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Notices by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)

  1. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 11:14:30 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    Steam on old machine http://www.maxhost.org/other/slackware-xfce4-nov-2017.png

    In conversation Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 11:14:30 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  2. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 17:56:59 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    The Vanishing State of #Privacy http://magazine.factor-tech.com/factor_winter_2017/richard_stallman_and_the_vanishing_state_of_privacy "more surveillance than there was in the Soviet Union"

    In conversation Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 17:56:59 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. Richard Stallman and the Vanishing State of Privacy - Factor Winter 2017
      We are now subject to a greater level of surveillance than any point in history, and most of it is thanks to the digital revolution of the last few decades. We hear from the legend Richard Stallman about how the digital transformation has dramatically eroded our privacy, and what it means for our lives
  3. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 07:27:31 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    #twitter is self-satirising https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/930929527773114370

    In conversation Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 07:27:31 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  4. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 01:39:49 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    More Than Half of #Chromebooks Now Support #Android Apps and Google Play Store
    http://news.softpedia.com/news/more-than-half-of-chromebooks-now-support-android-apps-and-google-play-store-518566.shtml

    In conversation Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 01:39:49 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  5. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2017 12:44:26 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    #Wikipedia warns that #SESTA will strip away protections vital to its existence https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/11/16637774/wikipedia-sesta-serious-concerns-section-230-internet

    In conversation Monday, 13-Nov-2017 12:44:26 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. Wikipedia warns that SESTA will strip away protections vital to its existence
      from The Verge
      The bill aims to scale back parts of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
  6. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 21:27:30 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    Shortcuts https://i.imgur.com/kKTEhq3.png

    In conversation Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 21:27:30 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  7. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2017 10:38:44 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    #facebook is for dumb and irresponsible people who probably cannot see what's wrong with this: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/11/09/facebook-facial-recognition-payments-patent.html

    In conversation Friday, 10-Nov-2017 10:38:44 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. Facebook files patent for facial recognition payment in stores - Silicon Valley Business Journal
      from Silicon Valley Business Journal
      Facebook may be eyeing facial recognition technology for retail stores, according to a new patent filing.
  8. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2017 14:35:05 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    So now it'll become easier for the GOVERNMENT to blackmail people (revenge porn)
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/11/08/facebook-asks-users-nude-photos-can-block-revenge-porn-later/
    See #mlk story (sex tapes)

    In conversation Thursday, 09-Nov-2017 14:35:05 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  9. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2017 17:00:24 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    No, millions https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/927498676267835393

    In conversation Monday, 06-Nov-2017 17:00:24 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  10. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2017 04:59:19 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    #DragonFly #bsd 5.0.1 is now available http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2017-November/626755.html #unix

    In conversation Monday, 06-Nov-2017 04:59:19 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  11. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2017 03:51:55 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
    https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/conservation/why-we-must-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-our-electronics
    how much do we want to allow ourselves to get screwed?

    In conversation Friday, 03-Nov-2017 03:51:55 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  12. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2017 08:13:59 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    Sweden is 'in the process of dismantling democracy': ex-Social Democrat head https://www.thelocal.se/20171017/sweden-is-in-the-process-of-dismantling-democracy-ambassador-hakan-juholt #sweden

    In conversation Thursday, 02-Nov-2017 08:13:59 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. Sweden is 'in the process of dismantling democracy': ex-Social Democrat head
      Sweden's new ambassador to Iceland has caused a stir, after warning that Sweden is in the process of dismantling democracy and could be on a slippery slope towards technocracy or a dictatorship.
  13. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 17:41:53 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    Compliance Is Not Just For #Copyleft https://meshedinsights.com/2017/10/24/compliance-is-not-just-for-copyleft/ #freesw

    In conversation Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 17:41:53 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. Compliance Is Not Just For Copyleft
      By Simon Phipps from Meshed Insights Ltd

      The cost of compliance may not just be a copyleft issue now we understand how to work with the GPL.

      Even before Christoph Hellwig (backed by the Software Freedom Conservancy) started his suit to enforce his copyright claims against VMWare, there was a great deal of fear of the GPL in particular and copyleft licensing in general among corporate lawyers, and hence among their executive clients.

      It arises from concern that software developers may inadvertantly impact corporate valuations and invite shareholder action by their routine development work. Lawyers are aware that the reciprocal terms of the GPL have been upheld in the courts of multiple jurisdictions. While there are many nuances, those terms summarise as “if any part of the code used to create the software you distriubute is licensed to you under the GPL, then every part of it must be made available under the GPL.” Since the GPL licenses copyright conditional on every recipient being free to request full corresponding source and then modify and/or distribute it, this could mean losing control of every part of your corporate product. Those are real concerns.

      For a hardware vendor embedding open source code, a GPL violation would mean the loss of the copyright license and might require a whole warehouse of devices to be reflashed or destroyed. At a minimum it would probably mean stopping shipment while the matter was resolved.

      For a software vendor, a strategy relying on trade secrets and vendor lock-in for monetisation could be severely disrupted by a GPL violation. Since funds loaned by VCs are not only scaled according to revenue but also use the degree of customer lock-in to determine the valuation multiplier, this could prove a disaster. While a company with massive proprietary lock-in might be valued by a VC at ten times its revenue, a pure service business on public code might only be valued at twice its revenue. No wonder VMWare fought back so energetically.

