Kai 'wusel' Siering @wusel@uu.org

#Palantir-#Polizeisoftware: Hessen hält höchstgerichtliche Vorgaben wohl nicht ein

#37C3: "Im Februar erklärte Karlsruhe die hessischen Vorschriften für Big-Data-Software bei der Polizei für #verfassungswidrig. Das überarbeitete Gesetz ist nicht viel besser."

@Freiheitsrechte wird #Verfassungsbeschwerde beim #Bundesverfassungsgericht einreichen 👌
#HessenData
https://www.golem.de/news/palantir-polizeisoftware-hessen-haelt-hoechstgerichtliche-vorgaben-wohl-nicht-ein-2312-180685.html

@hynek Eighth anniversary of the demise of "Don't Be Evil" also coming up... https://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/ #EvilCorp

240 million functioning PCs/laptops will be chucked into landfills.
Because #Microsoft has managed to convince consumers that computers cannot exist without #Windows.

80% of the world's data-centers and infrastructure don't run on Windows. If you're thinking of throwing away a computer, please send it my way.
#ewaste #throwawayculture #linux #FOSS #vendorlockin
https://www.itpro.com/software/windows/windows-10-end-of-life-could-prompt-torrent-of-e-waste-as-240-million-devices-set-for-scrapheap

Ok, well done…

Thanks to our IT!

The Outlook app for iOS and Android as well as the Outlook (new) app for Windows 11 [...] represents a security risk.
[...] the IT departments have decided to prevent access to university exchange e-mail accounts via these apps from 08.01.2024.

The German natural gas storages at almost the end of December are at 90.58%. This is higher than last year. At the same time, the natural gas price at the gas price market in Europe (Amsterdam) is constantly at 35 EUR/MWh.

Both values show how utterly Russia's gas war against the West and Germany in particular failed. It proves everything what I have been saying the last 10 years. We never needed Nordstream. Russia needed Nordstream and it is good that this project is history.

#Germany #Russia

Face recognition technology “can turn into a way for the government or businesses to track us as we move about the world,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz warns in the @washingtonpost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/12/20/clear-facial-recognition-technology-airport-security/

Nina Hagen und Gunther Emmerlich (1944-2023) hier und jetzt aus Gründen in einem Duett, das für die #Nachtsong Playlist musikalisch etwas aus dem Rahmen fällt. Aber ein humorvoller Profi durch und durch ist leider plötzlich abgetreten. R.I.P.
(Empfehlung von: Jürgen M. Edelmann)

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=eIkZo0DEEL8

Shared by NChandan

"Banned by Google, recommended by Firefox" is quite the tagline. Adnauseam is an online advertiser data obfuscation browser plugin:

https://adnauseam.io/