"I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide" always misses the point.

Privacy is about being able to decide for yourself what others know about you and what they're allowed to do with what they know.

Privacy is about setting boundaries to technology and those who are building it.

Privacy is about having a say in who should get to shape our future.

A handful of billionaires (and an especially vile trillionaire)?

Or us?
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#privacy #DataProtection

Sometimes people ask me how I do so much

The honest answer is that between doing things, I lie down a lot

Sometimes I do lots of things while lying down

In either case, the trick is to lie down more

6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300

🚨 Présomption de légitime défense pour les forces de l’ordre : le texte examiné le 7 juillet inverserait la charge de la preuve et affaiblirait le contrôle des tirs mortels. Une menace pour le droit à la vie et l’État de droit qui doit fermement être rejeté

✍️ Pétition : https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-6334

« Présomption de légitime défense » pour les policiers et gendarmes : la société civile tente d’alerter

Alors qu’une proposition de loi doit être examinée le 7 juillet à l’Assemblée nationale, des associations et autorités indépendantes tentent d’alerter sur les dangers du texte. Sans sursaut, elles craignent son adoption.

Par Inès Bennacer et Camille Polloni › https://l.mediapart.fr/f0D

1/4 🚨 Third European Parliament vote on #MassSurveillance in 4 months? Why is the Council pushing MEPs to approve mass scanning of users’ private messages? 🚨

😮 This week, due to an unprecedented move by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, being described as her backstabbing her own institution, MEPs will be forced to vote once again on the interim ePrivacy derogation – sometimes known as “#ChatControl 1.0”.

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/116872067735378275

“I wish we, as **FL**OSS developers actually took issue with the fact that our licenses mean nothing anymore and our contributions are being chewed up and sold back to us, I wish we stopped the whole ‘ignoring the political, social and economical issues’ but alas, that's not the point of this.”

(Asterisks mine in place of actual boldface in the post. The emphasis is, uhum, important.)

@ajroach42

“These are machines built to look useful while doing nothing.”

Damn. Aside from being a tool to fire people, I couldn't figure out why “management” was pushing “AI” so hard but you've explained it: it is made in their image, looking useful while doing nothing.

Pétition contre un projet de data center énorme en Seine-et-Marne https://agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/non-au-projet-de-datacenter-de-fouju-77

A lot of people acting like Trump is a uniquely American problem because of some integral flaw in the character of Americans. Folks sure aren't looking too close to their own right wings, which is how America got where it is now.

There is a general rise in stupid awful fascism around the world, and slagging off Americans as particular idiots isn't going to help you get ready to fight your own fascists. Especially when you realize they might be your neighbors or your kids.

This is a classic example of where people miss the forest for the trees. Yes, there are probably tasks here or there which a codebot could get mostly right. But those “speedups” don’t matter if I’m fighting bugs later because of it.

A huge part of why I’m able to go so fast is because I’m taking my time and getting things right from the start. I can move fast because I know I can trust the code. I can move fast because I’m not constantly finding dumb bugs. There are bugs, to be sure. I’m not perfect. But the bugs are usually minor oversights which are easily caught and fixed. I can move fast because the architecture is sound and I’m not constantly finding deep bugs and rewriting things.

If I offload even simple things to a codebot, I either have to fix it up myself until it’s at my standards (which would take just as much time as writing it) or accept slop because that’s the easy thing to do. If I accept the slop, then I end up with a sloppy, buggy code base that I’m constantly fighting.

Fighting with the code is what takes time. Not writing it. Fighting with it.

So yeah, I can cheap out now and pay through the nose for it later or I can invest human time now and get a piece of software that actually works for us, our customers, and our users.

Activists spend their whole lives in dangerous toil to make Nazis afraid to march openly. It's not the police or state intelligence or whatever else: it's antifascists. Antifascists infiltrate then, research them, identify them, counteract them, etc. Please for the love of everything good recognize that real people are fighting this fight and have been for decades.

I managed an e-commerce server for about ten years. It grew from a small local shop into a major national business, even handling international orders. They expanded to the point where they reduced their local brick-and-mortar store hours because the bulk of their revenue was coming from online sales.

Then one seller came along and convinced them that switching to Shopify would be the key to growing even further. Apparently, their €130/month bare-metal redundant setup - which boasted a calculated uptime of 99.995% over 10 years - just wasn't cutting it anymore.

They’ve been on Shopify for about six months now, and every now and then, I still get the alerts. I left the monitoring active via Uptime Kuma and ran the numbers. Over the last six months, their uptime dropped below 98%.
In other words, in just six months, they’ve been down for almost as many hours as they were during the entire previous decade.

I contacted the client - not because I want to take over the hosting again, but just to understand what on earth happened (we're on excellent terms). Their response was: "We don't know, but if it happened on Shopify, it means it was bound to happen anyway."

As long as we keep swallowing the lie that "the cloud" and "tech giants" are always the right solution for us, we completely deserve the cloud and the tech giants.

#IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData

For all the night 🦉s

I made an extension that bypasses online age verification

EDIT : Now available on the extension store! https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/age-verification-bypass?utm_source=fediverse

To show my stance towards online age verification, I made a small (literally, less than 10 kilobytes) add-on that will completely skip ageverif.net's verification prompt. (Only that site (for now?))

With more and more data breaches going on it's important to protect yourself by not sharing unnecessary data, and to show how broken some age verification platforms are!

It's #opensource too! https://github.com/helloyanis/agechecker.net-bypass (more info on why I do it is in the readme)

@privacy

#ageverification #firefox #hacking #web #cybersecurity

The AI bubble is going to fuck up everything for a decade. We're all going to be the ones that pay the bill, not the people at the top who made it happen. Fuck them all.

If I sound angry, it's because I am.

@mhoye they're more than "in the way" now. They're a threat.

I'm afraid to download some interesting #linux add-on to solve a problem … because I don't know if the app's been vetted by anyone I'd trust, whether it includes AIslop or malicious back-doors, whether it's funneling my usage stats - or, worse, my personal info - to some bad actor …

I'm among those fearful of updates now.
Quite a change: I enjoyed tech before, wrote & ran my websites. Now I'm just a retiree who wants safe computing.

A few people have asked me recently about how OpenSSH sshd implements privilege separation after the changes of the last couple of years, such as splitting sshd into multiple binaries.

I finally got around to writing it up - please take a look if you're curious.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/README.privsep

My hobby: figuring out who owns which scrappy-looking website pretending to be independent and cool!

Hackaday.com is owned by Siemens.

Good news: RAM will be a non-issue soon

Bad news: This is because we will not get new boards

I got the following news from the supply chain:

All (and I mean ALL) of our PCB subcontractors have turned around and told us minimum 1 year lead time on boards now. Apparently there's no Helium or Neon so they cant make FR4

FR4 is what all boards is made from.

So who cares if you cant get RAM - there's no PCBs to put it on ...

UPDATE: I don't think helium is the problem but PE Resind (polyphenylene ether). Neon may be a problem because it is required for the UV lasers.