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I'm looking for new projects for the next few months in the product management space, but I'm still available for some good web design and development work.

Ideally, I want contract work so I can still split time with #TheBadSpace and #Fipamo, but if one has a full-time idea in mind that they feel I'd be a good fit for, feel free to drop me a note and tell me about it.

I do many different things, but I love gigs that engage my right and left brain to problem-solve. I enjoy chewing on challenges and figuring them out one step at a time.

Don't be shy. I'm pretty friendly.


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I'm Ro. I'm pretty ok. Mostly.
roiskinda.cool
#thebadspace #fipamo

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📡 No olviden que también hay radio por Internet sin comerciales, Gladys Palmera es un gran proyecto para conocer la historia de la música afrolatina y caribeña: boleros, boogaloo, salsa, chachachá...

🌴 gladyspalmera.com/

Home - Radio Gladys Palmera

Radio Online con dos canales de música, oferta de programas, podcasts, playlists y la mayor colección de música afrocubana del mundo.
Radio Gladys Palmera
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The Liberty Phone is the upgraded version of our popular Librem 5 USA phone with Made in USA Electronics. The Liberty Phone integrates 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-…

Introducing the Liberty Phone – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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Are you interested in working on GNOME, writing Rust apps, or working with Fonts? If so, you may be interested in taking a look at gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-f… :)

This port may take a while, and I greatly appreciate any help available. I've laid out a list of tasks to be done before merging, and if anyone wants to take something on let me know and we can work together.

If you want to help with the effort, please join #fonts:gnome.org on Matrix :) (matrix.to/#/#fonts:gnome.org)

(boosts appreciated)

#GNOME #Rust #Fonts #gtk-rs #gtk4 #libadwaita


Draft: general: Initial port to Rust (!49) · Merge requests · GNOME / Fonts · GitLab

This is an initial port of Fonts to Rust. The port doesn't do much - it just loads a list of fonts and displays it. There's a lot...
GitLab
#gnome #gtk #rust #libadwaita #GTK4 #fonts
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Jordan has used NVDA since 2018. NVDA has empowered Jordan and assisted him in almost every aspect of his life. Every time he uses NVDA he’s reminded of why he loves it so much and the independence NVDA has helped him achieve.
"I’m extremely thankful for such dedication to the project and dedication to a piece of software that will continue to develop for many years.” – Jordan
Thank you Jordan for taking the time to share with us the role NVDA has played in your life!

youtu.be/fABcGAorlQ4


Jordan Testimonial

Jordan has used NVDA since 2018. NVDA has empowered Jordan and assisted him in almost every aspect of his life. Every time he uses NVDA he’s reminded of why ...
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Today, two open letters from academics on the scientific arguments against the current #CSS (client side scanning) initiatives have been released:

* The first (in English, internationally coordinated) one is online at tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsLette… and still open for additional signatures.

* The second (in German, by #Austrian academics) one is online at ins.jku.at/chatcontrol/ and explicitly includes law experts in addition to the arguments from a security, privacy, and AI perspective.

This debate is expected to gain new steam with #Spain taking over the EU council presidency, given recently leaked statements like "Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption" (wired.co.uk/article/europe-bre…).

Please boost on any channels you deem adequate. The discussion is still open, and we have little time to bring it to a more rational level.

#csam #law #eu #privacy #dataprotection #privacy #humanrights #messenger #chat #chatcontrol #signal #whatsapp #telegram #threema #e2ee


Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”
Lily Hay Newman (WIRED UK)
#privacy #signal #whatsapp #telegram #messenger #law #EU #chat #HumanRights #css #threema #DataProtection #chatcontrol #csam #spain #e2ee #austrian

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Rejoice, GNOME 45 Alpha release is out

Play with it at os.gnome.org

discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-45…

#gnome #linux


GNOME 45 Alpha Released

Hello, GNOME 45.alpha is now available. This is the first unstable release leading to the 45 series. Download the GNOME 45.alpha sources. Review the list of updated modules and changes.
GNOME Discourse
#linux #gnome

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Meta Specific Data Rights Limitation Notice

Notice is hereby given to #Meta Corp. by this account, and all signatories, that all data rights are reserved. No license is granted other than those limited rights as per the account's instance Privacy Policy (eg. mastodon.online/privacy-policy).

Specifically no authorization is given for: 1) Monetization in any way, 2) Profiling for targeted advertising or other purpose, 3) AI, LLM or algorithm training.

**Simply reply, boost, or favourite to sign**


Mastodon

A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.online
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In case you missed it. Meredith at @signalapp was excellent at setting out the problems with UK Gov’s plans to back door end-to-end encryption. If you haven’t done already please support @openrightsgroup campaign on this action.openrightsgroup.org/don… #encryption #privacy #onlinesafetybill

Join the Campaign to Stop the Spy Clause

Take action to oppose mass survillance of our private messages
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#privacy #encryption #onlinesafetybill @Open Rights Group @Signal

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Presenters are confirming their times for #SolsticeSchool and now we need Fedi's help!

Can you moderate one or more of the talks?

