Miren @miren@mastodon.eus

Sarrera berria Teknopataren Txokoan: Nola <i>euskaraldizatu</i> zure avatarra bost pausu errazetan

https://www.teknopata.eus/2020/11/nola-euskaraldizatu-zure-avatarra-hiru-pausu-errazetan/

Freedom is the gift that keeps on giving. Read the annual Giving Guide for our latest recommendations on tech gifts for your friends and family that promote #UserFreedom, not the interests of a "big tech" monopoly: https://u.fsf.org/377

Oso ekimen interesgarria dirudi, ez nintzen aurrekoan egon, baina agian animatuko naiz bigarren honetara:

II Ciberforum de Lectura: ¿Se fabrican cretinos Digitales? https://elbinario.net/2020/11/20/ii-ciberforum-de-lectura-se-fabrican-cretinos-digitales/

Amazonek ikastolen izena baimen barik erabili duela salatu du Ikastolek Elkarteak https://www.argia.eus/albistea/amazonek-ikastolen-izena-baimen-barik-erabili-duela-salatu-du-ikastolek-elkarteak

Albiste berria behatokian: [en] Proposal to install spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights shocks academics https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/spyware-in-libraries/ #pribatutasuna

According to the FTC, Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years. This is one of the obvious perils of nonfree software: you can't verify that the software isn't abusing you, you just have to take their word. https://u.fsf.org/371

The trouble users had yesterday launching apps on #macOS isn't just a technical problem, but a moral one. Operating systems should service their users, not phone home to a corporation to see if they're "permitted" to run the program. #Apple

There's a lot of handwringing these days about "ransomware attacks" where companies' data is encrypted & a ransom (usually bitcoin) is demanded to unencrypt it. The real injustice here is that a company is forced to *trust* their data to someone inherently untrustworthy. Any time you need to click "I ACCEPT" on a software product to access your data, you're in precisely the same situation. Most proprietary software biz modes are indistinguishable from ransomware models.

Hah. This rather relevant post just arrived in my inbox from the Free Software Foundation: https://my.fsf.org/give-students-userfreedom