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#OpenWashing has become a growing issue in the Free Software community. Many companies claim to be working on “Open Source” or “Free Software” while distributing proprietary software products.

We at the @fsfe would like to learn more about current market practices, and we need your help!

Please share your views and experiences on openwashing here:
https://share.fsfe.org/apps/forms/s/Z6xHfa8EiXk77FFreg2R6A6T

Please spread the word, any input is welcome!

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FSFE #publiccode

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Since the first Delete WhatsApp Day, Meta has invested millions in large-scale marketing campaigns, trying to convince Internet users that WhatsApp is a privacy-respecting service. It is not. Quite the opposite: https://threema.ch/bp/whatsapp-and-user-data
WhatsApp and the Commodity of the 21st Century

WhatsApp and the Commodity of the 21st Century

@bfdi @ulrichkelber Die elektronische Patientenakte ist eine Katastrophe und der europäische Gesundheitsdatenraum potenziert diese noch! Anonymisierung oder auch nur Pseudonymisierung sind in irreversibler Form nicht möglich. Ein essentielles Thema für das Politische Forum!
@dmnelson @stefan Using wildcards means that you only have one certificate for all your machines. This leads to compromised connections for all of your hosts if the certificate of only one host is compromised. The only solution not using wildcards and not exposing your internal network structure I know of is building your own ca somehow in this way: https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi-yubikey/ . I would use something other than yubikey though because their firmware is not open source.
Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab

Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.

@kuketzblog
Im Gesundheitswesen rollt die große Digitalisierungswelle. Da wäre es sehr wichtig, auf den Datenschutz zu schauen.
@kuketzblog Firefox/Librewolf und WhatsApp.
Vielen Dank für die wichtige Arbeit! Ich habe diesen Monat wieder gespendet.
@HackSpacemag The interesting question would be: how hot can it get passively cooled?

Die Bundesnetzagentur befasst sich wieder mit dem #Routerzwang.

In einer Konsultation fordert die FSFE die Regulierungsbehörde auf, die Verbraucherrechte zu respektieren und #Routerfreiheit zu sichern.

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230915-01.html

Router Freedom: German telcos want to exclude fiber - FSFE

German network operators have requested the national regulator Bundesnetzagentur to start procedures to exclude Router Freedom from fiber networks. In a co...

FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe
The variety of apps for Mastodon is as amazing as it is overwhelming. The bare-bones ‚original’ #Mastodon for iOS, the neglected #MetatextApp, #Amaroq, my current favourite #IceCubesApp … and I haven‘t even tried #Ivory, #Mammoth, and #Mastoot yet. 😅 Which client do you use?
@kuketzblog Fände ich sehr gut! Selbst wenn es unkommentiert ist, hat man einen Anhaltspunkt und kann dann die Suchmaschine des Vertrauens damit füttern.