●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, January 03, 2023 ●● ● Jan 03 [00:17] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [00:21] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [00:57] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:58] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@auubhxtweg528.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 03 [03:23] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [03:26] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 03 [04:00] *geert (~geert@5phj55yesqcey.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 03 [08:04] schestowitz Re: unable to update article (link correction) [08:04] schestowitz > Thanks. I will try to paste simple plain text from a notepad next time. [08:04] schestowitz > I thought the terminal would remove any line-break, CR characters. [08:04] schestowitz > Thanks again & Happy New Year. [08:19] schestowitz > Dear Richard, Roy and Alexandre, [08:19] schestowitz > [08:19] schestowitz > Happy new year for 2023. [08:19] schestowitz To you too. [08:19] schestowitz > This year I want to devote more time in a responsive way to the [08:19] schestowitz > concerns sent to me as comments and letters. [08:19] schestowitz > [08:19] schestowitz > Individual responses mean a lot duplicated effort, so I am thinking [08:19] schestowitz > maybe more short articles and blog posts are the way to go. Finding a [08:19] schestowitz > home for each of these is an overhead - although Roy you have been [08:19] schestowitz > most welcoming and generous with Tuxmachines etc, thank you. Starting [08:19] schestowitz > yet another "blog" that stays in obscurity is maybe not the best thing [08:19] schestowitz > either. [08:19] schestowitz Many technical people have begun exploring/experimenting with this approach (RSS, blogs etc.) because of Twitter's demise. Many merely return to it due to fatigue in social control media. Two of them, one Debian dev (Gunnar) and Zonker (Joe), wrote blog posts about that only a few hours ago. Major Hayden explores self-hosting Mastodon, but social control media is generally misguided. But he previously said he'd take the challenge of 100 blog posts [08:19] schestowitz in 100 days. It's a trend! [08:19] schestowitz Those are just hours-old examples that I saw. Many more exist! It is very encouraging. [08:19] schestowitz > I had the idea of a regular "tech agony" column, and I hope you can [08:19] schestowitz > help me find a platform for this if it works. [08:19] schestowitz > [08:19] schestowitz > There's a note of desperation and sickness out there from people who [08:19] schestowitz > want to exercise their tech rights and choices but feel crushed and [08:19] schestowitz > hopeless. Living with my partner who is a therapist dealing with [08:20] schestowitz > severe traumas, we talk about peoples' struggles to feel heard [08:20] schestowitz > and exercise their rights. [08:20] schestowitz I left my job a month ago after I had suffered enough. My wife did the same, an hour or so apart. If any of you wants to know the reason, it's an explanation in progress at http://techrights.org/wiki/Sirius_Open_Source [08:20] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Sirius Open Source - Techrights [08:20] schestowitz It is hardly halfway there, I've so much more left to say and to show. [08:20] schestowitz I might never go back to "working" in the "tech" sector. Lots of toxic stuff in it, including but not limited to clown computing. It's a new form of proprietary software that is in many ways even worse, for a number of reasons. [08:20] schestowitz > This year I'd like to see a project of popular Digital Rights grow [08:20] schestowitz > beyond the notions of software freedom. [08:20] schestowitz > [08:20] schestowitz > For example, I have messages in my inbox saying "I am tired, always [08:20] schestowitz > must compromise, my needs will always be infringed upon." and "I feel [08:20] schestowitz > constantly gaslighted by a mean pervasive dystopia", or "I feel alone [08:20] schestowitz > and can't talk to people in a technological prison". [08:20] schestowitz > [08:20] schestowitz > These cries for help and understanding grow more frequent. [08:20] schestowitz > [08:20] schestowitz > Sadly I have been rather preoccupied with the total failure of [08:20] schestowitz > academia to be part of any solution for digital rights and need to [08:20] schestowitz > find myself a new income and platform because teaching in a toxic [08:20] schestowitz > environment is awful. Anyway, that's been distracting me. [08:20] schestowitz > [08:20] schestowitz > I'll let you know when I get something started and see what you think. [08:20] schestowitz > [08:20] schestowitz > wishing you all best, [08:20] schestowitz To you as well. [08:20] schestowitz PS - LXO, blog a bit more, Free software people love it! ;-) ● Jan 03 [12:31] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [12:34] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [12:42] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [12:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [12:52] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [12:56] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 03 [13:32] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [13:33] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 03 [14:09] *Mio14 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [14:33] *geert has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:53] schestowitz
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    First Version of Vanilla OS is Available to Download
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    Vanilla OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a ton of major difference.

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    Ubuntu-based Linux distros are ten a penny and few tend to diverge from the parent OS in an interesting or unique way. Not so with Vanilla OS. Far more than just another Ubuntu fork, this distro takes a bold new approach to desktop OS thanks to an immutable file system.

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    The sixth Reproducible Builds Summit took place exactly two months ago in Venice, Italy. These three days of workshops were filled with a succession of interactive sessions, where everyone attending had the opportunity to present or learn about anything related to Build Reproducibility. This included the status of specific Open Source projects, techniques to locate, analyse, and understand issues, or also [14:54] schestowitz how to explain and communicate better around this topic.

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    [14:55] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-carlschwan.eu | Tokodon 23.01.0 release [14:55] schestowitz

    Tokodon is a Mastodon/Pleroma/Nextcloud Social client built with Kirigami that I started back in spring 2021. Tokodon has a great integration with KDE Plasma and Plasma Mobile, but it also work on other desktop environments and even Windows and macOS.

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    • [14:56] schestowitz "Thats how my journey to the South Koreas very special security application landscape started." https://palant.info/2023/01/02/south-koreas-online-security-dead-end/ | Source: Wladimir Palant [14:56] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-palant.info | South Koreas online security dead end | Almost Secure [14:56] schestowitz
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    Thats how my journey to the South Koreas very special security application landscape started. Since then I investigated several other applications and realized that the first one wasnt an outlier. All of them caused severe security and privacy issues. Yet they were also installed on almost every computer in South Korea, being a prerequisite for using online banking or government websites in the [14:56] schestowitz country.

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