NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.
— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards
— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable

wired.com/story/whatsapp-inter… #tech #whatsapp #dma #infosec #news #technology

WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.

^{Matt Burgess (WIRED)}

Hey #furries there's a bill in Oklahoma that was introduced & would punish children for dressing as a furry at school & have them taken away by Animal Control.

Rep. Humphrey has introduced a heap of shitty bills.😭

Bill Text: webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_…

Other details: legiscan.com/OK/bill/HB3084/20…

#tech #infosec #nerds #oklahoma #

Hledani prace me nuti se vic bavit s lidmi o mych technologicko-filosofickych nazorech. Treba na pohovorech. Taky vic ctu, co se kde deje. Abych se na tech pohovorech mel o cem bavit, ze ano.

Diskuze kolem variant ruznych technologii jsou moje oblibene. Jako JavaScript vs TypeScript, CSS vs Tailwind. Pripomina mi to krasnou case-study Yarn vs NPM. Dogmatici na vsech frontach.

muhu.digital/article/to-yarn-o…

A co tim chci predat? Oba pristupy jsou validni a obhajitelne.

#npm #yarn #javascript #tech

To Yarn or not to Yarn

Kdyz prisel Yarn, bylo to jako zjeveni. Rychle. Pouzitelne. Vsichni to chteli. Ted na nej vsichni nadavaji. Proc?

^muhu.digital

🥊 Showdown: Epic Games vs. Google 🥊

Epic Games won. 💪

This is a huge win for any Google competitor - so almost any tech company! 🍾

➡️ arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12…

Here's also some info on how the Google Search Monopoly harms competition - including some nice search alternatives: tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…

Go private now! 😎

#TechNews #Tech #EpicGames #Epic #Google #GooglePlay #EpicVsGoogle #Fortnite

Tak jsem si chvilku hral s mapama a lbc.wtf ve verzi nula je na svete. 🎉

Princip je jednoduchy. K postu na Mastodon s hashtagem #lbc pridam text "lbc:LAT:LON". Script followuje hashtag na >c.d serveru a novy post prida na mapu. Testovaci posty jsem otagoval zvlast, abych zbytecne neposilal updaty.

A prace s mapami. Nic moc. Spousta niche hardcodovanych veci. Spousta outdated dokumentace. Je to hold pro lidi, co mapama zijou.

Uz ted mam docela slusny backlog. 🚘

#tech

LBC.WTF

Hipsterský průvodce po Liberci

^lbc.wtf

V seznamu projektiku jsem se konecne dopracoval az k lbc wtf. Na to jsem se tesil uz od chvile, kdy jsem narazil na pruvodce po Liberci z roku 1966.

Ted to technicky zhmotnuju:
👉 Vezmu Leaflet a Protomaps vysek Liberecka.
👉 K memu hipsterskemu pribehu na Mastodonu pridam geotag.
👉 Magie zobrazi moje #lbc prispevky v mape na webu.

Lokalni influencer in the making! Dal jsem si vyzvu mit to cely staticky, ale editovat v Nextu DB je pohodlnejsi nez .json na CDN. Tak uvidime.

#projekt #tech

Youtube's tantrum escalates.

Forced to concede that they cannot outpace ad blocking extensions, parent company Google artificially limits the rate of extension updates in Chrome.

No justification for the user experience is given, and in fact this makes chrome users more vulnerable to attacks injected via ads.

#tech #news #enshittification

arstechnica.com/google/2023/12…

Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slower.

^{Ars Technica}

This is the latest #youtube "innovation". #Google with a market cap of $1.7 trillion and $120 billion cash on hand, "needs" to charge for ads on YouTube.

This is, of course, not true. They have more than enough revenue to run YouTube without ads in perpetuity, but they want to please shareholders. The #Peertube community is showing how you can distribute the costs of hosting content as well. If you don't support Google's continued monetization of monopolized video...vote with your feet.

#tech

„Es gab keinen Hinweis darauf, dass sie Amerikanerin war. Wir dachten alle, sie sei Irin“, berichtet ein Hoher Beamter der französischen Libération und versichert, niemand habe eine Ahnung gehabt, worüber da eigentlich abgestimmt wurde. „Wir haben erst auf Twitter herausgefunden, dass wir etwas Inakzeptables akzeptiert hatten“.

blog.fefe.de/?ts=9a485f1a

#EU #Kommission #Chefökonomin #Generaldirektion #Wettbewerb #ScottMorton #USA #Tech

Great news for the Right To Repair:

"EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027 | PCMag"

#RightToRepair #EU #Europe #phone #batteries #tech

pcmag.com/news/eu-smartphones-…

EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027

The European Parliament just caused a major headache for smartphone and tablet manufacturers.

