The Hippocratic License (HL3) is an ethical source license that specifically prohibits the use of open source software to violate universal standards of human rights.
Healthy open source communities don’t just form around code, but also around shared values and a vision for how their work can improve the world. The true measure of the success of open source is its impact— how the technologies we develop are leveraged to bring about positive social, cultural, and political change.
Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among open source software endorsed by French Government
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/18244782
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The US government can access many political emails in Europe
Was Europa dagegen tun kann, erklärt der Geheimdienstexperte Bert Hubert
Dutch informatics and intelligence expert Bert Hubert explains why European governments are urgently trying to get away from the American clouds and how they do it fastest. The article is in German. Here are few excerpts translated by me using Firefox Translation.
What is happening in the EU, is that the politicians are finally waking up. They should have done this five years ago.
The Dutch Cybersecurity Center NCSC has conducted an in-depth investigation of Microsoft. In an official evaluation, it has recorded mutatis mutandis: "The USA can at any time access the European data storage. But we don't think they will do that." Of course, that has always been pure wishful thinking. [...] It remains subject to American surveillance laws.
The data transfer agreement will be cancelled soon. Either the EU Commission is pulling back the adequacy decision, which presupposes that the US is a country with an adequate level of data protection [...] or the European Court of Justice will
'March to independence': Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform
Speaking on The Pat Kenny Show, Lagarde underscored Europe’s dependence on foreign digital payment infrastructure. “Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Alipay are all controlled by American or Chinese companies,” she noted, arguing, “We should make sure there is a European offer.”
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60461323
The President of the European Central Bank added that she believes in particular that digital payments should be “under our control”.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41819102
The article is interesting, but the panic-button music suggestions at the bottom are just brilliant:
I started last month with some suggestions for panic-button music, including Miles Davis’ So What?, the second movement of Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, Josquin Desprez’s Missa Pange Lingua, or The Sea by Morcheeba. Perhaps a few more are in order. After dealing with the Greek letters, maybe listen to To Gelasto Pedi by Mikis Theodorakis; and as we’re in the presence of a market Black Swan, try Orlando Gibbons’ madrigal The Silver Swan. And as time rushes by, there’s Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Fairport Convention.
Bloomberg: That Smashing Sound Is Piggy Banks Around the World
Viktor Shvets of Macquarie points out that in 2023, the US exported more than $300 billion in information and communications technology and business services, yielding a net surplus of $120 billion. US royalty and license fees (mostly tech) reached a net surplus of $90 billion, while financial services generated a surplus of $63 billion. “Expanding the scope of the trade war will be inflammatory,” he says, “but it seems the EU (and Canada) might have decided that one can only negotiate with the US from a position of strength, and services are the US’ Achilles heel.”
The European Union is working on countermeasures in response to the tariffs that US president Trump has announced. Commission president Ursula von der
Technically? Not very much, but I'm handy with NixOS. The hardest part was the configuration of a mail server. I should probably blog about the setup process. But of course the real work is attracting people and keeping them engaged.
Recently I've created a private forum and so far I'm very happy with it. It's nice that our discussions are private, keeping data gobblers, programmatic advertisers, grifters and other schmucks like this out in the cold.
To be clear, I'm advertising the idea, not membership.
Is this coming from Wired magazine, aka the press organ of silicon valley? Big wows.
If we are talking about American adults, I guess they might be right.
RFC: A logo for the co-op
While not an artist, designer nor a marketer I believe that a bit of visual identification is important. So today I woke up and made this logo for the co-op initiative. The co-op is meant to help European companies and organizations migrate away from cloud platforms from USA. What do you think about this design?
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Behalve militair is Europa ook digitaal erg afhankelijk van Amerika. Met de nodige risico's: kunnen de Amerikanen via dataservers met alles meekijken en zelfs de stekker eruit trekken?
Vrijwel alle data van burgers en de overheid staan opgeslagen op servers van de grote Amerikaanse techbedrijven Microsoft, Google en Amazon. Daarmee is Europa niet alleen militair, maar ook digitaal zeer afhankelijk van Amerika. Deskundigen waarschuwen al langer voor de grote risico's.
Good idea. I'll grep it and see.
Good point, but no. I avoid this crap like a dirty nappy.
🏚️📞😱 Something is making HTTP requests as Googlebot from my home network
A weird and disturbing thing is happening on my home network. I'd like some advice on how to diagnose it. My mastodon host (chaos.social) keeps blocking my IP address. I reached out to the admins and they told me it's because they are getting HTTP requests with user agent string claiming it's a Google bot. They shared a following log line with me.
[12/Mar/2025:08:55:14 +0100] my.ipv4.add.ress "GET /@lazurski HTTP/2.0" 403 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
It is my IP address indeed, and the path is pointing to my profile, so it's not random. It also happened while I was browsing Mastodon using Firefox on my laptop. The 403 response is strange, as I was logged in and also my profile is public and viewing it doesn't require authentication. Maybe they blocked it because of the bot signature?
I have no idea what can be making these requests. Certainly not anything I run on purpose. My Firefox uses it's standard user agent header. At home I have a
I'm with you, but as Noam Chomsky said, power already knows the truth. They are busy hiding it. Better speak the truth about power.
Thanks for your help @[email protected] ! I got in touch with admins at chaos.social and it turns out my IP is getting blocked because something on my network is making requests with user agent set to Googlebot 😬
It's definitely not something I run intentionally. I suspect some malware. Will post about it in a separate thread I think.
I'm on NixOS. The use of sudo doesn't really bother me. I just wish to understand what's going on. It's still like this today.
While waiting for the results I'm educating myself on traceroute. It was super slow, but here's the result. How do I interpret it?
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$ sudo traceroute chaos.social traceroute to chaos.social (5.9.119.202), 64 hops max 1 192.168.1.1 0.777ms 0.714ms 0.621ms 2 5.132.112.1 4.105ms 4.055ms 3.946ms 3 10.10.10.174 7.384ms 7.338ms 7.204ms 4 10.226.4.3 7.275ms 7.230ms 7.053ms 5 * * * 6 80.249.209.55 9.276ms 7.288ms 7.112ms 7 * * * 8 213.239.252.45 18.652ms 12.801ms 12.992ms 9 213.239.224.69 17.158ms 17.165ms 17.119ms 10 213.239.254.190 17.323ms 17.269ms 17.427ms 11 5.9.119.208 17.327ms 17.332ms 17.211ms 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 * * * ... asterisks all the way down 63 * * * ~ took 15m23s $ echo $? 1
It seems to stop at 5.9.119.208, which seems close to the destination 5.9.119.202.
Note to self: traceroute has to be run with sudo, otherwise only gives asterisks.
Edit: I'm getting almost exactly the same result when connecting via mobile network, when the connection to the site works. Am I doing it right?
How to troubleshoot connection refused to chaos.social only from my home network
Hi! I'm new here and hope to get some help.
For at least 5 hours today I can't connect to https://chaos.social/ (the Mastodon server I'm on). Firefox gives me:
text
Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at chaos.social.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the web.
From curl I'm getting:
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$ curl --ipv4 --verbose https://chaos.social/ * Host chaos.social:443 was resolved. * IPv6: (none) * IPv4: 5.9.119.202 * Trying 5.9.119.202:443... * connect to 5.9.119.202 port 443 from 192.168.1.45 port 40188 failed: Connection refused * Failed to connect to chaos.social port 443 after 21 ms: Could not connect to server * closing connection #0 curl: (7) Failed to connect to chaos.social port 443 after 2
Thank you so much for all the great work you've done so far. Take care!
In the USA there are almost 650 thousands patent applications being filled (of which almost 400 thousands are getting grants) each year. So while technically what you wrote is correct, in practical terms finding an interesting patent is certainly not a trivial task for a journalist.
That's a serious accusation. Got anything to back it up?
I'm working on a new major mode with Tree Sitter highlighting and articles by Mickey Petersen are incredibly useful.
Yes please! Do it Mellon!
There is https://nebula.tv/ which hosts most of my favorite creators without all the YT crap. I am very happy to pay them.
One feature that is missing that I like to use is curly brace expansion to produce multiple arguments. For example,
$ mv *.{jpg,jpeg}
Maybe this will work for expansion: https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/blob/main/modules/filesystem/expand.nu
It's in the "filesystem" section, but I think it works on any string, not only paths. See the ugly duck example. I didn't try it myself yet.
BTW the nu_scripts goodies are available in Nixpkgs, so since you are using Home Manager, it's easy to integrate. Take a look at my config for starters: https://gitlab.com/tad-lispy/nixos-configuration/-/blob/bb614ae3639a504912db167f5bd7e6651d28f604/tad.nix#L39-47
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After reading the post I don't see how it gives any indication that Mozilla is trying to censor anyone. Mostly it argues for more transparency. It's certainly worth reading.
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83% of UK citizens believe personal conversations on messaging apps such as Element, WhatsApp or Signal should have the highest level of security and privacy possible.
Perhaps, in actual fact, posturing on end-to-end encryption is the fig leaf for a lack of investment in education, policing and social care. After all, talk is cheap.