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𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕

»IT-Krankheitsfall Gesundheitssystem – 3,9 Stunden pro Woche und Mitarbeiter weg:
Das Gesundheitssystem wird immer digitaler - und damit wohl auch anfälliger. Die Zahl der IT-Entscheider aus der Branche, die Ausfälle beklagen, wächst.«

Ärtzt*innen sagten mir, dass schon von einer Software zur anderen in der Medizin schon komplex sei, da jeder SW Hersteller seine eigene Closed-Source Infrastruktur anbietet.

🧑‍⚕️ heise.de/news/Umfrage-Stoerung

heise online · IT-Krankheitsfall Gesundheitssystem: 3,9 Stunden pro Woche und Mitarbeiter wegBy Axel Kannenberg
#it#artzt#medizin
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Dendrobatus Azureus

Today I learned the following. Journaling and journaling are two separate distinctly separate manners of keeping file systems in Sync.

When microsoft talks about journaling in NTFS you should never, ever think about the robust journaling system that Ext4 has

In comparison EXT4 journaling is a god while en NTFS journaling is not even an ant

I have EXT4 file systems connected to an extremely unstable machine. This thing crashes to green screens more than 64 times a day.

{It's a Gigabyte Mini PC in case you're interested never buy those. The machine came with overheating errors from the beginning. The factory installed a fan for the APU which is not even suitable for a GPU that was made a decade ago}

I've not even lost one bit of data on those EXT4 file systems.

Those NTFS file systems with journaling? I lost all of them. All NTFS file systems were lost

I didn't lose data because I have backups the file systems just keeled over simply because the machine kept rebooting

Thank you for being so robust EXT4

#Journal#filesystem#EXT4
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Dendrobatus Azureus

I love reading Books. I love reading physical books, you know the ones that you hold in your hand. I love Foliate, which I have encountered on one of my Open Source operating system distributions.

Since I love reading physical books it was normal and natural for me that Foliate had a regular light theme because paper is white to light yellow.

The light theme was chosen even though my desktop had a dark team, also logical.

Now I was fortunate enough to get a free set of fantastic books which are accessible through a DRM walled system by Amazon. Their closed Source clients did the following infuriating thing.

When it started it up, kindle gave a brief warning that it was going to change something which turned out to be the theme which it brought to dark, and I have not found the easily accessible option to change it back to the light theme.

How Bad a programmer must you be, to change something as important as a theme in a ebook reader and not put easily accessible option to change it back.

I know what I'll do; I'm going to strip the DRM of the books, so that I can read them in my normally programmed Open Source eBook reader, which doesn't change the theme at all, especially not for no apparent logical reason

Grrr

#Books#reading#eBooks
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Hans-Christoph Steiner

"Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private..."

Looking again at androidauthority.com/google-an I really think that was a PR piece, e.g. #Google's PR firm put together the story for #Android Authority. Its got all the markings, the "Exclusive" part, the uncritical eye "Google is simply consolidating its development efforts into a single branch", minimizing harm to custom ROMs, "custom ROMs will largely also see little change" etc

Android Authority · Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's whyGoogle has confirmed it will move development of the Android OS to behind closed doors. Here's why it's doing it.
#AOSP#PublicRelations#FreeSoftware
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Dendrobatus Azureus

@dmantis

That's a point that I've looked at for decades and just like you said; it's much worse because the audio is something that can be so extremely intrusive when it is violated and sent somewhere else

For example most of the major providers of so-called social media, have a client in which they have a clause for usage that is literally saying that they can turn on the microphone, at will, and you can't do anything about it. They obfuscuate the message by putting it in legalese

That is more than frightening

#Infosec#Android#webcam
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Dendrobatus Azureus

For some odd reason people consider it to be normal to be very very violated when it comes down to their personal privacy.

* No one should point the camera at your face without your permission.
* No one should sell you a device which has a camera pointed at your face 24 hours a day and you just accept it
* No one should sell you a device with a battery permanently sealed in it but that's another story and another storyline
* No one should ever sell you the snake oil telling you that it's normal to have a camera pointed at your face 24/7

It's not 🚫 normal!

Now go and protect your identity cover that lens!

#Infosec#Android#webcam
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Dendrobatus Azureus

When was the last time you've properly used the camera on your Android?

No I'm not talking about the camera which points at the scenery, I'm talking about the camera which points straight to your face 24 hours a day every time you pick your Android up.

¿Well? I'm waiting.

About 990 out of 1000 people will answer this wrong.

The only proper way of using that camera is making sure that it can only record images of your face when you absolutely want to

That means that you need to put a piece of electrical isolation tape in front of the lens of the camera and it should be like that for most of the day.

Any other manner means that you do not know anything about securing yourself and about protecting your identity.

Do you consider it normal to have a barrel of a firearm pointed at your face 24 hours a day?

The question is rhetorical

Now please follow suit and do like I have done it for decades;

The only time when the camera is pointed at me, is when I want to; if I don't I either cover it, or shove the person who puts the camera in my face in such a manner that they drop it immediately, or else!

#Infosec#Android#webcam
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Christoph Schmees

@mago

Eher friert die Hölle zu.
Vor allem müssten erst Voraussetzungen geschaffen werden, von denen 🇩🇪 Lichtjahre entfernt ist: Eine sichere digitale Verwaltung auf der Basis von FOSS, so wie in 🇩🇰 oder 🇪🇪 .
Noch gilt bei uns dies:
pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2

www.pc-fluesterer.infoWollt ihr die totale PKZ? So nicht! | pc-flüsterer bremen
#foss#privacy#privatsphäre
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Radio Azureus

The InfoSec problems facing WhatsApp in 2022 have become worse in 2024

It's even More trivial to hack into accounts on the server Side. These holes are deliberately made by Meta for US law enforcement, and are trivial for someone knowledgeable to find and (ab)use

This paste is from 2022

Use Signal Zangi any Matrix client Telegram and avoid Meta apps

#SocialMedia #ClosedSource #programming #Android #InfoSec #WhatsApp #Signal #Zangi #Telegram

pastebin.com/7SGfirS4

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