Aral Balkan
So remember when I was saying Zoom is a privacy and security train wreck? Apparently, that was an understatement:
“Zoom has ‘rolled their own’ encryption scheme [with] significant weaknesses … [and transmits] meeting encryption keys through China.”
Via @ScottMortimer
Aral Balkan
You can now watch my talk on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament yesterday on Peertube (@joinpeertube) thanks to @vincib
https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd
And here are my slides (which were on the screens but aren’t visible in the video):
https://small-tech.slides.com/aral/dear-regulators-dont-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater#/
Aral Balkan
There are people who will tell you that the way things are is the way things have always been and will always be.
Don’t listen to these people.
The way things are is just raw material for the way things can be. And by your every action or inaction you help determine what that is.
Aral Balkan
@Gargron Hey Eugen, thanks, man. I’m going to go in there and give the talk I’m going to give tomorrow. I hope I will do Mastodon proud and I hope that I will show them how centralised differs from federated differs from peer-to-peer and how Facebook, etc., are scum of the earth and do not deserve a place at the table (they have one tomorrow, of course).
Aral Balkan
Wanna blow up my Raspberry Pi Zero?
Here, have some random ASCII cows: https://pi0.ar.al/cows
You can also see the stats for this session here: https://pi0.ar.al/b829a930d7dc1a0e8d118eb83d1d9576
(I just want to see how it performs. Will turn it off at some point and delete this tweet when I do.) :)
Aral Balkan
Dear @gitlab, after reading this, I am ashamed to be using your product:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/30656/diffs
We will stop using it as soon as we can manage to and I will stop recommending you to others. Unlike you, we don’t associate with folks incompatible with our values.
Shame on you.
Aral Balkan
Feeling much better and back to work ;)
Aral Balkan
@nx @laura It’s a small JS app I wrote that’s being served by Site.js (https://sitejs.org).
You can find the source here: https://source.ind.ie/small-tech.org/site/tree/master/themes/small-tech/static/.dynamic
My goal is to make it into a Site.js plugin and release it separately once I’ve implemented plugin functionality in Site.js :) But it’s basically all Node.js and shouldn’t be too much effort to pull out into a pure Node.js app if you wanted to.
Hope that helps :)
Aral Balkan
Got my first full night’s sleep in one-and-a-half weeks without coughing my lungs out all night… fingers crossed, I’m on the mend.
Can’t wait to get back into things when I’m back on my feet again.
Aral Balkan
So they changed the live steam URL and only tweeted out the new one 35 minutes into the talk after I made a stink. Bloody hell. https://mobile.twitter.com/webstandards/status/1172866025852768257
Aral Balkan
Looks like they’re quite a delay. I’m sure it should start soon but I won’t be able to keep checking and update you so keep the tab open somewhere :)
Aral Balkan
Laura’s talk at State of the Browser in a London is about to start. Watch live here:
Aral Balkan
I get hundreds of millions of dollars every year by legitimising surveillance capitalists and enabling them to violate your privacy by default. (I wouldn’t exist without them.) Please trust me on privacy.
Why are you all looking at me like that?
OK, OK, you can stop glaring: I’m Mozilla, y’all love me. 💕
Aral Balkan
@teslas_moustache And if you need any pointers on how much to trust Mozilla, remember they they get hundreds of millions of dollars every year for legitimising and allowing a third-party to violate your privacy (currently Google, Inc.)
Aral Balkan
Site.js 12.4.1 release
• Easier WebSocket broadcast from DotJS routes
• Easier installation on macOS – now uses cURL, which is installed by default, instead of wget, which is not (thanks to @adamprocter for hitting the pain points and writing about it: https://discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2019/08/27/trying-small-technology.html)
Aral Balkan
So a week in Sydney for UX Australia and a week away on holiday in Malaga (boy did we need it) and now I’m back with a stinking sore throat. Yay me. Gotta shake this thing before Reading Bodies in Berlin this weekend (https://small-tech.org/events/)
Aral Balkan
Folks, Laura and I are taking our first holiday in yonks tomorrow. We’re going to unplug. No computers, Mastodon, email, etc. See you all in a week :)
Aral Balkan
Sydney 🛫 Singapore 🛫 London 🛫 Cork
Aral Balkan
I asked Steve (@docbaty) at the after-party last night if he thought my opening keynote at @UXAustralia would lose him sponsors next year. His response brought tears to my eyes. Be like Steve.
“So if people heard the message that you said, Aral, in your keynote and their response was ‘well I want nothing to do with that conference’, well in all honesty, fuck ‘em.” – @docbaty
<3
(Shared with permission.)
Aral Balkan
Met such wonderful people and had such a lovely time at #UXAustralia – couldn’t have asked for a better event to launch Small Technology Foundation at (https://small-tech.org).
Thank you all for being so awesome and thank you, Deb, for your beautiful sketch-notes from my talk :)
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