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veroandi

@veroandi@mastodon.social

Backend developer PHP/Symfony

Interested in everything related to law, technology and data protection.

Posts mainly in French and English about:

#technology #webdevelopment #developers #programming #php #symfony #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #opensource #cybersecurity

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veroandi, to opensource
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What is Free Software?

“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. (..) It's a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French/Spanish word ("libre") for “free” as in freedom, to show we don't mean the software is gratis."

https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

veroandi, to tech
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"Meta, Google, Amazon, and other major tech firms have laid off thousands of people. The public sector has tried — and in some cases, succeeded —to lure them in"

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-jobs-government-layoffs
#layoff #bigtech #usgovernment #tech #techjobs

veroandi, to ai
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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

"It lets artists add invisible changes to their art so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways."

https://technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/

veroandi, to random
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"Your phone is the key to your digital life. Make sure you know what to do if you lose it.

Preparing yourself for the worst is easier than you might think — and it’s never been more important."

https://vox.com/technology/23954548/lost-broken-stolen-phone-save-yoursel

veroandi, to privacy
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Meta's latest "privacy feature", which charges you for not showing ads, is the most ridiculous (yes, that's the word), theatrical and stupid "interpretation" of European law. I'm not sure if they're doing it in bad faith or if they need better lawyers.

veroandi, to programming
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"Symfony and Doctrine’s documentation has a slight flaw: they don’t use constructors for DTOs."

https://withinboredom.info/2023/08/11/symfony-doctrines-docs-has-caused-more-bugs-than-anything-else/
#programming #php #symfony #doctrine

veroandi,
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@wouterj I'm not the author, I'm just sharing 😊

0xabad1dea, to random

hey heads up to everyone who uses more than one name or has strong separation of personal and professional identity:

I changed my display name in the web client for Teams to my full legal name for a call with the bank and this, to my astonishment, propagated to my local Windows install and now that name is all over it.

veroandi,
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@0xabad1dea I was lucky to have a separate laptop for work. But in my old Windows personal computer I have disabled the option to connect with a Microsoft account.

veroandi, to random
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I have one ticket "Women in Tech" to the Web Summit in Lisbon (Nov 13-16 2023).

If you're interested, please send me a DM. (only women can use it)

https://websummit.com/

veroandi, to programming
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"When teams face challenges with estimation, the root cause is usually a lack of shared understanding rather than a flaw in the estimation process itself."

https://medium.com/tymexlabs/challenges-in-agile-estimation-e0035c482f90

noybeu, to random
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"A leading campaigner against Meta’s data practices said he would fight the proposals “up and down the courts” if the subscription fees were implemented." 👇

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/03/facebook-instagram-charge-ad-free-eu-meta-mobile-desktop

veroandi,
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@nemobis @noybeu I also agree that to change a business model based on ads, an alternative may be charging users. Having platforms like these costs a lot - Meta has more than 70.000 employees, so they need money from somewhere. But in that case, they should charge everyone (my view), not only those that want their fundamental rights respected. They cannot divide citizens in 2 categories. And they will charge high fees so people will never pay for it, everyone will choose ads. Nothing changes. :(

acousticmirror, to apple
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"Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through."

@pluralistic on 's "parts-pairing" fuckery:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

veroandi,
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@acousticmirror @pluralistic I feel depressed after reading this article.

veroandi, to internet French
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July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band "Les Horribles Cernettes" ("The Horrible CERN Girls" in English)

The group sang love songs about colliders, quarks, liquid nitrogen, microwaves, and antimatter in ’60s-inspired outfits.

(the article contains the songs and funny lyrics, it's not that bad! 😀 )

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/07/18/les-horribles-cernettes/

veroandi, to music
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“More young people listen to orchestral music through their game consoles today than have ever listened to orchestral music in the history of music”
🎵

https://fastcompany.com/90953544/how-video-games-are-creating-a-new-generation-of-classical-music-fans
#music #videogames #ClassicalMusic #soundtrack

veroandi, to opensource
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Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like

"There might be a very simple explanation for why the masses have yet to adopt Linux as their desktop operating system and it's one the open-source community won't like"

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-dont-more-people-use-desktop-linux-i-have-a-theory-you-might-not-like/

kentbrew, to chrome
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Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

veroandi,
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@kentbrew we really have to trust Google to be sure that toggling these buttons will actually stop any kind of data being collected and shared.

And you all know that if a lot of people start doing it, they'll release an update that "accidentally" rolls it all back and users will have to configure it again, but users won't know, because we shouldn't have to monitor automatic changes to configurations we've already set.

openstreetmap, (edited ) to random
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Mini giving challenge!

To reach £50k in donations by tomorrow (9/9/23) we need about £2200. If you can help us reach this major milestone, please do. No gift is too small

https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/

veroandi,
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@openstreetmap Done! 👍

veroandi, to fediverse
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The unconference for the people who move the Fediverse forward.

"The Fediverse is growing rapidly. There are now tens of thousands of independently hosted servers, many new apps are appearing, and some big companies (like Meta) have announced they will implement ActivityPub and join the network. What decentralized future will we build, and how do we ensure it serves everybody?"

Next FediForum: September 20-21, 2023 (online)

veroandi, to javascript
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Why We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (Inventor of JSON)

"We're stuck with this crap and they keep piling new features on everything. The new features always create new problems, it doesn't have to be like that. We could be using clean OS, clean languages/runtimes in a much more reliable way. I've done JS for a generation. It's time for the next thing. It's not a radical point of view but a normal evolutionary view"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lc5Np9OqDHU

veroandi, to opensource
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I've just started using Thunderbird in my new machine, so it's time to thank them again for their work. 😃

@thunderbird: thank you all! 🎁 💐

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.0/eoy/

Screenshot of donation receipt. It shows Thunderbird's logo and the following text in the document: "MZLA Technologies Corporation 149 New Montgomery ST, 4th FL San Francisco CA 94105 give@thunderbird.net Tax ID 84-3352661 Official donation receipt Name: ondine Bruch (hidden address) Donation amount :€25.00 EUR Designation: Thunderbird Email Donation date: Aug 2, 2023, 10:21 AM EDT Receipt number: (hidden) Date issued: Aug 2, 2023, 10:21 AM EDT Location issued: 149 New Montgomery ST, 4th FL San Francisco CA 94105 Contributions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions .

brunty, to twitter
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If you pay me $8 a month you too can have a blue checkmark that you can hide

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23816924/twitter-x-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-check-option

veroandi,
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@brunty 🤣

veroandi, to linux
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New Linux computer, and I'm going to do one of my favorite steps, which is to customize and adjust settings for my needs, but I don't know everything, so I ask for your help: in terms of privacy & security, what are the first things you would do in a freshly new computer?

Do not hesitate to boost it to help me get more answers, it can be useful for everyone who wants updated tips for better securing their personal computers! :)

davidrevoy, to firefox
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Fighting for the open web.


veroandi,
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@davidrevoy I love this image! ❤️

veroandi, to privacy
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Some web scraping job tasks:

  • Utilise advanced techniques to bypass blocking technologies, including CAPTCHAs, IP blocking, and user agent restrictions
    &
  • Ensure compliance with applicable data privacy regulations and ethical web scraping practices

https://competitormonitor.com/text-web-scraping-specialist-remote-page-173.html

veroandi,
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If they explicitly write "bypass" and "circumvent" blocking technologies in their job description, why bother asking for ethical skills from developers? They don't really want an "ethical dev", do they?😏

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