Gytis Repečka @gytis@mastodon.lt

“Apple and Google agreed to demands from the Russian government to remove a strategic voting app developed by opposition leader Alexei Navalny from the iOS and Android app stores.

Apple then disabled its Private Relay feature (which enhances web browsing privacy) for users in Russia. Google also removed YouTube videos giving advice on how to vote strategically in the elections.”

https://inkl.com/a/pRyJXPhrAQr

Big Tech will choose profit over democracy and human rights every time.

#BigTech

Wow… BGP again?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

Yikes! Since the DNS records of Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp can't be resolved anymore, every device with one of their apps installed is now actively DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers.

This may cause problems... for the entire internet.

With #Facebook down, where are the conspiracies about Facebook being down going to spread?

#RouterFreedom is vital for #NetNeutrality. Here you can learn why.

Visit our interactive #map to monitor the status of Router Freedom in
Europe.

Protecting Router Freedom has been one of our priorities since 2013.

https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.html

It’s time to break our broken phone habit. 📱💥

What if your next phone could last 10 years?

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Get rid of uninstallable apps in Android https://fedi.dev/gytis/get-rid-of-uninstallable-apps-in-android

@TheClonerx

> (to Electron) 32GB of RAM doesn't mean it's all there for you.

Java:

Apple is going to scan your pictures for harmful content. Here we explain how this affects your privacy online: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/rotten-apples

Convert Progressive Web App (PWA) to Android App (APK) https://fedi.dev/gytis/convert-progressive-web-app-pwa-to-android-app-apk

Kaseya's Staff were fired for pointing out and/or trying to fix the security vulnerability, as early as 2017, that led to thousands of companies being hit with a ransomware attack recently.

https://gizmodo.com/kaseyas-staff-sounded-the-alarm-about-security-flaws-fo-1847270346

#InfoSec #Security #Kaseya #Ransomware #REvil

Data driven everything https://fedi.dev/gytis/data-driven-everything

constantly hilarious to me when people are _surprised_ that github is doing unethical things

like, have you been paying attention?

Oh so GitHub made an code completion tool with machine learning that has been trained on (among other os licenses) GPL licensed code. The tool is not GPL licensed and you can use it wherever you want. I'm not an expert but how can this not be a massive license violation 🧐