DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare@octodon.social

«The Gaia-X members will collaborate on the next generation, independent and federated infrastructure for Europe using #Nextcloud»

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-beat-us-hyperscalers-as-collaboration-platform-for-eu-digital-sovereignty-project-gaia-x/

Imagine a government agency ordered Apple to include hashes of all documents they wanted to track into that kiddie porn database. Suddenly the government knows who's got that antivax meme JPG. Or tax protest DOC. Or an environmental report PDF.

And it's just hashes! Apple won't know what they're tracking, so they can't say "no".

Now tell me you honestly believe no government *ever* will take advantage of this invisible monitoring power.

This is from the co-creator of Dogecoin (thread)

RT @ummjackson@twitter.com

After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity. https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1415353984617914370?s=21

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European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-european-parliament-approves-mass-surveillance-of-private-communications/

(submitted by pepperberg)

In case you need to test network speed, but want to use something FOSS:
https://librespeed.org/
#speedtest #librespeed #network #admin

Impact factor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions — Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01759-5

A Dutch university says it is formally abandoning the impact factor — a standard measure of scientific success — in all hiring and promotion decisions. By early 2022, every department at Utrecht University in the Netherlands will judge its scholars by other standards, including their commitment to teamwork and their efforts to promote open science, says Paul Boselie, a governance researcher and the project leader for the university’s new Recognition and Rewards scheme. “Impact factors don’t really reflect the quality of an individual researcher or academic,” he says. “We have a strong belief that something has to change, and abandoning the impact factor is one of those changes.”

#academy #openscience

Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax – Krebs on Security - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/intuit-to-share-payroll-data-from-1-4m-small-businesses-with-equifax/

Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 million small businesses using its QuickBooks Online Payroll and Intuit Online Payroll products that their payroll information will be shared with big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax starting later this year unless customers opt out by the end of this month.

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Sono stato a leggere post relativi ai due matteo sul sito cinguettante, che comunque rimane tra le piattaforme dove i nostri normalmente scrivono.

Non so come esprimere le mie sensazioni; è che leggere quei post e commenti IMHO dà la misura del malessere che serpeggia nel paese. È un malessere che va affrontato e curato in qualche modo, altrimenti si rivolterà contro la nostra società.

Il tw*tter italofono oggi mi appare la migliore approssimazione disponibile della vecchia "Radio Parolaccia".

Paul Otlet's Mundaneum (1935) and Mondotheque are pretty cool precursors to the Memex! I hadn't heard about them.

(The Atlantic article from 2014, h/t @enkiv2 )

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385/

Consent is a failed regulatory approach, especially (but not only) in data protection law.

It’s prevailing is the direct result of stakeholders being painfully ignorant to the fact that consent requires control.

This control is a privilege of few. Consent favours the powerful.

@chainofflowers ok, però non bisogna generalizzare... Si può essere indipendenti anche BBBHUAAAH AAHAHHA AHHAHAA
(scusa, stavamo provando a dirlo rimanendo seri)
@dataKnightmare

NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57302806

(submitted by Black101)

100% agree with Maciej here #bitcoin

Today Denmark announced their corona passport app "Coronapas".

Of course, it's not open source, because that's too hard for the Danish government to do. In addition it's done by the absolutely inept Netcompany that made the infection tracing app, Smittestop.

That same app has a Norwegian version, of which is open source. The Danish version is not open source, despite being made by the same company and shares basically the same code base, not that the latter should matter.

It's beyond ridiculous that the public should put up with tax money going to private actors that don't even give the code to the people, aka. the proper owner of the code.

The ministers responsible for such conduct in any country should be forced to leave their posts and publicly apologise. They deserve to lose face.

Public funds = Public ownership

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#denmark #coronapas #corona #opensource #foss