October 2020 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Mobilizon. Your events. Your groups. Your data.

by Giacomo Tesio

Mobilizon is our free-libre and federated tool to free events and groups from the clutches of Facebook. After two years of work, today we are releasing the first version of this software, along with a whole series of tools so that you can quickly get started. [...] the stakes behind Mobilizon are high. In our opinion, to be successful, Mobilizon must be : - Emancipatory. It is a software that we want to be free, federated and separate from the attention economy. - Practical. Mobilizon is above all a tool for managing your events, your profiles and your groups. - Welcoming. We have created and incorporated tools explaining how to use its features, to find your Mobilizon instance or even hos to install it yourself. [...] # Saving your attention from the economy The truth is, Mobilizon may feel confusing. Where most platforms gamble on your user experience and flatter your ego to better capture your attention and data, Mobilizon is a tool. It is not a hobby where you can scroll endlessly, simply a service to organize your events and groups. > Mobilizon is designed to not monopolize your attention : no infinite > scrolling, no running to check likes and new friends. Mobilizon makes it futile to inflate the number of participants in your event or the number of members in your group. When each account can create an infinite number of profiles, the numbers displayed by the membership counters are no longer an influencer’s badge. Mobilizon is designed so that you can follow the news of a group, but not of an individual : it is impossible to follow a single profile. In Mobilizon, profiles have no « wall », « thread » or « story » : only groups can publish posts. The goal is to get rid of the self-promotional reflexes where we stage our lives to be the person at the center of our followers. With Mobilizon, it is not the ego but the collective that counts. Finally, if there is no ability to like a comment or a message in a group discussion, it keeps the exchanges informative. This prevents the common exchange from turning into a dialogue-duel where you have to keep and save face. In fact… we have to stop comparing Mobilizon to a free-libre Facebook clone. If user engagement is the new oil the giants of the web drill for, Mobilizon is an attempt, at our small level, of a tool designed for attentional sobriety. [...] Continua su https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/mobilizon-your-events-your-groups-your-dat… Giacomo

Oct. 28, 2020

Re: [nexa] youtube-dl DMCA takedown

by Giovanni Biscuolo

Buongiorno, Roberto Resoli <roberto(a)resolutions.it> writes: > Il 23/10/20 22:35, Giacomo Tesio ha scritto: >> Dunque è un bene che Microsoft abbia prontamente nascosto il repository. >> Sia mai che qualcuno inizi a porsi qualche domanda su cosa significhi >> dipendere da società statunitensi! > > E' la prassi di github. Prima di qualsiasi valutazione, in caso di > segnalazione il repository viene oscurato. É la prassi per tutti i fornitori di servizi perché la minaccia di azioni legali per violazione DMCA è sufficiente a scoraggiare QUALSIASI tentativo di resistenza, SOPRATTUTTO perché la valutazione nel merito della richiesta è estremamente complessa... anzi COMPLICATA appositamente. Ovviamente se anche grandi gruppi, per connivenza o perché non possono proprio farne a meno, cedono a queste pressioni provate a immaginare cosa può fare un piccolo fornitore di servizi, e infatti... (si veda capitiolo due) [...] > La cosa ha effetti devastanti, ovviamente, più che per il codice, per i > metadati di progetto (discussioni, issues, ecc) Ecco perché è FONDAMENTALE avere sotto controllo ciò che si usa, anche quando si sfrutta "il cloud" per risparmiare sulle risorse. Esempi: 1. github-backup (anche in Debian): https://github-backup.branchable.com/README/ 2. https://github.com/backup/backup (ABANDONWARE) devono essersi accorti che era davvero utile :-O Altri strumenti interessanti permettono di fare a meno di INTERMEDIARI (cioè del "cloud") integrando le issues (ed altro) dentro il repository stesso. Ad esempio Fossil (https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki) che integra Bug Tracking, Wiki, Forum, e Technotes in un unico repo e fornisce l'interfaccia web (basta dare il comando "fossil ui"): si nota che è stato ideato da uno che l'embedded e self-contained ce l'ha stampato nel DNA [1] come D. Richard Hipp (autore di SQLite). C'è movimento fuori dai riflettori :-D [...] Saluti, Giovanni. [1] e non è un add-on "secondario" tipo https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug o l'interessantissimo https://radicle.xyz/ -- Giovanni Biscuolo

Oct. 28, 2020

Perimetro di sicurezza nazionale cibernetica

by don Luca Peyron

Il testo in gazzetta ufficiale https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/gu/2020/10/21/261/sg/pdf Qui un commento https://www.cybersecurity360.it/cybersecurity-nazionale/perimetro-di-sicure… Buona lettura dl _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

