I gave a talk at #fosdem #fosdem2024.

Video and slides are now available:
fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event…

#thunderbird #security #openpgp #librepgp #smime

I'm interested in your feedback on these thoughts. Either here, or, if your feedback is longer, for a discussion it might be best to post to
thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…

Thanks a lot to the organizers of @fosdem and the modern email developer room.
github.com/modern-email/FOSDEM…

GitHub - modern-email/FOSDEM-24

Contribute to modern-email/FOSDEM-24 development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Mastodon users know first: a new DokuWiki release is out: 2024-02-06 "Kaos"

download.dokuwiki.org/

What a surprise: @bitwarden explains setting up 2fa with Tuta Mail (slide 39)! 😍

👉 bitwarden.com/resources/presen…

And rightly so: Because #encrypted email get even more secure with #2FA and #passwordmanagers 💪

Nate Silver trolled the internet last week with an inane tweet about the putative stagnation in the pace of innovation -- and @ahl and I are apparently incapable of not spending an episode discussing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today!

discord.gg/7hg4eNyr?event=1204…

Hello Mastodonians!

Michael Freeman (he/him) here, a high school physics teacher and folk musician in Somerville, MA. I post mostly with the #ITeachPhysics community, so if you #ITeachPhysics too, I'd probably love to follow you, and we can all learn to #ITeachPhysics better!

I make physics interactives on Desmos as well as other resources, which you can find at afreeparticle.com

#Intro

a free particle

This website is collection of work by Michael Freeman, a physics teacher at Somerville High School in Somerville, MA. Feel free to use this content for non-profit educational purposes and buy me a coffee here if you have the means.

^{www.afreeparticle.com}

#DigitalColonialism #AlgorithmicBias #BigTech -

Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry

"Large technology companies like Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet have unprecedented access to our daily lives, collecting information when we check our email, count our steps, shop online, and commute to and from work. Current events are concerning—both the changing owners (and names) of billion-dollar tech companies and regulatory concerns about artificial intelligence underscore the sweeping nature of Big Tech’s surveillance and the influence such companies hold over the people who use their apps and platforms.

As trusted tech experts Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry show in this eye-opening and convincing book, this vast accumulation of data is not the accidental stockpile of a fast-growing industry. Just as nations stole territories for ill-gotten minerals and crops, wealth, and dominance, tech companies steal personal data important to our lives. It’s only within the framework of colonialism, Mejias and Couldry argue, that we can comprehend the full scope of this heist.

Like the land grabs of the past, today’s data grab converts our data into raw material for the generation of corporate profit against our own interests. Like historical colonialism, today’s tech corporations have engineered an extractive form of doing business that builds a new social and economic order, leads to job precarity, and degrades the environment. These methods deepen global inequality, consolidating corporate wealth in the Global North and engineering discriminatory algorithms. Promising convenience, connection, and scientific progress, tech companies enrich themselves by encouraging us to relinquish details about our personal interactions, our taste in movies or music, and even our health and medical records. Do we have any other choice?"

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b…

Data Grab

A compelling argument that the extractive practices of today’s tech giants are the continuation of colonialism—and a crucial guide to collective resistance.

^{University of Chicago Press}

Europe is true to its word.

Last night’s political agreement on the €50 billion Ukraine Facility is a major step forward.

We will continue to deliver much-needed funding and predictability for our brave partner and aspiring member.

We aim to start payments in March.

📱 Facebook is 20. Author Jamie Bartlett investigates the new digital elite and the power of the vast platforms they control.

Gatekeepers, a new podcast on BBC Sounds bbc.in/4boLlHB

#Facebook #SocialMedia #PlatformEconomy #JamieBartlett #podcast #technology

Hello hello! We just made a bugfix/security release of GoToSocial, v0.13.2.

github.com/superseriousbusines…

Background

After Mastodon announced some vulnerabilities last week we looked through equivalent parts of our own code to make sure GtS isn't vulnerable in the same way.

Good news

We didn't find anything that would allow anyone to take over an account, or to post statuses or do updates as someone else: we check Create and Update activities carefully.

Bad news

We did find some areas where remote accounts could, with persistence and custom software, make a nuisance of themselves by pretending to be other accounts and sending fakes of a subset of activities such as Likes, Blocks, Follows, Announces (boosts), and Undo's of those things.

The above is not really easy to do, and we don't have any evidence that anyone's actually done it, but hey, now it's fixed just in case.

So, if you're running v0.13.1 or below, we recommend updating to v0.13.2 using the link above. The release doesn't contain any changes to the config file or templates or anything, so it should be a quick and easy update.

If you're running on main/snapshot: we recommend updating your snapshot to the latest code on main, which includes the fix. You can get the latest snapshot binary build from here or, for docker, update your docker image to the latest snapshot tag. Depending on how far back in commits you were before this release, there may be config file changes or other things, but likely nothing breaking.

As always, thanks for reading, and enjoy your week!

