Containing random links to read about privacy, security, programming and FOSS in general. Sometimes about life.
Resuming this after 2 years. A lot of things happened within these 2 days. I never thought much about how much time will it take to settle down in Sweden, but it seems 2 years is not enough :)
For now I want you all to watch this talk from Mike Monteiro, How to fight fascism.
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Too many times, I was asked why I don't invest in various crypto coins. Back in the days when we used to have conferences in real life, random strangers often came to me. They told me to use blockchain which will solve all of the security problems in the application (just imagine any application). When I started asking for a patch with full implementation, that trouble went away fast.
Now, a 2 hours long video has all the explanations as required. Watch it with your family, share it with your friends.
Watch Brian Kernighan talking about The early days of Unix at Bell Labs.
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Ukraine Govt websites were attacked couple of days. More than anything else, this is direct way to create pressure on Government . The more our lives are entangled with the Internet, the bigger the chances of getting effected in the thinking process. All the different social media sites, and the algorithms they use to show content to us, are very good example of such attacks to our personal space.
Staying in the same topic, The Wire released the 3rd part of their Tek Fog story.
Btw, my workshop in PyCon Sweden 2021 on Writing Python modules using Rust is available on Youtube.
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Resuming this newsletter after 10 months. In between, we had the second wave of COVID in India, the whole family was down with it. And then we managed to move to Sweden. Still settling down.
I kept taking the notes in between for the newsletter but did not send it out. I guess I am in a state now to resume it again.
As a primary story, I would love if you all could take a few minutes and read this story from The Wire and learn how technology (especially big IT companies) is helping the current political party in power to
artificially inflate the popularity of the party, harass its critics and manipulate public perceptions at scale across major social media platforms.
Part 2 of the story is also out. Please share the links with our friends and family. Most people around the world will never believe that these applications exist, and they can actually affect the mass.
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Instead of writing the newsletter, I spent the last few hours figuring how to get back my primary domain. The register system did not auto-renew, and I had a few hours of panic to get it back. Finally, it seems things are working once again.
Device and Data Access when Personal Safety is At Risk is a special guide from Apple. It contains many useful tips which you can regularly use too.
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