Notices by Micah Lee 🔑 (micahflee@mastodon.social), page 9

@Xyc0 what do you mean minimum character length?

@js maybe Stallman being the ultimate decider for the GNU project isn't a good thing for the free software movement

@oshwm @kittybecca

Can you explain how requiring community members to pledge to make a

"harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation"

will result in

"huge amounts of pain for innocent bystanders"

? 🤔

@publicvoit @savanni

When projects are hostile to creating a mechanism to ban assholes, it just makes it clear to people who will likely get abused -- who often are very talented and could contribute a lot -- to steer clear of that project.

When a bunch of white guys act like the status quo is great and we shouldn't fix what isn't broken, it kind of makes sense why diversity in open source communities is so shit https://www.wired.com/2017/06/diversity-open-source-even-worse-tech-overall/

@publicvoit @savanni

The purpose of a CoC is for projects and communities to have a clear policy of what type of behavior is unacceptable and will get you kicked out. It's not "common sense", considering abusive behavior is so rampant -- and often the most abusive people are even celebrated (Jake Appelbaum, John Draper, etc.).

Kindly reminding them of their manners is a joke when they can just ignore you without consequence

@JordiGH @kmicu

I wonder if RMS is aware that Guix has a CoC. Probably not, considering he's taken a public anti-CoC stance

I just learned that Richard Stallman doesn't like codes of conduct. Disappointing but not really surprising

@maiki that's a good question, I haven't used this on Android in a long time so I'm not sure. If mobile is necessary, probably I'd use Conversations and get the other side to use an OMEMO client

Snowden wrote an excellent profile of Malkia Cyril, founder of the Center for Media Justice and cofounder of Media Action Grassroots Network.

Edward Snowden on Protection Activists Against Surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-edward-snowden-malkia-cyril-activist-surveillance/

Just re-read a 2015 article I wrote called Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched. It's about the tools and operational security involved with having an anonymous, encrypted conversation over the internet, under mass surveillance.

After over three years, it still stands up: https://theintercept.com/2015/07/14/communicating-secret-watched/

United Nations accidentally exposed passwords and other sensitive information to the whole internet by making Trello boards, Google Docs, and some sensitive bugs on Jira open to the public
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/24/united-nations-trello-jira-google-docs-passwords/

@codewiz oh maybe he's not aware of the encryption. But still, this is a totally legit reason to distrust Chrome. Data collection is rampant, and I don't like my browser doing it. It's an anti-feature, and he's concerned it'll get worse.

Btw, I haven't looked recently, but at least a few years ago Google was collection Android users' wifi passwords without their knowledge or explicit consent
https://micahflee.com/2013/07/use-android-youre-probably-giving-google-all-your-wifi-passwords/

@codewiz I'm sure he knows the syncing is encrypted. It doesn't stop the fact that automatically opting you into sending data to Google is a privacy violation.

Information that most likely is logged by not encrypted is IP and timestamp every time you open a browser, ties to your Google account. Probably considerably more, too

"Why I’m done with Chrome" https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/

@rrix that poopfire emoji is amazing

@rrix heh I'm not sure. I wouldn't be surprised but I hadn't heard that before