Upgraded Drifting Ruby to deploy with Kamal 2.0. It did have some hiccups that caused a little bit of down time. You can read about what happened here https://blog.driftingruby.com/kamal-2-0-issue-with-aws-alb/ . I talk about the upgrade process from 1.9 to 2.0 as well.
Category: Open Source
Take control of your browsing with Firefox’s privacy and security features
Most browsers know way too much about you – your latest obsession, your shopping cart, even your weekend plans. Firefox? It’s built to power your browsing, nothing more. Here’s a breakdown of the Firefox features that keep you private and secure online. Total Cookie Protection Instead of letting cookies follow you across different websites and […]
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health @ Savannah: Time to take back the Internet
It’s no news. They’re stealing the Internet from us and we must do something about it. What it used to be a fun, collaborative hacking space is now ruled by corporations and narcissistic billionaires. Proprietary centralized social networks have become a space for hate, discrimination and propaganda. The messages that you see are those that they want you to see. Your data is no longer yours. They have become a massive thought control machine. You read what they want you to read and, in the end, you will end up writing and doing what they want you to write and to do. It’s a matter of time and money, and they have both.
These corporate-driven social networks are deceiving. They make us fall into false assumptions in a distorted reality. This delusion hits both individuals and organizations. For instance, in GNU Solidario and GNU Health, we fight for Social Medicine and for the rights of human and non-human animals. When we want to share an event, to make a fundraising campaign or to denounce human or animal rights violations we want the message to reach out as many people as possible. We could think, why not share it with our followers on Twitter / X? Experience has it, corporate social networks have not really made a difference in the outcomes. They will promote or “shadow ban” the message depending on who wrote it. You can guess the results for those who fight against neoliberal capitalism.
Social pressure exists, and is not trivial to overcome. Many fear that leaving proprietary centralized social networks that have been using for years will result in losing the status and contacts they’ve built throughout the years. Again, it’s not really a big deal. And we have great news, there are decentralized, community-driven alternatives! Some of those alternatives are Mastodon, Friendica or Diaspora. Not only social networks, today there is an free software alternative to pretty much any proprietary solution (search engines, scientific programs, multimedia, office suites, databases, games…)
There is a correlation between Free Software, freedom and privacy. The more Free Software, the more freedom and privacy you enjoy. The contrary also applies: Proprietary software is inversely proportional to our freedom, both at individual and collective level. There is no transparency, no privacy, no control, no rights in proprietary applications, networks or clouds.
In the last decades, the tech giants have been busy in a campaign to dismantle the Free Software philosophy and community. The “open source” euphemism is one of them. Richard Stallman (creator of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation) has been warning us about the dangers of “Open Source”. Free societies are built with free software, not with open source. I know some members in the free software community use both terms interchangeably, but I am convinced using the “Free Software” terms not only delivers software, but also freedom to our society.
Internet is no longer fun or empathetic. It has become a hostile and toxic environment, the medium for corporations and elites that increase concentration of power, social gradient and create very unjust societies. They use our data to control individuals and governments. We certainly don’t want to be part of that.
It is our moral duty to bring back spirit of solidarity that RMS delivered in the late 80’s, and that made possible the GNU movement, the best operating systems, programming languages, web servers and database engines for everyone. The GNU project was the inspiration for projects like GNU Health, helping millions around the globe, delivering freedom and equity in healthcare.
In the end, it is up to us to embrace federated, community driven social networks and free software applications. Millions of individuals, activists, free software projects, NGOs and even the European Union have already joined the Fediverse and Mastodon. It only takes an initial push to break the social pressure to set ourselves and our societies free.
Citing our friends from GNUnet: “You broke the Internet… we’ll build a GNU one”.
Happy hacking!
Follow us in Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gnuhealth
Original post: https://my.gnusolidario.org/2024/09/26/time-to-take-back-the-internet/
Statuses updated and a keyboard
This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Sep 2024, Week 39
Community News
F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.6.4 and no one will get this update. Why? Well, the app is now built reproducibly so if you have it installed you need to uninstall it and then reinstall it. (Yes, we wish this switch to be easier to perform, but the UI is not there yet)
Firefox 130 and 130.0.1 were released September 3rd and 17th with 15 security fixes, however Fennec and Mull builds will be delayed due to Google removing a necessary component from the NDK in revision 27, apparently to “save some storage space”. 😐
FlorisBoard was updated to 0.4.0 after a two year pause, if you’re the kind that looks a keyboard in the mouth, do peak at the extensive changelog.
