Notices by ilias 🏴‍☠️💙💛 (dm_ronin@mstdn.social)

going with a "great" start of the year by being laid off, so looking for new job

I'm an embedded engineer with 6 year experience in complex bare-metal & RTOS firmware development & wireless comms (Bluetooth but learning others)

also worked on customising open-source projects for internal use (e.g modifying BlueZ & writing custom Wireshark dissector), have experience with Python development

ideally remote, or located in UK/Europe (I live in UK)

#FediHire #FediHired #GetFediHired #Work

hey vim experts, how's that for a challenge to exit from it :angry_laugh:

#Linux #Vim #FOSS #Software #Tech #Technology

this just can't go on further. using AI for mental health only makes things worse

"One in three adults in the #UK are using #AI for emotional support or social interaction. And one in 25 people turned to the tech for support or conversation every day [...] when the chatbots went down, people reported self-described "symptoms of withdrawal", such as feeling anxious or depressed" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6xl3ql3v0o

#ArtificialIntelligence #MentalHealth #UnitedKingdom #Tech #Tecnology

I have... plenty of questions to iFixit about it https://www.ifixit.com/News/114700/introducing-fixbot

- have you asked for consent from forum users whose data/posts you used?

- have you considered that it may actually harm one of the right to repair benefits which is community building, incl. your forums?

- finally, you admit that "AI sometimes gets things wrong" - and then declare this bot is an "Expert Helper You Always Wanted". which one is it?

#iFixit #Hardware #Electronics #Tech #Technology #Repair #RightToRepair

this is really cool project that aims to be a federated response to Starlink (upd: not explicitly as a satellite network but rather comms in general) and I'm all here for it.

the less we're dependent on fascist billionaires, the better.

https://thenextweb.com/news/swedish-starlink-alternative-ru1-military-communications

#Starlink #Internet #Radio

ain't that the truth (confirming as someone who works with bluetooth)

#Embedded #Bluetooth #Hardware #Electronics #Wireless

no more music for U-18s in UK 🙃

#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #AgeVerification #Spotify #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Censorship #Surveillance

we're stepping into a new reality of Android smartphones becoming a copy of iOS with restrictions on user freedom, software and hardware

first the reports of AOSP being discontinued, and continued crackdowns by Google on alternate OS systems

and now Samsung is disabling the option to unlock bootloader in their future smartphones https://xdaforums.com/t/bootloader-unlocking-option-removed-from-one-ui-8-0.4751904/#post-90208099

#Android #Privacy #Samsung #FOSS #OpenSource #AOSP #Security #Smartphone

we need an AI regulation framework, and ASAP. enough for companies like Palantir to do whatever they can - with the law enforcement complacency and even encouragement

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-controversial-ai-tool-sex-lives-beliefs-3747154

#Privacy #Security #Surveillance #Palantir #UnitedKingdom #UK #Tech #Technology

the best journalist in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KipDBa4bTl8

#Tech #Technology #Palantir

warning signs we all need

#Privacy #Microsoft #Tech #Technology #Windows

arrests for social media posts in Turkiye are already under way https://apnews.com/article/turkey-istanbul-mayor-arrest-crackdown-imamoglu-eb2f5f0582a32e0c15f881b54fda2ffc - and mark my words, this is only the beginning.

the international support towards people in various countries standing up for democratic values and against authoritarians, corrupt officials and dictators is as important as ever.

#Turkiye #Imamoglu #Erdogan #Politics #Censorship #Turkey #World #SocialMedia #Democracy

Mozilla is done as a company. their new privacy policy is an absolute fucking disaster and a stab in the back.

"To market our services" section is genuinely not much different from what Google is doing with Chrome; Review Checker is useless if you also push sponsored content as a part of it'; collecting "all data types to comply with applicable laws..." - this is all sad.

use LibreWolf instead for daily purposes.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/

#Privacy #Mozilla #Firefox #Browser #LibreWolf

"... Texas’s largest antiabortion organization launches an advertising campaign on Facebook and X to reach the husbands, boyfriends and sex partners of women who have had abortions in the state [...] recruiting them to file lawsuits against those who assisted the women in ending their pregnancies."

Sickening and evil beyond imagination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/01/17/texas-abortion-pills-lawsuit/ (unpaywalled https://archive.is/e7DPL)

#Privacy #Abortion #AbortionRights #UnitedStates #USA #Facebook #X #Twitter

it seems Youtube is beginning to massively block watching videos for non-logged in users after 60-70 seconds by throwing 403 errors - even if one doesn't use VPN

this platform becomes truly unusable with every day

#Privacy #Youtube #VPN #NewPipe #Invidious #Enshittification

with the news of LFGSS & Microcosm forums being shut down, we have this cynical opinion piece in Guardian - because they simply don't care as long as they can apply an unworkable band-aid solution on issues with children & social media
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/16/british-children-groomed-predators-social-media-that-ends-now

it's time for politicians to get a education course on how technology works. even plenty of progressive ones don't understand either

#Tech #Technology #TechPolicy #UnitedKingdom #UK #UKPolitics #OnlineSafetyAct

and here is a second victim of Online Safety Act in UK: Linux Gaming forum

well done, Labour. you had a chance to either water down or completely repel Online Safety Act, and you blew it for the sake of "owning" big tech, while ensuring only big tech will afford these changes

"safest place online in the world", my ass

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/6463/page=1/

#Tech #Technology #TechPolicy #UnitedKingdom #UK #UKPolitics #OnlineSafetyAct #Linux #FOSS #Gaming #Videogames

TIL about BDSM

A BDSM register

#Embedded #Intel #Hardware #Processor #CPU #Tech #Technology

TIL about git-blame-someone-else and this is phenomenal :angry_laugh:

https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else

#Git #Github #Gitlab #Software #Development #Programming

@inthehands well, my understanding is that voting itself in USA is in itself a huge hurdle for third-party or independent candidates

In comparison, from what I see (and I don't live in USA so I can be entirely wrong ofc), among third parties only Yang's Forward somewhat approaches this correctly - not mentioning his TED talk about ranked choice voting