Gwmngilfen @gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org

TL;DR 46% (49%) of EU citizens (N=10792) think that if the UK wants to leave with #nodeal, so be it. No more concessions from EU side fro #Brexit. Let's move on. Survey from June 2019, more: https://twitter.com/stefwalter__/status/1163787724882677761?s=20

my personality test / icon creator is done !!! find out what you look like

http://ttto.cafe/shindan

(RTs appreciated!)

Anyone who thinks the "free software is only free if your time is worth nothing" is an argument in favour of non-free software has evidently never tried to install a canon inkjet for network use

Fancy supporting what we do? There's loads of way to do so that you can see here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/support-us/ <3

Psst you can follow us directly using RSS: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php

Since I know the news that #Facebook planned to backdoor #WhatsApp got a fair bit of traction on Fedi (I think I shared some related links), it's worth pointing out this retraction from Bruce Schneier:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backdoo.html

Of course, level-headed retractions never get as many boosts as prejudice-reinforcing security panics... but for those of you who care, there it is.

Public Transit Projects Cheaper Than Uber's $5.2 Billion Q2 Losses, Ranked https://jalopnik.com/public-transit-projects-cheaper-than-ubers-5-2-billion-1837080980

Please fund more transit for people instead of pernicious capitalist nightmares for rich sycophants.

The next FOSDEM will take place on 1-2 February 2020 at our usual venue, Université Libre de Bruxelles (thanks ULB!). https://fosdem.org/2020/

See https://fosdem.org/2020/practical/ for venue location and other useful information. The site will be updated further in the coming months.

I just installed the #Nextcloud #Deck app for #Android. It's an early version but it works already really nice and has a great UX! 😄https://f-droid.org/en/packages/it.niedermann.nextcloud.deck/

Another reason to #boycottamazon: Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices. #BHR https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/aug/08/schoolchildren-in-china-work-overnight-to-produce-amazon-alexa-devices?CMP=share_btn_tw

Calling all infosec writers/journalists:

Inspired by the NSA propaganda posters released on April 17th of last year, I'd like to publish an e-zine featuring some modern infosec propaganda posters.

However, I'd like to also accompany these posters with some informative/educative publications relating to security and privacy, in light of the plethora of data breaches that occur almost weekly.

Timeline coming in a week or so, projected publication date (self-publish) would be late October.

IT DOESN’T NEED AMP. It’s entirely static, is as fast as or faster than AMP sites, and is served from a fast global CDN with aggressive caching.

I’m INCREDIBLY tired of Google abusing their position as the global search monopoly to push their tech on sites or fear being demoted.

KDE has an unpatched security issue that's been made public https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/kde-has-an-unpatched-security-issue-thats-been-made-public.14745 #Security #Misc

Fediverse admins,

Please block "freefedifollowers.ga", they are spamming massive numbers of fake followers (I've just had 2000 fake followers for example).

#Fediverse #Spam