Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 23

I've proposed to have a #Fedora instance of #Mastodon: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-in-fediverse/1168
What do you think? Would you join?

Liberapay is a great alternative to Patreon and Facebook Fan Subscriptions.

- They take 0%
- European non-profit organization
- Open Source
- Funded by donations

https://liberapay.com

China’s leaders seem to care little for the privacy, or the freedom, of millions of its citizens. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/massive-database-leak-gives-us-window-chinas-digital-surveillance-state

And this is why I love #AMD and will support them with my money. Here's hoping that they also bring these advancements to the BSDs. #foss #floss #gpu #cpu

AMD Hiring Ten More People For Their Open-Source/Linux Driver Team - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiring-10-More-Open-Source

Facebook is trying to offer a really terrible Patreon-style service (which will take 30% of all income 😟 and permanent intellectual property rights to anything uploaded even if you leave the service 😱 ).

A number of people asked about free open alternatives. You might want to look at:

Liberapay
@Liberapay

Open Collective
https://opencollective.com/

Any other suggestions?

#DeleteFacebook #Donations #Crowdfunding

Wireshark 3.0.0 available:

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-3.0.0.html

– supports about 40 new protocols
– supports 4 new capture file formats

#wireshark #pcap #pcapng #packetinspection #pentest #network #infosec #cybersecurity #security

computer scientists in the 60s: "cool, we can do math with computers! And we have these amazing beautiful programming languages that can perform effortless recursion! I wonder what new vistas of thought this will open up!"

techbros in the 2010s: "we paid a bunch of Turkish people to generate 150 gigabytes of training data and shoved it into tensorflow. We'll put it on top of a JS app running in a virtual electron environment on the cloud. It's like uber but for marmosets."

Oof, there’s a remote code execution vulnerability in Drupal. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/millions-of-websites-threatened-by-highly-critical-code-execution-bug-in-drupal/

University student? Want to spend your summer hacking on Krita? Or do you know someone who does?

https://krita.org/en/item/google-summer-of-code-2019-call-for-coders/

Many apps like Holister, Expedia, & Air Canada use "session replay" to record screens to see how users interact, but @zackwhittaker found that this practice is rarely mentioned in privacy policies & can inadvertently expose sensitive data. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/iphone-session-replay-screenshots/

Developers: ETS is a planned weakening of the TLS encryption standard. Don’t use it, don’t implement it, and don’t standardize it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/ets-isnt-tls-and-you-shouldnt-use-it

Hey, please help keeping @Gargron and all the other #mastodon instances being able to host without implementing #uploadfilter by calling your member of the European parliament and convincing them stand against #Article13 in the upcoming vote for the #copyright reform.

https://pledge2019.eu

New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/new-4g-5g-security-flaws/

(submitted by wyldfire)

Destruction from climate change will be ‘worse, much worse, than you think’

> Nothing will be the same. Wherever we live, we will be flooded, engulfed by fires, plagued by new diseases, choked by toxic air, deprived of water or impoverished as a climate in chaos leads to an economy in meltdown.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/destruction-from-climate-change-will-be-worse-much-worse-than-you-think/2019/02/21/8cd6ea02-24cd-11e9-ad53-824486280311_story.html