Here's the instructions:

solsticeschool.scholar.social/…

It's not too difficult really

Introduce the speaker, enjoy the presentation, enforce the rules, help with the discussion after the talk

It takes about 1 hour + like 10 min to coordinate with the presenter beforehand

If this sounds like a thing you could do:

solsticeschool.scholar.social/…

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Solstice School 2023

solsticeschool.scholar.social
#solsticeschool

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How does 380 zettajoules of heat affect the climate system? Even if only 1 percent (yes you read that right) is going into the atmosphere and 89% into the ocean?

The hottest June on record, the worst wildfire season in Canada, unbearable heat from Asia to Texas, record ocean temps, and much more: and now an El Niño on top.

@hausfath, @MichaelEMann, @StottPeter and I discuss: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Map of global sea surface temperature anomaly for July 3, 2023

Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?

Rising temperatures in north Atlantic and drop in Antarctic sea ice prompt fears of widespread damage from extreme weather
Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)
@Zeke Hausfather @Michael E. Mann @StottPeter
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Wow, auf die Idee muss man erstmal kommen.

RNN Verkehrsverbund sendet für die Anmeldung gleich mal die unverschlüsselte E-Mailadresse an Google.

MVG leider auch mit Firebase Analytics.

(Die von @kuketzblog positiv getestete RMV-App ging bei mir nicht kuketz-blog.de/rhein-main-verk…)

Logfiles von mitmproxy, die E-Mailadresse wird als json an Googleapis gesendet.
Die MVGO-App sendet Analysedaten an Google Firebase.

Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): Richtig wählen beim Consent-Banner – Deutschlandticket Teil7

Das Datensendeverhalten der RMV-App ist in Ordnung. Bevor man die App jedoch nutzt, sollte man einen Blick in die Datenschutzerklärung werfen.
Kuketz IT-Security Blog
@Kuketz-Blog 🛡
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r3vilo

Ich verstehe es nicht. Anoyme Absturzberichte wäre ja vielleicht noch sinnvoll (IMO: nicht mal das), aber die ganze andere Kacke? Wahrscheinlich braucht man das, um Apps im Playstore zu veröffentlichen? Obwohl, es gibt ja auch die ein oder andere App ohne Tracker. Unwissenheit der Entwickler kann es auch nicht sein, dann hätten sie den falschen Job gewählt. Aber warum würde man sowas, was nicht der Appfunktionalität dient, überhaupt in den Code einfügen? Macht keinen Sinn.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@r3vilo Manche Entwickler scheinen in der Tat nur Baukästen zu klicken. Erfahrung von einer Banking App:

I: Da ist Firebase Analytics drin
E: Nutzen wir aber nicht
I: Warum ist es dann drin?
E: Kommt halt mit Firebase Cloud Messaging mit
I: Hier sind 5 Zeilen Code, um das in Gradle zu deaktivieren
E:

Da kam dann nix mehr. Und ja, ist immer noch drin. Ein halbes Jahr und einige Releases später 🤷‍♂️ Unwissen also nicht. Unwillen oder Unfähigkeit? 🤔

@r3vilo
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r3vilo

@IzzyOnDroid Ah ok. Man nimmt also das "Startpaket" und bastelt seine eigenen Sachen noch dazu. Die vorgefertigten Codeschnipsel schaut man gar nicht an bzw. ignoriert man. Ist wahrscheinlich einfacher als "from scratch" zu beginnen und dafür eine saubere App zu haben. Ich würde mir zwar überlegen, was ich unter meinem Namen veröffentliche, aber vielen scheint das egal zu sein. ... Ok, danke für die Info.
@IzzyOnDroid ✅
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@sadmin Das habe ich da auch erwähnt (woher man sicher sein kann, das "Aus" auch wirklich "Aus" heißt).

Erinnert mich an ein Schild in einer Klinik. Darauf gedruckt war: "Vor der Diskussion von Patientendaten bitte Alexa & Co deaktivieren." Darunter stand, von Hand geschrieben: "Bitte mit dem Vorschlaghammer." (Pfeil auf "deaktivieren").

Leicht anderer Fall, aber gleiches Prinzip.

@sadmin

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#Meta is having a very bad year. The latest decision (issued by the #CJEU yesterday in Meta Platforms Inc, et al., v. Bundeskartellamt, C-C252/21) adds to their woes, but more importantly, I anticipate it will force us all to re-evaluate #processing, #lawful bases, special category data, and #inferences derived from that data.

In my article, I explore the case in detail, as well as some hypotheses on the impact of this decision broadly to #BigTech, with examples.

But I'm curious to hear your thoughts and observations. Am I being a Cassandra? Overly pessimistic? Completely overthinking this? What implications am I missing?

I'll note here (even though I didn't mention it in the article) that this may also portend the effective death of the One Stop Shop mechanism, which is already on shaky ground after the whole spat between the #DPC and other regulators. Who needs Ireland if competition authorities can also raise issues under the GDPR?

CJEU case: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

Substack: careylening.substack.com/p/met…


Meta's Wakeup Call, and Big Tech's New Reality?

