May 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Bad News! Windows 10 Will Soon Have a Real Linux Kernel
by Giacomo Tesio May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

Non è tenero e divertente che qualcuno si stupisca ancora? L'Open Source non è Software Libero. Non ne veicola i valori e non ne cura gli interessi. https://itsfoss.com/windows-linux-kernel-wsl-2/ In WSL 2, the Linux kernel compatibility layer has been replaced by the real Linux kernel. So now if you use WSL, you’ll be using the real Linux kernel 4.9. [...] Microsoft is infamous for its Embrace, Extend, Extinguish policy. It has started ‘loving’ open source and Linux in the last few years but before that Linux was cancer. The so-called ‘love for Linux’ seems more like ‘lust for Linux’ to me. The Linux community is behaving like a teen-aged girl madly in love with a brute. [...] In the coming years, a significant population of future generation of programmers won’t even bother to try Linux desktop because they’ll get everything right in their systems that comes pre-installed with Windows. Linux kernel will continue to grow in the IT infrastructure, thanks to the efforts of Linux Foundation backed by the enterprise giants for their own interests. The desktop Linux will unfortunately see a decline. The Linux Foundation already doesn’t care about the desktop Linux. Out of the millions it gets, literally nothing goes for the development of desktop Linux (as far as I know). Linux Foundation doesn’t make any effort to support desktop Linux probably because it doesn’t generate any money. Microsoft loves Linux. Microsoft loves Open Source. It’s love is so deep that it open sourced the magnificent Windows calculator so that all of us Linux users could run this marvel of a technology. But when it comes to bringing commercial products like Microsoft Office to Linux, Microsoft suddenly recalls that there is not ‘enough demand’ for MS Office on Linux. Not enough demand? So, were people signing petitions or holding yellow jacket protests for open sourcing Windows calculator?

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Microsoft Will Have You Sued for Not Hosting GNU/Linux on Azure (Paying Rents)
by Giacomo Tesio May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

http://techrights.org/2019/05/07/azure-ip-advantage-operandi/ in order for “Azure IP Advantage” to be sell-able (or become a selling point) Microsoft must ensure that many FOSS users get attacked by patent trolls. [...] In January 2019 Sound View filed lawsuits against several media companies such as AMC Networks, CBS Interactive and The CW Network. And in April 2019, Sound View diversified its industry targets by filing patent lawsuits against Walmart and Delta Airlines. With this latest round, Sound View has now filed 13 patent infringement lawsuits since starting its campaign against Facebook in February 2016.

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Facebook's Privacy Promise Comes 15 Years Too Late - The Atlantic
by Antonio Vetro' May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

What Facebook Could Have Been - A shareable online diary was an obvious idea in the early 2000s. What if a college student’s version hadn’t won out? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/facebooks-privacy-pr… av

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Eben Moglen Illuminates Freedom of Thought in Keynote at re:publica 2019
by Giacomo Tesio May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

Ieri prendevo in giro mia moglie perché si addormenta davanti ai film di Kubrick... "troppo lenti". Credo che il problema sia più... sistemico. Quanto afferma Moglen è vero, ma parziale. "Biased", direi.. ;-) Il nostro cervello si sta adattando ad un ritmo sempre più veloce. Oltre ai dati, oltre all'attenzione e alla libertà, il Capitalismo ci sottrae sempre più il Tempo. https://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/may/07/-moglen-at-republica19/ We are building the new neuro-anatomy of the human race. In the process we are destroying the human attention system, changing our idea of what it means to be human. The effect on our capacity for freedom and self-government is devastating, but not so bad for those who want to govern us. People are increasingly aware of the problem, but don’t know what to do. [...] Gram for gram, that smart phone is denser with sensing than the spy satellite in orbit, and it’s all aimed at you…We don’t need a thing in orbit to take a picture of a golf ball on the ground. Everybody has a little camera, and they take a picture… [...] The computers that we use now push us very hard. Tens of thousands of times a day, they show an advertisement and measure a response. [...] It’s very important to recognize that once behavior collection is what the network really does, then what it attempts to maximize is behavior. This lies beneath the increasingly important intellectual discipline known as persuasive design… [...] The stream of what comes to you [on the net] drowns the inner dialogue, removes interiority, changes your understanding of time. ‘Too long didn’t read.’ How long is too long?” [...] …people carrying an infant in a front carrier. The adult is looking here [phone], and the infant is looking at the adult looking at the phone. That’s the birth of a new cultural system in the human race, spreading faster than Christianity or Islam or any other fast-moving cultural innovation in the history of human kind… [...] Here is our problem: the attention span of the human race collectively is shortening. The previous autonomy of internal mind that we gained barely half a thousand years ago, and which we used to make democracy and the right of the individual and the sense of self-development [that] we call freedom is threatened by our own habits as they take hold in this net we do not want with these media that consume us as we consume them. [...] “‘tl;dr’ is the crisis of the human mind in five characters.”

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Video-Lettera aperta al #Garante sul Leak di Visura.it e dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma
by Matteo G.P. Flora May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

Vedi, caro Garante, nel leak di Anonymous Italia del 7 Maggio c’è tutta l’ignoranza di un sistema che ignora la sicurezza e pensa, probabilmente, di essere sopra l’impunità. C’è l’omesso controllo, c’è lo spregio a tutte le MINIME norme di sicurezza (addirittura della 196!), c’è una condizione che non si POTEVA non sapere. C’è l’ignoranza degli “avvocati” che usano “avvocato” come password, c’è la connivenza di un Ordine che accetta che le password siano mandate in mail, che siano di 7 caratteri numerici, e c’è la lesione dei diritti di migliaia di assistiti. c C’è TANTO di cui essere arrabbiati, Garante. Davvero… Il resto qui: <https://youtu.be/lG9ccqT4Ofc> -- [image: photo] *Matteo G.P. Flora* Founder and CEO, TF Group srl +39.347.9676430 | mf(a)thefool.it http://thefool.it Via Vitruvio, 1, Milano (MI), Italy <http://us.linkedin.com/in/matteoflora> <http://facebook.com/lastknight> <http://youtube.com/user/mgpfvideo> <http://twitter.com/lastknight>

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Guida autonoma su strada, arriva la prima autorizzazione in Italia
by antonio.vetro＠polito.it May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

La Direzione generale Motorizzazione del Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti ha rilasciato oggi l'autorizzazione alla sperimentazione su strada pubblica del primo veicolo a guida autonoma in Italia. http://www.ansa.it/canale_motori/notizie/istituzioni/2019/05/07/prima-autor… av == Sent from my wireless device ==

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Tecnologie digitali per il controllo del lavoro
by Giulio De Petra May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

Segnalo questo seminario organizzato da FIOM e CRS che si svolgerà a Roma il 14 maggio dalle 10 alle 14 a via Buonarroti, al quale parteciperà come relatore un autorevole nexiano. https://www.centroriformastato.it/tecnologie-di-controllo-profilazione-e-di… Giulio

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with great code comes great responsibility...
by Enrico Nardelli May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies are announcing the Stage I winners of the "Responsible Computer Science Challenge" assigning 2.4 million US $ dollars in prizes for schools teaching ethics alongside computer science in undergraduate computer science courses. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/04/30/2-4-million-in-prizes-for-schools-… -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --

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Refunds for 300 million phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales
by Giacomo Tesio May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/lawsuits-att-verizon-t-mobile-s… The four major US wireless carriers are facing proposed class-action lawsuits accusing them of violating federal law by selling their customers' real-time location data to third parties. The complaints seeking class action status and financial damages were filed last week against AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint in US District Court for the District of Maryland. The four suits, filed on behalf of customers by lawyers from the Z Law firm in Maryland, all begin with text nearly identical to this intro found in the suit against AT&T: > This action arises out of Defendant's collection of geolocation > data and the unauthorized dissemination to third-parties of the > geolocation data collected from its users' cell phones. AT&T > admittedly sells customer geolocation data to third-parties, > including but not limited to data aggregators, who in turn, are > able to use or resell the geolocation data with little or no > oversight by AT&T. This is an action seeking damages for > AT&T gross failure to safeguard highly personal and > private consumer geolocation data in violation of federal law. [...] In June 2018, all four major carriers promised to stop selling their mobile customers' location information to third-party data brokers after a security problem leaked the real-time location of US cell phone users. The promises came after revelations that prison phone company Securus offered a service enabling law enforcement officers to locate most American cell phones within seconds. Securus' service relied on data from LocationSmart, a data aggregator that received location information from the carriers. Despite the carriers' promises, a Motherboard investigation found in January 2019 that "T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are [still] selling access to their customers' location data and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country." [...] "The facts don't support this lawsuit, and we will fight it," AT&T told Ars today. "Location-based services like roadside assistance, fraud protection, and medical device alerts have clear and even life-saving benefits. We only share location data with customer consent. We stopped sharing location data with aggregators after reports of misuse." T-Mobile declined to comment on the lawsuit, but the company told Ars that it "terminated all service provider access to location data as of February 8, 2019." Sprint said it is "reviewing the legal filing" but declined to make any other comment. [...] Verizon responded to us, but provided no comment on the lawsuit. The company said only that "Verizon has led the industry in doing the right thing for our customers on these issues."

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Forget Facebook's 'war room' rhetoric. Its real fight is against itself
by antonio.vetro＠polito.it May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

The social media firm has put together a unit dedicated to stopping interference in the upcoming EU elections. But to confront the root of its problems, Facebook will have to look a little closer to home https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-eu-election-war-room av == Sent from my wireless device ==

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