Well there is the Stop Killing Games initiative started by Ross Scott and supported by the Pirate Parties. If they succeed, companies selling games in recent years will be required to either keep supporting their game or to make it available in a way so that others can ensure its continued support.

When this is achieved the step to free older games is small.

If you live in Europe you have the chance to support the movement by vote in the upcoming elections.

Maybe Kolibri OS?

Its an amazing project, booting from a single floppy disk into a full graphical OS with multiple tools. And that on PCs with almost no RAM.

I sometimes use it to backup ancient PCs.

Example from Networking Hardware:

Cisco has had multiple cases where they likely built exploits for Government spyware into their devices. And they have far to many vulnerabilities which are found. This leaves two options: Either their security is so bad that intelligence always has backdoors ready and governments shouldn’t use them, or at least some are backdoors built in accordance to NSA demands and goverments shouldn’t use them. https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/nsa-hack-exploit.html?m=1

On the other hand Huawei, far less security issues, even offered to open their code for checking of backdoors and to let goverments check all updates. They are shunned by western governments and partially even banned.

Have a funny memory with this game. Got it for Christmas, played a bit, showed it to my brother and we played a game against each other.

A hour later I come trumphant into my brothers room: “I won!” “No, I am winning! See?” And indeed he was.

The game had somehow lost synchronisation, but it transferred just enough to let each player seem alive to the other one. Two happy players that day :)

And where do maintainers for the new parts of systemd come from? The larger systemd grows the more parts of it will be neglected. Also in regard to people checking commits, opening up doors for exploits like the one in xz.

In honesty I didn’t hear all his statements back then. Now from a quick search I can only find his Twitter:

„Natürlich kann es so gewesen sein, wie es @derspiegel annimmt. Es kann aber auch anders gewesen sein. Ich habe als Rechtsanwalt häufig erlebt, dass alles gegen A sprach, es war dann aber doch B.“

Which just says there should be more investigation before accusations are made. Asking for evidence. If you have a link to an interview or talk where he does as you said I would be interested to hear how he phrased it.

I want to point out one thing I have seen far to often in recent times: If a person or group of the left make a wrong statement others which previously followed them are quick to change their view and declare them as persona non grata. On the other hand we have the far right which spills out lies after lies and their followers are so used to it that even disproving them in multiple points does not touch their loyality in any way. I think we should focus more on welcoming people who try to do good thing. If they make a wrong step we should not shun them but try to show them why they did wrong. At least hey try to better themselves and you/we have a good chance to convince them of the better way.

See for example Snowden. He made the mistake to believe Russia would never invade Ukraine. An easy mistake if you have to live inside Russia propaganda machine. Upon realizing his error he was so struck by it, because he uses his social media reach to better the world and now trough a mistake he abused it for spreading propaganda, that he apologized and stopped tweeting for many months.

This is generally true, but there are also many notable exceptions. Here in Germany I could name:

• Gregor Gysi
  • Of the left Party
  • Always does what he thinks is best for the people
  • Many political opponents tried really hard to stick dirt on him and failed
• Nico Semsrott
  • Arguably not that long in politics
  • Took a stance against Martin Sonnenborn (who is the very popular leader of a satirical party) in an affair and is now without a party (Yes this makes it likely he will not be in the next parliament)
  • As far as I have seen votes always in favor of the people
• Patrick Breyer -Pirate Party
  • fights for digital freedom and privacy since decades
  • Always follows the pirate paradigm: transparency. He publishes all his meeting with lobbyists.
  • Helps to educate the public and discovered quite a few hidden legislative attempts to undermine privacy

Ivanti Connect Secure VPN

So its spreading via a closed source VPN software. Why should you even use that when there is great VPN software available on Linux which works reliable for decades?

Well of course you miss zero trust connections, multi-cloud readiness, award‑winning security and proven secure corporate access …

Interesting. For the Nokia N900 there is Maemo Leste which also uses mainline Linux (+ a few patches they are working to mainline) and there everything works. Mind that works means in this case: Does what I want if I issue a number of console commands. However most of it by now even works via the GUI.