^{Matthew Humphries (PCMag)}

So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.

Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"

Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.

From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."

It's enshitification in action.

Source: support.google.com/photos/answ…

#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec

SHIFTscreen🖥
Er wird immer realistischer: Dein Arbeitsplatz, vollständig ausgestattet mit SHIFT-Produkten.😍
Der offizielle Start in das Projekt SHIFTscreen wird mit unserem Crowdfunding-Kickoff am 5. April um 18:30 Uhr eingeläutet.📆
Ausführliche Informationen zu den Details veröffentlichen wir bereits 24 Stunden zuvor auf unserer Projektseite: shift.eco/shiftscreen-status

#shifthappens #shiftphone #shift #screen #monitor #new #tech #crowdfunding

🚨Bellingcat will host its next hackathon between April 21 and 23.

The event will have a specific focus on increasing the accessibility of software tools used in digital investigations.

Find out more and sign up here:

bellingcat.com/april-hackathon…

#osint #tech #journalism

Join Bellingcat’s April 2023 Hackathon and Increase the Accessibility of Open Source Tools - bellingcat

Bellingcat will host a remote global hackathon to increase the accessibility of software tools used in digital investigations between 21 and 23 April. Sign up to take part here.

^bellingcat

Not only does Elon Musk not have a clue what he’s talking about, but this is *exactly* what he tried to do at PayPal, claiming it needed a full “V2” rewrite of the code when it didn’t.

Instead, it shifted resources away from key areas, caused PayPal to lose much more money to fraud, and eventually got him ousted as CEO.

Last month, I wrote about Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and how he’s repeating his mistakes from that period: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa…

#tech #elonmusk #twitter #paypal

The #FreeBSD Foundation is hiring:
opensourcejobhub.com/job/6152/…

#softwaredevelopment #hiring #jobs #tech

FreeBSD Userland Software Developer (Remote)

Are you a versatile problem-solver with a knack for operating system development?  Do you thrive working in an open source development environment with a diverse team?  If so, the FreeBSD Foundation is searching for a software developer with varied i…

^{Open Source JobHub}

ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.

OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.

time.com/6247678/openai-chatgp…

#tech #chatgpt #ai

Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

OpenAI used outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 per hour to scrub toxicity from ChatGPT. Here's what to know.

^{Billy Perrigo (Time)}

What do you value the most in your devices?
Privacy, Security and/or Freedom?

At #CES2023, the biggest #tech event, we are asking people their thoughts about where they stand when it comes to #privacy, #security and #freedom when it comes to their #laptops, #phones, IoT devices

#ces

Elon Musk suspended Linette Lopez from Twitter after years of critical reporting on his companies.

In a new piece, she lays out Elon Musk’s playbook of exploiting workers while building a cult following. These tactics aren’t new. Musk has always been this way, regardless of what former boosters like Kara Swisher want you to believe. They were just happy to ignore it for access while journalists like Lopez did the work.

businessinsider.com/elon-musk-…

#elonmusk #tech #tesla #twitter #spacex

Elon Musk was always a visionary jerk, bad boss at SpaceX, Tesla. But it won't work at Twitter.

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

^{Linette Lopez (Insider)}

STUDY: Privacy Violations Occurred At Least 50% Of The Time When Taking Devices For Repair

#News #Study #tech #privacy #computer #phone #data
arstechnica.com/information-te…

Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid

Not surprisingly, female customers bear the brunt of the privacy violations.

^{Ars Technica}

4 years using and championing the #fediverse full time and I've never written a #introductions toot. Well, or I have and can't find it.

I'm a #blind guy from 🇬🇧 with a passion for #technology and #programming, particularly #lowLevel #systemsProgramming in #C, #C++, #Rust, etc.

I've been a huge #freeSoftware / #openSource advocate for the majority of my life. I run #Linux and I love open, #decentralised technologies like #ActivityPub, #Matrix, #bitTorrent etc.

In my view, technology is built to make our lives easier, and in many ways, it isn't these days. It is truly my opinion that the only way #tech can be sustainable is if it's built using #FOSS, and does not give ultimate control to any 1 entity, individual or corporate. If technology is to help the people, it must be built *for* the people.

Currently working on odilia.app, various projects with the rest of the Lower Elements gang at lowerelements.club, and a Computing Science BSC at the #University of #stirling

Tak se jdu podívat na #EndeavourOS. Jedná se o linuxovou distribuci založenou na #ArchLinux

#linux #os #tech