Release v0.13.2 · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

Changelog f5314c0 [bugfix] Ensure activities sender always = activities actor (#2608)

^GitHub

Bueno, pues ya tenemos aquí uno de los objetivos declarados de #Vox: crear la versión cañí de los chalecos amarillos, usando de parapeto una clase muy concreta de pequeño productor agrícola que solo (solo, por decir algo) tiene dos exigencias: gasóleo barato y que las inspecciones [sean laborales, sean fitosanitarias, sean de lo que hacen con los fondos europeos] sean evitables o, por lo menos, baratas

#agricultura #protestas #España #noticias
elpais.com/economia/2024-02-06…

Los agricultores sacan los tractores y provocan retenciones en varias provincias por cortes de carreteras

Detenido un manifestante por agredir a un policía en los accesos del principal mercado mayorista de Valladolid

^{El País (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

Ever wondered how RIPE Database works, how to efficiently search or how to make updates?

Join the #RIPENCC #webinar tomorrow. It is free and open to everyone.

learning.ripe.net/w/courses/12…

Nemôžem si pomôcť, ale toto sa Vodafonu fakt nepodarilo. Ja som si teda v private móde overil, že certifikát na tej adrese im patrí, ale to určite nebude činnosť, ktorú robí bežný človek. A keď budú ľuďom posielať a publikovať svoje oznámenia na random adresách, tak ich akurát naučia klikať na kde aké podvodné linky...

Nehovoriac o tom, že správu v takomto formáte poslali zrovna dnes, počas "dňa bezpečného internetu", ako tu už dnes spomínal @babaq...

#Vodafone

A 639-year-long piece of music being played in a cathedral in Germany has just changed a chord for the first time in 2 years - after letting that previous single chord drone out day and night - as crowds gather in anticipation.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68…

#music #johncage #asslowaspossible #doesitdoom #avantgarde #installation #experimentalmusic #halberstadt #doom #drone

Rust web frameworks have subpar error reporting

lpalmieri.com/posts/rust-web-f…

Discussions: discu.eu/q/lpalmieri.com/posts…

#programming #rustlang

Rust web frameworks have subpar error reporting

None of the major Rust web frameworks have a great error reporting story. We try to implement robust error logging with both axum and Actix Web and then compare the results with Pavex, an upcoming Rust web framework.

^{www.lpalmieri.com}

Pues no, me parece fatal. Vamos, es que ya pagamos bastante de comunidad, como para encima darle un sueldo. A menos que el presidente sea yo, que entonces no es sólo que lo vea bien, es que debería ser obligatorio. ¿Puede cobrar un sueldo el presidente de la comunidad de vecinos?

20minutos.es/noticia/5215675/0…

¿Puede cobrar un sueldo el presidente de la comunidad de vecinos? Estas son las opciones según la ley

La Ley de Propiedad Horizontal y los Estatutos de las propias comunidades de vecinos establecen las normas respecto al cargo de presidente y sus atribuciones.

^20minutos

Erinomainen kolumni kaikin puolin, mutta ihan erityisesti tämä:

"Rikkaita suosivat verouudistukset voivat päinvastoin hidastaa talouskasvua ja kurjistaa köyhien asemaa. Talouskasvu onkin hidastunut länsimaissa 1980-luvulta alkaen samalla, kun suurituloisten verotusta on alennettu. Samalla eriarvoisuus ja sen haitat ovat lisääntyneet."

Mitä matalammat verot rikkailla on, sitä huonommin koko yhteiskunta voi. yle.fi/a/74-20072746

Heikki Hiilamon kolumni: Ryhdyin tutkijaksi, koska hävetti väittää työkseen, että rikkaiden suosiminen auttaa…

Keskelle talouspolitiikan keskustelua on ponnahtanut vanha tuttu ”vieteriukko”. Se väittää, että rikkaiden suosiminen on tieteellinen välttämättömyys ja hyödyttää köyhiä.

^{Heikki Hiilamo (Yle Uutiset)}

TIL that sudo, the unix command line utility, has a logo. And that logo is cursed.

commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…

File:Sudo logo.png - Wikimedia Commons

^{commons.m.wikimedia.org}

When I was a kid, I liked math and art. (I still do.) The adults told me that I should be an architect. Instead I became a math teacher who makes art with all of my free time. I’m pretty sure if I had become an architect, all the buildings I would have designed would have been crooked.

This is my first #painting with reflected pink light. That’s what helps make the buildings look 3D.

Amalfi Coast
Royal Talens #gouache
on Stonehenge cotton paper
8.5” by 11” paper including white border

Beta7 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. Changes from the previous beta include:
- When copying text in Microsoft Word with NVDA’s browse mode enabled, formatting is now also included
- Updates to documentation, Native selection mode, errors when session is locked / unlocked and translations.

Read more & download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Beta #News

#Nevada Republicans’ Caucus Adds Chaos and Confusion to the State’s Presidential Primary
==

While legal, the party’s decision to host a competing contest to the Feb. 6 primary election has angered #GOP voters and provided fertile ground for #misinformation to take hold, experts say, undermining voters’ trust in the process.

#Republicans #Elections #News #Politics #Voting #Voters

propublica.org/article/nevada-…

Nevada Republicans’ Caucus Adds Chaos and Confusion to the State’s Presidential Primary

While legal, the party’s decision to host a competing contest to the Feb. 6 primary election has angered GOP voters and provided fertile ground for misinformation to take hold, experts say, undermining voters’ trust in the process.

^ProPublica