warning signs we all need

Ich werde den Verdacht nicht los, dass #OpenSource zu einem #Ablasshandel #Geschäftsmodell der großen #Tech-Firmen wird um den Kartellstrafen vorsorglich zu umgehen.

zB #Google hält #Mozilla am leben und #Adobe, #Epic uva sponsern #Blender und so weiter. So existiert eine frei zugängliche angebliche #Konkurrenz und kann von sich weisen, dass man ein Monopolist sei. Abgesehen davon, dass damit auch noch unterschwellig seine #Dienste unter die Leute gebracht wird, so zu sagen als Gegenleistung.

🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”

Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.

If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?

(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)

CC @nlnet @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz

Wenn Let’s Encrypt plötzlich nicht mehr klappt, wird das halbe Internet aus Zertifikatsfehlern bestehen. https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Trump-Dekret-Kampf-um-US-Foerdermittel-fuer-Tor-F-Droid-und-Let-s-Encrypt-10328226.html

"ChatGPT hallucinating a "fake murderer and imprisonment" while including "real elements" of the Norwegian man's "personal life" allegedly violated "data accuracy" requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...

As Holmen saw it, his reputation remained on the line the longer the information was there, and—despite "tiny" disclaimers reminding ChatGPT users to verify outputs—there was no way to know how many people might have been exposed to the fake story and believed the information was accurate.

"Adding a disclaimer that you do not comply with the law does not make the law go away," [data protection lawyer, Kleanthi Sardeli] said. "AI companies can also not just 'hide' false information from users while they internally still process false information. AI companies should stop acting as if the GDPR does not apply to them, when it clearly does. If hallucinations are not stopped, people can easily suffer reputational damage."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/chatgpt-falsely-claimed-a-dad-murdered-his-own-kids-complaint-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned

TL;DR: ICE is utilizing advanced internet surveillance tools to monitor over 200 websites as part of their enhanced screening protocols for foreign residents, raising concerns about privacy and civil liberties. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/17/ice-has-an-internet-surveillance-power-tool-that-keeps-tabs-on-more-than-200-websites/ #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖

Read this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates

👀 at this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

Some red flags: 🚩

🚩"Mozilla grants you a personal, non-exclusive license to install and use the “Executable Code" version of the Firefox web browser, which is the ready-to-run version of Firefox from an authorized source that you can open and use right away."

I wonder:
For how long will Mozilla Firefox stay Open Source? It seems the ToS apply only to the executable of an authorized source. Anyone compiling their own seems out of scope of these ToS?

2/N

Well, that was quick!

I wrote about about my disappointment with @mozillaofficial changes:

https://mastodon.social/@BjornW/114032743031437841

Seems they were just starting 🙄

Read
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-terms-of-use/

Check
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice

Consider other Open Source apps you may use: aren't you sad that these lack ToS & Privacy legalese?

My advise: move away from Mozilla.

They have lost my trust.

1/N

Read this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates

👀 at this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

#Firefox #Mozilla #Thunderbird #Tech #OpenSource

Giving it this name is such a Malaysian thing to do 😆

Sohai - the nicest translation is "idiot", but it basically means "stupid c**t" in Cantonese 💩

https://worldofbuzz.com/msian-creates-chatbot-called-scammers-on-hold-ai-sohai-to-trick-scammers-waste-their-time

Dear folks in tech,

You don’t have to literally pull a trigger to erase vulnerable people from existence. You can do it with just a few keystrokes. And pave the way for those who will pull the triggers.

Withhold your keystrokes.

Use your keystrokes to resist.

Your keystrokes can kill or they can protect.

Your keystrokes will determine the person you have to live with for the rest of your life.

If you are a student going into the software side of tech here are some projects you can do.


- Automate something in your life,

this could be something like making a software that makes your coffee when your alarm rings

- Make a software solution for someone else

make your family a schedule that keeps track of your cats grooming, bathing, feeding statuses and show those statistics in an organized and intuitive graph which can be interacted with.

- Help you reach your goals

make a gooning score board and share it with your friends to see who can goon the longest.

#software
#tech
#getfedihired
#appideas
#apps

Daily life in 2025.

"Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence

https://edri.org/our-work/meta-and-x-are-going-rogue-here-is-what-europe-should-do-now

"If OpenSSL were a GUI"

Location data collected by over a hundred Dutch apps are for sale online.

It appears that the owner of popular weather app Buienalarm (Rain Alarm, in rough translation) does not know how the location data of its users ended up at this data broker. The app has 5 million users, a quarter of all people in The Netherlands. (Yes, it’s a rainy country.)

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-innovatie/10564779/locatiegegevens-gebruikers-buienalarm-online-te-koop

Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.

SAME STATS, DIFFERENT IMPROVEMENTS...

@programming

After 12 months of managing bugs developers A, B, and C changed their approach.

Whose change is an improvement❓ What's your answer❓

Boosts appreciated! :boost_no: 🙂

More generally, the problem is domain independent.

Young people are good with computers, so we don't need to teach them computing basics in school anymore.

[some years later]

Huh, the younger generation isn't very good with computers. Wonder why that is… Let's blame it on short attention spans and tiktoks or something.

This is how I and any sane person reacts to AI

no longer at the restaurant as of about a week ago, and it's looking like i'm going to need to have a van to crash in as backup sooner rather than later.

so in the next couple days i'll be listing a few things on ebay to help make ends meet. going to put them here first though because i trust you folks more than ebay randos. DM if any of these catch your eye, and please boost to help these go to a loving home and not ebay scalpers

nikon d3000 w/ 35mm 1.18g DX crop lens: 300 USD
nord lead 2x with case: 900 USD
thinkpad x250: 100 USD
thinkpad t460s: 100 USD
thinkpad x61 tablet (with yellowed screen): 50 USD

prices don't include shipping (would be shocked if anything other than the Nord costs less than twenty bucks to ship), and at this moment i'm only able to ship to the US. everything works, all lappies come without hard drives. prices negotiable, but don't be a lowballing jackass

love you all