Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 117

I swear sometimes I feel like when I use Free / Libre Open Source Software it's like getting a hug from an entire community.

> After a long disclosure process we release #SMoTherSpectre, a transient execution attack that uses port contention as a side channel (instead of caches) to leak register/memory data. Details: http://nebelwelt.net/blog/20190306-SMoTherSpectre.html paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01843 PoC: https://github.com/HexHive/SMoTherSpectre

Via https://twitter.com/gannimo/status/1103350542036856832

Let me break that down for you: it's similar to Meltdown/Spectre but uses a technique that doesn't involve evaluating "untrusted code".

While I'm on a rant, it annoys me that I might have to retire my laptop in a year or two, even though the hardware is still working fine and dandy, just because even #FreeCode software seems to require more and more hardware power over time to do basically the same tasks. When I bought this laptop in 2010, it could run perfectly good voice and video calls over Skype on Windows XP! We must stop treating complex electronics as disposables.

I dislike the term "slave" for "CI build worker". My own CI software uses "worker" instead, but a lot of CI software seems to be stuck in the offensive nomenclature.

According to the organisers 2.000 people attended the #saveyourinternet protest in Berlin today! And I’m happy seeing so many teenagers, school students and people in the twenties like me here. Especially since conservatives (the CDU is Germany’s conservative center-right party) always claim that they’re not interested in politics & that epically backfired at them today^^

Hoping to start interviewing soon! Interested in working with us? Better let us know soon... #freesoftwarejob Pls Boost? https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/feb/14/techie-bookkeeper/

Anyone have a proposal for more ethical, #FreeCode/ #OpenSource approaches to search and discovery on the net? The EU Next Generation Internet project might fund it to the tune of 5000 to 50,000 Euros. Application deadline is April 1, 2019:
https://nlnet.nl/discovery/
#funding

I can't watch this #NZOnAir funded documentary, produced by public broadcaster #RadioNZ, because it's on YouTube, which is blocked in China. How annoying:
http://shorthand.radionz.co.nz/alienweaponry/index.html

Hey RadioNZ, I have no objection to you putting your stuff on YT so it's available to the audience who choose to use that platform, but how about setting up a #PeerTube server to put all your video content on so it's not compulsory to use YT to watch it?

A request to founders of #FreeCode projects; if you decide to abandon a project, please make that clear on all the project's communication channels (ideally before you go dark). It would be great to know if you are ceasing development due to a) inadequate time, b) change in personal circumstances (eg job loss), c) loss of motivation, d) redirecting energy to support another project doing a similar thing (which one?)/ other projects in general (which ones?).

In an editorial for Times of India, Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary set out an ambitious but achievable vision for Digital India.

READ: "Beat digital colonialism – What Digital India should mean: A tech policy for the Indian future"
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/beat-digital-colonialism-what-digital-india-should-mean-a-tech-policy-for-the-indian-future/