Keep in mind that Leste is a project by a few enthusiasts and writing drivers for undocumented hardware is a monumental task, writing GUI for a whole mobile OS is also complicated. So it is utterly astonishing, how far they got!

The point is, they already did. 99% of webservers run Linux. They are all out in the open and hackers love to get their hand on them as they are likely to have mailservers on them and they have a public IP so they can always be reached.

And most of them do not get hacked. And those that do mostly get hacked due to bad passwords or bad website code. I administer one and see the thousands of attacks running up against it daily (most are just attempts to log in with basic credentials). And of course I see the daily influx of updates from Linux.

If a new security flaw is seen, its often quite difficult to use. And with Linux somebody makes a patch before simple tool for hackers are out. With Microsoft products you wait till the next patch day, in the best case critical exploited bugs are patched in days. Also security flaws in closed source products are often easier to exploit and tools to use them are available fast. (Such flaws are often already discovered in open source products by third eyes and testers before they make it to production systems.)

Of course there are exceptions to the rule, like heartbleed. This was an easy to exploit flaw in an often used Linux service and it caused a big turmoil because many where to slow to patch their systems.

Also of course if Linux gets more popular on the desktop more software will be an attractive target for malicious actors and some software may get popular before many people take a look at the source code. But the situation will still be much better compared to closed source systems.

(Also of course more closed source software will be made for Linux then)

Sure because Error Code 0x8007057 tells you immediately how to solve the problem.

Linux error messages like error: kex_exchange_identification: client sent invalid protocol identifier "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" are completely arcane tough.

I support both systems. And Linux support is so much easier. Mostly in runs out of the box. If it runs I continues to do so and If you have an error you get a specific message like above.

With such a message you either:

• See right away how to solve the problem
• Search it online and get a specific solution for exactly you problem
• Or you can ask Experts for a solution for your specific problem.

With Windows: No systems runs out of the box, I always have to install additional software (7zip, sane browser, …) and also for anybody remotely privacy concerned have to adjust many settings (for which tools exist thankfully)

If an error occurs under Windows and I get a code like above:

• I can sometimes guess by my experience what the reason is and solve it.
• If not I search the error code and circumstances which lead to it online, then apply the 20 solutions presented one by one in hope one works
• Ask experts which ask me to run a bunch of diagnostic utilities because the error message does not tell you anything. (Yes by now I can also guess which utility could provide relevant information, but not because Windows told me)
• In a noticeable amount of cases the solution is: We can not determine the reason for the error, please reset everything (First a restart, then run this cleanup tool and if this doesn’t help just reinstall!)

In this case shit software. For a secure conference software there should be no possibility for the user to accept invalid certificates.

The developer always has to plan with what we call a DAU in germany (Dümmster anzunehmender User = dumbest user possible), and even that user should have no possibility to accidentally share a secure conference. So as a developer I would: Lock the user to certificates and encryption keys I deem secure and hook into the low level OS functions to grab the screen and disable them to prevent accidental sharing via software like Anydesk and the like which the user forgot to close. This would even interrupt the functions of a simple trojan on the PC.

Of course a dedicated attacker with physical or admin access to the device could always break these. But then you have another big security breach.

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Wird das hier problematisiert? Der Artikel ist sehr neutral gehalten und fasst zusammen, was Ricarda Lang auf ihrer Website veröffentlicht hat. Bzw. paraphrasiert es, denn der Text ist in etwas genauso lang. Sogar der Teil "Auf der Webseite betont die Grünen-Politikerin, dass sie neben der Abgeordnetenentschädigung und der Kostenpauschale keine weiteren Einkünfte habe. " ist dabei und unterstreicht, dass andere eben durchaus fragwürdige Nebeneinkünfte haben.

Weshalb ist der Artikel mit “Grünen-Chefin” getitelt? Weil sie nun mal das kurz und knacking veröffentlicht hat (oder lassen hat) und Zeitungen abschreiben. Das dann mit der Person zu verknüpfen ist halt wichtig für Menschen und Reichweite.

Im Endeffekt ist es immer sinnvoller eine Partei nach ihrem Verhalten zu beurteilen und nicht nach dem was sie in ihren Parteiprogrammen schreiben.

