Notices by Code Selfish (paul@social.device5.co.uk)

Facebook confirms its “standards” don’t apply to politicians.

Politicians are officially exempt from both hate speech rules and fact checking.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1574341

google> We must send you a text to verify it's you logging in

google> But we don't have your phone number. Please give it to us now so we can send you the text

me> This is very secure and not at all a poor attempt at harvesting my phone number

If you have followed the advice of @switchingsocial and are trying @GIMP after previously using Photoshop, you might find the different paradigms confusing.

If you get stuck how to do something, use the GIMP tag on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com to find an answer quickly:

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gimp

The docs also have some useful tutorials for common tasks:

https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

@bgcarlisle @typochon But normal subways are full of plebs.

Elon doesn't do plebs.

There's an interview where he lets slip that he thinks traveling on a bus will get you stabbed

@lapis boomkat.com, bleep.com, digital-tunes.net, 7digital.com are all great and sell lossless formats. Beatport.com also does lossless (mostly electronic stuff) but is expensive.

And finally check out bandcamp.com which usually pays the artists directly

old: Surveillance
new: Googly eyes

Facebook mass deletes protest groups and pages.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/12/cens-o12.html

Maybe think about not organising on Facebook?

I look forward to Google engineers twisting themselves in knots to tell us that actually when the average user wants to delete all their browsing history they prefer it if they still have ads based on invasive tracking follow them around the internet

Pixel owners realising Google can fully control their phones after battery saving mode was switched on remotely for many handsets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/9fkrvw/is_anyone_elses_power_saving_mode_turning_itself/e5xl907/

@frickhaditcoming Exactly. He's an attention-seeking bigmouth but when you look into what he's actually done/invented it's nothing:

Hyperloop: doesn't exist
Underground tunnel bullshit: doesn't exist
Mars colonies: doesn't exist
PayPal: wasn't a founder, just had his online bank bought by the company that would become paypal (and was removed instantly and replaced by Peter Thiel)
Tesla: He purchased an already-existing company
SpaceX: All design/engineering done by actual engineers (not musk)

Why “Q Anon” Proves that Trump Supporters are Actually Really Disappointed

https://kropotkhristian.tumblr.com/post/176494107321

Some Signal Disappearing Messages Are Not Disappearing

Check your messages. The issue is fixed for future messages but previous conversations may contain undeleted items

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj3pxd/signal-disappearing-messages-not-disappearing

I'm not worried about the future because I know music will unite humanity

I like the stagnation of progress on laptops.

It means it's more likely that there will be Thinkpad parts manufactured into the coming years

Silicon vallee, keep putting all your "innovation" into smartphones pls.

Sonic firewall to prevent your phone from receiving ultrasonic ad tracking from televisions

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/sonic_firewall/

sounds silly but: "According to TU Braunschweig research published last year, 234 Android applications that use ultrasonic beacons were found in the Google Play Store. "

Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio

The device recorded and sent a private conversation to a contact of the owner. When questioned Amazon support confirmed:

'Our engineers went through all of your logs. They saw exactly what you told us, exactly what you said happened, and we're sorry.'

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that-echo-device-secretly-shared-users-private-audio/

Nice.

"Parralel construction.

You pull the phone location records of everyone near a protest without a warrant (and no intention of using the location data in court) then you dig into them to find something unrelated to the protest you can nail them on.

That way you take out key players without it looking like a political crackdown."

CW: "Hacker" "News" link:

big news about companies selling your phone location data. Read this. It definitely affects you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684

Youtube launching a music streaming service?

Can't wait for it to start recommending nazi bands to children

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