At the top of everyone's computer security threat models should be:
1. Silicon Valley is run by a clique of unaccountable billionaires at least some of whom are actual Nazis, or at least Nazi-curious and find Nazis sympathetic and interesting and worth hearing out because they have important and fun ideas
2. The United States Government, as of 2017, is run by people who are actual Nazis and also Russian Mafia
Yet very few Silicon Valley Best Practices seem to take #1 into account
TFW you read about societies that existed 10k years ago and you find things like:
- "no obvious public buildings" (ie. no centralised power or religion)
- "Households looked to their neighbors for help, trade, and possible marriage for their children" (ie. mutualism)
- "(...) we see that men and women had the same social status" (ie. no patriarchy)
All stuff that liberals decry as "impossible" or "utopian" in the XXI century...
If having a coffee in the morning doesn't wake you up, try deleting a table in a production database instead.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-location-tracking-android-iphone-mobile
Google records your location even when you tell it not to. On iOS and Android. Pausing location history basically does nothing
Hey, you all, maybe consider supporting Bookmarks after the attack on them by Fascists:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-45075895
Here is their site!:
https://bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/
(Note: You are valid even if you cannot support, you're fine <3
Reblogging also helps, but also not required!)
My only regret is that I have bone-itis
Have learned of 3 alternatives to Google Translate:
- deepl.com/translator
- translate.yandex.com
- linguee.com
I will check them out!
hat tip to @lutoma , @saturno , and @feonixrift
π
@paul I guess cheap Chinese manufacturers really hate their clients, my UMI phone had bunch of trackers, keylogger and porn adware preinstalled in it's rom. there was a thread about it on their forums but they stopped replying to it releasing another model
After wondering why his cheap #Android phone has poor battery life and runs hot, man finds cryptocoin miner hidden in the ROM
http://www.thebmwz3.co.uk/2018/08/xgody-d24-and-nasty-background-app.html
Maybe the reason #Mastodon is so good is because the corporations that inhabit the #birdsite and other social media haven't made it here yet.
This hyper capitalisation of the social sphere is exactly why other #platforms feel so toxic. The fact that these platforms are run in the interests of capital and not the interests of their communities is surely clear by now.
I hope next week is good. I hope itβs good for you too.
Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.
Boris Johnson is courting the far-right http://novaramedia.com/2018/08/11/boris-johnson-is-courting-the-far-right/
Good points about his recent meetings with Bannon. Suddenly Johnson's racist dog whistles make more sense
I *strongly* agree that eliminating quoteβtweeting was one of Mastodon's best choices. Mastodon makes it as easy as possible to talk *to* other Mastodon users, while making it harder to talk *about* other Mastodon users.
Yes, as @thor said, there are times I miss it. But I think the trade off is more than worth it, and there's no way to change without endangering the culture of talking to, not talking about.