Luminiferous Aether @LuminousAether@mastodon.social

● NEWS ● #eff #letsencrypt #encryption ☞ #Certbot Leaves Beta with the Release of 1.0 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/certbot-leaves-beta-release-10

And on a related note, I think that the extent to which college is promoted as a path out of poverty to low-income people is criminal. The country has become far more educated in the past couple decades, but real wages haven't gone up since my parents were children. We just managed to convince people to pay for a degree that in many fields is nothing more than something to have on your resume as you apply to the same minimum-wage jobs you had before you started.

Fun fact: I'm making less now than I did working at the mall as a teen.

Anyone who says that a system built on suffering must continue because they also suffered and turned out fine did not, in fact, "turn out fine".

Excellent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU6CuSMzNus

I think the fediverse represents a reclamation of the internet by the people on it, away from the coroproations which try to steal it. We can have a second golden age.

Reject the capitalist internet, bring back the friendly neighborhood internet. Get your friends on here.

Don't be afraid to get weird with it. Let's get even weirder. And let's do it on _our_ platforms. The internet belongs to us.

Yes, it will be tremendously expensive to apply heavy trade sactions to China. But it was also tremendously expensive to liberate the slaves from the US south. Money never excuses moral failure.

we don’t like to admit but pluto was a victim of cancel culture.

let "I haven't thought this out yet" be an answer. it deserves to be one.

i pray everyday that stadia is such a fucking bust and shits the bed on day one and scorches the earth for streaming only game services forever but even that won't be enough to save this industry with the way things are going. it's fuckin scary.

i miss the 90's

@dankwraith @DissidentKitty Broadness used to be a central tenet of advertising. They are ignoring centuries of textbook common sense with micro targeting and they know it but they don’t have shiny Google blessed numbers to speak it.

the funny thing about all this is there is basically no evidence that data analytics transformed into personalized advertising actually affects profits. the advertising surveillance apparatus keeps chugging along purely because managers believe it does

What happens when you delete a docker-compose file?

It becomes docker-compost.

RT https://twitter.com/Puri_sm
The first Librem 5 smartphones are shipping https://puri.sm/posts/first-librem-5-smartphones-are-shipping/ “This is a big moment, not just for us as a company, but for everyone concerned about issues of privacy, security, and user freedom.” - Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of #Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen #Linux #GNOME

Brains are the last frontier of privacy

What's happening: Machines that read brain activity from outside the head, or in some cases even inside the skull, are still relatively limited in the data they can extract from wearers' brains, and how accurately they can interpret it.

But the tech is moving fast. We can now recognize basic emotional states, unspoken words and imagined movements — all by analyzing neural data.

https://www.axios.com/robotic-brains-data-technology-companies-6ba7269e-1553-4395-a6db-3560fead7e24.html

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#privacy
#science