I unpack the far-reaching Impact of the CJEU's landmark ruling in Meta Platforms v Bundeskartellant and what it means for Big Tech, consent, and inferred data.
Carey Lening (Chronicles of the Constantly Curious)
#processing #meta #bigtech #CJEU #lawful #inferences #dpc
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modulux

Long post

In my opinion, we all knew that the overly wide reading of legitimate interest and performance of a contract as basis for processing were a racket. So that part is, to me, unsurprising and inevitable, if the data protection regime was to mean anything much at all. Same thing for making data manifest: isn't the entire point of the informational self-determination paradigm that you get to control how your personal data gets used, and just because it's known to some people it doesn't mean it can be spread indiscriminately?

You make interesting points regarding the issue of special categories of data, but overall I don't find it a pessimistic thing. I think it's good that these data are strongly protected, and the general disregard for law and antisocial habitus of data processors means that any reading of the law which lets them process these data so long as they maintain plausible deniability (we didn't mean it, it just happened) is one which is likely to make the protections too worthless, or at least much too weak. So, it's worth thinking of how to provide useful information without processing special categories of data, and I think the law already gives us good ideas: data minimisation, privacy by design, and so on. If you don't collect who looks for gay bars, you just give gay bar information out to an API request, you don't have to worry about data processing.

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I wrote about the privacy-preserving telemetry system in @EndlessOS and why I believe that, done right, telemetry in free software is Good, actually. It's a long article! But there's a Spiders Georg reference midway through to break it up a little.

blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/0…

Endless OS’s privacy-preserving metrics system – Will Thompson

blogs.gnome.org
@Endless OS Foundation

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It really comes to something when a headline like this (and no it's not just clickbate) seems normal. It should not be normal. I repeat: It should, not, be normal in the slightest.
There is something wrong, a very deep sickness with a people that think guns are, after everything, *still* OK.
Reading this from outside the country as I do, it depresses me to think that these things are just such a part of US life.
In the UK we have a saying.
'You can't go more than a hundred feet without passing a rat.'
US: You can't go a hundred feet without passing 8 guns... Probably...

America marks July 4 – with a string of mass shootings
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America marks July 4 – with a string of mass shootings

Over the course of the long holiday weekend from Friday evening through to Wednesday morning, the US endured at least 16 mass shootings, Rachel Sharp reports
Rachel Sharp (The Independent)

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I’ve spent a long, long time thinking about ethical software, the challenges we *necessarily* give ourselves compared to closed competitors, and crucially, how to overcome those challenges.

Four and a half years ago, I wrote:

>respecting your privacy is the ethical thing to do; users have a fundamental right to the utmost privacy, even from companies and products they trust.

That’s as true as ever.

cassidyjames.com/blog/privacy-…

#Privacy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS


Privacy and elementary OS ⋅ Cassidy James Blaede

How we protect your data from ourselves and others
cassidyjames.com
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #privacy #floss
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Cassidy James

What about that “privacy-first collection of useful data” I suggested as a future possibility?

It turns out Endless OS Foundation—the grant-funded social-wellfare non-profit deeply involved in furthering GNOME and Flatpak with tens of thousands of non-technical users across the globe—has been working on that. And we’re sharing it with and planning to work with the broader ecosystem in order to further the quality free and open source software—while keeping privacy paramount from the start.

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Cassidy James

Read my colleague @wjt’s post covering the privacy-first system we have built into @EndlessOS, how it fits together, and why it exists.

blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/0…

I hope this can serve as the beginning of the ecosystem coming together to solve this unique challenge in a way that is objectively superior than any proprietary system—all with privacy as the fundamental principle.

#EndlessOS #GNOME #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

Endless OS’s privacy-preserving metrics system – Will Thompson

blogs.gnome.org
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #floss #gnome #endlessos @Will T @Endless OS Foundation

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Not good. It cheapens the entire thing! AI-Created Music With Human Contributions Eligible for Grammy Awards – Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/music/music-n…

AI-Created Music With Human Contributions Eligible for Grammy Awards

Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason Jr. explained the bar of eligibility set for the new rule, which includes the requirement of meaningful human contributions
Larisha Paul (Rolling Stone)

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Meta/Facebook's fediverse thingie

Maybe you should all hide your social graphs, I think that's one of the most valuable things that #Meta/#Facebook wants to mine here 🤔

Or do they want to pull of an embrace, extend, extinguish?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,…

I don't really know nor do I want to join this discussion, just pointing out the most obvious risk.

Your social graph is basically who you follow and who follows you, you can hide it in the mastodon settings.

Microsoft business strategy in acquiring software platforms

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#meta

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#Chatcontrol must be stopped! The draft law is facing huge opposition. We applaud 👏 300 scientists for urging EU policymakers so stop chat control. Let's fight for our right to #privacy! 💪🔒

Check why we must stop #Chatkontrolle 👇

tutanota.com/blog/chat-control


Stop Chat Control: 300 Scientists Warn of Law Against Child Abuse

Chat control would be one of the worst surveillance laws and must be stopped: that's what scientists, even the EU Parliament's Scientific Service say.
Tutanota
#privacy #Chatkontrolle #chatcontrol
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