Category: Ethics
Ethics
Which Free-Software friendly BIM?
Let’s speak about Building Information Modelling. I doubt I can get FreeCAD approved because it is not listed in the list of “certified by BuildingSmart software”. Which proprietary alternative among those is the most friendly toward free-as-in-freedom software? And what about the CMS part? That is also required, but BIM places some constraints on the…
Ethics
Time for your own DNS server
We knew this will came. Now we know we have to install our own DNS server on our own local networks. Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS (torrentfreak.com) 29 An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking 14.2…
Ethics
Pears, birds and peer to peer
How does pears.com, p2panda and libp2p compare? I found pears a couple of days ago, when a fellow hacker from POuL highlighted me https://keet.io, a peer to peer chat application. They promise No middlemen, no metadata, no surveillance, just direct encrypted chats with people you trust. Nice try dudes. Too bad Keet is proprietary software.…
Ethics, Privacy, Yet another reason to avoid
Perché i siti pubblici promuovono gratuitamente le Big Tech?
Perché i siti pubblici promuovono gratuitamente le Big Tech? Si domandano su opensalerno.it. Infatti ogni icona di Facebook, Instagram o X sui siti istituzionali è pubblicità gratuita per giganti privati che rafforzano i loro monopoli tracciando i cittadini e costringendoli all’uso di piattaforme proprietarie. Esistono molte alternative davvero libere: A mio modo di vedere le…
Yet another reason to avoid Microsoft
Windows activation is now online-only…
If you needed yet another reason to leave Windows, Slashdot tells us that Microsoft has “quietluy” discontinued the offline activation of Windows. Neowin reports that: Offline Windows activation has been possible to do using the phone. However, it looks like Microsoft has quietly killed off that method as users online have found that they are…
Ethics, Proprietary hardware
Avoid Nintendo
«FSF Says Nintendo’s New DRM Allows Them to Remotely Render User’s Device ‘Permanently Unusuable’» that is why I will keep avoiding Nintendo hardware as I have done until now.
Status
Firefox mi propone Dovremmo tutti riscoprire il luddismo… l’ho letto “un po’ di sfuggita” – stavo quasi per derubricarlo al solito articolo “acchiappa-click”… mi pare piuttosto superficiale.
L’unico punto che mi pare condivisibile è che non sia tanto l’AI a “rubarci il lavoro” quanto le scelte scellerate di certi amministratori delegati…
Ethics, Mood
Giù le mani dal GDPR!
Lo trovate anche su https://www.agendadigitale.eu/sicurezza/privacy/europa-giu-le-mani-del-gdpr-ecco-i-rischi-che-corriamo/ ma io vi suggerisco vivamente, anche a chi preferisce leggere testi scritti – di ascoltare questo pezzo di Walter Vannini sul “Digital Omnibus” nella versione audio perché la trascrizione non vale la metà dell’audio, pur dicendo le stesse cose al netto di qualche piccolo inciso che è stato omesso.
Ethics
Cloudflare down…
An epidemic of HTTP 500 errors… GPT down… half of Italy at a standstill… Law firms, banks, insurance companies, with people wandering through corridors without knowing how to do it The solution would be to bring everything back home. Or in infrastructures that you control. Given the competence and foresight of the mean square politician,…