Mastodawn

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@cryptic@ioc.exchange

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Cryptographer/mathematician at U of ASc. at Hagenberg, Dept. of Secure Information Systems; still learning to play 🎸, 🎷& 🎹. Header is www.ShowYourStripes.info

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René Mayrhofer

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So, the #Austrian Parliament ignores all expert opinion and ratifies a law to allow #statetrojan #spyware to be bought and used, making the whole population less safe while spending tax money on (non-EU) malware instead of more actual police forces. #Karner has won - at least until #VfGh nullifies it (again) - in getting his legal illusion past the Parliament, even though it can't be technically implemented as written in the law.

https://orf.at/stories/3399187/

> Nach jahrelanger Diskussion ist die Messengerüberwachung am Mittwoch vom Nationalrat ermöglicht worden. Widerstand gab es nicht nur von FPÖ und Grünen, sondern auch innerhalb der Koalition von NEOS-Abgeordneten. Mit der Vorlage wird es dem Staatsschutz künftig möglich sein, unverschlüsselte und verschlüsselte Nachrichten bei Diensten wie WhatsApp und Signal auszulesen.

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LibreOffice 2d ago

More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

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Wonder of Science 2d ago

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem

Tennis racket theorem - Wikipedia

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Manchmal liebe ich es, Bachelorarbeiten zu lesen. Es kann einfach inspirierend sein.

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Bob Young 5d ago

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

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Parents For Future

"The planet's on fucking fire.

There are a lot of things we could do to put it out.

Are any of them free? No, of course not. Nothing's free, you idiots!

Grow the fuck up! You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12.

But you're adults now." - Bill Nye

Source: "Green New Deal" Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) at 18m15s, 2019-05-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA&t=1095s

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I‘ve been using quantum.ibm.com for some time for doing first quantum computing steps with school children. It was easy to do: simply create a free account. Now, in order to create an account you have to have a credit card. So IBM is no longer in the game. Any suggestion what a good alternative could be? Demands: free, no installs, drag and drop.

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GrapheneOS Jul 2

https://bsky.app/profile/iceblock.app/post/3lmzykc7rb42d

Apple stores which devices/users install which apps. They have the device IDs. US government could obtain a list of people who installed the app if a court authorized it. Not clear what they mean by having to store device IDs. Those IDs aren't accessible to Android apps.

ICEBlock Official (@iceblock.app)

Sorry, there will not be an Android version because there is no way to provide 100% anonymity. Each person's device ID would have to be stored and that information becomes discoverable should the government issue a subpoena. Only iOS made this possible and completely protects the users.

Bluesky Social

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jul 1

Trump administration shuts down #US #website on #climatechange
The U.S. Global Change Research Program’s website, https://globalchange.gov, was taken down along with all five versions of the #NationalClimateAssessment report and extensive information on how #globalwarming is affecting the country.
Peter Gleick, #climate #scientist who was one of the authors of first National Climate Assessment in 2000. “This is the modern version of book burning.”
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-01/trump-us-climate-website
https://archive.ph/mgV7L

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epicenter.works Jul 2

Unsere Forderung:
🛑 Keine staatlich geförderte IT-Unsicherheit
🛑 Keine politischen Hintertüren durch den #Bundestrojaner
✅ Konsequente, unabhängige Aufsicht
✅ Schutz jener, die Demokratie tagtäglich verteidigen 12/

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effeindi Jun 29

Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!

There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.

The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#stopdestroyinggames
#stopkillinggames #retrogaming #gaming

@effeindi They also have a petition to the UK for those that can sign that https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold

The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

@effeindi @MOULE

Stupid fking brexit bs…

I can’t sign, but I’m giving my vote in spirit

effeindi Jun 29

@Beckydog @MOULE There's a petition in the UK too!
Here's the link:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

If you need more information you can check the website for the initiative ( https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ ) or write me back, I'm not direclty affiliated with the campaign but I'm trying to help reaching the goal :)

Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold

The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

@effeindi @MOULE

Oh! Thanks!!! I have a lot less hope with ours, but? I have signed!! Thank you for finding that!

effeindi Jun 29

@Beckydog thank you for signing!

@effeindi just stop buying games that don't have physical versions

effeindi Jun 29

@xsevy the problem is that many games with physical copy require checking a server. If the publisher shuts down the server without patching the game in other ways, you're physical copy is useless.
"The Crew" servers shutdown by Ubisoft is the case from which the campaign started, it had both physical and digital distribution. It currently can't be played in any way or platform.

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@effeindi I don't care about Ubisoft because there's not even one good game released by them

effeindi Jun 29

@xsevy I personally I own a bunch of games in DVD from the "Game from Windows Live" era (2007-2015 circa, the more notable I own are GTA IV, BioShock and an Assassins Creed) which can't even be installed on PC because the server are offline and they get stuck verifying the code.

The only way I have to play my DVDs of those games is sailing the seas or buying them again on a online store (if they're still sold somewhere in their original version)

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Hugo Trentesaux Jun 29

C'est triste l'obsolescence de la production culturelle :(

Jan Walzer Jun 30

Why is this only Games-Specific? This happens to a lot of current software. Even the ones, thats NOT "in the cloud" is checking its valid license over the internet nowadays and so prone to be broken when the vendor decides or goes bankrupt ...

effeindi Jun 30

@jwalzer
The initiative is focused on videogames because there are legal precedents that explicity separate videogames from other software (why? Unfortunately I can't wrap my head around it). That could mean that if the initiative was about all software, videogames could be excluded again.

Another reason was that keeping the initiative focused on videogames would help making easier to spread the word with the help of gamers and gaming communities. (the campaign has no founds)

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effeindi Jun 30

Personally (having to deal with companies like Adobe and Autodesk for my daily job) I really hope that a regulation on videogames could be extended to other software.

But that's my view. Please note I'm not among the representatives in Bruxelles for the initiative, I'm just volunteering to try to achieve the signature goal. So I speak for myself having just partial knowledge about the start of the campaign and influence on the campaign.

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effeindi Jun 30

@jwalzer
We have to keep in mind that in case we reach 1M signatures the EU commision will have to research the subject and offer a response.
If they think a regulation should involve all software they can do it. The ECI is supposed to raise an issue that's dear to the citizens to the EU commission, for the better or the worse how to respond will be up to them.

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Fábio Pereira ✌🏼 🇵🇹5d ago

@effeindi eu não tenho problemas com isto, todos os meus jogos são físicos, não necessitam de ter ligação à Internet para jogar...
E não compro jogos dos recentes por causa disso mesmo, se as pessoas não comprarem, as empresas por elas voltam atrás.

effeindi 5d ago

@Serzedo there are games on CD (for PC) that required an internet connection for DRM. Now that the servers are no longer online you can't install them anymore (unless you buy them in digital form again if they're still sold). I know of games from 2k, Rockstar and those that used "Games for Windows Live" DRM system, but there are probably others I don't know of.

Those won't be affected by a possible future regulation, but the goal is to prevent this from happening again in the future.

Fábio Pereira ✌🏼 🇵🇹5d ago

@effeindi if gamers stop buying, it will have a faster result.
The EU will take years to decide about that, and the result is probably we aren't going to get those games, and countries outside EU will.

effeindi 5d ago

@Serzedo I get the "voting with your wallet" part, but it's difficult to do it when the entire industry is moving in one direction. Full offline DRM free games are almost never an option (and they haven't for a while)

The only way I see that has a remote change of success in inverting the trend on "owning nothing" is regulation.

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effeindi 5d ago

About publishers exiting the EU market, I personally don't think that will happen (EU is a huge market), but I can't deny it's a possibility. In that case they'll be replaced by other companies more willing to actually sell us games.

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