Paolo Vecchi @paolo@mastodon.opencloud.lu

CERN: Migrating to open-source technologies and taking back control using open software.
https://home.cern/news/news/computing/migrating-open-source-technologies

Tacos – detecting #spam phone numbers thanks to @MISPProject and the community

https://github.com/CASES-LU/TACOS

#android #ios #security

The new ownCloud app for iOS just got an update: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1359583808?ls=1
Version 1.0.3 adds support for local user names with @ inside in sharing.

Update now!
Or in case you haven’t already given the new app a try: Test it now! It’s free.

#ios #mobile #filesharing #opensource

Lovely Sunday afternoon cycle along the Alzette River in the City of #Luxembourg !

RT @SylvieLorxu@twitter.com

Sysadmins: "It's secure because it's in a container"
Hackers:

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SylvieLorxu/status/1152511215941369856

Off-premise chat for your business. Wonderful idea.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/slack-resets-passwords-for-1-of-its-users-because-of-2015-hack/

Karl-Heinz Streibich, president of @acatech_de@twitter.com, advocates a virtual, federal and decentralized European #cloud #infrastructure.

Well, there is a software with excellent Federated Cloud Sharing capabilities: https://owncloud.com/de/federated-cloud-sharing/

Let’s get going – for more digital sovereignty!

Hmm. Reading a 2017 hackernoon blog on Mastodon .. that suggested tooter[dot] today to search for ‘instances’ .. that link takes you through a nest of nastiness to this 👇

Reading few recent articles about so called experts recommending What'sApp or Signal instead of GPG.

How is centralized service, without possibility to federate supposed to be better?

Or better how could ever be completely closed source service managed by Facebook with new privacy violations every week be better?

Someone should teach the journalists the differences..

Facebook devra lâcher 5 milliards de dollars d'amende - https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/reseaux-sociaux-facebook-devra-lacher-5-milliards-de-dollars-damende

> Les autorités américaines de régulation infligeraient à Facebook une amende record de 5 milliards de dollars pour manquement à la protection des données personnelles, annoncent certains médias. Une décision qui résulte d’un accord à l’amiable avec le réseau social, mais qui est déjà critiquée.

#Facebook

You should block adverts on your devices. And make your friends and family block ads on their devices.

People who watch adverts are like anti-vaxxers - blissfully unaware of the benefits of herd-immunity. And dangerously undermining our collective safety.

#ORGCon2019

"Math is not going to save society"
Exactly! To many people think that technological purity is the thing to save us all.
We have to ensure that people understand the problems and that we have an effective societal remedy.

See what happened in apartheid South Africa https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/the-hardest-problem-in-encryption-usability/

#ORGCon2019

Many young people prioritise convenience over their privacy.
Can we judge people for acting in line with modern society?
I think we need to engage in consciousness raising. Make it part of the conversation that they're making a trade. If they understand and agree then that's fine. But they need informed consent.

#ORGCon2019

#OpenStreetMap is looking for admin help to keep infrastructure alive
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/06/21/help-the-owg/

#selfhosting #OSM #server #GIS

It also works for anything you teach someone else to do. "Oh yeah, I trained a pair of neural nets, Emily and Kevin, to respond to support tickets."
https://xkcd.com/2173/

News service identified Google users by listening to 1,000 leaked recordings. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/google-defends-listening-to-ok-google-queries-after-voice-recordings-leak/