Arjen P. de Vries @arjenpdevries@mastodon.social

The EU Council is pushing for encryption backdoors to messenger apps such as WhatsApp and Signal to fight terrorism (German article): https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/

Despite the fact that errors of investigation in Austrian authorities had made the attack possible in the first place and not a lack of digital surveillance powers. Politicians must start to understand that more surveillance will not lead to more security. That's why we fight any attempt for an encryption backdoor: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/

Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths by Jaap Henk Hoepman.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/privacy-hard-and-seven-other-myths

Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Language, Speech and Communication

Employment: 0.8 - 1.0 FTE
Maximum gross monthly salary: € 8,371
Faculty of Arts
Required background: PhD
Duration of the contract: 5 years
Application deadline: 11 June 2021

https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1152936

For #Fediverse13, let me dig up my ancient blogposts on decentralized social media from time before #ActivityPub.

Oldest one would be this, where I mention Diaspora as "alpha": https://rys.io/en/5.html - just over 10 years ago!

And 9 years ago still had RSS feeds for each account: https://rys.io/en/75.html

Today on fedi you can get RSS feeds. Here's mine:
https://mastodon.social/@rysiek.rss

And here's the RSS feed of #Fediverse13 on m.s:
https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse13.rss

raven artson & true blue - locks for you (feat. true blue)
https://open.spotify.com/track/4IuvmBe8IChJA1AzqlZWR1

New track on our Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VcOkY7S1DsoTjPNm7yXEn?si=Cl0DDLywTfG-cErQSZ9fVg

#ravenartson&trueblue #netherlands #spotify #np

The Obfuscation workshop (with Helen Nissenbaum as co-organizer!) has developed their own online platform, in line with the line of thinking behind obfuscation as a tool to cope with "environments and conditions of asymmetrical power and information".

More about the platform:
https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/readme/background

The workshop has an opening event on May 4th to welcome all participants and release artworks and media from invited speakers.

“Huawei is proposing a fundamental internet redesign, which it calls ‘New IP,’ designed to build ‘intrinsic security’ into the web. Intrinsic security means that individuals must register to use the internet, and authorities can shut off an individual user’s internet access at any time. In short, Huawei is looking to integrate China’s ‘social credit,’ surveillance, and censorship regimes into the Internet’s architecture.“

That’s a hard no from me, John.

https://www.justsecurity.org/75741/chinas-dystopian-new-ip-plan-shows-need-for-renewed-us-commitment-to-internet-governance/

Hello world

Are big techs threatening OpenStreeMap @openstreetmap by contributing to it?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/openstreetmap-charts-a-controversial-new-direction

"Is there a working group talking about vocabulary or interop with other federated networks (#ActivityPub/#XMPP)?"

Matthew Hodgson of @matrix's answer about cooperation among #federation protocol development

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26288065

1. New VC-backed startup enters the scene
2. People flock to it
3. They discover it’s a surveillance capitalist (and still have no clue what that is)
4. They’re shocked (because, see 3)
5. It’s too late, they’re too big and they’ve exited
6. Goto 1

🤷‍♂️

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/clubhouse-is-recording-your-conversations-thats-not-even-its-worst-privacy-problem.html

#SurveillanceCapitalism

A brief write-up of patching the kernel on Fedora Core:

https://arjenp.dev/2021/02/26/kernel-patch.html

Want all the gory details of how we hosted the world's largest free/open source conference #FOSDEM21 via Matrix? We just posted the full writeup at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/02/15/how-we-hosted-fosdem-2021-on-matrix. Huge thanks to @FOSDEM@twitter.com for putting their faith in Matrix & to everyone who helped make it a success! 🎉❄️🎆

OBS Studio Merges Its EGL-Wayland Code To Natively Support #Wayland https://col.la/k4hr3 #OpenSource #obsproject

Google is a "cornerstone sponsor" of FOSDEM this year, which is being run entirely on Matrix, accessible on Android via Element, which has just been pulled from Google's Play Store. FOSDEM is in a week. This all makes perfect sense.

RDP at home, or "how to operate the Linux desktop playing an HD movie via HDMI on tele (in Firefox of course) from the Windows laptop", or pause/play without leaving your couch.

A manual for GNOME remote desktop (server) on FC33 (including a temporary workaround for missing UI and more):
https://arjenp.dev/RDP/

Mouse-only so far (Wayland...).

Here our Spotify playlist with an eclectic filter on only today's released tracks:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VcOkY7S1DsoTjPNm7yXEn