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kzimmermann

@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org

An amateur hacker who works towards the advancement free software. Advocates for privacy and user freedom.

I have a #peertube channel hosted generously by Diode.zone:

https://diode.zone/video-channels/kzimmermann_podcast

:alpine: - :artix: - :freebsd: - :debian: - :raspberrypi:

Aeons ago (like 2016), I used to have an account on Quitter.se. You may consider this its spiritual continuation.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

kzimmermann, to random
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It breaks my heart to see some very good OSes with good potential out there cross their arms and claim that "they are not intended to be used in the Desktop anyway." C'mon: if you have a solid enough base, one should be able to build a good generic desktop with it, even if you specialize in something else.

internetarchive, to random
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Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable.

We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

kzimmermann,
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Imagine how much of a chicken-shit you'd have to be to DDoS the @internetarchive out of all the websites out there.

That said, I hope they recover soon…

kzimmermann, to random
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lol cops are incredibly thin-skinned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB#Prosecution_history

kzimmermann,
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> On 22 May 2016, a 34-year-old woman in Madrid, Spain, was charged under Article 37 of the Citizen Safety Law for carrying a bag displaying the acronym "A.C.A.B." accompanied by the words "All Cats Are Beautiful". The charges were dropped 3 days later.

hyde, to privacy
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What is your number one reason you bring to people on why they should care about #privacy ?

Some say, they can have my data I don't care, or even if I got a card fraud, I'll get my money back from the insurance, or things like this.

I'm trying to find good examples to counter their cheap arguments ...

Boosts appreciated 🙏🏽

kzimmermann,
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@hyde I gave up on this quest years ago. Today, if someone outright says to my face they don't care about , I just shake their hand, wish them good luck and walk away. End of conversation. Nothing in the book says that I must bear that person, and that attitude is a sign that I didn't miss much anyway.

kzimmermann,
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@hyde but chances are that the person who asked has a smartphone at that precise moment. Ask to see it. If it's locked, ask "hey, why is it locked? Are you hiding anything from me?" If they say something about "security," you go "against what? Are you under attack? Are a person of interest or- WHOA WTF ARE YOU A TERRORIST?!"

Eventually they will admit it's privacy, and you can call their bluff. And if that phone was unlocked, well, bon appetit digging through their dirty shit!

kzimmermann, to random
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The new output coloring behavior of the latest ip command makes it worse to find information in my opinion. Like, the important information is colored darker, reducing contrast against the terminal's background. Yes, coloring makes it easy to highlight a few key things against a sea of text, but I think they should re-think a little what to highlight in there, and the color scheme used as well.

stefano, to microsoft
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Big companies can't go down.
Big company services will never stop.
Big companies have THE CLOUD!

#Cloud #Bing #BingIsDown #Microsoft #Down #BigTech #IT #SysAdmin #CloudComputing

kzimmermann,
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@stefano ah yes, the cloud...

https://xkcd.com/908/

And the funniest part is it took down Duckduckgo with it. Goes to show how big tech eventually becomes cannibalistic.

kzimmermann, to random
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DuckDuckDown again...

kzimmermann,
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@aner same. But just 10min ago I bit it and changed my default search engine to a instance I used to use. Working great so far... except for some instant answers things like weather.

kzimmermann,
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Well it's back up again, but I kind of enjoyed the ride; re-visiting after a while was a great refresher. I shall do it more often to fight data silos.

kzimmermann, to random
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Finally updated to 3.20, as usual smooth as silk!

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.0-released.html

But, for some reason, this update removed my xinit package. Not to worry, just installed it with apk add xinit and then I had my desktop back again!

kzimmermann, to random
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Was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why I can't SSH to my home server from the work wifi, then suddenly realized the domain was blocked (who knows, they think that FreeDNS's addresses host malware or something).

Went into my account, chose a subdomain not in the top 15 most used ones, pointed it to my server. Thought: "surely it can't be this easy to work around."

It worked.

Security By Obscurity FTW.

stux, to apple
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needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bug

kzimmermann,
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@stux there is confirmation that they collaborated with the PRISM program in the past. Reformed offenders? Maybe. But also let's not forget that is a very good marketing and PR enabler. I personally still don't trust them.

kzimmermann, to accessibility
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So today I decided to turn down my laptop's screen resolution to make fonts a little bigger to match those in my large external monitor. I wondered if the experience would be negatively impacted by it.

Turns out it was the best decision I could have taken. I can read everything in both screens now, and probably will keep it this way even without the external screen. Not everything needs to be tiny.

kzimmermann,
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@ckoul no thanks. This requires me to fiddle with all the config files and some applications even just ignore it (GTK/Qt widgets and so). Setting a different display mode on other hand takes just one command (which I can automate) and just works. Less window space doesn't scare me; this tiling wm has 10 workspaces to share the load.

maulanahirzan, to random
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I am a bit sad because of my Thinkpad, but I successfully deployed FreeBSD to 5 Pis. Might share config.txt for HDMI display output.

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kzimmermann,
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@maulanahirzan haha nice. Free AC and power... as long as building administration doesn't look at the bill tooo close :D

But don't they turn off the AC in the weekends?

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