Notices by [MOVED] David Ross (davidross@mastodon.social), page 2

"very concerned about potential impacts that the proposal would have on #Wikipedia, which largely addresses infringing content through community mechanisms. Such proposals put too much weight in the power of technologies for automatic content detection—be it artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, or hash-based file identification—w/out considering the impact on human-driven models of content moderation." #article13

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/14/dont-force-platforms-to-replace-communities-with-algorithms/

The #EU's #Copyright Directive has a vote on June 20. One central issue underpins the numerous issues - Automated Mass #Surveillance.

Please take a read and take urgent action if you're in the EU. #Article13 #DeleteArticle13 #SaveYourInternet

https://blog.bham.ac.uk/cybersecurity/2018/06/15/article-13-and-the-great-copywall-of-europe/

I just helped to stop #CensorshipMachines that would filter ALL of our online content. You too can help too #SaveYourInternet: http://d.shpg.org/417205234t Contact your #EU representative before 20 June!

Takes just a few short minutes to take a stand.

#OpenWeb #Copyright #Blogging #LiveStream #Memes #Article13 #Activism

Jesse is Digital Director of the #Mozilla Foundation. Here's his personal view on #Github https://medium.com/@jessevondoom/microsoft-is-buying-github-and-the-sky-still-hasnt-fallen-cfc79fa6a320

Timely: Critical thinking and Tribalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjRf8C8XmFs

"Mozilla, which counts online #privacy as a top priority, is making a number of moves to improve privacy and to make it harder for websites to run roughshod over us."

"There are a number of changes coming to put websites in their place, all due to arrive in #Firefox by the end of September"

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-will-stop-hiding-important-privacy-feature-tracking-protection/

@strypey @wakest seen this? https://github.com/lukebarnard1/journal

#Matrix app #Riot getting an overhaul. Captain obvious: "The current Riot interface felt too busy — there is a fair amount of cognitive load for a new users to understand what everything in the UI is and how to navigate around"

https://medium.com/@RiotChat/a-sneak-peek-at-a-whole-new-riot-im-1114df653782

A stack of #RemoteWorking roles were just added to #Mozilla's #careers page. Work in #FOSS

- Senior #Cryptography #Engineer
- Senior #SpiderMonkey Engineer
- Junior #DataAnalyst
- Infrastructure Engineer Manager
- #IT #Operations Engineer
- Senior #ProductManager
- Senior Cloud #Security Engineer
- #Firefox #ProjectManager
- Senior #ProductDesigner
- #UX Designer

https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/

If you're like me, you had hundreds of #GDPR emails that you never read, with the clear intention of using it as a moment to reset the noise from your inbox and regain control.

You could truly feel their tangible panic, right?

This message from #Mozilla today made me smile, that good smile reserved for when something is simply done right with little fanfare.

This paper is 🔥

Crowdsourced counter-surveillance. Motorists banding together to tell everyone where speed traps and random breath testing is happening.

Check the #OpenAccess Surveillance publishing journal too. More of stuff like that please!! 👩🔬

https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/6402

@peter for any readers in the USA be sure to add your name to ACLU's petition on this topic - Amazon selling facial recognition surveillance tech to Governments:

https://www.aclu.org/amazon-stop-selling-surveillance

@polychrome @kensanata https://fediverse.network/ perhaps?

#MaaStodon closes 😢
https://maastodon.net/

#Firefox #Nightly desktop testing new #bookmarks sync engine. Enable from behind a pref in `about:config`

"In a fun turn of events, the strategy that we initially rejected.. was the strategy we implemented."

Test all the things!!

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/05/14/deep-dive-new-bookmark-sync-in-nightly/

"Toward the aftermath, the main question is What will be left of advertising—and what it supports—after the adtech bubble pops?"

"Adtech is built to undermine the brand value of all the media it uses"

"Adtech spies on people and violates their privacy. By design."

https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/

Instance building. My priority now: Code of Conduct.

FINALLY - setting up a #Mastodon instance. Can't be arsed going DIY so I've headed to a hosted option.

There's 2 great options I've seen available - MaaStodon and Mastohost.

Know of any others?

If you use any of these, what's the experience been like? Any glaring problems with federating and discoverability on a small #instance?

Especially keen to hear from those who'd consider yourself non-technical.

Google Suite/Drive/Docs & Microsoft office alternative: #GraphiteDocs

#GPL3 #OpenSource license #blockstack based #decentralized #distributed #E2EE

#DiscoverOpen #Graphite
https://www.graphitedocs.com/

Any #OpenStreetMap fan will buzz seeing the #OSM projects taking advantage of #Mozilla's network for Global Sprint (aka #MozSprint) May 10-11

@octobyte's Open Transport project (bonus points for resisting over on Gitlab)
https://gitlab.com/opentransport/directory

Open Data Kit #ODK transfers fieldpapers into digital. Tremendous help in locations where getting online can be tough!
https://forum.opendatakit.org/t/participating-in-the-mozilla-global-sprint/12567

#Crowd2Map who expand on #FGM project w/ #MachineLearning over donated Tanzania data
https://crowd2map.wordpress.com/2018/0