Status: Crypto Wallet, Messenger, Ethereum Browser was updated to the newly designed 2.30.0 after an one and a half year hiatus. The feature list is too long, but the devs have a blog post that details everything. (App screenshots will be updated soon)
Removed Apps
3 apps were removed
- ADW.Launcher: Home screen replacement (Just use KISS!)
- ForceDoze: Enable Doze mode immediately after screen off and turn off motion sensing (The new fork was announced last week, EnforceDoze)
- Loyalty Card Keychain: Manages barcode-based store/loyalty cards on your phone (Catima is working fine)
Newly Added Apps
7 apps were newly added
- Audio Source: Use an Android device as a USB microphone
- DigiPaws – Gamify Screentime: Block apps, reels, explicit keywords and more
- FeedFlow: Minimalistic RSS Reader
- JMdict droid: A Japanese to English dictionary, based on JMdict
- Page: The simplest note taking app
- PTO – Plaintext Organizer: Stay organized with one plaintext file per day
- Stride: Task management tool that synchronizes with git
Updated Apps
123 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- 2048 (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.4.0 - 8-Bit Wonders was updated to
0.8.4 - AAAAXY was updated to
1.5.202+20240914.3521.8c236869 - Amber was updated to
2.0.3 - AndBible: Bible Study was updated to
5.0.832 - Aria2App was updated to
5.9.18 - aShell was updated to
v0.10 - Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to
0.11.3 - Aurora Store was updated to
4.6.1 - Aves Libre was updated to
1.11.13 - Binary Eye was updated to
1.63.11 - Blocker was updated to
2.0.4839-fdroid - Blood pressure monitor was updated to
1.8.0-samsung-fix-2 - Boxcars was updated to
1.4.1 - BusTO was updated to
2.2.3 - Cache Cleaner was updated to
2.2.5 - Calendar Import-Export was updated to
2.8.1 - Capy Reader was updated to
2024.09.1050-dev - Ceno Browser: Share the Web was updated to
2.2.2 - Chance was updated to
1.1.0 - ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to
v0.11.1 - Chrono was updated to
0.6.0-beta1 - Cirrus was updated to
3.1 - Ciyue was updated to
0.8.3 - Clipious was updated to
1.21.3 - Clock was updated to
2.7 - ColorBlendr was updated to
v1.8 - Cuppa – Tea Timer was updated to
2.8.0 - Dark Mode Live Wallpaper was updated to
1.7.2 - DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to
5.213.0 - Easter Eggs was updated to
3.0.0 - Easy Launcher – Minimal launcher was updated to
0.2.5 - EinkBro was updated to
12.0.0 - Enhanced Music Controller Lite was updated to
1.33 - Ente Auth was updated to
4.0.0 - Fridgey was updated to
2.2 - Gas Prices was updated to
2.7 - GLPI Agent was updated to
1.5.0 - Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
4.0.34 - Hacki for Hacker News was updated to
2.9.3 - Identify Dog Breeds Pro was updated to
30 - InfiniList was updated to
1.2.0 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.0.8 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.4.9 - Inner Breeze was updated to
1.3.4 - Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to
Build100.6.7 - Jerboa for Lemmy was updated to
0.0.76-gplay - JMP SIM Manager was updated to
jmp-v1.1.1 - JS-Dict was updated to
1.2.2 - Kanji Dojo was updated to
2.1.2 - Kepler-App was updated to
2.6.1 - Keysh was updated to
0.1.5 - Kid3 was updated to
3.9.6 - Ladefuchs was updated to
3.0.1 - LinkHub was updated to
1.6.1 - Lyrion was updated to
0.8.2 - Léon – The URL Cleaner was updated to
43 - Materialious was updated to
1.4.3 - Mattermost Beta was updated to
2.20.0 - Mensinator was updated to
1.9.1 - Menu Generator was updated to
1.1.3 - mLauncher – Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated to
1.6.8 - MMRL was updated to
3.24.32 - Money Manager Ex was updated to
2024.09.21 - monocles browser was updated to
1.9.2 - MonsterMusic was updated to
0.1.33 - MRMCD 2024 Schedule was updated to
1.66.1-MRMCD-Edition - MultiVNC was updated to
2.1.5 - My Expenses was updated to
3.8.8 - NeoStumbler was updated to
1.3.2 - neutriNote CE was updated to
4.5.3f - Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to
0.21.1 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20240922 - Nextcloud Talk was updated to
20.0.1 - Nighthawk Wallet was updated to
2.2.15 - Notepad was updated to
3.0.6 - Notes (PFA) was updated to
2.0.1 - ntodotxt was updated to
0.10.1 - OCR was updated to
5.1 - OPEN NGA was updated to
v1.1.1 - Pagan was updated to
1.5.3 - PariDroid was updated to
2.15.5.2.4 - Peristyle was updated to
2.03_beta - Petals was updated to
3.29.0 - Phonograph Plus was updated to
