"Unfortunately We Are Unable To Provide Feedback"

No, you're not "unable", you are _unwilling_. And this is not OK.

https://gagliardoni.net/#20251227_nofeedback

Many cybersecurity and Web3 conferences refuse to provide an explanation of why a submission was rejected. The argument is that it […]

I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being […]

Imagine your name were "Jon" and everybody kept misspelling your name as "John". This is how I scream internally whenever people call me "Tomasso".

Hey #mastodon this is something to look at! @soatok just announced v0.1.0 of their key transparency specification for the Fediverse!

https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/

This is an incredibly useful project, something really missing in a robust decentralized […]

I just found this cool video explaining the DIffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange with the analogy of mixing colors! I was not aware of this neat explanation! Cute!

https://youtu.be/YEBfamv-_do?t=160

#crypto #cryptography #security #privacy #education #video

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

I just received a letter from the Swiss Confederation about a "Mikrozensus Mobilität und Verkeher". Basically they ask me to participate in a survey by installing a tracking app on my phone to report my location as I drive my car around.

GIGALOL

#switzerland #privacy #madness

Dear #mastodon can someone explain me why sometimes a thread gets "broken" and I cannot access part of it anymore?

Example:

I toot "A", other users reply to the toot as "B" and "C", and I reply to both with "BA" and "BC", respectively.

After some time I see that my original thread only shows […]

Mastodon users: please, please remember to tag your toots with the correct language.

Oh, this is so f***ing gold. This post is a juice concentrate of the many reasons why Matrix sucks:

https://yaky.dev/2025-11-30-self-hosting-matrix/

Among others:

> Users cannot be deleted
> This is simply not an option in the API. Server admin can perform a "deactivate" (disable login) and […]

In a rare show of sanity, the Swiss Data Protection Officer has severely restricted the use of international cloud services – particularly hyperscalers like AWS, Google, or Microsoft – for Swiss federal authorities! […]

The results of the 2025 elections for the president and board members at the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) have been botched because the results of the super-secure cryptographic e-voting system cannot be retrived due to the "accidental loss" of a decryption key […]

WTF IACR?

Conspiracy intensifies...

#IACR #helios #crypto #cryptography #politics #conspiracy

Interesting take from Christopher Butler on " What AI is Really For".

https://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-for

> The best case scenario is that AI is just not as valuable [...] The worst case scenario is that the people with the most money at stake in AI know it’s not what they say it […]

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@tomgag
@noybeu @edri see my crash-out on this above. Most of us don't want this and we understand that the implementation of this would be way more catastrophic than chatcontrol and impossible for us to escape. Let "us" know what to do to […]

@tomgag

Sorry to dump on your post like this, but after seeing this mentioned a couple times I couldn't hold back anymore. is there a public pressure, direct action, or/and information campaign that we can join or start similar to what was done for #chatcontrol? Who do we point our voices and […]

Here's another thing I didn't need today: "Digital Omnibus". EU antitrust chief Henna Virkkunen will present to the EU Commission on November 19th a series of amendments to European data protection guardrails, which would substantially weaken GDPR and other privacy protections, and explicitly […]

🇪🇺⚠️ A perfidious trick? The EU Council Presidency wants to introduce mandatory #chatcontrol through the backdoor 🚪: An Art. 4 amendment would MANDATE "all appropriate risk mitigation measures," including scanning, enforced with sanctions! 😡 […]

You will be SHOCKED to know that a NONZERO number of Italian politicians replied to the letters I sent by post last month last month to speak up against ChatControl!

https://gagliardoni.net/#20251106_chatcontrol_butti

#chatcontrol #privacy #eu #italy #politics

Great article by F-Droid on "What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading".

https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

A few excerpts:

> It bears reminding that “sideload” is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing” [...] the term “sideload” […]

Ah, the joys of calling my ISP's support number to complain that the new fiber modem they sent me is as configurable as a tamagotchi, and spending 15 minutes at the phone with the operator trying to let her understand that, yes, I have already tried clicking on the top white bar of my browser […]

Today's AWS debacle is the perfect example of the reason why in the last few years I started to be less enthusiastic about Signal, and more oriented to federated or even P2P solutions like XMPP and Jami. I wrote about it already:

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Signal was down for few […]

Ah, the joys of half of the internet relying on AWS because "Cloud". Among too many other things, also Signal is down.

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115405436746725236

#aws #amazon #outage #cloud #down #signal

Here is my morning trying to convince Gemini that, no, the --discard option in Debian's losetup is pure hallucination.

#ai #ml #hallucination #linux #debian #opensource #google #gemini