Notices by Rui Seabra (ruiseabra@mastodon.social)

@arturcoelho
Chocante!

@hub
Because he got you to lose time talking about things that ain't happening, while he goes on doing what he really wants...

Falam por aí de se ter ou não registado patente da Via Verde... meus amigos, se foi regista alguma nas datas que falam nas notícias é uma patente ilegítima porque nada legitima patentes de software nessas alturas. Entretanto também nada as legitima hoje, mas o tribunal máximo europeu de patentes sempre teve por prática registar patentes de software mesmo que ilegalmente. Curiosamente, nada disto sai nas notícias, o que sinaliza um pouco mais de publicidade escamoteada do que jornalismo.

This is what laws restricting speech because "nobody can be offended" lead to.

Even if this leads into nothing, just the troubles alone provide a chilling effect on speech.

The answer to bad speech is not less speech. It's *more* good speech. And if you think otherwise, let me tell you right now: you'd look pretty comfy around white nationalists and neo Nazis.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dj1zlvxglo

> A county's Police and Crime Commissioner says the case "shouldn’t have become a police matter".

Get ready! Apple will soon disable encryption of it's Cloud storage for EU customers too.

And if they can disable it, remember that they already already could, so they have alternative keys...

https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal

> The Commission said it would create roadmaps regarding both the “lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement” and on encryption.

The tools of the next dictator are slowly, but consistently, being put in place at a steady pace.

Não entro nesta peça, mas o Grupo de Teatro Amador de Benfica estreia na próxima quinta-feira uma divertida comédia: 8 Mulheres

Não percam! :)

Em Abril, nos dias 3 a 6 e 10 a 13, espetáculos às 21:30 exceto ao Domingo que é às 17:00

Prepped to go, in a few minutes.

Won't see a lot of it, since my region is a bit far, but hey... I'll make it up next year!

#solareclipse

@gbraad
The positioning of commercial is not FUD, but "oh no, it's commercial" (it's a foundation), "it's open source, not something private or controlled by then", "anybody can join" (implying by omission a group, but that's not true), that *is* FUD.

@gbraad
And that "ton of thousands of more signups" is what leads me to a hypothesis: if this wasn't a mistake but something staged, what would be the gain? Then it hit me: they must have a way to break into Signal, and needed to advertise it's so safe that even they use it for secops.

Nothing better than an "accidental leak" with a less critical secop...

@gbraad
And at about 5:18 of this interview, Jeffrey Goldberg claims that their usage of Signal is bad because it's a commercial application, and that anybody can join (unclear language misleading that as if anybody can join any arbitrary group).

But great interview!

https://youtu.be/HFunw-2jKKc?si=FFwEqrgohoRju_H_

@gbraad
"That's bad" wrt "Open Source" is paraphrasing, they don't say it like that, but they use the usual FUD from Microsoft we're used to for many decades!

@gbraad
No, an interview with Jeffrey, and at least a couple others in CNN and MSNBC, iirc.

@gbraad
Yeah, but still that's is not the point of news, it's "oh, it's open source, that's bad".

WRT SMS, well, using it is just stupid. :)

@gbraad
I don't know, on one hand the news and shows bad mouth Signal for all the wrong reasons.

On the other hand, the excess of guts those guys have to have, to not even check the members or who the hell is that guy who was just added, is really impressive! ;)

I'm amazed at the lack of proper vetting of the members of that infamous Signal group revealed by The Atlantic.

Jeffrey Goldberg did a brilliant job by keeping the questions to himself and seeing where it would lead.

Guys, the problem isn't about using Signal, the fact that they use it says a lot about the trust they have in its security.

It's "how on earth nobody checked, and double checked, the members before starting".

It's not the "fun and beer time" group!

Wow!

FFS I really don't like soccer. For a relatively minor game we've had major arteries cut in Lisbon today since 9am? The game ain't about to start until almost 4 hours from now...

@hub
Yup, and the only worse thing than a public Monopoly is a private Monopoly, so in a few years... Oops! ;)

How to Have Wildcard Certificates in #FreeIPA (Red Hat IDM)

Need a wildcard certificate under your domain? Easy peasy lemon squeezy…

I hope this can be useful to someone else other than me. :)

https://blog.1407.org/2025/03/22/how-to-have-wildcard-certificates-in-freeipa/

Attention, #okd people, the let's encrypt renewal process has failed in docs.okd.io ...

Can we now please stop insulting, shouting out, and generally cancelling people who have been alerting for this possibility since 2020?

Another formal investigation considers origin of COVID19 to likely be from a lab leak.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/