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Rui Seabra

@RuiSeabra@mastodon.social

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System administrator ninja and automation magician with a chronic Free Software passion and specialization. Actor. Apolitical anarchist, [not so] slightly left libertarian.

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Joined September 08, 2018

Blog:

https://blog.1407.org/

Acting:

https://teatro.1407.org/

Opinion:

https://www.1407.org/

Videos:

https://clip.place/a/rms/video-channels

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Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · May 26, 2026

Replying to @katzenmann@c3d2.social

@katzenmann@c3d2.social You do you! :) I'm definitely not a fan of having the scroll done by pressing the middle button, that's a legacy from bad mice doing in software drivers what they didn't do by themselves, in a proprietary operating system where that button *never* did anything useful. Unlike "here" where it has been useful for many, many decades.

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · May 26, 2026

Replying to @einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl

@einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl Oh, I suspected that much, thanks. But it was mostly the surprise change, and believing it was a hardware support issue, until I went into a desktop, with a mouse, and it also didn't work. Tried again with the mouse in the laptop and... Sighed. :)

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · May 26, 2026

Hey, GNOME people... or Fedora people, whoever did that, the message is for you both: I understand Windows people have no idea what middle-click paste is for, or what purpose does it satisfy, but it's incredibly (for you) very useful for all those who know about it and use it daily, several, several times. So changing that parameter to off by default on an upgrade... That's no Good™ Not angry, it's just very annoying. I thought the mousepad was broken until it failed with the mouse too. kthnxby

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @DiogoConstantino@masto.pt

@DiogoConstantino@masto.pt Sim, era só a ironia e dualidade de critérios que estava a salientar. ;)

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @joao@pinheirodeabrantes.pt

@joao Bom dia e obrigado, eu reparei e corrigi. :)

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

As autoridades querem os meta dados dos cidadãos todos para a eventualidade de terem cometido um crime.

O Primeiro Ministro que infringe a lei num vídeo: ah e tal, não sabemos o dia e a hora por isso não podemos fazer nada.

Que podem obter com ordem judicial...

Não entendam o que eles querem, não ...

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Once in a while I see posts claiming doom and gloom on Free Software security, and they dare wave the flag of the Xz attack, from a high pedestal.

The weirdest and worst case was Veritassium's recent (and shameful IMHO) video.

My comment:

A highly specialized, and long term planning attack, was caught before it did any real harm because of, not in spite of, Free Software's inherently better security model.

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social

If these terrific questions don't make you think twice about the seriousness (if not intention) behind posts like those, then you have a problem with your security posture regarding supply chain attacks.

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social

I wonder how many people would be able to notice a few milliseconds of delay in a Windows mTLS RDP session, examine the code, and pinpoint the problem so it could be quickly fixed And how long ago was this already? How many zero days in other widely (massively, in fact) distributed proprietary software have there been around since?

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · Mar 24, 2026

Replying to @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org

@neurovagrant Zero trust was always about full trust on proprietary blobs, so that's nothing new, really. ;)

Rui Seabra @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Dear #FreeSoftware developers...

These governmental attestation requirements popping up all over the world are nothing but a visible escalation step in the war on generic computing.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr spoke about it in 2011 and here's a nice transcript for you https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

I'm not modest enough to not say I was also looking at those writings in the wall, but he's a much better speaker.

Go read that, and please, please, please...

Stop collaborating with the authoritarians.

Rui Seabra

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