Notices by der.hans (lufthans@mastodon.social), page 5

Good planning meeting for Texas Linux Fest, things are coming together, about 45 days away.

Nothing makes it more real than getting the first part of the schedule up: https://2019.texaslinuxfest.org/schedule.html

If you haven't yet, also make sure to register: https://2019.texaslinuxfest.org/

#txlf #texas #linux #conference

Sigh.

I post a negative browser hot-take, and then this immediately pops up in my timeline: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-firefox-to-enable-hyperlink-ping-tracking-by-default/

"Click auditing" is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.

The circular logic used to justify this, is that sites that track their user's click are slower and less usable. URL shorteners (t.co) break the web. Click auditing "fixes" this?

Reality: sites that didn't track clicks, were faster & more responsive. By eliminating that advantage, browsers undermine user privacy.

@libreboot When vendors like @slimbook implement Coreboot_org in their laptops, they take us a step closer to a free, open, safer and more privacy-protecting machine.

https://www.linuxadictos.com/slimbook-coreboot.html

We've reached a point where we'd like to start #hiring developers to work on the #WriteFreely roadmap 💻 :writefreely2:

This would be remote, contract-based work for now, with a chance to go full-time later in the year (assuming all continues going well). You'd be creating free / open source software.

I'll have more details soon, but especially if you're a #Go / #Golang developer and want to work on a growing #fediverse project, I'd love to hear from you!

#FOSS #job #jobs

@kylerankin So ultimately human teachers become a luxury good and cash-strapped school boards save money by hiring fewer teachers and buying heavily-subsidized tech to replace them.

@mala basically, we *NEED* ocap security in our operating systems, and it's the only viable future. If it comes handed down from a corporate direction without community involvement it might be done in a way that results in hard-to-work-around lockdown. If, however, the hardware and entire os stack are truly libre, it'll be the best advancement in user freedom since GNU

[Full-time] HCaptcha is open sourcing everything! at HCaptcha Alex newman https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10049/hcaptcha-is-open-sourcing-everything-at-hcaptcha-alex-newman/ #jobs

Last week, the #SaveTheNet Act passed its first vote. Help it pass the next one by contacting your representatives and telling them to restore #NetNeutrality protections. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/real-net-neutrality-protections-passed-their-first-vote

Annoyed to have to manually authorize #PeerTube instances with #uMatrix, I just created a very small script automatically generating uMatricx rules for existing instances.
You can copy them in one click then add it in your custom rules list.

You can find it on #Gitlab: https://booteille.gitlab.io/peertubatrix/

This weekend we have a #Debian Bug Squashing #Party in Paris, France https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/03/fr/Paris #BSP

Not caring about privacy is often an indicator of privilege. But the surveillance and data abuse that happens to the poor and marginalized is a possible future for everyone. https://www.fastcompany.com/90317495/another-tax-on-the-poor-surrendering-privacy-for-survival

Random thought I had while watching dozens of birds foraging all over our garden -
....

Most organisms don't get to choose what they are.

For example: it is highly unlikely that a natural parasite will ever *change* and become something that lives symbiotically with its host.

We humans, on the other hand, do have a choice.

We can stop being "the parasite" and learn to live symbiotically with our host.

:greensun:

TIL there are browser plugins to simulate what colorblind people see in a webpage and hopefully make your websites more accessible

e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/let-s-get-color-blind/

Debian is welcoming applicants for #Outreachy and #GSoC 2019 https://bits.debian.org/2019/03/call-for-applicants-outreachy-gsoc-2019.html