Fidel Ramos @fidel@mastodon.social

Fascinating #culturewars on #YouTube (rabbit hole alert):
https://quillette.com/2018/12/20/pewdiepies-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-internet/

I've made a mock-up to illustrate my ideas about the next-gen terminal experience!

Featuring:
• the pathbar
• username, hostname and git branch displayed in the UI, shrinking the shell prompt back to just a $
• commands as cards
• syntax highlighting, including graying out the output a bit to differentiate it from commands themselves
• autocompletion (displayed in a native widget)
• built-in error handling options
• the time each command took (on the right)

How does #firefox Sync work? It's actually well made and respects your privacy. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

Holy shit

> Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Support to 10 Years

https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/canonical-extends-ubuntu-18.04-lts-linux-support-to-10-years.html

Signal is testing out a new feature that encrypts message metadata. Once it's widely deployed, their server will facilitate delivering messages but without having access to who is sending them

https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

As promised, version 1.0 of #PeerTube, a free and federated video platform, has just been released.

Thanks to all the people who supported this summer's crowdfunding.

This is only the beginning!

https://joinpeertube.org #JoinPeerTube

https://framablog.org/2018/10/15/peertube-1-0-la-plateforme-de-videos-libre-et-federee/ (article in English to come)

Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17347560
#hackernews #tech

Some of the coolest decentralization projects ever *EYELIDS WIDEN*

https://protocol.ai/projects/

#decentralization #p2p #IPFS #NoGoogle #NoFacebook

CVE-2018-1111
"A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP responses, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager which is configured to obtain network configuration using the DHCP protocol."

We really need a #FollowFriday meme on Mastodon. Here I go:

@zerohedge , @cypherpunk , @hntooter , @eff , @tripu , @torproject

“Three easy rules that keep ‘smart people from spreading dumb ideas’: don't share #news that doesn't have substantiating links, be wary of stories that perfectly confirm your pre-existing #biases, and (for god's sake!) always ask yourself why you're talking in the first place.”

https://feedpress.me/ReasonAudio ,
“How The Simpsons Fights Fake News”

If you aren’t using HTTPS Everywhere to protect your browsing, this is a great time to start: our new update changes how we deliver rulesets of HTTPS-supporting sites, ensuring you’ll see even more secure pages when they’re available.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/https-everywhere-introduces-new-feature-continual-ruleset-updates

I guess one thing I'm curious about is what arguments would be valid in making a case for #decentralization?

The ones I can think of are virtues of self-sufficency, resistance to censorship, agency for data ownership, ad-hoc communication between many peers, connecting together many spaces on the web, controlling who can see certain things that you post, and ability to examine/modify/share the code your data is hosted on.

If anyone has other arguments, I'd love to hear them! 😀