Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 25

Want to help ensure the Internet remains open, globally-connected, secure, trustworthy, and available for everyone? We’re hiring at the Internet Society for a range of positions: https://www.internetsociety.org/careers/

@Edent on the importance of making machine learning code open source, so we can understand its operation and its biases #GDSAcademy10k

HTTP/3 해설 is HTTP/3 Explained in Korean. Available now at https://daniel.haxx.se/http3-explained/

:heart_parrot: HELLO AGAIN!! :heart_parrot:

I've made a really simple tool for searching your outbox.json (Mastodon archive) file. It's all browser-based and all data stays on your computer — it's not uploaded to the cloud!

There's lots of room for additional features so feel free to suggest some! 💚

https://beta.observablehq.com/@nuklearfiziks/mastodon-archive-tool

Montreal’s @MTLenLumiere festival starts today, and they’re celebrating their 20th anniversary! Expect interactive and fully immersive light displays, live performances, ice slides, fine dining and more at this luminous event! living_my_life_3/IG

Data brokers have been building powerful tools to track you everywhere, and the consequences are dire https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-campaign-tech-privacy-20190220-story.html

Prismo is an open federated alternative to sites like Reddit or Hacker News.

It's still under development, but the first instance is online here:

https://prismo.news

It's been in closed beta for a while, but Prismo now has open sign-ups for the first time.

You can sign up at:

https://prismo.news/auth/sign_up

#Prismo #Reddit #HackerNews #Fediverse #ActivityPub

A new study from @Stanford & @nyuniversity found that after a month w/out Facebook, subjects "improved their subjective wellbeing, increased the amount of time they spent doing offline activities, & led to a significant reduction of FB use post-study." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjmddq/study-finds-that-leaving-facebook-makes-you-happier-and-less-informed

I'm teaching and speaking @bsdcan this year.

First up is my tutorial: "OpenSMTPD for the Real World".

Second is a new talk: "Road Warrior Disaster Recovery".

Join us this May in #Ottawa! #BSD #OpenBSD

Good news, Everybody!

My "#BGP for non-experts" #tutorial has been accepted to #BSDCan. As always, it is a *full day*, and intended for those that are brand new to networking and BGP.

See you in #Ottawa!

#OpenBSD #BSD #networking

Forgot to mention the microphone we built into that smoke alarm, oops.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2?r=US&IR=T

Have you considered contributing to #OpenStreetMaps? It's like Wikipedia but for maps - a map that everybody can edit! Today, the NSW Address Import project added thousands of addresses for West Pennant Hills, Warrawee, and West Pymble.

If you know those areas, check it out and start mapping!

#opensource #gis

Using DNA testing companies creates "a real risk that this information could be used in ways that are harmful to the person who submitted their data for testing or even to their relatives."

@kevloria on how to delete your data from genetic databases. https://www.consumerreports.org/health-privacy/how-to-delete-genetic-data-from-23andme-ancrestry-other-sites/

Carrie Best was a vocal advocate for racial equality and social justice in . She founded one of Nova Scotia’s first black-owned newspapers, The Carion, and hosted the radio program The Quiet Corner, using both of these platforms to advocate for black rights. #BHM

UK police are rolling out new spying technologies that monitor us in public, online and even at home. But they’re not telling the public. That’s not #policingbyconsent. We’re working with @libertyhq to shine a light on police spying #NeighbourhoodWatched https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/neighbourhood-watched https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1097824837043658752/photo/1

Even the massive entertainment companies that lobbied for #Article13 have joined the opposition to its current version. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/worst-possible-version-eu-copyright-directive-has-sparked-german-uprising