A great video by TechAltar on what has the GDPR achieved in the 3 years of its existence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_W0wR4AClk. (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2021-03-02-lzcy1/)
Google suspended Element.io in their app store, still available via f-droid https://mobile.twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013
Social Suburbia https://write.as/matt/social-suburbia
Big news: My friend William DeMeo has announced that he's formalised Birkhoff HSP Theorem in Martin-Löf type theory using Agda. Details on ualib.gitlab.io. (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2021-01-25-l2akz/)
A lot of people are switching from #WhatsApp to #Signal these days. I don't like where it's going. Messaging should be as decentralised as e-mail is, otherwise we're heading to the same problem as we had with WhatsApp. Who guarantees that Signal won't be acquired by somebody we dislike in the future? For example, Matrix is a better alternative as its decentralised protocol guarantees that it can't be fully owned by anyone. (And there are possibly more options.) (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2021-01-11-emlyc/)
Just received a YubiKey from CZ.NIC (in exchange for writing about it with #overenomojeid). After setting up the two-factor authentication in mojeid.cz I can easily manage my citizen profile. It's great to see some progress in Czech "e-governance". (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2021-01-04-c4eae/)
While being stuck in England because my flights were cancelled, I watched a Moshe Vardi's talk that aptly argues against Cyber Libertarianism, why we can't reach (economic) equilibria and more. His OWL's talk is here youtu.be/BipEbkdbVNc. (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2020-12-22-1fcy1/)
IT'S OFFICIAL: @gitchat@twitter.com now natively speaks Matrix!! Read all about what it takes to add native Matrix support to a large existing chat app, and bask in the glow of a world where FOSS chat is increasingly FOSS, open & interoperable once more :D 🎉🥳🍾🌉🚀 https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/07/gitter-now-speaks-matrix
I'm just incredibly tired of having to deal with the cookie pop-ups everywhere. Is there any legitimate use-case for third-party #cookies, apart from advertising? If not, we should just finally ban them (legislatively). Those that want to track us will use browser fingerprints anyway... (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2020-11-28-keiyz/)
"Parliament wants to boost #sustainability by promoting #reuse and #repairs and by tackling practices that shorten the lifespan of products."
A huge win for the #RighttoRepair 🙌 🛠️ : https://bit.ly/3misaVW
Mobilizon. Your events. Your groups. Your data.
Go behind the scenes of the design of #Mobilizon, our new tool to free your groups and events from Facebook.
https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/mobilizon-your-events-your-groups-your-data
(illus CC-By @davidrevoy)
From next year on, all software developed by the city of Munich will be Free Software. This year they will already select five projects to start with.
https://www.golem.de/news/nach-limux-aus-muenchen-will-schnell-open-source-auf-den-weg-bringen-2010-151702.html (de)
#FreeSoftware #Munich #Germany #policy #PublicMoney #PublicCode
Mental note for myself: restarters.net have a great wiki https://wiki.restarters.net/, full of tutorials and other material for people that prefer to repair laptops, phones and other electronics rather than throwing it away. (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2020-10-20-im0cn/)
Last Sunday the UK/US/CA/AU/NZ/IN/JP govts issued a statement asking tech companies to add backdoors into E2E encryption. This is a big deal: unfortunately *backdoors do not work*. Read about our alternative: combating abuse via decentralised reputation.🔒 https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors
The end of my first day of quarantine. I'm staying in my flat and eating food powder. It feels a bit like being an astronaut with an abundance of gravity. 🙂 It's thirteen more days to go, wish me luck! (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2020-09-05-8h945/)
We’re proud to officially announce the Fairphone 3+ 🙌 It has improved cameras, upgraded software and even more fair materials, but here’s the twist: The exact same modules can also be used to upgrade the Fairphone 3. 🌍 📱 Read more: https://bit.ly/2D2uIpJ
And we have the link to the video of the talk:
https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/hope2020/videos/209151556
(thanks @c0debabe for the hint!)
For completeness sake, here's the text again (contains links!):
https://git.rys.io/rysiek/talks/blob/master/HOPE2020/text.md
And the relevant project links:
https://0xacab.org/rysiek/fasada/
https://0xacab.org/rysiek/samizdat/
#HongKong swiftly approves a law effectively extending the Great Firewall of China to Hong Kong. There is no doubt that this is the end of Hong Kong that we know today. Source: https://protonmail.com/blog/china-censorship-hong-kong/ (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2020-07-09-jx0fc/)
I missed this great news from a couple of months back. The EU has standardised what #repairability means. Soon we might see score (on scale from A to E) when buying electronics evaluating its repeatability. https://de.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554 (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2020-06-28-oydke/)
Interests: everything that has "open" in its name, e.g. open source, open protocols, open government, open science, ... I make living from doing theoretical computer science and mathematics. Things I'm really terrible at (despite being highly opinionated): language learning, photography, politics.
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