Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 19

I wish the EFF would stop trying to reform Facebook and start promoting open-source fediverse alternatives.

The most powerful message you can send friends is "we can communicate and make plans without Facebook"

I've now open sourced Mast! So you can see exactly how the app was made. Woo! 🎉❄️

https://github.com/ShihabM/Mast/tree/master

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mast/id1437429129

❝I don’t believe our species can survive unless we fix this (social media).
We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.❞
— Jaron Lanier

imagine paying a monthly fee for an image editor! :blobcatgiggle:
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Encryption can save lives. Here are our thoughts why encryption matters: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/encryption-mass-surveillance

Fired: software sucks; devs need to try harder
Tired: the development community is insufficiently diverse in identities and ideas to produce good software; devs need to be more diverse
Wired: #software companies have bad incentives which lead them to not care about producing good software; #FOSS needs to get better
Inspired: all software #development involves encoding our society's ideas about a problem domain; we cannot produce good software until we produce a good society

Hey everyone, I just read that @cryptpad could really need some more funding: https://blog.cryptpad.fr/2018/09/12/CryptPad-funding-status-August-2018/

It's a great project IMHO and if they can get their roadmap implemented it will be even greater...

Link jumping this morning from @Downes video to Mozilla resources to beyond eventually brought me to the p2pforever site, and this set of values (see image file) -- a sort of manifesto to the shift towards a Distributed Web -- is much appreciated.

p2pforever: http://p2pforever.org/

#el30

So many sites do:

“Here are cookie, advertising, tracking policies. Here is an OK button.”

After not clicking the ok button but attempting to continue:

“You must agree to our tracking policy”

That is explicitly not allowed/illegal under GDPR.

American companies including the Washington Post really have a damn hard time wrapping their head around that an agreement means you can decline to agree to it, and GDRP says refusing to be tracked is not grounds for a site to refuse service.

"Does dropping (malicious) USB drives in parking lots and other places really work?"

297 samples were dropped, 290 got picked up. 135 people opened documents (HTML pinger), 54 flash drives got returned.

20% were opened within the first hour. In less than 5 hours half of the devices were used by someone.

Study & talk (2016) by Elie Bursztein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJCQBqTmGUU

Job ads be like “great culture and work life balance!” when all they mean is that they play music sometimes and you’re not *explicitly* told to work unpaid overtime but you’ll get stared down by the boss whenever you leave on time

Users deserve to know, at purchase, the likely supported lifetime of a device: OpenWRT and CCC want device support timeline clarified, free firmware mandates https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/20/germany_versus_openwrt_ccc/ … #RouterTR https://twitter.com/chaosupdates/status/1065048258257383424

liberals: what the hell, this company fucked us all over!
leftists: yeah that happens a lot, huh
liberals: yeah! they don't care about anything but profit!
leftists: mhmm
liberals: well i guess the only option is to switch to another company
leftists: hmm but what if it happens again
liberals: ahh what can you do
leftists: mmmmmm
liberals: yup there's nothing that can be done
leftists: mmmmmmmmmmmmm

People who follow less people than they have followers are class traitors

Friendly reminder: nobody gets rich working.