Para quem como eu não pode estar presente hoje, #ectl é a hashtag do primeiro de muitos encontros regulares das comunidades de tecnologias livres em Portugal, e podem espreitar para ver fotos e o que estamos a perder!
Sure, I agree: it is the best option in many cases, and in some cases it feels like the only option - if you care for things like safety and privacy.
But us - the same community that usually promotes self-hosting - should also be aware that it is a means to an end, we should understand the reasons why it is a good idea... and also design "the fallback" for those who cannot, for some reason, self-host.
And we know how to do that: just look at the healthy community of fediverse servers that are out there, not in competition but in cooperation with a number self-hosted single-user instances. But we don't do it/have the same ecosystem in many other fields.
And self-hosting is a privilege: it demands more financial investment, more time investment, and has some potentially expensive dependencies (stable 24/7/365 internet connection and electricity, for eg.).
Just like the "path to #freesoftware" is a ladder and not a binary switch, service autonomy/independence/sovereignty is too (an often they are even related - how many "need" to use some proprietary app in order to access to a certain service they are dependent of?).
Provavelmente todo este CD (ou mesmo toda a discografia) de #interlock serve, mas para aer só uma musiquin(h|t)a fica escolhida logo a música que abre este disco: skinless.
"EDPS (European Data Protection Supervisor) issues decision finding that the European Commission has illegally targeted advertisement on citizens using "sensitive" personal data on their political views."
"The EDPS only issued a reprimand - so a formal finding that the processing was illegal and a formal warning. The EDPS considered that other measures, such as a fine, were not necessary as the Commission stopped the practise."
Too bad they don't have to also issue an apology or at least an admission of guilt, bit even not having to, they really should - it would be a first step in an attempt to recover lost credibility.
How this isn't a bigger news story thank #dieselgate is something hard to understand:
"#Kia cars were built with a #backdoor that enabled the company's server to locate them and take control of them. The icing on the #Orwellian cake is that the server had a security fault which allowed absolutely anyone to activate those controls for any Kia car."
Pena que o @vostpt esteja a falar sobre o #sismo... mas só na rede ao lado.
Aqui fica um resumo do que por lá dizem:
#ATerraTreme#Sines#Portugal Dados ipma_pt: Um sismo de 5.3, a uma profundidade de 16km a Oeste de #Sines fez a terra tremer um pouco por todo o lado.
Se sentiste este sismo de 5.3, preenche o questionário no site do ipma_pt em https://bit.ly/sentiumsismo (vai demorar um bocadinho a abrir, que ainda está a tremer)
Para quem só acordou agora: - Sim, houve um sismo e tu não deste por nada, e garantimos que não foste só tu que não sentiste o sismo. - Não há risco de tsunami - Podem existir réplicas
Mais uma vez prova-se a necessidade de termos, em #Portugal, um sistema de #CellBroadcast para quando ocorrem estes fenómenos.
Desde o sismo das 5h11 já foram registadas 3 réplicas, sem qualquer registo de terem sido sentidas. O registo é um processo técnico e científico, o sentir é o que muitos hoje experienciaram às 5h11.
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Já o #IPMA, que não anda por cá, disse por lá isto:
Multimédia Meteo Aviso de Sismo Sentido no Continente 26-08-2024 05:11 2024-08-26 05:11:00, mag 5.3. O Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera informa que no dia 26-08-2024 pelas 05:11 (hora local) foi registado nas estações da Rede Sísmica do Continente
"A computing monoculture is a danger, a security danger, a national security danger. It is a danger on principle. It is a danger in practice. It is avoidable and mitigable, but it is neither cheap nor easy to do so if you have to begin from where we are now."
On #GoogleIO's keynote, it is said that Google Search has been getting an increase in user satisfaction, and I feel like there must be something weird going on,because all I read everywhere on news, blogs and social media is that people are feeling that Google Search is getting worse and worse (which I also feel). Are they in a bubble? Am I in a bubble? What's going on?