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🇬🇧🚨#ChatControl is back on the agenda: As soon as next Wednesday representatives of EU governments will resume work based on a secret document. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/public-register/public-register-search/?DocumentNumber=12319%2F24 This is what you can do now to help: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/
Git records the local timezone when a commit is made [1]. Knowledge of the timezone in which a commit was made could be used as a bit of identifying information to de-anonymize the committer.
Setting one's timezone to UTC can help mitigate this issue [2][3] (though, ofc, one must still be wary of time-of-day commit patterns being used to deduce a timezone).
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It is
<unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>
, where<unix-timestamp>
is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.<time-zone-offset>
is a positive or negative offset from UTC. For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is+0100
.
to set the timezone for a specific command, say e.g.
TZ=UTC git commit
each commit Git stores a author date and a commit date. So you have to omit the timezone for both dates.
I solved this for my self with the help of the following Git alias:
[alias] co = "!f() { \ export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \ export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \ git commit $@; \ git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Autor: %an <%ae> (%ai)\"; \ git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Committer: %cn <%ce> (%ci)\"; \ }; f"
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Cross-posts:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/plan-less-do-more-introducing-appointment-by-thunderbird/
Thunderbird has a new project under its wing: Appointment. Learn all about our approach to appointment scheduling, and try it yourself.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/hackers-infect-isps-with-malware-that-steals-customers-credentials/
Zero-day that was exploited since June to infect ISPs finally gets fixed.
https://archive.ph/ckFB2
Hi all, I'm looking into ways to protect my privacy while using WhatsApp, particularly in a professional setting where separating personal and work-related communications is crucial. I'm thinking of buying a dual SIM phone and am considering strategies to sandbox my personal contacts, pictures, and media from those associated with my work profile on WhatsApp.
Has anyone successfully done this using two SIM cards on the same device? I'm staunchly anti-Facebook and its obtrusive privacy-related practices, so ideally I want to prevent cross-contamination of personal and work-related data, including contacts, photos, and media shared through the app. Will this be a good strategy? Are there any known risks or precautions I should take to minimize the risk of my data being shared or accessed by third parties? - Thanks all, I'd appreciate any comments.
Just found out about Zen Browser, has someone used it already? Its Github repository looks to be under very active development and growing fast in popularity.
Zen Browser's website claims to have features that Floorp and LibreWolf do not. I'm not that tech savy so I would know how to evaluate the browser fairly, does anyone here knows something about it?
noyb files two complaints against EU Parliament over massive data breach
In early May 2024, the European Parliament informed its staff of a massive data breach in the institution’s recruiting platform (called “PEOPLE”). The breach affected the personal data of more than 8,000 staff.
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-complaints-against-eu-parliament-over-data-breach
https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DCN-Google-Data-Collection-Paper.pdf