When all you want to do is to get a gym membership, but they are so f*cked up in terms of GDPR compliance that you have to write several e-mails and file two GDPR complaints in two different German states instead :/
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mastodon 4.6.9#Osmocom founder. Mobile Communication expert. Former netfilter/iptables hacker, freedom fighter. nerd., kinky; #retronetworking. Mensch mit Kommandozeilenhintergrund. searchable via tootfinder. Director of @sysmocom@mastodon.social
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I'm currently looking to expand my social network and would love to get in touch with anyone in the "global south" (especially African countries) involved in #hamradio, wireless community networks, #FOSS or #OSHW development or the #maker and #hacker communities. I'd be very happy if anyone from the above target groups would reach out and introduce themselves #followerpower
Interesting and comprehensive report about sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns involving mobile operator signaling infrastructure https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/ and identifying three gateways to surveillance (019Mobile, Airtel Jersey, Tango Networks UK) #3gpp #gsm #gsma #ss7 #diameter
analyzing why #osmocom ARM package building is taking too long: Turns out the build worker is spending 7.5 times more time in post-installation of latex (for setting up the package build) than it is taking to actually build osmo-sgsn including its user manual: https://osmocom.org/issues/7009
Whenever some product is advertised with "unmatched performance", the RF / signal integrity part of my brain goes "who would ever want that?". #electronics
I just recovered the project information of the atusb IEEE 802.15.4 USB adapter since qi-hardware is now defunct. The page and all other resources/binaries/... (full backup) now live at https://people.osmocom.org/werner/wpan/web/ and a git repo with compiling tools can be found at https://gitea.osmocom.org/qi-hardware/ben-wpan #oshw #wpan #ieee802_15_4
I'm currently looking for one or more volunteers to maintain the Openmoko USB PID + OUI service at https://github.com/openmoko/openmoko-usb-oui as the existing maintainer is no longer available. This is a service providing free USB Product IDs and Ethernet MAC addresses for the #FOSS and #OSWH community. Volunteers have to review of the PRs fulfill FOSS/OSHW licensing requirements before merging PRs. #usb #opensource
my take on recent regrettable events in the #linux kernel community. https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20241025-linux-maintainers-russian/
Heading to #Vancouver tomorrow, with some availability from March 19th through 24th. Not sure if any of my old contacts/friends from the linux/hacker community happen to be located there thees days. If yes, and interested in meeting over coffee, lunch, dinner or just drinks, let me know.
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@whitequark After not being able to reach him for years (turns out it was his spamfilter) I'm back in touch with him now, so at least he's alive :)
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@Xilokar @infosecdj Sadly I have no related information. It might simply be something proprietary to a given CardOS [vendor] used by many cards?
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@everton137 it's in the context of my role at @ARDC where we are trying to improve the diversity of our grant making and other activities, which are currently too US and first world centric.
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@leymoo I would suggest to reach out to THG (Telecommunications Heritage Group) in the UK, see https://thg.org.uk/
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@stonebear2 @bagder oh my, sorry for not realizing this in the first place. Post edited accordingly
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@larsmb @AdrianVovk In a better world, LF should exist to serve the Linux kernel development community, and not the other way around. And I guess it should rather be registered in Geneva, next to the ITU and other international organizations.
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@AdrianVovk again I'm not seeing the chain of evidence in that commit. If I find something that violates a technical spec, then my commitlog would contain a reference to which specific section of which spec says what. Why not have the same level of commit log quality here? Why are we satisfied with "some undisclosed lawyer gave advice to do this" as follow up to an email thread...
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@AdrianVovk the freedom of FOSS is the freedom to use it for any purpose. I never really liked that, but licenses that would discriminate against certain use cases [like military] are neither compliant to free software definition nor open source definition. For decades that was the mantra.
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@fax2fedi that fax was actually a test by @tnt using an Audio-Modem-Riser (AMR) card, talking MC97 (like AC97) using an icE40 https://osmocom.org/issues/5294 https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking/wiki/AMR_Modem_Riser as USB-audio device with spandsp
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@larsmb @AdrianVovk do you have any references to laws that prevent the public debate about sanctions? Since when can we not debate and question or even challenge public policy?
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@ronya I think a peoject/community could of course have such a policy / determination, yes. But then I didn't see any such decision-building or policy with some consensus before this incident. My apologies if I missed it. I also didn't see any reporting on adressing the affected developers.
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@larsmb The quetsion IMHO is less whether there are sanctions against Russia[n entities], but whether those sanctions really prevent the kind of collaboration you see in FOSS projects like the Linux kernel. I fully understand sanctions in the traditonal trade sanctions sense if there was any payment or other transfer of funds for services/goods.
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@dg3hda I believe pretty much any intelligence service of any country has the power to "nudge" anyone either way - if they'd really want to. And who says that there aren't various "sleeper maintainers" under false English names and gmail.com email addresses in the MAINTAINERS file... I think this is all security theater.
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@ronya I don't really see how the employer matters *except* in cases where the maintained code is something that employer has instructed the developer to submit (like a device driver of a device made by said employer). Developers are not some kind of zombie/property/droid owned by their employer. I would find it an insult if I was reduced to that role/hat. Maybe it's different in today's corporate Linus world. When I grew up people were kernel hackers first, no matter who happened to employ them
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@proactiveservices Sorry, I think you are mixing CREDITS (recognition) with MAINTAINERS (responsibilities/points of contact)
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@jejb it's something the current community of Linux kernel maintainers has to figure out. If they are fine with that way/style of implementing something like this, so be it. I was literally emotionally devastated for two days by it *despite* being more than a decade away from kernel work. You can ask my wife in Tokyo in two days, I'm not kidding :/
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@cybertailor @dg3hda any pointers / backtround regarding that claim ("contributing to linux is technically a crime in Russia")? Not a rhethorical question, just being curious.
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@aprica thanks, will investigate. Very surprising that initiatives in this context would not use the fediverse. Culturally that would be an obvious match to me.
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@jejb yeah, I'll be at the Open Compliance Summit in Tokyo the next two days. Taking a flight later today from a brief visit in Taipei. Looking forward to seeing you there!