1.8.4 - Pixiv for Muzei 3 was updated to
3.7.7 - Podcini.R – Podcast instrument was updated to
6.7.2 - Power Ampache 2 was updated to
1.00-67-fdroid - Prayer Book was updated to
0.3.0 - Quillpad was updated to
1.4.19 - Recording Studio Lite was updated to
0.1.3 - Ricochlime was updated to
1.11.3 - Riichi Mahjong Calculator was updated to
1.0.11 - Rush was updated to
2.2.0 - Ruslin was updated to
0.1.2-beta.3 - SCEE was updated to
59.0 - SecondScreen was updated to
2.9.4 - SexyTopo was updated to
1.8.3 - Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to
2.5.2 - Simple Time Tracker was updated to
1.46 - SimpleX Chat was updated to
6.0.4 - sing-box was updated to
1.9.6 - SMS Import / Export was updated to
2.4.1 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
2.1 - Standard Notes was updated to
3.195.1 - StreetComplete was updated to
59.0 - Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to
2.1.4 - Table Habit was updated to
1.13.6 - Taler Cashier was updated to
0.5.1 - Taskbar was updated to
6.2.1 - Thumb-Key was updated to
3.4.11 - Traintime PDA was updated to
1.3.1 - Transito was updated to
0.7.0.2 - TriPeaks was updated to
1.2.3 - TTL Changer was updated to
1.2.2 - Tuta Mail was updated to
244.240912.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.13.10 - UnicodePad was updated to
2.14.3-fdroid - Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to
0.39.5 - Valentin’s PowerTools #036 – Ease The Waiting was updated to
1.1.0 - WADBS was updated to
1.3 - Xtra was updated to
2.35.0 - Zapp was updated to
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Eliminating memory safety vulnerabilities at the source
The push towards memory safe programming languages is strong, and for good reason. However, especially for bigger projects with a lot of code that potentially needs to be rewritten or replaced, you might question if all the effort is even worth it, particularly if all the main contributors would also need to be retrained. Well, it turns out that merely just focusing on writing new code in a memory safe language will drastically reduce the number of memory safety issues in a project as a whole. Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threat to software security. At Google, we believe the path to eliminating this class of vulnerabilities at scale and building high-assurance software lies in Safe Coding, a secure-by-design approach that prioritizes transitioning to memory-safe languages. This post demonstrates why focusing on Safe Coding for new code quickly and counterintuitively reduces the overall security risk of a codebase, finally breaking through the stubbornly high plateau of memory safety vulnerabilities and starting an exponential decline, all while being scalable and cost-effective. ↫ Jeff Vander Stoep and Alex Rebert at the Google Security Blog In this blog post, Google highlights that even if you only write new code in a memory-safe language, while only applying bug fixes to old code, the number of memory safety issues will decreases rapidly, even when the total amount of code written in unsafe languages increases. This is because vulnerabilities decay exponentially – in other words, the older the code, the fewer vulnerabilities it’ll have. In Android, for instance, using this approach, the percentage of memory safety vulnerabilities dropped from 76% to 24% over 6 years, which is a great result and something quite tangible. Despite the majority of code still being unsafe (but, crucially, getting progressively older), we’re seeing a large and continued decline in memory safety vulnerabilities. The results align with what we simulated above, and are even better, potentially as a result of our parallel efforts to improve the safety of our memory unsafe code. We first reported this decline in 2022, and we continue to see the total number of memory safety vulnerabilities dropping. ↫ Jeff Vander Stoep and Alex Rebert at the Google Security Blog What this shows is that a large project, like, say, the Linux kernel, for no particular reason whatsoever, doesn’t need to replace all of its code with, say, Rust, again, for no particular reason whatsoever, to reap the benefits of a modern, memory-safe language. Even by focusing on memory-safe languages only for new code, you will still exponentially reduce the number of memory safety vulnerabilities. This is not a new discovery, as it’s something observed and confirmed many times before, and it makes intuitive sense, too; older code has had more time to mature.
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