Notices by Cassidy ❤️💜💙 (cassidyjames@mastodon.social)

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This would have sounded like sci-fi conspiracy nonsense not that long ago, but: the US government has military spy balloons flying above my hometown, potentially watching and recording all vehicle movements. Umm, wtf?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

IT DOESN’T NEED AMP. It’s entirely static, is as fast as or faster than AMP sites, and is served from a fast global CDN with aggressive caching.

I’m INCREDIBLY tired of Google abusing their position as the global search monopoly to push their tech on sites or fear being demoted.

I launched a new blog this week. It's stupidly fast, uses zero external JS or CSS resources, is responsive, and supports modern features many sites don’t like dark style support. But Google just emailed me saying they might deprioritize it on Google because it doesn’t use AMP.

RT @gnome@twitter.com

Today we announce our joint collaboration with @kdecommunity@twitter.com on @LinuxAppSummit@twitter.com and building an application ecosystem. See - https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/07/las-2019/ - Join us in Barcelona Nov 12-14th, 15th a BoF day!#LinuxApps

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gnome/status/1156614624428429312

RT @dominucco@twitter.com

My son asked me what I am doing told him Im installing @elementary@twitter.com and he asked if it was Apple, I said no “my friend Cassidy.” He wa so excited at the idea of software by “friends”. This is how we get #FOSS to the next gen @CassidyJames@twitter.com @ChrisLAS@twitter.com @wespayne@twitter.com @carlrichell@twitter.com #linux

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1154880632847310848

Good stuff. Discussing the ethical implications of “ed tech,” or technology in education. https://pca.st/3u8L

Apple is just better at hiding it. This is how machine learning and voice inputs work. When you talk to Siri, you're also shipping your voice off to Apple where their machines and almost certainly humans process and review it. Just like everyone else. https://www.wired.com/2013/04/siri-two-years/

👀 https://youtu.be/pUowposHA1s

"Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing" by @sil at #scale17x was an *excellent* talk and echoes all of our beliefs around privacy in elementary OS. Give it a listen at 2:05:30

https://youtu.be/VKh8Flt2wec?t=7530

One: Google app iconography is hot garbage these days. This flat color blob on white is boring and makes it actively harder to find apps.

Two: spot the single non-Google app in the sea of Google apps. It's like they want to be acquired.

I'm doing a bit of an exploratory UI survey, and I NEED YOUR HELP! I'm trying to understand and quantify a few things, so if you have approximately two minutes, could you fill this out? Sharing helps a ton, too! https://goo.gl/forms/rx6rSHmt3B1ftAih2

Tomorrow I'll be at Logan House Coffee Company for
Thursday Co-working! If you're in the Denver area, stop by and say hello. 😊 https://gettogether.community/events/316/thursday-co-working/ #gettogether #dosr

How to be a modern Internet company:

Step 1: Use this font

No, literally that is all.

I heard something that really bothered me on a recent podcast. With GDPR stuff happening today, it felt particularly relevant.

If you have a checked-by-default "consent" to collecting user data, THAT IS CALLED AN OPT-OUT, not an opt-in.