Notices by Helma (helma@mastodon.social)

#SilentSunday

Bellyrub Time!
Pip loves it and invites you happily. #Caturday

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Almost forgot 😅

@janneke Me thinks Bert's gonna say what Bert's gonna say. And it will all be fine. @bert_hubert

" ... 99% of those images are of women and girls. The world's most prolific child sexual abuse material and sexual harassment factory is now on Fenian Street in Dublin. We don't need a dawn raid, or an Interpol investigation to reveal that address."

#CSAM #X #Twitter #EU Go get 'em!!

Yet Ireland is inactive. Yet Ireland voted for the bad #ChatControl proposal of digital scanning in Europe of everyone's devices to counter CSAM. 🤦♀️

https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-abuse-factory/

The real horror ...

"Openly accessible information repositories, like libraries or Wikipedia, are straining under the technical pressure that AI bot activity is putting on their infrastructure. Those automated bots systematically traverse and scrape content from websites, (...) putting significant strain on the internet’s infrastructure and business model. They do so in ways that harm access to information and freedom of expression online."
#AI #Enshittification
https://www.techpolicy.press/creepy-ai-crawlers-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-haunted-house/

There.
"Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access
Company admits under oath that American authorities can demand European citizen information despite security promises."

#Privacy #Security #GDPR #DigitalSovreignity

https://ppc.land/microsoft-cant-protect-french-data-from-us-government-access/

Maybe you've never heard of it, but there is an app, Netguard, that helps you regulate which internet access you allow from your smartphone without root access.
For apps that only need to work on your phone, this also helps keeping ads out.
I find it very helpful and it gives me a sense of being in control at least a bit. Made by Marcel Bokhorst of https://www.faircode.eu/. Apparently he also made a useful email app. #Security #Privacy #BigTech

@hans06801 @ErikJonker @bert_hubert De IT wist dit altijd al, maar die besturen niet. ;-)

@janvlug @alzimon @meneer @sibrosan Je kunt de APK ook elders downloaden. Of je dat moet willen mey een bank-app is een tweede, maar het kan wel.

@alzimon @meneer @janvlug @sibrosan Completely confused. Ik dacht dat het ging om betalen met je telefoon. I.e. contactloos.
Als het alleen gaat over de app daarmee je je bankzaken regelt (wat je ook online in de browser kunt doen), praatten we compleet langs elkaar heen. Dat kan zonder Google Pay inderdaad. Moest er nog bijkomen.

@alzimon @meneer @janvlug @sibrosan Ja, dit zou ik ook graag willen weten. ASN nam vorig jaar namelijk afscheid van hun eigen app. Ik gebruikte contactloos nooit, maar mijn partner wel en dat werkt nu niet meer. We zijn het gelukkig eens over het niet gebruiken van contactloos via Google Pay. Het pasje zit nu in een vakje in de hoes van de telefoon. Zelfde effect.
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/220128/asn-sns-en-regiobank-stappen-over-naar-google-pay-voor-contactloos-betalen.html

@meneer @janvlug @sibrosan Confused. Je had het toch over je telefoon en de bankapp? ASN heeft geen eigen bankapp meer.

@meneer @janvlug @sibrosan Hoe doe je dat als ASN alleen met Google Pay werkt?

@janvlug @knmi Welke data gebruiken de commerciële apps?
Die app van KNMI geen trackers. Top!

@slwkf1 @alx @pluralistic This is why interoperability is so important. It is going way too slow. If they could earn money in facilitating this on their platforms, they would have found a way already.

I think the owner of the apartment we're staying for our skiing trip may have some issues ... 😆 #Austria #Hintertux

@dansup 😭

Organic Maps is een apps die 100% van de functionaliteit heeft zonder actieve internetverbinding. Organic Maps is een gratis Android & iOS offline kaartenapp voor reizigers, toeristen, wandelaars en fietsers gebaseerd op gecrowdsourcete OpenStreetMap gegevens. Privacyvriendelijk en gratis gebruiken, het kan wél.

https://organicmaps.app/nl/

#Privacy #AlternativeTo #Maps
@organicmaps

"One fun anecdote is that companies or governments will often say they need months or years to prepare (CLEAN UP) code for open sourcing. Because on the inside, people allow themselves far worse code than they’d prefer to share with the outside world. Open source code often has higher standards, and it is a great mechanism of keeping you on track."

Says @bert_hubert in his article about long term software development #opensource #dev #coding
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-development/