlled by Intel. It can instead be controlled by all other big corps."

I was whining about people on hn and lobsters being mean to the projects I loved yesterday, and it sparked some good conversations.

I went over my entire website and eradicated the use of words like "simply" and "easy". Removed things with retro-computing connotations, tried to limit the metaphors with mentions of old or small scale technologies.

Also added a few notes on decisions that advised its design.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html

@wolf480pl don't worry you're european I understnad

Karrot is a free open source platform for sharing real life resources (for example excess food, to prevent it going to waste).

You can follow the project at:

➡️ @karrot

The main instance is at https://karrot.world

You can find the source code at https://github.com/yunity

(The emphasis is on food, but the platform can be used to share anything.)

#Karrot #Activism #CoOp #CoOperative #FoodSharing #FoodAndDrink #FoodWaste #Food #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #NGOs #Environment

A #RISCV 64-bit CPU core licensed under #gpl3 that can actually boot #Linux

#openhardware is getting more feasible even to the core!

https://github.com/MoonbaseOtago/vroom

when you regret open sourcing Java because eventually your daughter has to learn it

TL;DR Pubblicato da pochi giorni uno studio che analizza il traffico generato dagli smartphone con il sistema operativo #Android. Lo studio evidenzia come molte versioni siano state progettate per inviare al produttore informazioni sulle attività compiute dall’utente, dalle app installate all’uso dello smartphone stesso, con importanti ripercussioni sulla #privacy e sulla riservatezza. E no, l’utente, non può disattivare queste "feature"
Di @grep_harder su #zerozone
https://www.zerozone.it/tecnologia-privacy-e-sicurezza/le-informazioni-che-i-nostri-smartphone-catturano-per-impostazioni-di-fabbrica/20227/

Chiedere risarcimenti per #pirateria senza prove è facile per legali senza scrupoli, perché fa leva sulla paura e il senso di colpa degli utenti.
Ma quando l'utente chiede le prove delle accuse...
#CopyrightTroll
Di Ernesto #VanDerSaar su #TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-troll-boss-faces-arrest-over-failed-payments-to-accused-pirate-211014/

#LinkedIn l'ultima grande compagnia tech USA in #Cina lascia il paese pur essendosi finora sempre attenuta alle stringenti regole di Pechino. L’azienda di #Microsoft era stata costretta a chiudere i profili di alcuni giornalisti e attivisti che hanno osato condividere "materiale proibito".
Di Lorenzo #Santucci su #Formiche https://formiche.net/2021/10/un-pechino-di-censura-perche-linkedin-lascia-la-cina/

Acer hacked (for the second time this year)

https://grahamcluley.com/acer-hacked-for-the-second-time-this-year/

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-india-rigging/

Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show

"Monopolisti inside"

I am sick and tired of constantly reviewing settings in web browsers to see if they have snuck in some new tracking mechanism that I get to disable because "your privacy is important to us".

I am sick and tired of all the black UX that goes into this, like opt out instead of opt in, or at least providing top level choices like, say, Fuck NO I'd NEVER EVER Like You To Track ANYTHING Now And In Every Perceivable Future. Like sync'ing every setting in your profile except tracking related settings, because hey that way you might by mistake opt out of tracking on another installation where you really wanted to be tracked. The list goes on and on.

Browsers are critical infrastructure and clearly an open source stamp on them fails in itself to provide any meaningful shield towards capitalist subversion.

I'd like a browser with a license that explicitly rules out *any* kind of commercial entity or interest contributing or directing development.

#surveillancecapitalism

@vanecx @noybeu

The Irish DCP is an absolute mess. As an Irish citizen, I am embarrassed about this to no end.

A few weeks ago, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties published a report on the the DPC's inability to process major GDPR cases. Many large cases must proceed through Ireland because of loads of HQs being in Dublin and Ireland. https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/2021-gdpr-report/

This week, the national annual budget was published here. The DPC received an additional €4.1m in funding pushing their total funds to €23.2m. This news was accompanied by this statement https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/press-releases/data-protection-commission-statement-budget-2022 where all is happy and green.

I have been in Ireland now for 3 years and I remain vastly unaware of irish critical citizen movements in the 'technology' area. I wonder if you might know of any @ephemeral @annika @mairin @seachaint @torrejuseppe @aral or other Ireland-close fedi people? Would be keen to support actions in this space.

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is what you get when you try to have a tenant regulate their landlord.

Google, Facebook, etc., own Ireland right now.

All they have to do is raise the spectre of pulling out and taking Irish jobs with them to have the government shaking in its boots.

You expect these folks to regulate? If so, I’d like to talk to you sometime about a bridge I’m selling in Brooklyn.

#InstitutionalCorruption #gdpr #enforcement #ireland #privacy

@quinta @informapirata @miriamgreco @andre123 Tecnicamente c'è una distro linux pensata per le scuole di lingua italiana della provincia di Bolzano (FUSS), e anche sodilinux mi pare abbia preso qualcosa da del lavoro che era stato finanziato con fondi pubblici (che poi però erano finiti)

"Attenzione a imputare la responsabilità di violenze a chi esprime opinioni gravi, infondate o altro, ma pur sempre opinioni, che sono libere e tutelate costituzionalmente se non configurano reati.

Intrapresa questa strada, con la stessa motivazione potrà essere zittita ogni voce"

Vitalba #Azzollini su Twitter
https://nitter.snopyta.org/vitalbaa/status/1447095769266335747

Stop Firefox from sending keystrokes to Mozilla:

* Menu > Settings > Privacy & Security
* Scroll down to “Address Bar - Firefox Suggest”
* Disable “Contextual suggestions”
* Disable “Include occasional sponsored suggestions”

Or switch to LibreWolf: librewolf-community.gitlab.io

Mozilla’s now director of public policy once asked me, with a straight face, why I was giving them a hard time and holding Mozilla to a higher standard: “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”

But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?

Still, it’s time y’all got this.

Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.

https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/

#mozilla #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism