Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

Free and Open-Source vs Proprietary Software

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=Je0NucWKsGg

Nice to see NixNet's Searx instance up and running! Thanks @amolith 😄

https://searx.nixnet.services

Donate to help keep their services online: https://nixnet.services/support/?project=1

#Privacy

Just updated my little vpn script that adds a more elegant command-line interface to AzireVPN’s WireGuard service on Linux.

https://source.small-tech.org/aral/vpn

Enjoy! :)

@sir "here's the spoonful of salt you ordered with that RCE, sir"

"now please swallow it happily, this is the best solution, right?"

Remember this article I wrote two weeks ago?

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-20-prioritizing-simplitity/

People asked me why I don't use Docker, k8s, salt, and all of these other rube goldberg machines, mouths agape that I would dare to provision machines manually.

Well, it seems I have been quickly validated:

https://threatpost.com/salt-bugs-full-rce-root-cloud-servers/155383/

Hackers breach LineageOS servers via unpatched vulnerability

LineageOS source code, OS builds, and signing keys were unaffected, developers said.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-breach-lineageos-servers-via-unpatched-vulnerability/ #lineageos #security #breach

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

This is the most important thing you need to learn as a programmer.

The ONLY way to make reliable, working software is to make it simple.

I don't care how special and cool and hip your company thinks it is, it's NEVER okay to opt users into a marketing spam list.

Relisting Startpage on @privacytools

https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/

#Privacy

Hello fediverse,
this is an attempt to create a presence of #Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) within the your beloved federated network.
#introduction

read more about it in this post:
https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-185e-aedd-227a-834234667712

(Tails is a live operating system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.)

😺 😍
#tor #foss #privacy #journalism #activism #humanrights

Source: https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2020/03/snake-tongued.html

Super duper quick reminder that humans and computers are different things

Dear #privacy advocates around the world, please oppose the #india pushing a surveillance app 👎 Aarogya Sethu using the pandemic as an excuse. The worst thing is that they are making it compulsory if you want to move out or start working!

This has been in question again lately, so I thought I'd remind you

The ultimate goal of any program is to be as simple as possible. It is much harder to write a simple program than a complex program, but achieving simplicity is the highest calling of the programmer, and we must strive for it.

Does anyone know of any open source alternatives to Kahoot, a real-time multiple-choice quiz game where participants vote by clicking 1 of four buttons on their phone screen. Boosts appreciated. @switchingsoftware