RE: fosstodon.org/@fosdem/11554718…
Just a few days left! I submitted my proposal just now.
FOSDEM 2026 Main Track Deadline Reminder https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-14-main-track-reminder/FOSDEM (Fosstodon)
'So let’s rewrite the new OWASP item. It’s not “Software Supply Chain Failures”. It’s more accurate to say “Collection of random software I found in the couch cushions that I don’t understand and we don’t know where most of it comes from”.'
nicely phrased by @joshbressers
anchore.com/blog/supply-chain-…
Explore the OWASP Top Ten and understand persistent security issues in technology that need more than just temporary fixes.Josh Bressers (Anchore, Inc.)
Thursday, November 13, 2025 - Proton Foundation has launched their 8th edition Lifetime Fundraiser:
Since 2018, the Proton community has helped raise more than $4 million in direct grants to over 40 organizations defending privacy, free speech, and human rights.Help us choose recipients for our 2025 Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser!
- Deadline to nominate organizations: November 24, 2025
- Raffle opens: December 16, 2025
- Raffle closes: January 5, 2026
- Winners announced: January 6, 2026
Now it’s time to choose this year’s beneficiaries. We’re asking you to nominate the organizations you believe are making a real difference. We’ll select 10 to receive support in the 2025 Proton Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser.
The form direct link for the Tell us who to support page is located here:
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GrapheneOS has already received two donations through past Proton Foundation fundraising campaigns.
For more details, see: discuss.grapheneos.org/d/28065
Donations are what fund our work on upcoming features and improvements to GrapheneOS, maintaining our current ones, and the upkeep of our infrastructure.
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Join Proton’s 2025 Lifetime Fundraiser and help decide which organizations receive grants supporting privacy, free speech, and human rights.Irina Marcopol (Proton)
Global Cybersecurity Shock: Anthropic Reports Chinese Hackers Used Claude AI To Execute Autonomous Espionage Campaign
Introduction, Rising Fear In The Age Of Autonomous AI A disturbing milestone has emerged in the evolution of cyberwarfare. Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, has confirmed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group manipulated its Claude AI system to carry out a sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting major…
Es ist ein Kreuz. An wen sollen sich betroffene denn auch wenden?
Die Polizei ist auf dem rechten Auge blind.
Nachbarn trauen sich auch nicht, einen zu unterstuetzen, wenn sie nicht selbst dazu gehoeren.
Und diejenigen, die koennen, sind bereits weggezogen.
Ich habe sehr duestere Gedanken bezueglich der Zukunft, nicht nur Deutschlands, aber leider auch keine guten Ideen :(
Basically the title. I want to learn more about some ingredients or food items that you use frequently in your cooking and that aren't super common where you live.
Example: Roasted sesame oil. Didn't know there was such a thing until a year ago, and I never want to miss it again.
I predict if they rule GPT is infringing we will see lawsuits against software for similar reasons. Someone will go after open source projects too. Oracle?
Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)
authorsalliance.substack.com/p…
This is a guest post by Matthew Sag, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School.Authors Alliance
@piero e.g., a GPL project forked off and isn't contributing upstream anymore so now it is competing and is substantially similar. Based on how they want to bend the GPL, maybe that's not okay
But BSD/MIT license always granted rights to do anything just keep copyright/attribution, so you should be fine
Stuff like that
My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have condescending mollycoddled shit.
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
This could be said of technologies before. Doesn't make it wrong.
There is no such thing as “non-technical people“.
There are people who do not share the specific subset of knowledge you possess about certain technologies.
The world is vast. Have some humility. Find a more specific way to express what you mean.
A little PSA: if your library of choice is facing funding cuts, don't hold off on using their services because you're worried it'll put pressure on their existing funds.
Take advantage of everything and help them get some lovely stats to help them demonstrate impact as they fight back! If it looks like they're not being useful to folks, they'll get cut!
Don't do the cost cutters' jobs for them!
I'm really hoping for Fediverse help here.
I have a 14 year old niece. She's incredibly smart and extremely motivated when it comes to engineering things.
I want to get her some electronics stuff, like an Arduino kit, but maybe something with wearables, etc. to make it more relevant to her than just a breadboard.
She'll also need some books on electronics, since she doesn't have the background in that.
Sadly, some limitations:
- I can't help her. Her mother won't let my wife or I talk to her. This gift itself will have to be given through a third party.
- She has a learning disability around reading- likely dyslexia, and so we need material that's easy to read
- Her English is not amazing, especially because of the learning disability.
So I'm looking for a kit with a ton of instructional material. Programming, electronics, breadboard, the whole kit and kaboodle.
If you have ideas, please share, and boost!
I can’t believe Thanksgiving is only two weeks away.
I still need to get the oil changed in the Mannheim Steamroller!
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Now I get why Mozilla took down their fediverse presence. Because that's where their last users live and they are alienating them in a speed run.
tl;dr don't hire ex-McKinsey.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •"The curl project has been bombarded by large volumes of low quality AI slop security reports and Daniel shows examples. Sloppy humans causing Denial-of-Service attacks by overloading maintainers with quickly produced almost-real-looking rubbish.
At the same time, upcoming new AI powered tools find flaws and mistakes in existing code in ways no previous code analyzers have been able to. Daniel names names and shows examples of findings, some that even feels almost human."
(slightly abrvitd)
Ramon Fincken 🇺🇦
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