Notices by Matej Ľach ✅ (matejlach@social.matej-lach.me)

So #Apple is no different on privacy? I guess when all you have is 'trust us', you kind of gave away the game.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/26/siri-human-analysis-voice-recordings

I decided to start sharing parts of #fediQuest as they become mature.

Today, I am releasing a #Golang library for decoding ActivityStreams 2.0 objects into native Go objects and also for encoding Go objects into ActivityStreams 2.0 JSON objects.

Repo: https://github.com/MatejLach/astreams

The usage is your typical Go Marshal/Unmarshal, (see tests for examples).

The license is copyleft (AGPLv3).

Your feedback (and a star) are welcome :-)

"Security researchers have discovered a previously unknown feature in the #Intel chipsets, which could allow an attacker to intercept data from the computer memory. "

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/intel-visa-sa-00086-exploit-researchers-computer-data-access-2014854

At this point, I'm not sure why bother with software security measures at all. They impede performance and are easily subverted by hardware on which they run, since CPUs appear to be made for the #NSA to exploit.

It's time to focus the community energy on free/open hardware in a very serious way.

Still an alarming number of MacBooks at #FLOSS conferences, but it seems less than in previous years, so...yay?

#FOSDEM

P.S. Is the president of the #Linux Foundation still on #macOS?

Apparently, #Apple wants to patent #swiftlang features like optional chaining, (which Swift did not invent(!)).

When they open-sourced it in 2015, I gave them a tremendous amount of credit and I like the language a lot, but it was visibly driven mainly by Chris Lattner and now that he's no longer there, they seem to be more and more willing to shit all over he and the team have done.

Just another sad example of why your work shouldn't be entrusted to a corporate entity if you truly value it.

@mwlucas Speaking of good software stewards, I feel like VideoLAN doesn't get nearly enough credit for literally turning down millions in cash and NOT inserting adware into VLC.

We need a multi-national, publicly funded research organization akin to CERN/within CERN, whose whole purpose is to develop a state-of-the-art browser that's not Chromium-based. Make #Google follow our lead, rather than us having to follow Google.

If the Web could be developed using public money, why not a modern browser? Public funding would remove the Mozilla problem of them having to depend on Google.

With the amount of money governments waste annually, we could fund this AND Mozilla.

@hirnbrot Absolutely.

Even if you don't plan on addressing the issue, respecting people's time seems like the minimum you could do.

There's a reason that companies who ignore job applicants for weeks at a time have a bad reputation.

So Rich Hickey, (creator of #Clojure), wrote a thing where he argues that as a mere user of open-source, you're not entitled to anything from the maintainers.

I agree with the general principle and have made similar points myself, except that:

a.) If you want the 'fame' of having many users, mutual respect is necessary. You're not god.

b.) If you're not going to implement a feature, don't waste people's time by keeping the issue/discussion going, only to dash their hopes years(!) later.

Saw this reaction to #Google marketing running #Linux apps on #ChromeOS:

"So it does everything that Linux does, but you can also send all your personal data automatically to google.

Wow, what a value proposition!"

😂

If we want to keep projects such as #gnome, #systemd, #fedora and others in our hands, its time to step up our Patreon/#Librepay game massively and to divest control of these to entities like the #GNU project, who are set up from the get go to avoid being taken over by corporate interests.

New people of #Mastodon,

I suggest that before you do an #introductions post, toot a couple of times, so when I see your intro, I can also see what your profile is about, besides just the introductions toot itself. Makes it way more likely I'll follow you.

As per MS employee on HN, if you want to disable #Windows telemetry, you're "conspiracy minded". Nice.

#Google pulls a #Canonical and offers us an opt-out in the next release of #GoogleChrome, (opt-in should be required under #GDPR), of signing us to #Chrome automatically. It doesn't change the default behaviour and most people won't notice the opt-out is there, which Google knows.

Don't forget, this small change was not made when they first received feedback that it's undesirable, in fact they were all over birdsite, trying to defend it.

Don't make the mistake of trusting them ever again.

I hate big, fat frameworks. They take all the creative fun out of programming and just make you conform to someone else's API. Not to mention the API is usually unidiomatic to its host language and basically a world of its own.

@popey upower -i $(upower -e | grep BAT) | grep --color=never -E "state|to\ full|to\ empty|percentage"

@alxcndr @gabe @mayel @jjg @vfrmedia I seem to remember rms mention it a few times, I think his reasoning for not mentioning it more is that he wanted to pull in people of all strides, even fans of the current system, or proprietary software, and then convince them otherwise.

If you're concerned about #Microsoft buying #GitHub (and you should be) please do not simply move to GitLab.com (the hosted #GitLab instance), it also runs on MS servers, (Azure) - always self-host GitLab, or if it's too heavy, go with Gitea.

Whatever you do, do not simply move from one silo to another.

If you want to see federation support in #gitea #gogs and #gitlab please upvote and comment on https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612 https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/4437 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4517 to bring them to the attention of core developers #github #gitlab #git #gitea #gogs #microsoft

@lazypower Yeah, matrix is great, not a chat client itself, more like a chat federation protocol, (i.e. multiple "homeservers"/instances can host a shared chat room), but a good matrix client is https://riot.im