Oct. 28, 2020

Algorith Watch - Rapporto sui sistemi di decisione automatizzata

by Roberto Resoli

Da Fabio Chiusi: "Domattina [questa mattina, mia nota], con AlgorithmWatch e Bertelsmann Stiftung, pubblichiamo il rapporto a cui ho lavorato per oltre un anno, insieme a un gruppo straordinario di circa 40 tra ricercatori, giornalisti, designer, fumettisti (esatto, ci saranno graphic novel!) e altri colleghi. Il rapporto si chiama "Automating Society 2020" e ha l'obiettivo difficile e insieme fondamentale di far comprendere, dati ed evidenze alla mano, quanto gli algoritmi (meglio: i sistemi di automated decision-making, ADM) contribuiscano già a prendere decisioni che riguardano i diritti e i servizi fondamentali di milioni di cittadini europei. Lo studio, che sarà disponibile domattina, riguarda 16 paesi europei, Italia compresa naturalmente. E non si limita a cercare di fare una fotografia del presente, ma ha anche l'ambizione di darne un primo, parziale giudizio -- e insieme stendere delle proposte concrete e dettagliate per rendere questi sistemi automatici compatibili con democrazia e diritti umani. L'evento di lancio (in inglese) è domani alle 13.15, e ci si può iscrivere a questo indirizzo: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/automating-society-2020-launch-event Se vi sta a cuore una comprensione il più possibile laica, concreta ed evidence-based delle tecnologie che stanno cambiando la sanità, il welfare, le forze di polizia, e il godimento di diritti e servizi essenziali per ciascun cittadino, fateci compagnia. UPDATE: Ecco il link al rapporto integrale! https://automatingsociety.algorithmwatch.org/ " rob

Oct. 28, 2020

Il Presidente dell'Accademia dei Lincei dice: "Servono provvedimenti drastici adesso"

by Diego Latella

Non mi pare che sia passatao nella lista (in caso contrario mi scuso per il doppione) Diego Giorgio Parisi Servono provvedimenti drastici adesso https://www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/servono-provvedimenti-drastici-adesso… Scienza in Rete 23/10/2020 https://www.scienzainrete.it Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of sospeaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2–7, Aug. 1986]

Oct. 27, 2020

Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data - even if you tell it to

by Giacomo Tesio

Per la serie Web by Google, riporto di seguito la notizia tratta da https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-google-site-data-special-treatment (best viewed without JavaScript ;-) In pratica quando chiedete a Google Chrome di cancellare i vostri dati personali alla chiusura del browser, questo lo fa per tutti... tranne che per i propri servizi. In questo modo abusa della propria posizione dominante per avvantaggiarsi persino sui concorrenti del capitalismo di sorveglianza! Senza considerare che ignora un'esplicita richiesta degli utenti... conta come violazione del GDPR? Giacomo ______ If you set Google Chrome to purge all website cookies and site data when you close the browser, it nonetheless keeps the site data for two specific websites: YouTube and Google itself. So says Mac programmer Jeff Johnson, who documented the naughty behavior in a blog post earlier this month (as earlier reported by The Register). Best Android browsers for your favorite mobile devices How to reset Google Chrome Just in: Nvidia RTX 3080 will miss this killer upgrade "Perhaps this is just a Google Chrome bug, not intentional behavior, but the question is why it only affects Google sites, not non-Google sites," Johnson wrote. "I've tested using the latest Google Chrome version 86.0.4240.75 for macOS, but this behavior was also happening in the previous version of Chrome. I don't know when it started." To set Google to get rid of all site cookies and data every time you quit the browser, go to Settings, then "Privacy and security" and then "Cookies and other site data" and then toggle the switch labeled "Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome." In theory, this should work on all sites. But according to Johnson, it doesn't. "Chrome exempts Google's own sites, such as Search and YouTube, from this setting," he wrote. "After I quit and relaunch, the [YouTube] cookies are deleted, but the database storage, local storage, and service workers are still there!" He found the same behavior related to Google.com, but no other websites. How to get around the Google exemption In order to get those sites to comply with Chrome's own rules, Johnson found that he had to manually add Google.com and YouTube.com to the list of sites that can never use cookies at all. (That likely means he'd have to log into Gmail every time he launched Chrome.) We haven't tested this on Windows, but because Chrome behaves pretty much the same way on all desktop platforms, we'd expect the same behavior there. Retaining site data isn't that big a deal, but it does permit Google to track users who might have thought they were exempting themselves from such things. "Many users set Chrome to automatically delete cookies-and-site-data on exit ... to prevent being stalked around the web even though it often requires them to log back into websites the next time they visit due to their per-session cookies being wiped," The Register's Kieren McCarthy noted. McCarthy reached out to Google for comment, and the search giant claimed it was an innocent mistake. "We are aware of a bug in Chrome that is impacting how cookies are cleared on some first-party Google websites," Google told The Register. "We are investigating the issue, and plan to roll out a fix in the coming days."

