@rysiek “ The Citizen Lab has received donations of software and support from Palantir Technologies, VirusTotal, and Oculus Info Inc.”

🤔

I don’t know who needs to hear this but…

Privacy isn’t:

- A premium feature
- A setting you must configure
- About having something to hide

Privacy is:

- A basic human right.

Capitalism is just monarchy with a gift shop attached.

Apple is slowly boiling frogs on client-side scanning.

They got a backlash when they announced everything they were planning all at once so now they’re drip feeding it, hoping you won’t notice.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/11/13/apples-billion-iphone-users-shock-imessage-update-after-security-warnings/

#privacy #apple #clientSideScanning

Wow, so I just called Vhi and confirmed that only large corporations can have waiting periods and preexisting conditions waived on their plans. And I was recording the call (with their knowledge, just like they were) so I guess that’s going to make an interesting blog post.

So, basically, there is a two-tier health insurance system in Ireland where large US corporations like WMWare don’t have waiting periods or limitations on preexisting conditions whereas everyday folks living in Ireland do.

It’s quite amazing to me that the media here has not covered this… surely I can‘t be the first person to have noticed it?

Anyway, if anyone from the Irish press does want to chat about this, you know where to find me.

So what’s the difference between working at a US #BigTech company and a tiny #SmallTech not-for-profit like ours in #Ireland? Oh, about 26 weeks difference in being able to access healthcare and any preexisting conditions not being covered.

#corporatocracy #healthInsurance #eu

Not getting any coding done because GitHub is down? Why not take the opportunity to check out Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/), Gitea (https://gitea.com/) or GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/install/)

#alternatives

Capitalism, circa 2021.

The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor

https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/invisible-backdoor/

#unicode #js #security

Free software, circa 2021.

So if you haven’t used your Ubuntu/Pop!_OS machine (Dell XPS? others?) for a while and it gives you an error on launch that it cannot find your encrypted disk (cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device… etc.) see this:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1367468/cryptsetup-waiting-for-encrypted-source-device-after-the-motherboard-has-been-r

(In my case, I hadn’t changed the motherboard or anything but I guess the BIOS reverts back to Raid when it runs out of juice or something… it had lost the date setting too.)

#fun

Anyone know how to count Unicode glyphs in Vala?

Eg., “🙄👈” = two glyphs

This is currently what I’m banging my head against.

#vala #unicode

Want to learn more about #Owncast, the ethical (and voluntarily open source) alternative to #Twitch?

Watch the “Independent and ethical video and streaming with Small Tech” episode we held with its creator, @gabek, on Small Is Beautiful:

https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-10/

Congratulating Twitch on going open source.

🤓👍

Not on elementary OS?

Couldn’t care less about task switchers?

That’s OK, you can still download and use the lovely wallpaper by @margodeweerdt you see in the screenshot in the previous post.

https://github.com/small-tech/catts#get-the-wallpaper

💕

Introducing Catts

A Calmer Alt-Tab Task Switcher for elementary OS.

https://github.com/small-tech/catts#readme

Why?

https://github.com/small-tech/catts#why-catts

#elementaryOS #design

Find yourself an illustrator that uses Disroot (Lufi) to send you the files.

https://disroot.org/fr/services/upload

(But you can’t have @margodeweerdt because I found her first… ok, ok, you can – and you should contact her because her work is awesome.)

#illustration #freedom

Corporations are where humanity goes to die.