Jan Sprinz (they/them) @NeoTheThird@mastodon.social

The EU should stop blocking the proposed patent waiver on Covid vaccines.
https://noprofitonpandemic.eu

Die Vereinigten Staaten gegen Tillie Kottmann

Einer Luzerner Hackerin und Anarchistin drohen in den USA über 20 Jahre Gefängnis. Sie hat Daten der Firma Intel und Sicherheitslücken von Überwachungs­kameras publik gemacht – und dem Überwachungs­kapitalismus den Kampf erklärt.

https://www.republik.ch/2021/04/21/die-vereinigten-staaten-gegen-tillie-kottmann

Clean up the web!

Developers, it’s time for you to choose a side: will you help rid the web of privacy-invading tracking or be complicit in it?

https://cleanuptheweb.org/

#CleanUpTheWeb #FlocOffGoogle

#LucaApp: CCC fordert Bundesnotbremse

https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2021/luca-app-ccc-fordert-bundesnotbremse

Confirmed: the FSF's sole purpose is to serve as RMS's amplifier.

https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman

Taken as is, this is a complete slap to anyone who directed the FSF in RMS's absence. If the organization is so rudderless as to be cast adrift without one man then the bus-factor of that organization is too great for long-term survival.

The FSF needs to consider what their mission is, because right now their mission is in jeopardy and the folks willing to carry water for the FSF are vanishing.

#fsf

Reading about Nano on Wikipedia and chuckling.

"On 9 February 2018, the Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail announced its shutdown after being hacked"

Well, of course!

"In January 2019, the Court of Florence found Firano liable for the losses after discovering that the exchange had failed to implement any meaningful safeguards to ensure the safety of their customers' funds"

Uh.

And exactly how viable is your "currency" if you need exchanges to do anything?

But then we get to the substance...

"Consensus is reached through an algorithm similar to proof of stake named Open Representative Voting (ORV). In this system, the voting weight is distributed to accounts based on the amount of NANO they hold"

Rich people get more votes. Because they're rich. Who could have predicted this!

But wait, there's more.

"In the event that two contradictory transactions are broadcast to the network (as in a double spend attempt), nodes vote for one of them and broadcast their vote to the other nodes. The first transaction to reach 51% of the total voting weight..."

So there's a problem right there, in that there is an incentive for the richest people to engage in double spending and then "vote" in support of their double spend. The vote is stacked in their favor.

Hallo liebe Mastodon-Community!
Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) freut sich neben dem @bfdi als weitere Bundesbehörde nun auch auf Mastodon vertreten zu sein. Als Cyber-Sicherheitsbehörde des Bundes gestaltet das BSI die Informationssicherheit in der Digitalisierung für unsere Gesellschaft. Wir werden hier regelmäßig Tröts zu verschiedenen technischen Themen veröffentlichen und freuen uns auf den Austausch!

#BSI #DeutschlandDigitalSicherBSI

Dictators for life are a problem. "Open core" is a problem. Proprietary relicensing is a problem. Corporations determining the agenda for software development is a problem. Supporting ICE is a problem. The rhetorics of "open source" and "free software" both fail to articulate how these are problems.