Monthly links collection #5

News

• Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers - City A.M.
• “We’re Fine Without Facebook”, German and French Ministers Say - Bloomberg
• Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours online to update reliably - Bleeping Computer
• Making time to think - Derek Kedziora
• Digital sovereignty: Commission proposes Chips Act to confront semiconductor shortages and strengthen Europe’s technological leadership - European Commission
• The complete idiot’s guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro - Tom Szilagyi
• The European Parliament paves the way for removable and replaceable batteries - Right to Repair Europe
• Modern inetd in FreeBSD - Klara Inc.
• German Court Rules Websites Embedding Google Fonts Violates GDPR – The Hacker News
• Finding Vulnerabilities in Open Source Projects – Schneier on Security
• The Worst Timeline: A Printer Company Is Putting DRM in Paper Now - Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Samsung caught throttling Android apps on Galaxy devices - 9to5Google
• Samsung shipped ‘100m’ Android phones with flawed encryption - The Register
• Unix Philosophy: A Quick Look at the Ideas that Made Unix - Klara Inc.
• Apple would be forced to allow sideloading and third-party app stores under new EU law - The Verge

Websites

datarequests.org - “Every company in the EU is required by law to grant you access to your personal data, the ability to have it corrected or even deleted and more. Here at datarequests.org, we want to help you exercise these rights.”

Software

• Tidy Viewer - A cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment - GitHub

Swedish

• PriceRunner stämmer Google på 22 miljarder kronor - Pricerunner
• D-link stänger av kundernas smarta hem - Nikka Systems
• Miljonböter till Region Uppsala för okrypterade mejl och bristande it-säkerhet – Ny Teknik
• Linuxfika onsdag 6 april kl. 19 - Uppsala Linux User Group