Oct. 27, 2020

covid test di fronte a tecnologia chiusa e tecnologia apeerta

by maurizio lana

buongiorno segnalo questo articolo su una vicenda piemontese ma di portata ben più vasta: https://www.lospiffero.com/ls_article.php?id=55108 Reagenti col contagocce, Piemonte sotto scacco Stefano Rizzi 07:00 Venerdì 23 Ottobre 2020 ---- Laboratori per i tamponi costretti a utilizzare sostanze rifornite dal venditore delle apparecchiature. Che ovviamente impone prezzi e quantità. L'assessore Marnati ha avviato la procedura rapida per acquistare tre macchine "aperte". I numeri dei test il tema è la scelta tra 'tecnologia aperta' e tecnologia chiusa', nello specifico in piemonte sono state acquistate macchine per i test covid che funzionano solo con il reagente del produttore della macchina; in veneto hanno acquistato macchine che non hanno questo vincolo. per quale motivo un soggetto pubblico può trovare preferibile acquistare tecnologia chiusa quando c'è disponibile tecnologia aperta con la medesima funzionalità? non volendo pensare a tangenti si può pensare che il tema dell'apertura, con le sue valenze fondamentali per la società, continua ad essere troppo chiuso tra gli addetti ai lavori che lo professano ognuno nel suo orticello? così, divisi si perde la battaglia e forse anche la guerra. o è solo insipienza/incompetenza dei decisori? maurizio -- http://maurobiani.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/patrick-george-zaky-libero.… ----- Maurizio Lana Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università del Piemonte Orientale piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli tel. +39 347 7370925

Oct. 27, 2020

Un paio di articoli di ottobre della Communications of the ACM

by Diego.Latella

Buongiorno Vi segnalo questi due articoli, a mio avviso interessanti, pubblicati nel numero di ottobre delle CACM Moshe Y. Vardi What Should Be Done About Social Media? https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3424762 Lorrie Faith Cranor Digital Contact Tracing May Protect Privacy, But It Is Unlikely to Stop the Pandemic Considering the potential benefits versus the risks of privacy-enhancing technologies. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3423993 Diego -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [1]) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 1986] Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

Oct. 27, 2020

Re: [nexa] youtube-dl DMCA takedown

by Roberto Resoli

Il 27/10/20 10:26, Roberto Resoli ha scritto: > Qui l'esperienza di Danele Gobetti e del progetto Gadgetbridge, > presentata alla SFScon del 2017: > > https://www.sfscon.it/talks/free-software-projects-github-dmca/ Cercando Gadgedbdridge, ho visto che ora è ospitato da Codeberg[1], che ha rilasciato una dichiarazione molto interessante sul caso youtube-dl: https://blog.codeberg.org/on-the-youtube-dl-dmca-takedown.html rob

Oct. 27, 2020

Fwd: UNIDIR Invitation: Neutrality and Peacebuilding in Cyberspace [ 3 November - Geneva Peace Week ]

by Diego Latella

It might be of interest for you All the Best Diego > Begin forwarded message: > > From: UNOG-UNIDIR <unidir(a)un.org> > Subject: UNIDIR Invitation: Neutrality and Peacebuilding in Cyberspace [ 3 November - Geneva Peace Week ] > Date: 27 October 2020 at 10:56:24 CET > To: UNOG-UNIDIR <unidir(a)un.org> > > > > > WHAT: The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), in cooperation with the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, is pleased to invite you to a roundtable dialogue exploring the concept of neutrality in cyberspace. > > The principle and practice of neutrality in international relations have expanded possibilities for protection but also for managing risks of escalation in the face of geopolitical tension. These contributions and the long history of neutral actors’ engagement in humanitarian action and peacebuilding point to the merits of exploring how values of neutrality can be extended to cyberspace stability and security, which are fundamental to economic prosperity, and social and political participation. > > SPEAKERS: > Kaja Ciglic – Senior Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft > Koichiro Komiyama – Director, Global Coordination Division, JPCERT/CC > Sean Cordey – Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich > > The discussion will be moderated by Giacomo Persi Paoli, Lead, UNIDIR Security and Technology Programme. > > WHEN & WHERE: Tuesday, 3 November, 12:00 – 12:50 (CEST), online. > > PARTICIPANTS: The event is open to the public. > > RSVP: Please RSVP here <https://unidir.org/events/neutrality-and-peacebuilding-cyberspace>. For any questions please contact sectec-unidir(a)un.org <mailto:sectec-unidir@un.org>. > > > > > > > > > > > > United Nations Institute > for Disarmament Research > > > > > <http://www.facebook.com/UNIDIRGeneva> <http://www.twitter.com/UNIDIR> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyH-a8ApVIPjj4Wz3h2LuZw> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/UNIDIR> > www.unidir.org <http://www.unidir.org/> > Palais des Nations > 1211 Geneve, Switzerland > > Tel: +41 22 917 11 41 > Email: unidir(a)un.org <mailto:unidir@un.org> > Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of sospeaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2–7, Aug. 1986]

Oct. 27, 2020