Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 31

Have a phone that is broken, screen and everything not working. So I want to recycle it. But I'm unsure the best way to clear the flash before turning it in at this point. Anyone know of a guide for clearing it without being able to turn it on?

@david_ross and... of course, someone has done most of it before: https://scotthelme.co.uk/securing-dns-across-all-of-my-devices-with-pihole-dns-over-https-1-1-1-1/

@david_ross that's interesting, I had only thought about PiHole as an Ad Blocker. Really is about the same thing. Thanks!

@david_ross I was thinking more about setting up a small DNS cache box (probably a RaspPi) on my network that would use it. Then everything on my network would have secure DNS.

Reality is that even if Firefox and CuRL support secure DNS, that's a small portion of the DNS requests coming from my network. Need to handle all the IoT, Electron Apps, etc. as well.

@david_ross Cloudflare seems to have the only endpoint that is available as a Tor Hidden Service, no? Do you know of any others of those?

Kinda wanted to set that up, but was worried about depending only on one DNS service.

I didn't know about the refugee camps that were attached to Northern encampments. Completely agree with the assessment that humanitarian issues trump politics. — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/08/04/civil-war-offers-surprising-insight-handling-asylum-seekers

Modern day version of The Music Man, except besides a fraud he's also a racist jerk. — https://www.dallasnews.com/news/farmers-branch/2018/08/03/farmers-branch-among-towns-whose-association-kansas-gubernatorial-candidate-cost-millions

@danrabbit ah, I see.

@danrabbit I've mistakenly pressed that in Firefox and I think it worked. Might be a place you can grep through.

@kensanata @freakazoid I'm curious if that'll be a generational difference. For my generation we never had enough hard drive space, so the idea of saving everything is exciting! For this generation they've seen posts and pictures used against their friends and have embraced technologies like Snapchat. I think their understanding of data lifecycle is going to be significantly different.

@scott that's interesting, is it possible to do something like that and also restrict the classroom shape to be square? It seems like that would result in designs that are more practically implementable.

Would be a powerful message if the Pope was to ex-Communicate him. — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/us/nebraska-death-penalty-execution.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

@lufthans I think this question comes down to building smaller communities that are connected together instead of larger instances. That way "outsiders" are noticed. It means that for to influence a community you have to infiltrate it. Which is time consuming and expensive. Which would significantly lower its effectiveness.

@lufthans there is a fair amount of legal ambiguity around running a federated server in general, not just with regards to GDPR.

For instance if a person that someone on your instance follows posts illegal content, and your instance caches that content, are you distributing the illegal content? What are your rights here? If you get a take down request what does that really mean, clear cache and hope it doesn't get posted again?

What I find more interesting is how people seem to be expecting ethical and moral leadership from these companies as well. Seems to me that they're starting to replace some functions of governments in their ability to set social policy. — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/business/apple-trillion.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

@lufthans my understanding is that the GDPR claims relevance if it is the data of a EU citizen that is being collected no matter where it is held or the company is from. But, this hasn't been tested.

@lufthans IANAL and all that, but my understanding is that if you don't have any data of any European citizens you aren't under GDPR. So if the network was only local to one country that would be fine.

@danrabbit ls

@lufthans first off, Wakanda forever!

I don't think that technical expertise is the limiting factor. I've met people from most of those countries that could setup and admin a Mastodon server. I think the issues are social.

They would first need to decide it is a problem. Then they could require gov't agencies to post on locally owned networks. And perhaps national sports team players when at international events. All that would drive up the importance of the local networks.

@Elizafox @chuck last week @aperezdc pointed me to this project about making weapons out of things found past airport security: http://terminalcornucopia.com/