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More details dropped on the Danish Collabora trial to gain freedom from Microsoft Office.
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I am Sam. Sam I am.
Do you like consumers having RAM?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like consumers with RAM.
Would you like RAM in PCs?
I would not like RAM in PCs.
I would not like RAM on PCBs.
I do not like consumers with RAM.
I do not like them Sam-I-am.
A humanist receives a religious exemption from using AI at work. We see this and an update to replacing Microsoft Office with Collabora and other stories in technology, security, and privacy.
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Every company wants all data, and often the government requires it. Then scammers steal it to target you.
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OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization tomshardware.com/tech-indust…
Every company wants all data, and often the government requires it. Then scammers steal it to target you. We also see a humanist get a religious exemption to not use AI at work.
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No Weekly News Roundup tonight (It is Friday 30th this week), but here is an Ubuntu Core video to tide you over:
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Firefox is trying to win people back. I hope they do, but they need to do better.
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Essora OS, a distro based on Devuan, Sonic DE, and XLibre.
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A new report and PoC proves that passkeys are not the silver bullet we have been told they are. We look at this issue and other stories related to privacy, security, and business.
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Police now have access to a service that can identify your house from inside pictures and Google is linking all your accounts to your phone number on Android. Also, Meta wants to scrape all your data if you use their products.
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Technology is increasingly phoning home and passing up data. An AI robot collects our data and stores it in China on servers that are not secure. We also struggle with televisions collecting information for advertising.
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Quad9 quitte la France plutôt que de bloquer des sites sur ordre de justice
À partir du 24 novembre 2026, le résolveur DNS gratuit et sans tracking Quad9 ne sera plus disponible pour les utilisateurs situés en France.
La décision fait suite à un jugement français qui oblige Quad9 à bloquer la résolution de certains noms de domaine liés à la diffusion non autorisée de compétitions sportives, à la demande de beIN. L’astreinte a été ramenée à 1 000 € par jour, mais Quad9 refuse de se conformer durablement.
La fondation suisse explique qu’elle ne peut pas identifier de façon fiable les utilisateurs français (elle ne collecte pas de données), et qu’elle refuse d’appliquer une décision française à l’ensemble de ses utilisateurs dans le monde. Elle rappelle aussi que bloquer au niveau DNS ne supprime pas le contenu et est facilement contournable.
Pour Quad9, c’est une question de principe : rester un résolveur neutre, privé et intègre.
Qu’allez-vous utiliser à la place de Quad9 (9.9.9.9) ?
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#Quad9 #DNS #Privacy #Censorship #France #DigitalSovereignty
Technology is increasingly phoning home, and our data is being used for increasingly problematic uses. We look at these and other stories relating to privacy, security, and technology.
And Rumble should be back tonight!
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Microsoft silently removes another way to setup a computer with a local account...but why?
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Thanks to the @rumblevideo team for assisting with streaming issues. We should be back to streaming on Rumble this Thursday at 8:00p EST.
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Did you know? #LibreOffice has a tabbed user interface option. Here's how to enable it: