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  • Quik@infosec.pubtoLemmy Shitpostrinse
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    3 hours ago

    I couldn’t find that quote anywhere, and it’s very unlikely that Cicero said it, or something like that.

    Iirc Tacitus said something similar, roughly: “the higher the number of laws the more corrupt an empire is”.

    The statement wouldn’t have made sense from Cicero as that wasn’t really a position he would have held, or even a position he found himself in at all in his defence of the republic (because this wasn’t really a problem at the time, or at least not the biggest one)


  • Quik@infosec.pubtoTechnologySession Messenger
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    15 hours ago

    From their blog:

    As you probably know, Session is decentralised. There are currently over 2,000 servers around the world working together to deliver your messages. Each one of these servers is an Oxen Service Node, and together they make up the Oxen Service Node Network. These are specialised servers that stake OXEN cryptocurrency to register on the network; and nodes receive OXEN rewards for performing particular services like routing Session messages.

    (They are now switching from OXEN/the Oxen network to their own to be able to better control the features of their hosting network)






  • The GNOME Foundation has been investing a lot of money to improve accessibility on Linux, for example funding Newton, a Wayland accessibility project and AccessKit integration into GNOME technologies. Around 250,000€ (1/4) of the STF budget was spent solely on accessibility.

    I didn’t know that it was this much, that’s so great! I think people with disabilities deserve to be able to use free software just as much as people without disabilities do (maybe even more since I may be better able to handle all the BS e.g. Microsoft might throw at me than let’s say a blind person) and this is important work in ensuring that.

    Although the article talks mainly about all of the negative stuff people are saying, I’m still positively surprised by the amount of work the community is already putting in and I think that the free software vision is one that aligns very well with, well, accessible software.