@maltheft

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#infosec and #dataprotection professional.
FOSS enthusiast and long time user: I like my software as I like my society - free and open.
Big fan ofFOSS, Cooperation, equality, freedom, privacy, infosec
Also uses time onTinkering, self-host, Home Lab, HAM, Reuse HW, retro gaming
Not fan ofCorporate Greed, Corruption, monopolies, Surveillance and the like
maltheftAug 25, 2024
Show threadBeeksAug 24, 2024
@michaelgemar @AnnemarieBridy @icymi_law look, Mike I get it. Reagan talked a good game. But it's 4 decades later and the proof is in the pudding. We got scammed. The private sector is always worse for humanity.
maltheftAug 25, 2024
Electronic Frontier FoundationAug 25, 2024
When you browse the web, go shopping, and even drive around, corporate trackers are watching your every move. Our new report walks through the most common kinds of tracking, from pixels to facial recognition. https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror
Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance

It's time to shed light on the technical methods and business practices behind third-party tracking. For journalists, policy makers, and concerned consumers, this paper will demystify the fundamentals of third-party tracking, explain the scope of the problem, and suggest ways for users and legislation to fight back against the status quo.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
maltheftAug 25, 2024
GrapheneOSAug 24, 2024
Telegram has full access to all of the content of group chats and regular one-to-one chats due to lack of end-to-end encryption. Their opt-in secret chats use homegrown end-to-end encryption with weaknesses. Deleting the content from the app likely won't remove all copies of it.
maltheftAug 25, 2024
Show threadGrapheneOSAug 24, 2024
Telegram has heavily participated in misinformation campaigns targeting actual private messaging apps with always enabled, properly implemented end-to-end encryption such as Signal. Should stop getting any advice from anyone who told you to use Telegram as a private messenger.
maltheftAug 25, 2024
Venn StoneAug 25, 2024

Nobara #Linux wrecks Windows 11 in 4 gaming benchmarks, Valve bans Razer and Wooting keyboards, VTubing on Linux with PyNGtuber, and what’s going on with the Half-Life 2 updates?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkTYLjYILE

Nobara Linux Embarrasses Windows 11

YouTube
maltheftAug 25, 2024
Show threadBaldur BjarnasonAug 24, 2024

That’s one of the reasons why I take it personally when people use “AI” models and cryptocoins. You are being complicit in creating the demand that is threatening to directly destroy the environment I live in. None of this shit would be happening if there wasn't demand so I absolutely do blame you, personally, if you are a regular user of either of these things

There’s a cost to these tools and you’re pushing it onto others like an asshole

So, fuck you and the AI-generated horse you rode in on

maltheftAug 25, 2024
Show threadBaldur BjarnasonAug 24, 2024

However, datacentres in Iceland are almost exclusively used for "AI" or crypto. You can't buy regular hosting in these centres for love or money. If you buy hosting in Iceland, odds are that the rack is in an office building in Reykjavík somewhere, not a data centre

And those data centres use more power than Icelandic households combined

But, instead, the plan is currently to destroy big parts of places like Þjórsárdalur valley, one of the most green and vibrant ecosystems in Iceland

maltheftAug 25, 2024
Baldur BjarnasonAug 24, 2024

Self-indulgent rant:

One reason why IMO, the case against "AI" is as cut and dried as the case against cryptocoins is that shutting those two sectors down through government action would immediately solve the household energy transition for Iceland, for example

The maths is fairly straightforward: switching personal transportation over to electricity here would roughly double household power consumption (give or take, with the assumption that current plans to improve public transport pan out)

maltheftAug 25, 2024
Randahl FinkAug 24, 2024

A judge has forced Elon Musk to disclose who helped him buy Twitter.

And to no one's surprise: Two rich Russians from Putin's inner circle were part of the deal. Their names are Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich, and allegedly they are related to companies on the list.

And clearly, EU parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt is not having it.

https://fortune.com/2024/08/22/elon-musk-x-twitter-owner-list/

Obviously, indirect Russian relations in itself is not proof of Russian influence.

I will do some more digging.

Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who really owns X. Here’s the list

Organizations linked to Bill Ackman, Larry Ellison, and Sean Combs, a.k.a. Diddy or Puff Daddy, were mentioned in the filing.

Fortune
maltheftAug 25, 2024
8Bit |   | 🍶🦊Aug 25, 2024

I've said it before and I'll say it again because I just feel like it:

Being back on Linux after so many years is just great. I legitimately forgot how it is to turn on the computer and have FUN working with it.

You know, as opposed to having this jaded feeling of working with something that opposes my every command while at the same time trying to sell my data.