Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

Here is a very well-written article about the inevitable dangers of accepting VC funding.
https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

@greg @Lats Starlink cannot provide internet to many people - it can't handle the bandwidth. What it is trying to do is to sell lower latency than other satellite internet services at a steep premium, and even then it does not make money.

And satellite internet is _ not _ generally more efficient than running out fiber and putting up cell towers. For example: The Hoh Tribe got a lot of publicity as early users of Starlink. But it is now switching to community-owned fiber and local wireless.

Plenty of time

Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.

I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)

#37c3 my impressions - thanks for the great organization

There was a 2G and 4G network which was made possible by a frequency sponsorship. About 1 000 people used this network and handled 16.8k calls.
#37c3

say NO to 2024! no more years! #EndDates

• every year is worse than the last
• "being on time" is neuronormative and ableist
• date/time math is inconsistent and annoying
• "number goes up" is unsustainable
• "see you in a bit" is just fine
• nobody ever knows what day it is so let's just stop pretending
• buses don't run on "time", they show up when you light a cigarette
• deadlines were invented by capitalists
• global south forced to winter during summer
• time is an illusion and calendar isn't real - we made it up!

we can do better!

If you are interested, here are my slides for the not-accepted talk at #37c3 "Internet Governance Environmental Sustainability" https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Xs_vesna_Internet_Governance_Environmental_Sustainbility_ccc.pdf
@thomasfricke @jaythvv & a huge repository of links: https://wiki.techinc.nl/Sustainability

Seems google/apple's push notifications services are regularly queried by state authorities for obtaining user data -- see this german @netzpolitik_feed https://netzpolitik.org/2023/push-dienste-behoerden-fragen-apple-und-google-nach-nutzern-von-messenger-apps/ --
#deltachat only uses apple's push notifications on iOS for "heartbeat" services -- to ensure the app can show messages for their user (and many users are asking for tighter integration). On Android, Desktop and #ubuntutouch platforms currently no push notifications are used or needed, also no heartbeat ones.

Dear @EU_Commission I have a hard time finding the total #budget dedicated to @EC_NGI for 2021-2027.

Apparently, it is much easier to find the so-called "defence" budget that is fueling #war around the world thanks to the heavy lobbying and revolving doors of the arms manufacturing industry.

I would like to compare how much we, #FreeSoftware #NGI technologists, get to #build #public #digital #infrastructure for #peace, compared to the growing envelopes and power of the #warmongers.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6:

I played with Irish crochet motifs and found some of them looking like gears. Thus the idea of steampunk gears was born.
This collection was made for a virtual yarnbombing project for CoNZealand, the virtual 2020 Worldcon. I ended up using them in postcards suitable for sending to friends around the globe, will see if I can find and show them another day.

Let's make this crystal clear: If you think you are anonymous because you

- used a throwaway number for Signal
- picked a completely random username for Wire/Matrix
- were given a random username with Threema/Session

YOU ARE NOT! You can be identified by the push tokens that are registered with each messenger operator.

https://chaos.social/@andre_meister/111538429318672330

Das Smartphone piept oder vibriert. Diese Benachrichtigungen laufen über Push-Dienste, fast immer von den Smartphone-Firmen. So erfahren Behörden, welcher Google/Apple-Account hinter Signal-User +49-172-9973185 oder Threema-User *MY3DATA steckt. Wir wollen Auskunft. https://netzpolitik.org/2023/push-dienste-behoerden-fragen-apple-und-google-nach-nutzern-von-messenger-apps/

AstrosMX te brinda servicios informáticos basados en Software Libre y de Código Abierto que protegen tu privacidad y te encaminan para alcanzar la verdadera libertad digital.

Nos apegamos a la legislación vigente en México, lo que te brinda la confianza jurídica de que tu información no será vulnerada por terceros, ya sean empresas o gobiernos.

#SofwareLibre #SoberaníaDigital #Libertad #Emancipación

Any device that needs to be off because it can't be trusted with your conversations should not exist in the first place.

#privacy #privacymatters #security #infosec #cybersecurity #cybersec #amazon #amazonecho #surveillance

#Competition authorities should keep an eye on the moves by #Android to push attestation for secure apps (e.g. banking apps) to the server through the #PlayIntegrityAPI, encouraging firms to make non-#GooglePlay versions of ‘open source’ Android impractical. See eg #GrapheneOS’s compatibility guide https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide