Notices by HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social), page 7

HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2017 12:26:47 EST HN Tooter

Tech workers flee US, blame Trump
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/12/03/tech-reverse-migration-rivers-pkg.cnn
(submitted by mjfern)
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1. Tech workers flee US, blame Trump - CNN Video
  
  from CNN
  
  President Trump's anti-immigrant stance is leading some in the United States tech industry to leave the country and return to their homeland. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2017 12:25:54 EST HN Tooter

People Are Getting Robocalls About Their “Derogatory” Trump Posts
https://gizmodo.com/people-are-getting-robocalls-about-their-derogatory-t-1820819203
(submitted by fraqed)
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1. People Are Getting Robocalls About Their "Derogatory" Trump Posts [Updated]
  
  from Gizmodo
  
  Brett Vanderbrook was driving for Uber last week when he got a call from an unfamiliar number. He let it go to voicemail and when he listened to it later, he got a shock: It was a recorded message telling him to stop making “negative and derogatory posts about President Trump.”
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 16:45:55 EST HN Tooter

Man charged with threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Katko over 'net neutrality'
http://www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2017/11/us_rep_katko_faces_death_threat_over_net_neutrality_us_attorneys_office_says.html
(submitted by LeoJiWoo)
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1. Syracuse man charged with threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Katko over 'net neutrality'
  
  from NewYorkUpstate.com
  
  "But if you don't support net neutrality, I will find you and your family and I will kill... you ... all," Patrick Angelo allegedly said in a voicemail.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 15:03:55 EST HN Tooter

The destruction of graduate education in the United States
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3542
(submitted by lisper)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 11:35:36 EST HN Tooter

Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler
https://2ton.com.au/sshtalk/
(submitted by mabynogy)
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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2017 18:39:44 EST HN Tooter

A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/26/a-majority-of-millennials-now-reject-capitalism-poll-shows/?utm_term=.0928c56dd2f3
(submitted by rbanffy)
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1. A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
  
  from Washington Post
  
  The results are startling but line up with previous research on this subject.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 20:06:12 EST HN Tooter

Sen. Rubio: After Tax Cut to Rich, GOP Will Cut Social Security and Medicare
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-gop-social-security-20171130-story.html
(submitted by basicplus2)
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1. Sen. Rubio tells a secret: After giving a tax cut to the rich, GOP will cut Social Security and Medicare
  
  from latimes.com
  
  Sen, Marco Rubio revealed the GOP's master plan to gut the middle class--after the tax cut for the rich, it plans to cut Social Security and Medicare.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 18:25:32 EST HN Tooter

Over 76% of Arch Linux packages are now reproducible builds
http://vdwaa.nl/arch/linux/reproducible/builds/security/reproducible-builds-arch/
(submitted by nwah1)
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  Reproducible Arch Linux?!
  
  from Jelly's Blog
  
  The reproducible build initiative has been started a long time ago by Debian and has been grown to include more projects. Arch is now also in the process of getting reproducible build support, thanks to the of hard work of Anthraxx, Sangy, and many more volunteers. In pacman git patches where landed to support reproducible builds which will be included in a hopefully soon next stable release! Meanwhile with help of the reproducible-builds.org rebuild infrastructure rebuilds have been started!
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 14:15:56 EST HN Tooter

Nanobox is now free for developers
https://news.nanobox.io/new-nanobox-pricing/
(submitted by sanderson1)
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1. Nanobox's New Pricing – Free For Developers
  
  from Nanobox News
  
  A major update to the Nanobox pricing model that brings free individual accounts, updated team and business account options, and paid support options.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2017 22:25:40 EST HN Tooter

