Retro64XYZ @retro64XYZ@mastodon.xyz

SDF terminal in action:

PLUG's annual end of year party is this Thursday. It's at our normal time and location.

2019Dec12 @ 19:00
Desert Breeze Substation: 251 North Desert Breeze Blvd, Chandler

https://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html

https://gettogether.community/series/17/east-valley-meeting/

Bring something to share if you can

There is not a security meeting this month, but Stammtisch will be a week from Tuesday on the 17th @ 19:00

Next month we will give resume reviews before Stammtisch

https://gettogether.community/series/14/floss-stammtisch/

#FLOSSevent #LocalGroup #Arizona #PLUG

@veer66 to me, the term #coding means the ACTUAL writing code part, while #programming involves more stuff, such as setting up an environment, build tools, compiling, etc.
So if you're a programmer you know how to do a lot of those steps, including coding.

Hayden explains that Russian, Chinese, and Saudi authorities will also seek exceptional access backdoors.

Proposals to get around encryption, like client-side scanning, open the door to abuses by those authoritarian regimes and other bad actors.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/why-adding-client-side-scanning-breaks-end-end-encryption

"One small way to get our independence and agency back from exploitative platforms is to build personal websites to share on instead. It’s a step to taking back control, and building a web that neither relies upon, nor feeds, the harms of Big Tech."

Great post by @laura

https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/

What's the one thing every web user can do to fight #SurveillanceCapitalism ?

Replace the Google Chrome browser

I've started a new website to send a message to Google that we prefer the internet without them

https://notochrome.org/

#NoToChrome

Dear everyone who is considering making a video of yourself talking rather than just writing the *exact same words* into a text file, a blog post or a PDF:

Unless you're specifically targeting people who literally cannot read...

Please don't.

Sincerely, A Person Who Doesn't Have Literal Free Hours To Hear You Slooooowly Say Something It Would Take Me Five Seconds To Read And Also I Can Ctrl-F It

I love how Mastodon is 100% functional and contains zero trackers.

It's almost as if you don't need trackers to make a functioning site and any trackers on other sites are wholly unnecessary and should be fought against on every possible level...

Thank you again for your participation to the #SDF32 and #UNIX50 EVENT!!! Thank you to all the anonradio, sdf and irc diehardz esp to the ones who stayed till the end! LOL thank you! BIG thanks to @smj for making this important event happen! Also thank you to USENIX and the @livingcomputers Museum, and to our ever patient sysadmin @iczer haha LET US ALL HELP SDF ALIVE! Keep the old ways ALIVE! Pls support @SDF and keep using your UNIX and all kinds of *NIX machines! 👍👍 I'm beat... good night!LOL

German data protection organization: use of Office 365 in schools is illegal https://nextcloud.com/blog/german-data-protection-organization-use-of-office-365-in-schools-is-illegal/ #nextcloud #business #news

ancient SDF is ready to celebrate #unix50 @livingcomputers with #usenix - doors open at 10am event begins #tonight 6pm - 9pm #bbs #vintage #computing #unix

"On 10 April, astrophysicists announced that they had captured the 1st ever image of a #blackhole.

No headlines mentioned that the image would have been impossible without open-source software: #Matplotlib, a #Python library for graphing data.

Just 5 days later, the NSF rejected a grant to support that ecosystem, saying that the software lacked sufficient impact.

#opensource is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

https://t.co/WU8146RChk