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I movimenti del secolo scorso contestavano la struttura istituzionale dello stato per affermare nuove libertà e nuovi diritti. I movimenti del terzo millennio si oppongono allo smantellamento di istituzioni pubbliche che hanno garantito diritti e libertà fino a ieri. È quello che faranno oggi al #privacypride :privacypride: per opporsi al depotenziamento dell'autorità garante della protezione dei dati personali, infilato nel "decreto capienze".

privacypride.org/
agendadigitale.eu/sicurezza/pr

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Oggi è il giorno del primo #PrivacyPride!

:privacypride: privacypride.org

Anche il #fediverso si sposta nelle piazze per rivendicare il diritto alla privacy.

Sono molto felice come mastodon.uno, @mobilizon e il fediverso in generale stiano promuovendo e seguendo così tante iniziative come il #LInuxDay2021, la #precop26 e ora scenda in piazza per la #Privacy!

Questo grazie al grande impegno nel comitato di @informapirata, @lealternative, @amreo, @eticadigitale, @gubi

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The power that sed unlock when you understand how to use the hold space is unbelievable.

Beyond an actual use case that I had to handle with it because of lack of alternatives on the target system (not even vi or awk were available, and I was not allowed to transfer the data outside), what opened my eyes have been the sed manual¹: other texts where technically complete but somehow didn't clicked.

Now I wonder why nobody have built a graphical sed debugger that shows you the pattern space, the hold space and the program so that you can step into it and see what happens.

I now have a good mental model of its inner working, but to teach it to kids (as we should) we need something like that.

Also I wonder if we should build a less succint sed language: the one letter commands are effectively an pretty good machine code for a sed machine AND they let you write powerful one-liners that fit well in a script but they are pretty hard for kids to learn.
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¹ gnu.org/software/sed/manual/se

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when you think about it, the idea that software should scale is actually really weird. "sure this garden is nice, but how nice can it be if it doesn't grow to cover the entire surface of the earth?"

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I wonder how you could recreate the ideas of mutual aid societies using decentralised Internet technology, without recreating the darker aspects of secrecy and hierarchy.

"Fraternities" of any kind just really don't have a good name at the moment, and secret ones much less.

But we need *some* kind of way of organising mutual aid. Living as little atoms all in economic competition with each other seems to just make us fearful, angry and tense.

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Qual è il sistema operativo principale nel tuo computer?

Boost apprezzato per aumentare la dimensione del campione nel fediverso italiano :)

:gnu: #gnu :linux: #linux
:windows: #windows :mac: #macos :fediverso: #fediverso

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@devol @quinta c'era la diretta disponibile su YouTube nel canale ufficiale del Senato. Ovviamente tutti i diritti sono riservati, anche se non capisco per quale motivo una delle quattro istituzioni cardine della Repubblica dovrebbe mettere il video soltanto su YouTube
youtu.be/eIyBRC6dHoQ

I just spent 20 minutes contemplating a powerful (and totally unsafe) text template engine I wrote for automatic code generation in .

In 5 lines of ¹

I'm too overwhelmed by the power of sed, to ponder consequences.

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The Assange trial thread is on Twitter, but it's worth following: nitter.unixfox.eu/SMaurizi/sta ♻ @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

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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: roars.it/online/il-nuovo-dl-re

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@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

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@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?

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@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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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 fsf.org

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