Notices by ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social), page 15

@lain for me the main reason is ideological, I'd rather support an open source platform than a megacorp.

I don't think MS buying GitHub changes anything, but the problem with GitHub being a closed source single point of failure was always there.

Until GitLab came along there really weren't any practical alternatives, but now that one exists it would be good to support it in my opinion.

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a summon from the cat dimension

Apple has been collecting browsing history of Safari users for years

https://medium.com/@dnsbsnc/apple-collected-4-years-of-my-browsing-history-in-a-hidden-log-that-american-users-might-not-have-d0850a982478

#GDPR

When a dust devil forms over a grassfire and tumbleweeds

Mozilla will not update its privacy policy, because it doesn't need to 👏
https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2018/05/23/gdpr-mozilla/

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Someone, somewhere, is making a banned chemical that destroys the ozone layer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/05/16/someone-somewhere-is-making-a-banned-chemical-that-destroys-the-ozone-layer-scientists-suspect/

(submitted by ytNumbers)

"The strongest possible statement I could take against this was to leave." https://t.co/y03rJkrTbJ
- arstechnica
#newsbot

In which the CPU changes my data under my nose

http://troubles.md/posts/i-triple-equals/
#newsbot

Impressive redneck engineering