Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

🕵️ Still using Chrome?

How do you feel about any site being able to call `document.browsingTopics()`to learn all about you?

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/private-advertising/topics/web/topic-classification

https://gitlab.com/minimalprocedure/lambda_coding

#ocaml

1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.

So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.

10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.

She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"

#microfiction

What happens if the proposed EU chat control regulation passes?

This series of news reports and press releases imagines the first year of cascading consequences.

It illustrates how the well-intentioned-but-flawed proposal will make detecting child abuse imagery more difficult while harming innocent people, national security, and the EU’s digital sovereignty.

Please share. The EU resumes discussions of the proposal today.

(~12 minute read time)

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/after-chat-control/?ref=Mastodon

#ChatControl #longRead

Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug – The Verge https://blog.quintarelli.it/2024/09/microsoft-says-its-recall-uninstall-option-in-windows-11-is-just-a-bug-the-verge/

La vigilancia ocurrirá directamente en tu dispositivo (escaneo por el lado del cliente), comprometiendo tu privacidad y seguridad incluso antes de enviar un mensaje📲👀

Los representantes de España han sido de los más radicales en su postura contra la privacidad.

A pesar de que esta medida propia de regímenes dictatoriales ha sido bloqueada varias veces, la insistencia en colarla , pese a su impopularidad, es alarmante. ⚠️

#ChatControl

Sigue...

Sto pensando di fare un sito per la #FestaDeiPopoli con features tipo "Il tuo browser non è aggiornato! Ma avrai i tuoi buoni motivi per non aggiornarlo, quindi abbiamo fatto di tutto perché tu possa visitare questo sito" (con un degrade gracefully) e "Non hai installato un adblock! Male! Ricordati di installarlo" e cose simili.

🇬🇧🚨#ChatControl is back on the agenda: As soon as next Wednesday representatives of EU governments will resume work based on a secret document. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/public-register/public-register-search/?DocumentNumber=12319%2F24

This is what you can do now to help: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/

ChatControl torna all'ordine del giorno: mercoledì prossimo i rappresentanti dei governi dell'UE riprenderanno a lavorare sulla base di un documento segreto

@privacypride

Come al solito, ringraziamo @echo_pbreyer per la segnalazione

#chatcontrol #CSARegulation

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/public-register/public-register-search/?DocumentNumber=12319%2F24

@Shamar
Thanks for the ping! we'll probably never distribute anything systemd, but as you say: if you run devuan, this is not an issue 💜

@jaromil

The Monospace Web
https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/15/german-climate-activists-breach-four-airport-sites-halting-air-traffic
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating

*German climate activists stop air traffic after breaking into four airport sites.* These protests may be dangerous, but not as dangerous as the failure to curb global heating. Is it stupid to try this method when gentler ones don't serve?

100 years of average July temperature anomalies over land areas through 2024...

Data from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

(c) mmg

One of the many infortunate consequences of the success of GitHub is that lots of developers are now convinced that development has to be a public, social activity.

You do not have to release everything you build. You do not have to accept patches. You do not have to answer to emails or to issues. You do not have to fix bugs or implement features. You do not even have to continue working on your projects.

If any aspect of your public work stresses you, remember that.

“MacBooks turned out to be the perfect target for the attack, because it works best when you have a very reflective surface to use as the laser target – and the Apple logo on the back of a MacBook screen has an almost mirror-like finish.”

People who plaster their MacBooks with stickers have deployed physical firewalls 👌

https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112926689513444383