"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

@willghatch I think the problem is that the kind of person who really understands why C is a catastrophically bad choice for sudo is also the kind of person who stays away from the situations in which they could be responsible for making decisions about what language sudo should be written in.

#Lua, a misunderstood language

https://andregarzia.com/2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/court-says-all-eu-states-can-take-data-cases-against-facebook-1.4457176

Hacker who archived #Parler explains how she did it

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archived-parler-explains-how-she-did-it-and-what-comes-next

Open Source Security funds #GCC Front-End for #RustLang

https://opensrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding

We overshare information; information that can be used by commercial companies, by political parties and by governments. Carissa Véliz is a philosopher at Oxford University and author of Privacy is Power. She argues that the harvesting of data is undermining liberal democracy.

https://philosophy247.org/podcasts/the-future-of-privacy/

9front provides many useful kernel devices as files. No symlinks, no hardlinks, just files. You can throw words at them.

#mordor #lotr #kernel #plan9 #9front #plan9frombelllabs #9fans

I used to teach computers professionally, back in the Windows 98 days. Back then, and even into the XP days, you could teach someone about files and folders and it was pretty easy to grasp, made sense, things were mostly where they'd left them. These days you go to save a file in Word or whatever and where's it go? Who knows! Who cares! Don't worry about it! In the ten years since I've used Windows apparently MS decided the idea of files in folders was too complicated for people?

I wrote about using browsers without tabs, and the relationship between convenience, scale, and alienation: https://clarity.flowers/blog/convenience.html

SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code, the company says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft Corp and access some of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something experts said sent a worrying signal about the spies’ ambition.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-cyber-microsoft/solarwinds-hackers-accessed-microsoft-source-code-the-company-says-idUSKBN2951M9

"Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine"

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

Energy Cost of Internet Activities
https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2012/data/papers/0193-000409.pdf

While organisations like Panoptykon Foundation exist there is hope of pushing back the likes of Google and Facebook from their relentless attacks on democracies and our communities.

They have an English website worth checking out
https://en.panoptykon.org/

Panoptykon Foundation was founded by a group of lawyers in Poland to protect fundamental rights and freedoms in the context of fast-changing technologies and growing surveillance.

#SurveillanceCapitalism