Notices by LFA (lfa@hostux.social)

@w3c @timbl
Mr. Berners-Lee did something awesome but the current state of the web is awful and you know it. "A web designed for the good of its users that is safe and secure." Do you really believe it?

@amszmidt That's some outstanding work!

@amszmidt Thanks for your reply. Do you feel not having the real machine is a problem for your work?

Use the cloud, they said. It's much more reliable and secure than managing your own infrastructure, they said 😂

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/google_cloudflare_outage/

#CloudComputing #Goggle #CloudFlare #Cloudy #Cloud

#FOSS is all about options:
- I chose not to use #RedHat systems 28 years ago.
- I chose not te use #GNOME 15 years ago
- I chose not to use #SystemD 6 years ago.
- I choose to accelerate the migration of all the #Linux based systems I can to #BSD systems because:
- I choose to keep up with the #UNIX way
- I choose to use stable systems which don't change for the sake of change
- I choose to be part of healthier communities, that don't promote monoculture or fall so easily into arrogance

@oook Basically because 28 years ago the Linux based systems ecosystem was not enshittified as it is right now, and back then #Debian GNU/Linux was right for me. As I said FOSS is all about options (and choices)

@oook Maybe you should check who is founding the major projects and who is signing the checks for the main devs. I'm not against people making money, but maybe that gives everyone some insight into why certain things happen the way they do.

The fact that something is widely adopted and/or it's newer does not mean it's good or better. Windows 11 is newer and widely adopted, but I don't think it's better. Anyway, nothing prevents either of us from using what suits us best.

Nowadays people pay a lot of money in order to own nothing. What absolute nonsense!

"Why console makers can legally brick your game console"
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/why-console-makers-can-legally-brick-your-game-console/

#capitalism #nintendo #switch #sony #playstation #microsoft #xbox

Today is the day!
After all the work on the organization, website, forum, etc., the #FreeSoftware meetup I organized in Canary Islands kicks off in just a few hours. Fingers crossed🤞
https://librecan.com

#FSF #FSF40 #LibreLocal #CanaryIslands

"All that's required is to create a malicious software package under a hallucinated package name and then upload the bad package to a package registry or index like PyPI or npm for distribution".

I'm not going to comment because I'm sure many people will get offended by my comments 😈

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

#LLM #AI #programming

Yep, let's celebrate Microsoft 50th anniversary: "Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’"

https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai

#Microsoft #MS #50thAnniversary #AI

"Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI"

The not so hidden costs of the so-called AI. This is your contribution every single time you use Copilot, ChatGPT and all that crap, and if you do really believe the "...with carbon capture technology..." part, at best, you're naive.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/microsoft_natural_gas_ai/

#LLMs #Microsoft #AI #datacenters
#environment #energy #sustainability

OpenA proposes that the US government "take steps to ensure that our copyright system continues to support American AI leadership," and that it shapes international policy discussions around copyright and AI, "to prevent less innovative countries from imposing their legal regimes on American AI firms and slowing our rate of progress."

🧵 1 / 3 👇

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/

#AI #OpenAI #USA #Copyright #DigitalRights #Imperialism

In summary: We Americans are the best and everybody should bow to our desires. What a crazy idea protecting your own culture and creations! You are just a resource to be exploited by us. That's your only purpose.

This guys are a piece of crap. With each passing day, this world resembles more and more the one of William Gibson's books.

🧵 2 / 3 👇

Of course! #Google agrees with #OpenAI

🧵 3 / 3 👆

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/google-agrees-with-openai-that-copyright-has-no-place-in-ai-development/

The execs at #Mozilla are something else. First they put up a TOS that, according to them, we all had misinterpreted, then they add a notice stating that the TOS doesn't gave them ownership of people's data, and finally they remove from everywhere the parts that said " #FireFox doesn’t sell your personal data" Alright, folks, what’s next?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_terms_of_use/

#FreeSoftware #EthicalTech #Privacy

I use 3 browsers for different purposes: TorBrowser, LibreWolf, #FireFox After the latest events now I use #TorBrowser #LibreWolf and #Vivaldi

In my case for my #Devuan system I downloaded Vivaldi from the official site
https://vivaldi.com/ and then on a terminal I used the following command:

sudo apt install ./vivaldi-stable_7.1.3570.58-1_amd64.deb

Pretty simple uh? 😉

Today I was victim of proprietary software crap by car manufacturers. My
auto electrician has only fixed a problem with a malfunctioning window switch panel partially because part of the configuration is software blocked and I have to go to the manufacturer's dealership. With each passing day I'm happier about my decision of not buying a new car because this problem must have become a nightmare in modern cars

#RightToRepair #Proprietary #Software #Car

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone" - RMS

Sadly, I have to admit that I'm one of those who thought they could ignore politics for a long time, until I realized that it's wrong and even unethical to do it. Stallman was right

#FreeSoftware #Freedom #RMS #Geeks #Politics #FOSS

The article talks about authors suing meta but I'm curious to see if the same book publishing companies that went after the #InternetArchive (Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House and John Wiley and Sons) will go now after #Meta and Zuck (of course as always he doesn't know anything about this)

https://cybernews.com/tech/meta-leeched-82-terabytes-of-pirated-books-to-train-its-llama-ai-documents-reveal/

#metaAI #AI #ia #copyright