Let's use @protonprivacy and @Tutanota products.
Encryption is the single best hope against surveillance.

https://www.wired.com/story/house-section-702-vote/

#security #cybersecurity #infosec #nationalsecurity #nsa #fbi #section702 #privacy #government #surveillance #e2ee #tech #proton #protonmail #tuta #tutanota #bigtech #degoogle

House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program

The US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the Section 702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the FBI to obtain a warrant to access Americans’ information.

^{Dell Cameron (WIRED)}

All of a sudden it starts raining handmaids in handcuffs:

http://www.erosblog.com/2024/04/06/its-raining-handmaids-in-handcuffs/

#Facism #Handmaids #HandmaidsTale #Privacy #ReproductiveRights #BurnThePatriarchy #Technology #Patriarchy #Christofacism #Christianity #Ovulation #OvulationTracker #Ovia #Tech #Danger #ReproductiveFreedom

Yup, about sums it up...

#AI #tech #business

A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (363) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/dl363

Check out #DestinationLinux 363: PipeWire Interview with Wim Taymans, Revolutionizing Audio & Video on Linux

#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech

363: PipeWire Interview with Wim Taymans, Revolutionizing Audio & Video on Linux - Destination Linux - TuxDigital

Download as MP3 On this week’s episode, we have a special guest joining us to discuss his work with making our lives better in Linux audio. Of course, this...

^TuxDigital

Missed @lea@ordinary.cafe and @jaiden@ordinary.cafe's panel at @socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza about the future of the Linux desktop?

Here’s a recording to satisfy your curiosity :3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDJDyef_UQ

Featuring:

- @lea@ordinary.cafe, Fyra Labs
- @jaiden@ordinary.cafe, Fyra Labs (Moderator)
- @zana@sfba.social, @gnome@floss.social Foundation
- @technobaboo@tech.lgbt, @stardustxr@fosstodon.org
- @communiteatime@fosstodon.org, @thunderbird@mastodon.online- @mattdm@hachyderm.io, @fedora@fosstodon.org & Red Hat
- @druonysus@mstdn.io, @kde@floss.social & @opensuse@fosstodon.org
#tech #linux #foss #oss #scale21x

Where Does the Linux Desktop Go from Here?

It's no lie that the Linux desktop has been changing greatly. Through technological and social shifts, the desktop and community we know today is a far cry f...

^YouTube

Hello, hello 😋
As we still focus on reliability and stability, there have been some major improvements made to JAMS. Discover it all in our new Dev Update #4. #tech #p2p #app

https://jami.net/dev-update-4/

Jami - Dev Update #4

Our dev team prioritizes stability and reliability, with significant updates to JAMS.

^{Loïc Bogino (Jami)}

Do you turn off your PC after you are done using it for the day?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

Comment below with your thoughts on powering off or not powering off your PC after each use.

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Question #Questions #QOTD #PC #Power #Tech #AllThingsTech

• Yes, I turn my PC off when I'm done! (46%, 120 votes)
• No, I don't turn off my PC when I'm done! (53%, 140 votes)

“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/

Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.

Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.

#tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine

Google Protest At Tech Conference Over Israel Contracts

Google engineers protested Google at an Israel tech conference in New York before being thrown out by security.

^{Marlon Ettinger (The Daily Dot)}

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - Volume 101
https://ai-weekly.ai/newsletter-02-27-2024/

The Week's News in Artificial Intelligence
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#ai #news #ainews #artificialintelligence #aiweekly #technology #tech #technews #techtrends #machinelearning #robotics #datascience #airesearch #futuretech

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@protonmail has just announced that their FREE PLAN will now have 5GB of storage for ProtonDrive and 1GB of storage for ProtonMail.

https://mastodon.social/@protonmail/111964995515995577

This is definitely a nice bump. Anxious to see if other plans get an increase at some point soon too.

#News #TechNews #Proton #ProtonMail #ProtonDrive #Tech #AllThingsTech

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

https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/ #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: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24%20INT/hB/HB3084%20INT.PDF

Other details: https://legiscan.com/OK/bill/HB3084/2024

#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.

https://muhu.digital/article/to-yarn-or-not-to-yarn

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! 🍾

➡️ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/googles-android-app-store-monopoly-violates-antitrust-law-jury-finds/

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

Go private now! 😎

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

Tak jsem si chvilku hral s mapama a https://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

https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/12/chromes-next-weapon-in-the-war-on-ad-blockers-slower-extension-updates/

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“.

https://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

https://www.pcmag.com/news/eu-smartphones-must-have-user-replaceable-batteries-by-2027

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: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP

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