Notices by ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 14

Oh my fucking goodness, hyperswarm + multifeed DAT works like a charm under real-world circumstances.

I can’t wait to try out kappa-core next.

More excited than I’ve been in a long while. The DAT folks deserve a fucking medal.

No, @Matomo (previously Piwik) doesn’t give two shits about privacy; releases tag manager product, hints at first-party tag manager integration of third-party trackers as method for circumventing tracker blockers.

https://matomo.org/blog/2018/12/matomo-tag-manager-out-of-beta-now-available/

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Matomo #Piwik

So I wrote a thread on birdsite on the #Six4Three Facebook files confiscated and released by UK Parliament. Enjoy + feel free to RT the crap out of it:

https://mobile.twitter.com/aral/status/1070537560244580352

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Facebook

@ekaitz_zarraga @alcinnz Proof of work is literally destroying our habitat so a few right-libertarian men can get rich.

For a Peerocracy, we don’t need a billion identical copies of the same database. We need a billion databases, each unique, each equal in power, each owned by an individual. Topological decentralisation is the core, not decentralisation of trust.

Directed acyclic graphs + public-key cryptography + sparse replication.

@alcinnz Directed acyclic graphs and Merkle Trees are awesome. Blockchain and the right libertarians that fantasize about the billions they’ll make with it (often by literally destroying our habitat via proof of work) can fuck right off.

I’ll be on Inside Story on Aljazeera today to discuss how we can regulate the abuses of surveillance capitalists like Facebook/Google and how we can create an alternative to surveillance capitalism where we fund ethical technology owned and controlled by individuals from the commons for the common good.

We will be recording at 13:30 GMT and it will air at 17:30 GMT.

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/

You can watch it on the live stream at: https://www.aljazeera.com/live/

Ethical design isn’t about trying to reform billion-dollar corporations like Google and Facebook that have fundamentally unethical business models, it’s about designing organisations with ethical business models that, therefore, can create ethical products and services.

https://ind.ie/ethical-design

#EthicalDesign #EthicalTechnology

“Last March, Tony Schmidt discovered something unsettling about the machine that helps him breathe at night. Without his knowledge, it was spying on him.

From his bedside, the device was tracking when he was using it and sending the information not just to his doctor, but to the maker of the machine, to the medical supply company that provided it and to his health insurer.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/you-snooze-you-lose-insurers-make-the-old-adage-literally-true

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Via @gilles

@aral a écrit :
"Google et Facebook sont à nos droits humains et à la démocratie ce que Philip Morris est à notre santé et ce qu'Exxon Mobil est à l'environnement. Tant que nous n'aurons pas saisi cette vérité fondamentale, nous n'aurons aucune chance de les réglementer efficacement ou de financer des solutions de rechange."

So, google just released a new online 'app' for compressing pictures called Squoosh, I wouldn't use it if you could help it, as it's likely they'll farm all the metadata and actual data from the images that they can.

This is what they do, release tools everyone uses so that they can then use the data you give them.

Don't fall for it :)

Facebook Filed A Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos

Facebook’s proposed technology would analyze your #wifey tags, shared IP addresses, and photos to predict whom you live with.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/facebook-household-prediction-patent

‘Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis’

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html

“As evidence accumulated that Facebook’s power could also be exploited to disrupt elections, broadcast viral propaganda and inspire deadly campaigns of hate around the globe, Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg stumbled. Bent on growth, the pair ignored warning signs and then sought to conceal them from public view.”

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/delay-deny-and-deflect-how-facebook-s-leaders-fought-through-crisis/2496

@aral Exactly. While the technical benefits from the protocols Google design are attracting, I don't know what the weaknesses are - and I definitely don't have the resources to investigate.

Will HTTP/3 aka HTTP/QUIC make it easier for Google to track anything they want? Will the complexity of the protocol lead to implementer monopoly, giving them control of all of our network usage?

I don't know, I don't know how to find out, and I don't want to risk it.

Here is the Anarchism of Blackness btw https://roarmag.org/magazine/black-liberation-anti-fascism/ Well worth a read....as is everything in Roar magazine.