As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support, and this is what happened
http://plumshell.com/2017/11/30/as-a-solo-app-developer-i-decided-to-offer-phone-support-and-this-is-what-happened/
(submitted by NonUmemoto)
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1. As A Solo Developer, I Decided To Offer Phone Support, And This Is What Happened | Plumshell
  
  from plumshell
  
  This year, around February, I started offering telephone support for Taxnote, which I hadn’t done up until then, because the idea made me anxious. I intended to quit if, at any time, I thought it was tough for me to do; but, so far, I have continued with it for over half a year, so I’ll update you on the things I’ve learned from doing it. I wrote my phone number in the help section of the Japanese version only, since I live in Japan and it is a JP number. I might try it in English too in the future, if I can make it work with an international calling facility like Skype. How often do I get calls? For the time being, my telephone number is written on the help section of the Taxnote accounting application, and the recently released text-to-speech application named Voicepaper. For example, when it comes to Taxnote, when you tap on the “Help” section on the settings screen, it shows “Inquiry by phone call” right at the top; in other words, it’s made so that people who go to the help
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2017 00:15:43 EST HN Tooter

Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II
https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/
(submitted by codq)
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  Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II
  
  By Ben Thompson from Stratechery by Ben Thompson
  
  Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2017 22:25:31 EST HN Tooter

Wikimedia doesn't support Net Neutrality
https://www.accessnow.org/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-wikimedia-turns-its-back-on-the-open/
(submitted by bifrost)
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1. Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality: Wikimedia turns its back on the open internet
  
  By Raegan MacDonald from Access Now
  
  Wikipedia’s vision is “a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.” It’s a value that we at Access share. So we were shocked last week when the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports and hosts Wikipedia, turned its back on the greatest driver of open access to information the world has ever known, the open internet.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 08:15:55 EST HN Tooter

O’Reilly Free Data Ebook Archive
http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/archive.html
(submitted by sus_007)
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1. Free Data Ebook Archive - O'Reilly Media
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 03:55:57 EST HN Tooter

There’s Now a Dark Web Version of Wikipedia
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4g4b/theres-now-a-dark-web-version-of-wikipedia-tor-alec-muffett
(submitted by hbcondo714)
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1. There’s Now a Dark Web Version of Wikipedia
  
  from Motherboard
  
  People living under censorious regimes can use it to surf Wikipedia.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2017 15:23:22 EST HN Tooter

The internet already lost its neutrality
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/11/23/commentary/world-commentary/internet-already-lost-neutrality/#.WhnNEGKIbDs
(submitted by noncoml)
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1. The internet already lost its neutrality
  
  By Megan Mcardle from The Japan Times
  
  The internet already lost its neutrality
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2017 13:45:40 EST HN Tooter

Nationalize the internet
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/nationalize-internet-net-neutrality/
(submitted by ourmandave)
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1. Nationalize the internet
  
  By Brendan Gallagher from The Daily Dot
  
  Nationalize the internet
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2017 12:35:57 EST HN Tooter

Free online courses from top universities
http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
(submitted by andrevoget)
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  1,300 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
  
  By Dan Colman from Open Culture
  
  Download 1,300 free courses from Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and other great universities to your computer or mobile device. Over 45,000 hours of free audio & video lectures.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 11:05:52 EST HN Tooter

Cloudflare Might Be Exploring a Way to Slow Down Ajit Pai's Home Internet Speed
https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/933490344624304130
(submitted by sus_007)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 12:42:38 EST HN Tooter

An Open Letter to the FCC – New York State AG Eric Schneidermann
https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a
(submitted by throwanem)
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1. An Open Letter to the FCC: – Eric Schneiderman – Medium
  
  from Medium
  
  Dear FCC Chairman Ajit Pai:
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 13:25:14 EST HN Tooter

Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled
https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/
(submitted by kshatrea)
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1. Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled
  
  By Keith Collins from Quartz
  
  Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t used any apps, and haven’t even inserted a carrier SIM card?
  
  Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected to the internet, a Quartz investigation has revealed.
  
  Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones have been collecting the addresses of nearby cellular towers—even when location services are disabled—and sending that data back to Google. The result is that Google, the unit of Alphabet behind Android, has access to data about individuals’ locations and their movements that go far beyond a reasonable consumer expectation of privacy.
  
