Noted anti-capitalist agitator Adam Smith had it right: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
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Je suis à DevFest Lille ou j’assiste à une conf’ de Benoit Masson sur les téléphones /e/OS/ . Il faut une démo sur un Samsung Galaxy S4 (10 ans tout de même) avec une version récente d’Android mais degooglisée, connecté à un NextCloud. #murena#eOS . Merci à Gaël Duval (ex-Mandrake/Mandriva !) pour ça ! #privacy
Tomorrow I'll be participating in a webinar on #privacy and the #fediverse organized by Privacy Laws and Business. I think it's an important issue -- I hope we spend more time talking about this topic.
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Murena is growing, and we want you to be a part of it! We're considering a fundraising campaign where anyone can become a co-owner of Murena through investments big and small.
Autonomi have launched their beta network and rewards program.
Anyone can run nodes and if you want to join the fun, sign up for the second wave of noderunner rewards. Even non-technical folks can do this with any old computer.
Since Microsoft seems to not care about the #Privacy impact that the #Copilot+ #Recall feature has, I am going back to #Linux as my daily driver. All my #Homelab servers run on Debian or its derivatives, work servers run RedHat or Windows, but I have not used a Desktop Linux for quite a while as a daily driver. I've been playing with Debian 12 with Gnome for the past few days, and next I'll be playing with Fedora, which I have not used since the early 2000's. We'll see how fast I can catch up.
Health insurance giant Medibank is facing a fine in the trillions of dollars, after the Australian Information Commissioner filed proceedings in the Federal Court over its 2022 cyber attack. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/medibank-taken-to-federal-court-over-cyber-attack/103936664
The commissioner now alleges that Medibank seriously interfered with the privacy of 9.7 million Australians by "failing to take reasonable steps to protect their personal information". #auslaw#auspol#privacy
A few words about the new Microsoft Recall #privacy busting feature. People on Mastodon probably know about it already, but still — WTF? Just store everything in a local database that seems to be insecure even before release? #windows#microsoft#ai
L’innovazione tecnologica richiede sempre più dati. Un’esigenza che va contemperata con quella della tutela dei diritti personali, in un’opera di bilanciamento che chiama in causa tutti: autorità di regolazione, grandi società e cittadini comuni
Vor einer Weile hab ich im Rahmen des EU-Projekts #DigitaleVorbilder ein Webinar zum Thema "Smarte Spielezeuge: Datendiebe im Kinderzimmer?" gemacht. Inzwischen ist das Graphic Recording dazu veröffentlicht - und ich liebs 🥰
Autonomi are launching their beta rewards program tonight (8am GMT) and have opened signups for the second wave of noderunners. Anyone will be able to run nodes, even non-technical folks.
The thing that upsets me about #Recall is that my data will be exposed by someone else, some business, using Windows. I'm not going to be using it, that's not my concern. It's that places that will use it will also have information about me that could potentially destroy my finances and identity. And is the gov't going to use it? It f'ing well better not. #privacy
Wir werden Themen vom letzten Mal konkretisieren und mal ein #Datenschutzcafe / #Cryptoparty planen und natürlich alles, was ihr noch einbringen möchtet!