Notices by Rui Seabra (ruiseabra@mastodon.social)

@purpleidea
To me, it reads like that in the undertone of the post, other members may feel the same. I'm glad that's not your intention. :)

I feel your pain, undue blame is frequent in newbies, I've been there.

Remember that if Lenovo didn't do an actual effort of testing, Windows would crash a lot more.

So it's definitely Lenovo's fault, AFAICT, maybe tell them to complain to Lenovo, as they should make sure to sell a Laptop with adequate hardware and drivers for the bundled software.

@purpleidea
Well, shame on Lenovo for selling crap hardware with bad support for the included software stack, rather than good and appropriate hardware, then.

I can hardly see how that is the fault of the Fedora community. :)

If these terrific questions don't make you think twice about the seriousness (if not intention) behind posts like those, then you have a problem with your security posture regarding supply chain attacks.

I wonder how many people would be able to notice a few milliseconds of delay in a Windows mTLS RDP session, examine the code, and pinpoint the problem so it could be quickly fixed

And how long ago was this already? How many zero days in other widely (massively, in fact) distributed proprietary software have there been around since?

Once in a while I see posts claiming doom and gloom on Free Software security, and they dare weave the flag of the Xz attack, from a high pedestal.

The weirdest and worst case was Veritassium's recent (and shameful IMHO) video.

My comment:

A highly specialized, and long term planning attack, was caught before it did any real harm because of, not in spite of, Free Software's inherently better security model.

@neurovagrant
Zero trust was always about full trust on proprietary blobs, so that's nothing new, really. ;)

#ChuckNorris never died: after winning everyone on this plane of existence he just needed a new challenge! #RIP

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.html #FSFÈ this is so bad. Time to renew support of @fsfe and you need to do that now if you have something pledged as Nexi has "cancelled" FSF Europe because it respects the privacy of its supporters!

Dear #FreeSoftware developers...

These governmental attestation requirements popping up all over the world are nothing but the just visible step on the war on generic computing.

@pluralistic spoke about it in 2011 and here's a nice transcript for you https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

I'm not modest enough to not say I was also looking at those writings in the wall, but he's a much better speaker.

Go read that, and please, please, please...

Stop collaborating with the authoritarians.

So I just got an email from @fsfe with the information that by defending the privacy of it's supporters from its payment provider they got their contract suddenly cancelled?

This is preposterous.

It seems scandalous to me that these fascist organizations are allowed (maybe ordered by law) to be gatekeepers between citizen movements and their supporters with the power to arbitrarily cut them off.

Note: DKIM evaluation is a pass, so I have no reason to doubt this.

People are pretending it's ok to collaborate with government/law mandates for attestation because we live in democracies.

You need only look at what's happens in China to know you're wrong.

Please do.

The answer to those government calls for ID/age/whatever attestation should be the same that is being given by some AI companies regarding usage in autonomous weapons: **NO**.

And it should be loud.

And most importantly, IMHO, absolutely no #FreeSoftware worth its license should ever be a willing collaborationist to the future dictators.

Apparently in California they have forbidden Free Software as a consequence of stupid legislators like those that live in Portugal, who are doing almost the same.

Any analysis if in fact it is so, or not?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

TFW you submit a couple of lines of shell scripting patch that fixes a container's deployment by removing ways to break it's deployment, adds in TLS support, and the patch is objected because it breaks behavior... not very welcoming, IMHO.

Sabem quantos me responderam? Zero. Até futura prova em contrário, será legítimo presumir que os que se abstiveram apenas não queriam admitir aos seus eleitores favorecem leis de censura? Olá @LIVRE @BlocodeEsquerda @partidocomunista ?

Today I saw some people rejecting entering some CIDR ranges in a whitelist because they are from the US and not EU. I diligently decided to put out that fire with some gasoline by sending these links

- https://www.heise.de/en/news/Opinion-US-Authorities-Have-Far-Reaching-Access-to-European-Cloud-Data-11111060.html

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities/

- https://www.senat.fr/compte-rendu-commissions/20250609/ce_commande_publique.html

Mood for today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GbGO7CKdQ (David Bowie, Putting out fire with gasoline)

#fisa #cloud #cloudact #rgpd

@DiogoConstantino
Isso é muito bonito de dizer, mas não são os projetos de lei que entraram no parlamento e que foram aprovados pela vasta maioria dos deputados na matéria de censura, vigilância, extinção da privacidade, etc nos últimos anos.

@DiogoConstantino @Healthnews_informacao não é "infelizmente" é "por design". Chama-se desinformação e propaganda, quem estiver menos atento... papa.

@DiogoConstantino não sejas inocente, são agentes políticos e protegem-se uns aos outros. Todo este zum zum têm um único objetivo: retirar o poder de satirizar

@DiogoConstantino
Essas opções não interessam porque não aumentam o poder de controlo sobre o que os cidadãos fazem, nomeadamente práticas de escárnio de figuras públicas.

O objectivo não é proteção de inocentes, estes são só a desculpa.