Category: Ethics
“Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement“
in origine su “Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software“ , di Stallman, riscovato grazie a MadBob su Errata Corrige
Ethics, Privacy
Time has come
What a change from the original “Don’t-be-evil” Google! The shiny knight is slowly but constantly turning into an harsh evil tyrant. See what Yeupou writes at the beginning of Fetching mails from gmail.com with lieer/notmuch instead of fetchmail – # cd /scratch Google is gradually making traditional IMAPS access to gmail.com impossible, in it’s usual…
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Piketty rifiuta la censura. Non sarà più pubblicato in Cina. – Partito Pirata
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Ethics
YARTAA
Yet Another Reason To Avoid Apple: WordPress Founder Claims Apple Cut Off Updates To His Free App Because It Wants 30 Percent
Android, Android, Ethics, Smartphones
Librem 5, PureOS, PostmarketOS, and other
According to Slashdot Android 11 Is Taking Away the Camera Picker, Forcing People To Only Use the Built-In Camera Another reason to back alternative mobile OSes, such as PostmarketOS or Puri.sm PureOS. I hope that Android free-as-in-freedom distribution, lineageos.org and /e/ will deal with this arbitrary restriction in a user-friendly way.
Ethics, Privacy
Ok Toyota, so I will never buy your cars
New Toyotas Will Upload Data To AWS To Help Create Custom Insurance Premiums Based On Driver Behavior – Slashdot It’s good to know, Toyota: as long as you will patently violate the privacy of the owner of the cars you built I will avoid buying them and I will actively ask people to avoid you.…
Ethics, Mood
Fahrenheit 451, arriviamo…
Luca Oleastri, nota su FaceBook: Pare che non si possa più parlare bene di H.P. Lovecraft e John W. Campbell. E subito efficacemente qualcono chiosa Fahrenheit 451, arriviamo… Parlava di questa notizia George R.R. Martin accusato di razzismo e transfobia dopo la sua conduzione degli Hugo Awards 2020 Non ho mai letto davvero molto di Lovecraft,…
Ethics, Privacy
China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI – Slashdot
China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI – Slashdot The reason for the ban is obvious for experts. HTTPS connections negotiated via TLS 1.3 and ESNI prevent third-party observers from detecting what website a user is attempting to access. This effectively blinds the Chinese government’s Great Firewall surveillance…
Android, Android, Ethics, Privacy, Smartphones, Software, Software Libero
[LineageOS 17.1] Download LineageOS 17.1 for Redmi Note 8T
https://www.cyanogenmods.org/redmi-note-8t-lineageos-17-1/ I bought a RedMi Note 8T in the middle of lockdown. It was one of the few available and I needed it to use as camera to livestream Holy Masses. I hadn’t much choice even if I wanted to avoid Chinese communist dictatorship as much as possible. Communism is intrinsically evil. Now I can…