  Quartz observed the data collection occur and contacted Google, which confirmed the practice.
  
  The cell tower addresses have been included in information sent to the system Google uses to manage push notifications and messages on Android phones for the past 11 months, according to a Google spokesperson. They were never used or stored, the spokesperson said, and the company is now taking steps to end the practice after being contacted by Quartz. By the end of November, the company said, Android phones will no longer send cell-tower location data to Google, at least as part of this particular service, which consumers cannot disable.
  
  “In January of this year, we began looking into using Cell ID codes as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance of message delivery,” the Google spokesperson said in an email. “However, we never incorporated Cell ID into our network sync system, so that data was immediately discarded, and we updated it to no longer request Cell ID.”
  A cell-tower location sent to Google from an Android device. (Obtained by Quartz)
  It is not clear how cell-tower addresses, transmitted as a data string that identifies a specific cell tower, could have been used to improve message delivery. But the privacy implications of the covert location-sharing practice are plain. While information about a single cell tower can only offer an approximation of where a mobile device actually is, multiple towers can be used to triangulate its location to within about a quarter-mile radius, or to a more exact pinpoint in urban areas, where cell towers are closer together.
  
  The practice is troubling for people who’d prefer they weren’t tracked, especially for those such as law-enforcement officials or victims of domestic abuse who turn off location services thinking they’re fully concealing their whereabouts. Although the data sent to Google is encrypted, it could potentially be sent to a third party if the phone had been compromised with spyware or other methods of hacking. Each phone has a unique ID number, with which the location data can be associated.
  
  The revelation comes as Google and other internet companies are under fire from lawmakers and regulators, including for the extent to which they vacuum up data about users. Such personal data, ranging from users’ political views to their purchase histories to their locations, are foundational to the business successes of companies like Facebook and Alphabet, built on targeted advertising and personalization and together valued at over $1.2 trillion by investors.
  Cell-tower locations collected and sent to Google from an Android phone with location services turned off and carried in Washington, DC. (Obtained by Quartz)
  The location-sharing practice does not appear to be limited to any particular type of Android phone or tablet; Google was apparently collecting cell tower data from all modern Android devices before being contacted by Quartz. A source familiar with the matter said the cell tower addresses were being sent to Google after a change in early 2017 to the Firebase Cloud Messaging service, which is owned by Google and runs on Android phones by default.
  
  Even devices that had been reset to factory default settings and apps, with location services disabled, were observed by Quartz sending nearby cell-tower addresses to Google. Devices with a cellular data or WiFi connection appear to send the data to Google each time they come within range of a new cell tower. When Android devices are connected to a WiFi network, they will send the tower addresses to Google even if they don’t have SIM cards installed.
  
  “It has pretty concerning implications,” said Bill Budington, a software engineer who works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for digital privacy. “You can kind of envision any number of circumstances where that could be extremely sensitive information that puts a person at risk.”
  
  The section of Google’s privacy policy that covers location sharing says the company will collect location information from devices that use its services, but does not indicate whether it will collect data from Android devices when location services are disabled:
  
  When you use Google services, we may collect and process information about your actual location. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP address, GPS, and other sensors that may, for example, provide Google with information on nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points and cell towers.
  
  According to the Google spokesperson, the company’s system that controls its push notifications and messages is “distinctly separate from Location Services, which provide a device’s location to apps.” Android devices never offered consumers a way to opt out of the collection of cell tower data.
  
  “It is really a mystery as to why this is not optional,” said Matthew Hickey, a security expert and researcher at Hacker House, a security firm based in London. “It seems quite intrusive for Google to be collecting such information that is only relevant to carrier networks when there are no SIM card or enabled services.”
  
  While Google says it doesn’t use the location data it collects using this service, its does allow advertisers to target consumers using location data, an approach that has obvious commercial value. The company can tell using precise location tracking, for example, whether an individual with an Android phone or running Google apps has set foot in a specific store, and use that to target the advertising a user subsequently sees.

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