Notices by ( hellekin ) (how@ps.s10y.eu), page 3

I wanted to buy a Bose speaker. But thanks to @exodus I realized that the newest version of their app comes with 2 trackers (that were not there before).

Warning: the simplest thing in the world will come and sniff your asshole.

The Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom at #FOSDEM2019 promises to be very, very interesting. Stay tuned...

@fosdem

"la différence entre machine learning et intelligence artificielle est que la première se programme en Python tandis que l'autre se programme en PowerPoint." – Antoinette Rouvroy

So we got this conference talk with the review team of the Decentralized Internet & Privacy Devroom and we thought that despite our efforts we did not attract enough female and non-binary #gendered speakers.

If you're a white make and proposed a talk in our #FOSDEM2019 devroom, please reach out to your community and find someone from an under-represented community to present your talk instead of you.

That requires humility and decentralization, and going against the trend at @fosdem

Cheers!

Can't find who mentioned it but

https://contractfortheweb.org/

is not enough as it makes no mention of free software or a public digital infrastructure.

Who cares if the Web survives if it's in the hands of the GAFAM?

https://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-slams-pirate-mep-for-lobbying-kids-forgets-a-decade-of-rightsholders-doing-just-that-181209/

The industry can target children, but when MEP Julia Reda exhorts kids to 'lobby' their parents, she's called out by IFPI... Weird.

#FOSDEM2019

Guess how many proposals the Decentralized Internet & Privacy Devroom received this year?

No kidding: forty two.

I can tell you already there's some interesting stuff coming up...

#FOSDEM2019

The Decentralized Internet & Privacy Devroom CFP is still open :
https://forum.enough.community/fosdem-2019-cfp

Don't wait until the last moment, otherwise we don't have time to discuss things.

#librelounge

GSoC is a perfect way for Google to keep activists quiet, because of the positive thought that, hey, they give back. Yes, Google also sponsors some key software, but it represents a tiny pile of money they can shuffle to tax savings. The cost/benefit in terms of image is illustrated by prominent free software activists saying publicly that GSoC is a good thing.

Both Google and Microsoft are enemies of free software, because they're enemies of freedom.

#librelounge hosts then mention that Google's SoC is a good thing. No it's not, on two accounts:

1. it legitimizes a mass surveillance company as acceptable because it gives away to free software (but not AGPL, eh)

2. it prevents the free software community from seeking alternate funding, e.g., public funding, that is more appropriate to infrastructure.

2/3

I must say that I disagree with both hosts of #librelounge on the Github acquisition and Google SoC.

Indeed Github was never free, but it was an independent company, now it's in the hands of *the* historical enemy of free software. That's worrying, because alternatives do not really exist. We were too busy enjoying the PR workflow to really think about it. Niche alternatives won't replace the large community there, and most of these people don't care at all about freedom. So it's a loss.

1/2

Le projet #GNU recherche 400 nouveaux membres.

Je me passerais bien du gnu dans l'espace. L'imaginaire ainsi véhiculé est très loin de ce que m'évoque le projet du logiciel libre.

https://www.gnu.org/

#NGI upcoming timeline

The call is specifically about electronic identity (trust, choices, control)

"Strengthening Internet trustworthiness with electronic identities"

#NGI

Three topics for NGI cascading
funding:

1. Privacy-enhancing Technologies
2 Search & Discovery
3. Distributed data ledgers

(First two is with NLnet, third one is with Dyne BTW)

"Human-centric Internet" #NGI

open call from october 16th 2018 to March 28th 2019.

Aims to attract talents not usually represented in H2020. Two-step funding: first intermediaries, who then cascade calls.

(Note to reader: I'm part of NGI0-PET and NGI0-Discovery covering these "intermediaries")

#NGI "webinars" today, tomorrow, and the next day.

Topics:
first three at https://www.ngi.eu/events/ (that's obviously dated information :P)

Wtf #signal ?

http://vdo.lesoiseaux.io/felipe/felipe-fonseca-oct2016.mp4

Felipe Fonseca warned us. #Tropixel will happen anyway.

https://conversa.ubatuba.cc/t/planning-tropixel-2019-ideas-topics-groups/37

@aral @dada @loic @indie @Purism @gnome

I totally understand your position. I also told myself that this involvement with the Decentralized devroom was my last attempt at bringing back politics to free software. I already spent a lot of energy doing it, and if there's no way to make technicians realize the situation and understand their power and responsibility, then so be it, I have other things to do in my life than fighting lost battles.