●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 ●● ● Dec 27 [00:40] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@auubhxtweg528.irc) has joined #techbytes [00:57] *Noisytoot has quit (Quit: ZNC 1.8.2 - https://znc.in) [00:58] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 27 [01:42] *Noisytoot has quit (Quit: ZNC 1.8.2 - https://znc.in) [01:42] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 27 [02:06] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [02:37] schestowitz https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/12/26/0346247 [02:37] schestowitz " [02:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-soylentnews.org | A Guide to Eliminating Harmful Digital Technologies in Universities - SoylentNews [02:37] schestowitz The Times Higher Education has an essay by Professor Andy Farnell where he rethinks digital technologies which disenfranchise, dehumanize, excludes, and even bully both students and teachers. These unfortunate technologies with their problems and misfeatures have been plaguing institutions of higher education for quite some time now. Not too long ago, universities took the lead in creating and advancing performant technologies. The triumvirate of [02:37] schestowitz LDAP, Kerberos, and AFS is just one which comes to mind, though there are also the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and many more. Now these institutions have mostly lost their way and have become followers and "consumers" of products that not only don't meet their needs but actively work against institutional goals. He starts by asking which digital technologies could, or rather ought to, be removed from higher educational environments. [02:37] schestowitz Harm occurs when technologies divert equity away from key stakeholders toward powerful but marginal stakeholders, namely chancellors, trustees, directors, dignitaries, landlords, governments, industries, advertisers, sponsors, technology corporations, suppliers and publishers. Harms arise because these entities have become invested in pushing technologies that favour their products and interests into the education ecosystem. [02:37] schestowitz Obviously, we can't entertain the idea of removing all technologies from education, if only to dodge the pedant's retort that we'd better burn all books and blackboards while we're at it. Rather than looking for technical errors, let's recognise that technologies are fraught with political and psychological shortcomings in their models, structures and behaviours, which lead to misuse. [02:37] schestowitz As a brief summary, we wish to identify and eliminate systems that: [02:37] schestowitz disenfranchise and disempower [02:37] schestowitz dehumanise [02:37] schestowitz discriminate and exclude [02:37] schestowitz extract or seek rent [02:37] schestowitz coerce and bully [02:37] schestowitz mislead or manipulate [02:37] schestowitz What steps can you take locally? [02:37] schestowitz Recently: [02:37] schestowitz (2022) 'NO': Grad Students Analyze, Hack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices Designed to Track Them [02:37] schestowitz " ● Dec 27 [03:38] *Noisytoot has quit (Quit: ZNC 1.8.2 - https://znc.in) [03:40] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes [03:46] *Noisytoot has quit (Quit: ZNC 1.8.2 - https://znc.in) [03:46] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 27 [05:41] *geert (~geert@95ah4es36qdbq.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 27 [09:13] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:18] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:22] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 27 [10:41] *geert has quit (connection closed) [10:47] schestowitz
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    Help us achieve self-maintaining App Listings by adding AppStream Metadata!
    [10:47] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxphoneapps.org | Help us achieve self-maintaining App Listings by adding AppStream Metadata! | LinuxPhoneApps [10:47] schestowitz
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    In the past months, not many apps were evaluated or added to LinuxPhoneApps.org. But still, things were done: The technical stack was much improved. While most of this work is not directly user-facing, as it's about restructuring the underlying .csv files and adding more and more automatic content checkers, we've now arrived at a stage where we can update listings without a lot of the time-intense churn [10:47] schestowitz this was.

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    Whats in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
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    [11:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-palant.info | Whats in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained | Almost Secure [11:06] schestowitz

    Their statement is also full of omissions, half-truths and outright lies. As I know that not everyone can see through all of it, I thought that I would pick out a bunch of sentences from this statement and give some context that LastPass didnt want to mention.

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    Why points doesnt equal to saved money
    [11:08] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-gregoryhammond.ca | Why points doesnt equal to saved money - Gregory Hammond [11:08] schestowitz
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    With everyone looking to save money, there are many people promoting about collecting points (either through a store or credit card). While this sounds great, collecting these points dont actually equal to saving money, and there are a number of things you should look into before and while doing this.

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