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smallcircles, to fediverse
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Towards Federated Key Transparency by @soatok

> "In late 2022, I blogged about the work needed to develop a specification for end-to-end encryption for the #fediverse. I sketched out some of the key management components on GitHub, and then the public work abruptly stalled. A few of you have wondered what’s the deal with that. This post covers why this effort stalled, what I’m proposing we do next."

https://soatok.blog/2024/06/06/towards-federated-key-transparency/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606503

#ActivityPub #E2EE

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Meredith Whittaker president of @signalapp on #Xitter announces #Signal will leave #EU market if #ChatControl regulation by @EUCommission comes into effect.

MEP @echo_pbreyer for a long time is raising awareness of the pervasive #privacy-eroding nature of this regulation, which won't have its intended effect of protecting children.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40551260

#EUCommission is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in how good regulation is followed by dystopic stuff, eroding trust.

smallcircles,
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smallcircles,
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@gabriel

Yes, I think they have. Not broadly, as the average person isn't aware of this stuff. But there's a large body of organizations that continues ringing the alarm bell each and every time #ChatControl rears its ugly head again.

These rather dystopic overreaching regulations are lobbied for by state actors (e.g. anti-terror). Strategy seems to be to wear out opponents until some form of the regulation is passsed. Then the next one follows, etc.

@signalapp @echo_pbreyer @EUCommission

smallcircles, to Bulgaria
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Mehrad,
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@smallcircles
The "chat control" has some nostalgic and déjà vu kinda ring to it, especially for people like me who have lived in Iran or similar places, because:

>> the chats of employees of security authorities and the military are also to be exempted from chat control.

So the affairs (romantic, sexual, political, financial, ...) of people at power are ironclad protected, but general public should live in a complete disadvantage and bring monitored.

@echo_pbreyer

smallcircles,
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@Mehrad @echo_pbreyer

the supermaximum security society dystopia..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

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smallcircles, to foss
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Advocating for to adopt a OSS-first approach and use as their example of a secret store integration in upcoming RFC implementation..

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2141124236

@linuxfoundation projects are already seen as overly corporate, and sticking as much as possible to at least and preferably even in docs + elaborated examples would help to not further reinforce that notion.

smallcircles,
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And great news. discussed the issue and decided:

  • will not be the reference implementation.

  • Wasmcloud looks forward to presenting as one of their main integrations once it reaches GA.

  • The awareness that Vault constitutes "faux-pen source" made Wasmcloud implement automated license checks.

Read the details in this comment on the RFC:

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2143021790

@linuxfoundation

smallcircles,
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And great news. discussed the issue and decided:

  • will not be the reference implementation.

  • Wasmcloud looks forward to presenting as one of their main integrations once it reaches GA.

  • The awareness that Vault constitutes "faux-pen source" made Wasmcloud implement automated license checks.

Read the details in this comment on the RFC:

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2143021790

@linuxfoundation

smallcircles, to fediverse
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe!"

smallcircles, to privacy
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ClosedSource OpenVibe

Complete with surveillance capitalist privacy policy granting you precisely the amount of your government has carved out for you.

Welcome to the Modern Fediverse™

madargon,
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@smallcircles What happened now?

smallcircles,
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@madargon bit of a personal rant. Just me being not too enthusiastic on new entries to the fedi. In this case taking openvibe.social as example.

smallcircles, to webassembly
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Interview with Ben Titzer, co-founder of the open standard.

https://microarch.club/episodes/1000/

smallcircles, to random
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smallcircles, to random
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#LinkedData patterns, online #ebook ..

> "A pattern catalogue for modelling, publishing, and consuming Linked Data"

https://patterns.dataincubator.org/

smallcircles, to random
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TIL about licensing..

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Copyfarleft

Like the Peer Production license:

> "The peer production license is an example of the Copyfair type of license, in which only other commoners, cooperatives and nonprofits can share and re-use the material, but not commercial entities intent on making profit through the commons without explicit reciprocity."

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License

RL_Dane,
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@smallcircles

I wonder how that compares to Bruce Perens' recent efforts towards post-open-source licensing (i.e., also putting certain stipulations on commercial use)

RL_Dane,
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@smallcircles @interpeer

Bruce has a fedi account, but I don't know how active he is.

Here's an article from December describing what he's trying to build, license-wise: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/

Here's the draft (not yet lawyer-reviewed) license: https://perens.com/2024/03/08/post-open-license-first-draft/

smallcircles, to android
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I thought the battery of my ancient #Android phone had finally given out. Battery went from fully charged to empty in a heartbeat.

However #Proton app was somehow stuck trying to fetch notifications, so I killed it, thinking this was a battery drain. It likely was.

Along the way I found a real useful feature: Data Saver 😃

After I turned this on my battery lasts for days now, and I don't get superfluous notifications anymore either.

justincroser,
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@smallcircles what proton app was it? As I run grapheneOS background tasks and notifications don't work for some of them

smallcircles,
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@justincroser the proton mail app.

Edit: the ProtonMail mail app (dunno if just "proton" matches/conflicts with something else).

smallcircles, to Amazon
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Ugh.. 😫

#Amazon Echo Hub reviewed in @guardian is a device that brings you firmly into #Alexa's clutches.

The word #privacy isn't mentioned at all. Because who cares about that, right?

"Amazon’s latest Alexa device feels like the missing piece in making a home fully smart"

"The #Echo Hub [..] is a cut-price option for a device that usually has to be either professionally installed, costing thousands, or a DIY job that requires more than a little expertise." 😫

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/21/amazon-echo-hub-review-alexa-smart-home-dashboard

smallcircles, to web
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The new general #enshittification trend on the #Web:

> Please verify you are a human without any Ad Blockers turned on.

#Captcha dialogs that don't work unless you turn off your #adblocker .. of course you might allow the specific #tracker that makes the captcha functional, but not always clear which one to pick.

martin_fff,
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@smallcircles Guess I didnt need to use that site

hyakinthos,

What if you need to reach an agency or organisation who puts a between you and a contact form submission?

/cc
@martin_fff @smallcircles

smallcircles, to OpenAI
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OMG the thugs at decided they better steal Scarlett Johannson's voice after she declined a contract to get voiced by her.

Two days before launch of she was approached again by Sam Altman, Head of Crooks. And refused again.

To then find her overly uplifting, encouraging, positive sounding voice creating the uncanny valley in these demo's.

When approaching OpenAI by her legal councilors the voice was suddenly pulled.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

sj_zero,

I believe I posted something similar to this before:

Big tech playlist:

  1. enter deregulated space
  2. abuse deregulated space
  3. lobby for regulation in deregulated space
  4. own the regulated space (with regulations they helped write) forever.
smallcircles,
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@sj_zero regulatory capture, indeed.

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