Da stimmt ich voll zu, deshalb auch die Auswahl an Abstimmungen oben.

Es gibt dabei auch Parteien, die trotz Regierungsveranwortung ihrem Programm grob folgen. Und die machen es mir als Wähler deutlich einfacher. Ich kann das Programm lesen und die Partei dafür wählen. Das funktioniert wunderbar bei den Piraten und z.B. auch relativ gut bei den Grünen und Linken.

Bei anderen müsste ich alle Entscheidungen direkt verfolgen, Jahre an Bundestagsarchiven zu jedem Thema durchwühlen und schauen ob es aktuelle Einflüsse gibt, die das Abstimmverhalten wieder ändern könnten. Bei neuen Themen wie den Uploadfiltern stehe ich dann dennoch ratlos da. Deswegen halte ich mich lieber an Parteien die zumindest versuchen zu ihrem Wort zu stehen.

Wenn es der Koalitionsvertrag ist, ist es also egal für die EU. Links das eine Versprechen und rechts das andere tun ist dann ok. Hatte er denn irgendeinen Wert für die Entscheidung der Bundesregierung damals?

Und gelten die Aussagen auf der Homepage der SPD (Früher fanden sie sich auch noch außerhalb des Arbeitskreises, sind aber nach der Abstimmung für Uploadfilter dann alle verschwunden) oder die des Parteikonvents für die EU? Ich zitiere “Ja zu einem starken Urheberrecht, Nein zu Uploadfiltern”. Aussagen die gegenüber der Presse getroffen werden?

Falls auch die nur Luft sind, was erhofft man sich dann davon die Partei zu wählen? In welchem Szenario habe ich Vorteile davon eine Partei zu wählen, die mich über ihre wahren Ziele belügt?

Genau, wenn man sich andere ansieht, sieht das mit der SPD schon wieder ganz anders aus. Z.B: Uploadfilter, bei denen sogar im Koalitionsvertrag festgehalten war, dass sie dagegen sind: https://twitter.com/echo_pbreyer/status/1318923746716123139/photo/1

Sollen die Verträge zu den Covid-Impfstoffen offengelegt werden?

Sollen Journalisten mit Spähsoftware verfolgt werden dürfen?

Sollen Patienten über die Weitergabe ihrer Patientendaten an Forschungseinrichtungen bestimmen dürfen?

Soll das EU Parlament sich zum Auslieferungsverfahren von Assange äußern

usw. Man findet zahllose Beispiele wo die SPD den Bürgern in den Rücken gefallen ist.

Bezüglich des Edits: Ja sie können. Zudem können sie es wohl durch Spenden reduzieren, weswegen ein Großteil der Kunstsammlung nun an Museen geht. (Steht alles im Artikel)

Ermordet von Microsoft.

Symbian war in einer Sackgasse, also wurde ein neues System entwickelt. Maemo, dann Meego OS. Doch dann kam Microsoft und platzierte Stephen Elop bei Nokia.

Das Nokia N9, das erste Telefon mit dem Meego OS. wurde noch veröffentlicht, aber nur auf wenigen Märkten. In Deutschland, den USA, Canada und England kam es nie auf den Markt. Denn es sollten die “tollen” neuen Windows Phones verkauft werden. Ich erinnere mic, überall war Werbung für die Lumia Geräte.

Dennoch verkaufte sich das N9 lange Zeit besser als alle Windows Phones zusammen weil das Betriebssystem einfach so gut war, und der Formfaktor auch. Doch ohne Updates war die Erfolgsgeschichte von Meego OS bald vorbei. Bald darauf auch die von Nokias Handysparte, weil die Windows Phones sich immer noch nicht verkauften.

Mit den Wiesen hast du vollkommen recht, hier ein Paper in dem der Einfluss von Pflanzen untersucht wurde. Genau der Effekt durch die Wurzeln wurde beobachtet.

Das Argument lieber Wildwiesen als englischer Rasen unterstütze ich. Wobei selbst ein flach wurzelnder Rasen schon Oberflächensiegel verhindert.