      Of course, in VMWare’s case the alleged violation of the GPL was a strategic decision rather than an accident. But for the rest of us, the advice of corporate counsel to non-savvy CEOs leads to extreme risk aversion regarding the GPL. A whole industry has sprung up around this, dubbed by some the “compliance-industrial complex”. On the one hand companies like Black Duck and Palamida supply consulting and tools to root out GPLed code. On the other, entities like the Linux Foundation and Software Freedom Conservancy publish GPL compliance how-to guides.

      This all adds to development expense and avoidance of the GPL as a license. But that action may not actually be helping the VP of Engineering. While concern over reciprocal terms has validity, it’s not the only license requirement deserving compliance. Even simple, so-called “permissive” licenses require compliance — just not regarding reciprocity. They commonly include attribution requirements that can become a major compliance challenge for the product team.

      For example, the BSD license says in clause 2:

      Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

      As soon as you use any part of a BSD-licensed source, you have to include details of its copyright holder with your program. As the number of sources used increases, so does the challenge of ensuring all the vary attribution requirements of the licenses they use are met. Due to the subtle variations of text of BDS/MIT/ISC licenses and their ilk each attribution replicates the text; the list often covers many, many pages.  Maintaining it is a major headache for product engineering.

      In the common case of the Apache License, things are even more complicated. It requires maintenance of a NOTICE file containing attribution lists, but also demands the insertion of “file changed” indicators in the code and even applies default licensing terms (including patent licensing) on upstream contributions if there’s no other contributor agreement. All of these requirements need tracking.

      Just assuming that denouncing the GPL solves all your problems is thus a serious error. That’s why I prefer not to use the term “permissive” for non-copyleft licenses. All open source licenses are permissive as they grant you the freedom to use, improve and share copyrighted materials. That freedom is contingent on compliance with the license terms, though, and calling a license “permissive” masks that reality.

      Some of your business functions may may emphasise the importance of reciprocity requirements in licenses (and for good reasons), but product engineering teams have to respect all requirements of both proprietary and open source ingredients. That compliance burden is not necessarily minimised by avoiding the GPL. Indeed, the wealth of resources and how-to guides for GPL compliance may make it the least problem.

      Just because the “compliance-industrial complex” wants you to fear reciprocity, that doesn’t mean you should. Each case needs understanding on its own merits. Who knows — in your case, embracing the GPL may well be the least-cost option.

       

      (Made possible by Patreon patrons. Perhaps you should become one?)

  14. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 16:12:05 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    If The World Was Created By A Programmer [Comic] https://blog.toggl.com/world-created-programmer/

    In conversation Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 16:12:05 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. If The World Was Created By A Programmer [Comic]
      By Emma Murray from Toggl Blog
      If The World Was Created By A Programmer [Comic]
  15. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2017 17:31:42 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    #brexit https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/a-suspected-network-of-13000-twitter-bots-pumped-out-pro#.esx1vXYrm

    In conversation Saturday, 21-Oct-2017 17:31:42 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. A Suspected Network Of 13,000 Twitter Bots Pumped Out Pro-Brexit Messages In The Run-Up To The EU Vote
      from BuzzFeed
      The social media giant has been urged by a senior MP to reveal what it knows about potential interference in the referendum after researchers discovered a bot network that vanished within weeks of the
  16. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2017 03:24:51 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    • Tux Machines

    The WWW has become a #censorship battleground, not just a #drm mess.
    @tuxmachines just banned again, only hours after unscheduled 'unban'.

    In conversation Saturday, 14-Oct-2017 03:24:51 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  17. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2017 19:53:28 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    #Kuwait realises, after enormous public backlash, that treating everyone like a criminal is no good
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/kuwaits-constitutional-court-mandatory-dna-collection-law-is-no-good/

    In conversation Friday, 06-Oct-2017 19:53:28 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. Kuwait’s Constitutional Court: Mandatory DNA collection law is no good
      from Ars Technica
      Making people “save their DNA in a database violates basic human rights and privacy.”
  18. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 08:57:55 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    #Ataribox runs #GNU #Linux on #AMD chip and will cost at least $250 https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/25/ataribox-runs-linux-on-amd-chip-and-will-cost-at-least-249/

    In conversation Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 08:57:55 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. Ataribox runs Linux on AMD chip and will cost at least $250
      By Dean Takahashi from VentureBeat
      Atari released more details about its Ataribox game console today, disclosing for the first time that the machine will run Linux on an Advanced Micro Devices processor and cost $250 to $300.
  19. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2017 21:13:54 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    America first, Germany Second (OFFICIAL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm1Dhb9yD7Q

    In conversation Sunday, 24-Sep-2017 21:13:54 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. America first, Germany Second (OFFICIAL)
      By fwfhoierbw from YouTube
  20. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2017 15:29:12 UTC Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
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    So just like 80 years ago, oligarchs from the US help prop up Nazism in #germany https://theintercept.com/2017/09/22/german-election-afd-gatestone-institute/

    In conversation Friday, 22-Sep-2017 15:29:12 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. Islamophobic U.S. Megadonor Fuels German Far-Right Party With Viral Fake News
      from The Intercept
      An anti-Muslim American megadonor is publishing fake news that's giving a boost to a German far-right party in Sunday's election.
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