Notices by ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 7

Gabriele Lucci (gabriele@social.lucci.xyz)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2019 19:15:35 EDT Gabriele Lucci
- ar.al🌻
"The Do’s and Don’ts of Tech Regulation"
A brilliant piece by @aral
https://ar.al/2019/05/11/the-dos-and-donts-of-tech-regulation/
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  The Al Jazeera segment from yesterday. Source (Warning: The video is embedded here without trackers. If you watch it on Al Jazeera you will be tracked, including by Facebook). Yesterday, I was interviewed on Al Jazeera news about the Macron-Zuckerberg meeting (Warning: the linked page on Al Jazeera includes privacy-eroding trackers, including Facebook.)1 in which they apparently decided on a framework of “co-regulation.” This is not what I mean when I talk about the need to regulate surveillance capitalists.
ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 06:02:53 EDT ar.al🌻
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- Gabriele Lucci
@gabriele Thanks

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 06:02:27 EDT ar.al🌻
- Clerical Terrors
@clerical I use it. But they want your phone number and they’ve let themselves be used to whitewash both Google and Facebook on privacy so I prefer Wire. They’re the best options at the moment. But also keep your eye on Jami.

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 06:00:06 EDT ar.al🌻
- Joshua
- switching.social
@DC7IA @switchingsocial Can you give me a few links to those comments. I’d like to see what the actual arguments are.

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 03:00:44 EDT ar.al🌻
- switching.social
Israeli espionage firm hacks WhatsApp. Can install spyware with missed call.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/13/whatsapp-urges-users-to-upgrade-after-discovering-spyware-vulnerability
My advice: dump WhatsApp today and start using Wire (https://wire.com/en/products/personal-secure-messenger/). Tell your friends and family to do the same. (It’s a simple, free download on all app stores. Easy to use, doesn’t require your phone number, and their business model is based on charging for commercial use and for pro accounts.)
You can find more alternatives on @switchingsocial (https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-whatsapp-and-skype/)
#WhatsApp
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  Secure personal messenger · Wire
  
  Secure messenger for friends, families and small communities.
ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 17:12:33 EDT ar.al🌻
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- Masto.host
@mastohost Will do, thanks, Hugo :)

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 17:11:22 EDT ar.al🌻
- Daniel
@da (And thank you again.)

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 17:11:15 EDT ar.al🌻
- Laura Kalbag
- Daniel
@da Hey Daniel, sorry I missed this when you originally sent it. CCing in @laura as she’s more involved in the site

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 17:10:14 EDT ar.al🌻
- Daniel
@da Hmm, I’ll have a look, thanks for the heads up. I noticed an issue the other day but wasn’t sure if it was my connectivity.

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 04:11:13 EDT ar.al🌻

“Google’s Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good … Yes, we use data to make products more helpful for everyone. But we also protect your information.” – NYTimes “The Privacy Project”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/opinion/google-sundar-pichai-privacy.html#click=https://t.co/yMiIlMwdce
1. Fuck you, Sundar
2. Fuck you, NYTimes, and fuck your “privacy project”, you whitewashing muppets
#SurveillanceCapitalism #WhiteWashing #BigData #BigTech #Google #NYTimes

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 15:58:59 EDT ar.al🌻

Introducing Indie Web Server 8.0.0: install the server and start serving a secure static personal web site in literally seconds
Video demo + short post: https://ar.al/2019/04/16/set-up-a-live-static-personal-web-site-in-seconds-with-indie-web-server-8.0.0/
I hope it makes your lives easier. This is one of the earlier pieces of the puzzle in the Hypha project.
(It took two weeks and a couple of false starts but Version 8.0.0 introduces native binaries for Linux and macOS. Production use via startup daemons is supported only on Linux platforms with systemd.)

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 10:48:23 EDT ar.al🌻
- Sheogorath 🦊
@sheogorath Mozilla’s top brass isn’t innocent in this either. They knew exactly what they are doing and the role they play by accepting hundreds of millions of dollars from Google and other surveillance capitalists every year.

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 14:28:27 EDT ar.al🌻
- Chris Wiegman
@chriswiegman We shouldn’t have to do that to demo Let’s Encrypt. Here’s hoping they will remove or raise the limit for my demo domain.

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 13:59:39 EDT ar.al🌻

Sadly, might have to wait a week to record my video demonstration of Indie Web Server as I‘ve hit the Duplicate Certificate limit on my-demo.site, which I use for my demonstrations. Just filled out a form asking for the limit to be raised or lifted for that domain, so 🤞

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 12:00:57 EDT ar.al🌻
- Hyde Stevenson
@hyde_stevenson Glad I’m not the only one to think so.

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 12:00:31 EDT ar.al🌻
- The_Gibson {UTC -4}
@ninja @thegibson Why would I format and install Linux over Linux? Or should I try to install Linux on the BIOS? ;P

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 11:55:57 EDT ar.al🌻

Upgrading the studio with a black backdrop hacked by reversing a portable cinema screen. Can’t wait to record the demo for Indie Web Server 8.0.0 :)

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ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 09:16:55 EDT ar.al🌻

Just popped up on my XPS 13 updates:
“This update integrates the BIOSConnect feature into Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery. This feature connects the system to the Dell image server to download and recover the operating system.”
Umm… how about no, Dell, do not connect my BIOS to the Internet thank you very much.
Wtf is wrong with these people? *smh*
#security #privacy

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Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2019 13:59:55 EDT Andrew (R.S Admin)

I've written about this before: http://ajroach42.com/shada-douglas-adams-unfinished-doctor-who-arc-reborn-in-countless-works-of-fan-fiction/
I may update that post to note that it's been officially released now.

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Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2019 13:54:21 EDT Andrew (R.S Admin)

For those who are unfamiliar, this is Douglas Adams famously unfinished doctor who episode.
Seeing as it was unlikely to ever be released, Adams recycled the plot in to his novel Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency, replacing the doctor with the titular gently (and effectively making Dirk gently doctor who fan fic)
Then it was rereleased as a radio episode and a flash animation, and a fan novel, and a recut fanedit, and a VHS with linking narration, and an official novel, and now this.

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