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
Because it costs so much money to create and run AI models, tech companies will inevitably try to pay for them by selling our personal information, says Signal’s CEO #signal#ai#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.
"Despite being a raving commie loon, Smith's observation was so undeniably true that regulators, policymakers, and economists couldn't help but acknowledge that it was true. The trustbusting era was defined by this idea: if we let the number of companies in a sector get too small, or if we let one or a few companies get too big, they'll eventually start to rig prices."
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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The vote on the #RightToContraceptionAct was 51-39, falling short of the 60 votes needed to defeat a #filibuster & move forward. Republicans said the bill is unnecessary as the use of #BirthControl is protected under #SCOTUS precedent as if [#SupremeCourt precedent means anything anymore].
#ClarenceThomas’s concurring opinion begins on page 117. On page 119 Thomas specifically states “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process #precedents, including #Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.”
"Aanleiding is een onderzoek van een Duitse journalist die kon inloggen in duizenden vergaderingen van Europese overheden. Nederland bleek in haar onderzoek het kwetsbaarst."
Haha, nog es naar het programma kijken van dit kabinet. Op naar een politiestaat, maar nog steeds geen aandacht voor eigen beveiliging en digitale soevereiniteit. Pfff #Security#Privacy#Democratie
#FBI#Surveillance#Privacy#Encryption: "As a privacy and encryption advocate, there were moments in this story that made me a little uncomfortable. There are places where the FBI is chafing at the constitutional limits on its surveillance powers where we can't help but sympathize with these "good guys" going after "bad guys." But this is the FBI, a lawless, unaccountable secret police who routinely bypass those limits by secretly buying data from sleazy data-brokers, or illegally sharing data with the NSA.
The conclusion really hammers home the point that the FBI's problem isn't constitutional niceties. Despite seizing hundreds of tons of illegal drugs and arresting thousands of high-ranking criminal syndicate bosses, Anom made no difference in the drug trade. Prohibition, after all, just makes criminals more wealthy and powerful. The Anom raids were, at worst, the cost of doing business – and at best, they were a global reset that cleared the board of established actors so that other criminals could seize their turf.
But even though Anom didn't triumph over crime, Dark Wire is a triumph. The book's out today, and there will shortly be a Netflix adaptation based on it, directed by Jason Bateman:"
“Folks are trying to redefine when life begins, but it’s just not scientifically supported,” said Courtney Joslin, who leads #PublicPolicy research on issues pertaining to #women & #families for the R Street Institute, a center-right think tank. “There’s just been a crowding-out effect where some #FarRight legislators have undermined #Republicans’ ability to talk about #BirthControl in a sensible & rational way.”
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.
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.
🎂 NGI TALER's partner, @glsbank, turned 50 & celebrated half a century of socio-ecological #banking last weekend at Bochum!
💡 On Sunday, @leoo presented the workshop "Wer weiß, was du kaufst? Datenflut beim Bezahlen", tracking the path of our #data when we conduct #digital payments! The workshop used the @Taler project as an example to show that there is #another, #better, #privacy#preserving way, built on #free#software!
🚀 It was amazing to have a full house and hear wonderful comments!
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even if you never use a microsoft product, people you interact with whom you trust, who may intend to respect your confidences, will unwittingly be running recall.