Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

programmer-life

The Assange trial thread is on Twitter, but it's worth following: https://nitter.unixfox.eu/SMaurizi/status/1453279886165020678#m ♻ @SMaurizi: 23. it really keeps me awake at night how in the last 11 years we journalists,activists,intellectuals haven't been able to stop this upside down world in which courageous whistleblowers and publishers go to prison while war criminals and torturers sleep peacefully in their beds

18 anni precari: schiavitù accademica interna ed esterna - per ricercatori, pagati con (poco) denaro pubblico che dovrebbero essere liberi perché al servizio del sapere e non di aziende private e degli ordinari in carriera. E come d'uso gli ordinari in carriera si adegueranno: better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. Ecco la riforma del reclutamento in discussione al Senato: https://www.roars.it/online/il-nuovo-dl-reclutamento-al-peggio-non-ce-mai-fine/

@miriamgreco
Il fediverso oggi è composto da persone come me e da tanti che tirano fuori di tasca loro i soldi per affittare dei server.
Questo è sostenibile per alcuni finquando i volumi ed i costi non diventano troppo elevati poi devono fare delle scelte.
Durante un incontro con la commissione europea sul finanziamento dei progetti Open Source ho proposto di iniziare a far spostare obbligatoriamente una percentuale dei budget delle licenze proprio all'Open Source. @Shamar @informapirata

@lattera How did the attacker gain knowledge of the tools used? They asked. At a conference, during Q&A of a talk about infrastructure. A perfectly valid, good question. They then just needed to know if it was a vulnerable version. So they asked about distros too, how up-to-date one should stay. LTS or Stable or roll your own?

@lattera The way that attack worked was that the attacker gained knowledge of what tools are used to view the logs, found a vulnerability in some of those tools. So they engineered messages that would trigger the bug when processed, and exploit the vulnerability in the tool, and compromise _that_ system. They chained that into other attacks, and eventually gained shell access to the computer. They could attack other systems from there.

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Nicely done #Mastodon Twitter. #IsolateTrump

Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? That's a violation of your educational rights. Support #FreeSoftware https://fsf.org

Remember the early 2010s, way back when Microsoft didn't use polite euphemisms like "Active Protection Service"

https://www.ghacks.net/2011/06/02/disabling-microsoft-spynet-in-windows7/

@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/