New blogpost: "A proposed legislative amendment to attempt to ban under 16s in the UK from common messaging services, sharing family photos, using Wikipedia, and doing much else online, by imposing age assurance on everyone" I'd have my head in my hands, if that didn't make typing rather tricky. Read and despair (and don't forget to like and subscriber), fellow Internet people.
A proposed legislative amendment to attempt to ban under 16s in the UK from common messaging services, sharing family photos, using Wikipedia, and doing much else online, by imposing age assurance on everyone
Earlier this week, I wrote about a proposed legislative amendment to attempt to compel VPN services providers to prevent anyone under 18 in the UK ...
 #OnlineSafetyAct
I want to buy a red lanyard with "no photos, please" printed on it, for an upcoming conference, to make my preferences clear. Before I go and make one / find a corporate vendor, do any UK-based fedizens make and sell such a thing?
How much would you be actually, genuinely, willing to pay, per year, for a great-browser-first Mozilla Firefox? No AI, no adtech, no sponsored news/search, and so on? $/£/€0? $/£/€10? $/£/€50? $/£/€100? $/£/€ more? #Firefox #Mozilla
Mozll: Mozilla without the AI.
Self-hosting does not make your data safe. If you don't put in place, review, *and test* backup and recovery plans,,and security measures appropriate to the risk, your data are not "safe". Your data might be less affected by the whims of third parties, which can be valuable for sure, but don't confuse that with your data being "safe". And I say this as someone who loves self-hosting. Any "beginners' guide to self-hosting" which doesn't lead with, or at least focus on, security and resiliency, is getting it wrong, IMHO. #SelfHosting
In all the many years I've run a mail server, I've not had a problem. I send mail, I receive mail. All good. But it bothers me that this one particular service, of all the many services that I run, is the one most prone to failing because of a decision by one of two companies.
New blogpost: "Bringing up a WireGuard tunnel automatically on boot using nmcli" A blogpost basically to remind me of: nmcli connection modify NAME connection.autoconnect yes
Bringing up a WireGuard tunnel automatically on boot using nmcli
I use WireGuard as my VPN protocol of choice. I want an always-on connection, from my laptop, to one of my WireGuard servers.
 #NetworkManager #nmcli #Linux #FOSS
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is LibreOffice, the amazing free office suit (document editor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, etc). I know that I've included this in previous #FreeSoftwareAdvent toots, but I use LibreOffice, particularly Writer, every day. Better still, this one isn't just for Linux users, so if you are thinking about moving away from your Microsoft or Apple office suite, you can give LibreOffice a try, for free, alongside whatever you use currently, and give it a good go before you made a decision. #LibreOffice
UK data protection fine for password manager LastPass: > Password manager provider fined £1.2m by ICO for data breach affecting up to 1.6 million people in the UK
Password manager provider fined £1.2m by ICO for data breach affecting up to 1.6 million people in the UK
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined password manager provider LastPass UK Ltd £1.2 million following a 2022 data brea...
 #GDPR #DataProtection #LastPass
If you want to know how my day is going, I have spent 15 minutes trying to work out why a computer is reporting via lshw that it has only 8GB of RAM, when I have visually verified that it has one 16GB stick in it. I have reseated the RAM. I have switched DIMMs. I have swapped sockets. It turns out that the machine I opened, and the machine into which I am ssh'd, are not the same machine.