Funds privacy tech/open search @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz

49% of workers, when forced to update their password, reuse the same one with just a minor change.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/49-of-workers-when-forced-to-update-their-password-reuse-the-same-one-with-just-a-minor-change/

Chinese citizens now have to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services: this builds an unreliable, pervasive, and unnecessary technology on top of an unnecessary and exclusionary SIM card registration policy.

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3293/facial-recognition-just-use-phone-china-sets-dangerous-global-precedent https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1201796213382766593/photo/1

If there's any journalist here in the #fediverse, with an interest in the use of open data in journalism, in particular the sharing of #ddj results as open data, and the ethics of sharing/not sharing, you may want to check out this webinar I'll be moderating tomorrow.

Registrations: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/doing-journalism-with-open-data-from-theory-to-practice-tickets-84902067369
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Don't use super cheap VPS providers.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-vps-providers-to-shut-down-on-monday-giving-customers-two-days-to-save-their-data/

We want the "Next Generation Internet" to be interoperable, inclusive, transparent and privacy friendly. #FreeSoftware is crucial to this, so the #FSFE helps software projects with licensing issues:

https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191022-01.en.html#ngi0

Help us to help them with your donation or get a supporter:
https://my.fsfe.org/donate

#NGI0 #Reuse

Great to see how more and more satellite events around #FOSDEM make #Brussels for one week not only the capital of Europe but also the #European #epicenter of #FOSS. Check out the surrounding activities, find your favourites, plan ahead and have a great time together!

https://foss.events

#CHAOSScon @conservancy #MiniDebCamp #Byteweek
#SustainOSS #XMPP

LibreOffice uses the OpenDocument format, designed to make interoperability easier - benefiting everyone! But LibreOffice also opens files from proprietary office tools, even if they're in cryptic formats. See how we're improving PowerPoint compatibility: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/12/06/improvements-in-libreoffices-powerpoint-presentation-support/

#Funkwhale #podcast helpers! Our next meeting for podcast/channel development is tomorrow, December 7, at 17:00 UTC in our podcast room: https://matrix.to/#/#funkwhale-podcasts:matrix.org

You don't have to wait for our meeting times if you'd like to contribute! The Matrix room is available anytime for discussion and so is our development forum: https://governance.funkwhale.audio/g/SdKlQIvD/funkwhale-development

@inkscape is a vector graphic design program that lets you create logos, banners and astounding technical and artistic drawings. Think CorelDraw! or Illustrator, but with the open SVG format and none of the closed source-ness. Support Inkscape at:

https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/

#givingtuesday

Oh btw, about a month ago we handled ~200k visits in a day, ~12 pageviews per second, ~1Gbps bandwidth, on a WordPress site on our infrastructure... without breaking a sweat.

How? Years of polishing our front-end caching reverse-proxy config. Is it #FLOSS? Of course it is: https://git.occrp.org/libre/fasada

Also, thanks and kudos to #Greenhost for hosting our edge nodes.

Point is: no, you don't need #CloudFlare.

We are very excited to share that John Bieling, the author of the popular TbSync Thunderbird add-on, is working on an EteSync add-on for Thunderbird and TbSync!

https://blog.etesync.com/etesync-thunderbird-add-on/

Many thanks to @NGIZero and NLnet for supporting this project!

We're calling on all web site owners to implement HTTPS by default. Here's how: https://www.eff.org/encrypt-the-web

@aral Great talk at the EU. Note that there is a little bit of European funding going to small projects and it's important to acknowledge it. @NGIZero funds open source privacy projects. It is however a drop in the ocean compared to startup funding which end up being acquired abroad