Lmst

bitshift

Toots in German and English, mostly about IT & Gedöhns. Hier privat unterwegs. In #Karlsruhe anzutreffen. Works at https://foundata.com

Genau mein Humor: Golem berichtet mit dem Teaser-Hinweis „Mitachen erwünscht“ über https://www.kern-ux.de/ und packt den Artikel dann hinter die Paywall xD

(KernUX == Open-Source-Standard für einheitliche User Experience bei der deutschen Verwaltung, möglichst barrierefrei)

#kernUX #golem #opensource

bitshift boosted:

📣 Attention all custom ROM users and advocates for digital rights! 📣

Google's Play Integrity is limiting access to certain functionalities and applications for those using custom operating systems. This is a direct attack on the open-source community and a step towards further consolidating Google's monopoly in the mobile ecosystem.

The European Commission is aware of the situation, but has deemed it a low priority: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PETI-CM-757267_EN.pdf

It's time for us to take action and show Google and the EU how much we care about this issue! 💥

Sign the petition now to stop Google from limiting access to custom ROMs: https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-custom-roms

#StopGoogleMonopoly #CustomROMs #DigitalRights #OpenSource #PlayIntegrity #Google #deGoogle #privacy #right2repair #rightorepair #r2r #EU

Let's unite and fight for our right to use and develop custom operating systems! 💪

Stop Google from Limiting Custom ROMs!

The Issue:
Google systematically blocks access to apps and functionalities for users running custom Android operating systems, affecting millions of tech-savvy users who modify their devices.

Why Users Choose Custom ROMs:
• Overcome programmed obsolescence when manufacturers stop updating
• Fix bugs in stock operating systems
• Personalize and customize their device's software
• Improve performance and privacy

Google's False Justification:
Google claims Play Integrity ensures "app security" by verifying unmodified app binaries on "genuine" Android devices. In reality, this is a tactic to:
• Maintain its mobile operating system monopoly
• Restrict user choice
• Convince developers to stay dependent on Play Store

Our Demand:
We call on European Union to consider investigating the monopolistic tactics, and ask Google to allow custom ROM users to:
• Access all applications
• Use device capabilities fully
• Exercise their right to modify owned technology

This is about digital freedom, user rights, and challenging corporate control over personal technology.

Sign now to support technological freedom!

@leyrer Honor where honor is due! :)

Check out the lastest article I wrote for the #Fedora Magazine: "System insights with command-line tools: free and vmstat"

https://fedoramagazine.org/system-insights-with-command-line-tools-free-and-vmstat/

#terminal #tools #fedora #fedoramagazine

@fedora

PS: The whole series is inspired by talks given by @leyrer like https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn20-9-moderne-linux-kommandozeilenwerkzeuge-edition-allein-zu-haus-/ just with more basic ones. More to come.

Das Recording zum Vortrag "Markenanmeldungen und -recherche (Crash-Kurs)" ist veröffentlicht.

Danke @content und das VOC <3

https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-267-markenanmeldungen-und-recherche-crash-kurs-/

#gpn23 #marken #dpma

Das Recording zum Vortrag "FSFE REUSE: Einfache Lizenz- und Quellenverwaltung für Software-Projekte" ist veröffentlicht.

Danke @content und das VOC <3

https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-268-fsfe-reuse-einfache-lizenz-und-quellenverwaltung-fr-software-projekte

#gpn23 #reuse #fsfe #opensource

bitshift boosted:

Addendum: I use https://crowdsec.net on my public servers since 2 years now and it serves me well. It collects data from many volunteers out there analyses them and feeds my firewall. I also run a few shell scripts to add local decisions. While this is all happily humming in the background, the number of entries tells you that even a small server like mine is under continuous attack.

(I used fail2ban for many years, but it became sluggish with the amount of entries it had to deal with)

Excerpt from my crowdsec statistics on one of my public servers. It blocks thousands of IP addresses and ranges and updates itself continuously.

| Reason │ Origin │ Action │ Count │
│ crowdsecurity/http-cve-2021-42013 │ crowdsec │ ban │ 1 │
│ SMTP bruteforce │ cscli │ ban │ 56 │
│ http:exploit │ CAPI │ ban │ 10904 │
│ http:scan │ CAPI │ ban │ 3087 │
│ crowdsecurity/CVE-2017-9841 │ crowdsec │ ban │ 1 │
│ crowdsecurity/http-bad-user-agent │ crowdsec │ ban │ 3 │
│ crowdsecurity/http-cve-2021-41773 │ crowdsec │ ban │ 1 │
│ AI Crawler │ cscli │ ban │ 665 │
│ firehol_botscout_7d │ lists │ ban │ 2379 │
│ generic:scan │ CAPI │ ban │ 1302 │
│ pop3/imap:bruteforce │ CAPI │ ban │ 637 │
│ smtp:spam │ CAPI │ ban │ 231 │
│ SASL bruteforce │ cscli │ ban │ 513 │
│ firehol_greensnow │ lists │ ban │ 6599 │
│ http:crawl │ CAPI │ ban │ 19 │
│ crowdsecurity/http-probing │ crowdsec │ ban │ 1 │
│ Spam │ cscli │ ban │ 7 │

bitshift boosted:

@cstross @leyrer Ringtones in filenames? I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could, I didn't stop to think if I should.

🔊 Sound on!

P.S: The delay added by ansi music would also allow animated gifs. With sound!

#SorryNotSorry #ANSI

bitshift boosted:

Some insights how my BoxyBSD project for the BSD Community boosted the Proxmox ecosystem and let me create several tools that were simply missing.

#Proxmox #OpenSource #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #RUNBSD #Ansible #ProxLB #Community #BSDCan #Hosting #VPS

https://gyptazy.com/how-my-boxybsd-project-boosted-the-proxmox-ecosystem/

Check out the lastest article I wrote for the #Fedora Magazine:

https://fedoramagazine.org/beginners-guide-for-open-source-developers-for-software-licensing-with-fsfe-reuse/

Tired of messy software licensing in your #OpenSource projects?

The #FSFE #REUSE specification solves the chaos of unclear licenses, mixed origins, and compliance headaches.

This guide shows you how to make licensing explicit, machine-readable, and auditable, including helpful experiences from real-world introductions

#SoftwareLicensing #FOSS #Developer #Compliance

@fedora
@fsfe

@jwildeboer would say "le sigh" 😄:

I find myself making my texts worse *on purpose* because one will think "not trustworthy #AI content: — or … and listings are used" otherwise.

That's what I currently hate most about AI #spam.

I used em dashes (—), en dashes (–) and ellipses (…) for years as I respect good #typography and spelling. It was a signal that someone *actually cared* about the content. I even have a hacked keyboard layout with shortcuts for them.

How to solve this?

bitshift boosted:

New computer with Windows pre-installed? Want to install #Linux 🐧 instead?

You pay for #Windows, even if you don’t use it. That’s unfair and non-transparent.

#Refund4Freedom from @fsfe & @ItaLinuxSociety defends your right to get refunds for unused pre-installed software! 😎

https://refund4freedom.org/

The campaign starts in #Italy 🇮🇹 but will later be extended.

FSFE & ILS support your right to choose your operating system. They also support #EndOf10 to prevent e-waste!

#GetYourWindowsRefund

Image from the Refund 4 Freedom website. A Windows sticker is being peeled off, revealing the word “Freedom” underneath.

@gulasch @leyrer @fsfe

Danke für die Annahme zweier Talks:

- #FSFE #REUSE: Einfache Lizenz- und Quellenverwaltung für Software-Projekte
https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn23/talk/review/UBLDL7FXE7TMJB3YKJNAWKCS3HNRS988

- Markenanmeldungen und -recherche (Crash-Kurs)
https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn23/talk/review/JZU88BKHC7WUNF3GMPS7RQXKA7UUDTRL

Freue mich schon und baue gerade Slides.

