Paolo Vecchi @paolo@mastodon.opencloud.lu

How the Italian DeepSpeech model helped our Mozilla Italia community - [Spiegone in inglese] via /r/ItalyInformatica
https://www.reddit.com/r/ItalyInformatica/comments/efwy6f/how_the_italian_deepspeech_model_helped_our/

A free implementation of OpenPGP in Rust - Project Sequoia is planning to release v1.0 at the end of January.

https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/milestones/1

#PGP #SequoiaPGP #Rust

This is awesome CERN unplugging itself from vendors like MS. #decentralization
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RT @kirschner
The status of the #MALT project by #CERN covering their investigations in replacing services and features https://malt.web.cern.ch/malt/global/malt-table/
https://twitter.com/kirschner/status/1209394259444391939

LibreOffice 6.4 nearly done as open-source office software project prepares for 10th anniversary
http://reg.cx/2Xzw 

Fuming French monopoly watchdog is so incensed by Google's 'random' web ad rules, it's fining the US giant, er, <1% annual profit
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/20/google_france_fine_advertising/ … via @theregister

What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/what-does-your-car-know-about-you-we-hacked-a-chevy-to-find-out/
Molto interessante questo articolo sui dispositivi di #sorveglianza installati sulle #automobili #sicurezza #privacy @Ca_Gi @paolo @maupao @filippodb @quinta

Microsoft und Co. an Schulen? Das geht gar nicht. Warum erklärt der nachfolgende Kommentar. Leitet ihn bitte an Eltern, Schüler, Lehrer, Entscheidungsträger etc. weiter - es gilt die digitale Mündigkeit zu bewahren. 🧙‍♂️

Nutzt E-Mail, Messenger, das Fediverse etc. zur Verbreitung.

Vielen Dank! ❤️

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/kommentar-microsoft-google-apple-und-co-aus-bildungseinrichtungen-verbannen/

Last Friday we had the first #belgomisp meeting. A big thank you to all participants, good discussions and exchange of ideas on @MISPProject . Presentations are up at
https://github.com/cudeso/misp-usergroups/blob/master/meetings/belgomisp_0x01.md … Stay tuned for the Doodle announcing the next date(s).

@circl_lu is operating cve search. You can do stuff like curl
http://cve.circl.lu/api/cve/CVE-2010-3333 … see:
https://www.circl.lu/services/cve-search/ …

My comment 📝: Tiktok is breaking the law in multiple ways while exploiting mainly teenagers data. This should be regulated quick and rigorous. We have all necessary laws. Don't let them break society like 10 years of FB. Journalists should find a better place for vertical video.

Here is the NYTimes story about ongoing massive location data tracking using smartphones. We all knew that companies are doing this. But I think people didn't imagine how huge the data sets are meanwhile. And neither how huge the potential for abuse is. NYTimes does a nice visualization of the data.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

I wrote 1,025 words about #Bluesky but of course only one quote actually made it to the article. Oh well

"Twitter and Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/technology/facebook-twitter-bitcoin-blockchain.html

Yes! Just got accepted for the Decentralized Internet and Privacy Dev Room! #FOSDEM2020 #RFC1984

We are glad to see @concordiah2020 project and partners such as @ericsson using @MISPProject for information sharing and threat intelligence. If you would like to set up your information sharing community, don't hesitate to contact us. #ThreatIntel
https://twitter.com/Aristot73/status/1205841738293817345 …

Chinese e-commerce site
http://LightInTheBox.com  bared 1.3TB of server logs, user data and more
http://reg.cx/2Xve 

Ever wonder how hackers could possibly pwn power plants? Here are 54 Siemens bugs that could explain things
http://reg.cx/2Xsn