noiob whomst shork
Bavaria passed a new law that allows police to carry hand grenades
what the fuck are they supposed to do with those
how did anyone argue for that
(they're also allowed to store, delete and change digital data, have more rights regarding telco and post surveillance, can detain people for three months preventatively… this is making me sick)
Modern Industrial
@nolan @ink_slinger @allan @varx This is a great essay - Thank you for sharing!
Also, your instance URL is amazing and I connect with that sentiment wholeheartedly
Modern Industrial
@Nuntius US still trying to earn that record on "most number of shots in own feet"
Nuntius
How, why, what?!? 😭😵
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/responsibility-deflected-cloud-act-passes
(I understand that there is a need for law enforcement to have some means of doing their work.
But these things should still require a court's approval, especially when we're talking about request from foreign countries with other privacy laws and other political - sometimes non-democratic - systems)
Modern Industrial
@xvu Sorry - I lost the thread. What features were you looking for?
Modern Industrial
@ebel @starbreaker Well, mind our own house + bumper stickers.
Modern Industrial
@starbreaker I kinda want to put this last paragraph on a T-shirt or bumper sticker. This should be a warcry.
Modern Industrial
@ink_slinger @allan Personal branding - This hits the nail on the head for me. The web used to be a very open *personal* space. You said something because you needed to say it, and that it.
With the growth of likes/clicks/retweets - the gamification of contact - it's become far less authentic. And the need to keep it appropriately filtered and cultivated makes it just another place we need to put on a face for whoever is looking.
Modern Industrial
@starbreaker Absolutely agree. It's astounding that with all of the advancement in tech and browsers, webpages have continued to get bigger, not smaller. I think the growth in interactivity has been a net positive over time, though, and that's easy to overlook.
Modern Industrial
I don't understand what spurred the recent zeitgeist of old web sentimentality.
"Remember when our souls weren't harvested for cash, you viewed porn one picture at a time, and everyone used the blink tag?"
keithzg
Hey you know when after the San Bernardino shooting we all figured the FBI and DOJ were cynically following the maxim "never let a crisis go to waste"? Yup that was 100% true. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180327/15444939518/fbi-officials-were-angry-that-iphone-hack-blocked-them-getting-court-to-force-apple-to-break-encryption.shtml
Modern Industrial
@starbreaker That's a good answer. This particular role was for some Windows-native UI design, so they wanted someone very familiar with Windows styling conventions - I tried to play it up a bit.
Modern Industrial
@Modern_Industrial Coda: I...did not get that job.
😈 Daggertooth 🔥
Heads up, Tootdon users!
It has been discovered that Tootdon silently forwards copies of posts you interact as well as the auth token to your account to its to own servers.
https://mastodon.social/@kjwon15/99757268648426867
https://mastodon.social/@slipstream/99758520139922701
Consider replacing it with an open-source Masto app like Mastalab or SubwayTooter.
Make sure you also revoke Tootdon from your Authorized Apps in Preferences.
For folks here on Monsterpit:
https://monsterpit.net/oauth/authorized_applications
dick_turpin
#FrankenPi Mastodon instance
Things are moving on apace. FrankenPi has been reconfigured and is now running Raspbian-Lite
Modern Industrial
@TWeiss Great steps! I'd also recommend using a VPN for additional privacy, and Signal for texting.
HN Tooter
I’ve tested seventy VPN providers and 16 of them leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC
https://voidsec.com/vpn-leak/
(submitted by BlueGh0st)
Modern Industrial
A recent interviewer asked about my experience with Windows. I use Windows for work and Linux at home.
And I caught myself a millimeter away from saying "Windows in the streets, Linux in the sheets."
I didn't. But they all knew that's what I meant.
neville park
Across the square, a cryptic Cyrillic message glows through the rain: OTИOЯOT.
Detective Fin
Lab says she was wacked out on some new drug called Fear Cupcakes. Found her naked on a tricycle whisperin' "Help me, the construction workers made my skin neoprene."
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