#gpn23

bitshift boosted:

🇩🇪Den EU-finanzierten DNS-Dienst #DNS4EU kann ich nicht empfehlen, weil Zugriffe protokolliert werden - bei "schädlichen Inhalten" sogar mitsamt IP-Adresse. https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-challenges-google-and-cloudflare-with-its-very-own-dns-resolver-that-can-filter-dangerous-traffic

Es gibt gute nichtstaatliche Alternativen: https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_93d.htm

Update: Es scheint, die IP-Speicherung erfolgt im o.g. Fall für 24 Stunden, damit die Warnung vor den Inhalten nicht immer wieder angezeigt wird.

Screenshot der Policy: "In case the User uses DNS resolution service with one of the additional optional flavors, the service
notifies the User he/she is going to access a potentially malicious, illegal or otherwise harmful website
(a landing page pops up). If the User decides to attend the website anyway, in such a case the User's IP
address is stored by the DNS resolver for up to 24 hours in order to identify the User and not block the
access."

bitshift boosted:

Das Robert Koch-Institut führt openDesk für den Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst ein

Kollaboration & Austausch – souverän und sicher. Das ist den Verantwortlichen des Robert Koch-Instituts (RKI) und des Bundesministerium für Gesundheit auf ihrer Plattform Agora wichtig. Darum haben RKI und ZenDiS einen Vertrag über die Integration unserer Office- und Kollaboratoinssuite #openDesk in die Plattform Agora beschlossen.

Zur ganzen Pressemeldung: https://www.zendis.de/newsroom/presse/zendis-und-rki-schliessen-vertrag-ueber-nutzung-von-opendesk-fuer-die-oegd-plattform-agora

1/2

bitshift boosted:

Wonderful news: The #StarTrek "Deep Space Nine" documentary "What We Left Behind" is now available for free on YouTube!

This is the first time European fans can watch it legally (outside of the few public screenings that happened back in 2018 when the movie was released).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u3WwFMgy5A

bitshift boosted:

Geert-Jan und Raoul von @CEDO haben bei der #FOSDEM über das Thema freie und offene Software an Schulen gesprochen: "Public values and FOSS for education"

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6042-public-values-and-foss-for-education/

#FediLZ #foss

@Giliell Ja und Nein.

Ja: Man ist heute sicher verwöhnter und sparen kennen viele der Mittelschicht kaum. Bin oft baff. Besonders wieviel Geld für Urlaube und Autos da ist.

Nein: Vieles, was früher im Verhältnis sehr teuer und Luxus war, ist heute sehr günstig geworden. Insbesondere Telekommunikation und Unterhaltungselektronik - und teilweise Dienstleistungen rund ums Essen (gehen).

Man sollte schauen, welchen Konsum man heute mit der Brille von "damals" betrachtet und vice versa.

@orloff @gulasch Noch ist ja nix angenommen und wir kennen uns noch nicht, aber ggf. zusammenarbeiten? Ich schick' Dir mal eine PM.

Ich halte den Vortrag in 2025 für sinnvoll, da so viele Online-Infos zu Molecule outdated sind (Driver…) und es an sauberen, wirklich funktionierenden Szenarien zu Beginn fehlt.

Habe dann für Podman rootless noch paar Images mit systemd-Support gebaut (https://github.com/orgs/foundata/repositories?q=*itt) damit man für viele Use-Cases "VM-artig" testen kann als Basisinfra zum Start.

🚀 Ansible Collection foundata.postfix 1.0.0 released! 🎉

Features:

• Full main.cf & master.cf management
• Auto backend detection (LMDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.)
• Provides sensible, production-ready defaults, tuned for recent Postfix versions
• Specialized parameters for simplified management of commonly needed Postfix settings.

https://github.com/foundata/ansible-collection-postfix/tree/main/roles/run

https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/foundata/postfix

#Ansible #unplugTrump #selfHosting #emailserver #postfix #mailserver