Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

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

ROFL!

Subject: [oss-security] CVE-2021-42013: Path Traversal and Remote Code Execution in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49 and 2.4.50 (incomplete fix of CVE-2021-41773)

It was found that the fix for CVE-2021-41773 in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.50 was insufficient. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the directories configured by Alias-like directives.

@wolf480pl
I guess you either make it easy to do it right, or you make it hard to do it wrong.
Making it easy has a side-effect that you make it easier to do it wrong (http headers, e.g.)
Making it hard has a side-effect that you make it harder to do it at all...

My uncle just finished 1.6 kg, 700 pages long dictionary of Northern Sami, a language spoken by around 20,000 speakers.

Sami are an indigenous people who have inhabited large parts of Northern Europe spanning from Russia to Norway for millenniums.

He has dedicated his life to advocate for their rights and preserve their languages and culture. This book is a major contribution in an effort to ensure that this ancient language will be passed on to future generations.

"Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God. Only exceptionally gifted individuals or especially noble communities rise essentially above this level; in these there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those who do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; the individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance. Indications of this cosmic religious sense can be found even on earlier levels of development—for example, in the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. The cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism, as, in particular, Schopenhauer's magnificent essays have shown us. The religious geniuses of all times have been distinguished by this cosmic religious sense, which recognizes neither dogmas nor God made in man's image. Consequently there cannot be a church whose chief doctrines are based on the cosmic religious experience. It comes about, therefore, that we find precisely among the heretics of all ages men who were inspired by this highest religious experience; often they appeared to their contemporaries as atheists, but sometimes also as saints. Viewed from this angle, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are near to one another." - Einstein

#Einstein #Quote

"I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others." - Einstein

#Einstein #Quote

As many of you know I have a love for all the logical razors that exist (did a post a while back). Einstein's razor is one of my favorites. It is usually paraphrased as:

"everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler"

The original quote is a bit more complex as:

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience"

#Quote #Einstein #Razor #EinsteinsRazor