Notices by Linux Socialist (linuxsocist@icosahedron.website)

@RantingFeminist Anyway, welcome to the platforms! o/

@RantingFeminist That's good. Since 2017 I have been watching as wave after wave of people come on thinking that there's some kind of magical privacy feature or that it can offer some level of security.

It's just good practice to make people aware of that, in case they unintentionally reveal things didn't want to reveal.

@RantingFeminist You know that everything is public and each status may have a copy on a few dozen to a few hundred other servers?

@RantingFeminist Heyo! You should probably get a run down of how this network works. Also, some of the tech dates back to 2009.

'DIY Cybersecurity for Domestic Violence'
https://hackblossom.org/domestic-violence/

That beautiful time Unix made it to its 50th year while still being in use.

@LibertyPaulM Welcome to my world then.

@emerican I saw a breadcast highlight the other day and thought of "bread slice" for the highlights.

Yeah, what happened a day ago really did happen even though it doesn't seem like it should have happened.

@LibertyPaulM I thought the point of gaming was to have fun?

Fuck .exe's!

Amazon is an extension of the surveillance state as well as being an exploitative employer, NYC not bowing to them is a good thing.

Just a reminder, the game of monopoly was a left-wing creation.

@squirrel No doubt that I could keep listing things... like maps.

@squirrel
fediverse:
Public federated microblogging/social networks.

google:
Largest search provider.
Largest email provider.
Largest online video sharing service.
Has ads, fonts, javascript, etc.
embedded in millions of websites.
One of the most widely used document collaboration services.
Provides back end infrastructure for services like discord.
Embedded in almost every android phone with a number of things on the phone synced to their servers by default.
Maker of the most used browser.

@squirrel We're talking hole different classes of services here.

Just you wait until fascists get their hands on google's vast store of private data.

If you are Anti-Fascist you should be Anti-Google.