Sebastian @hinterwaeldler@mastodon.social

☝️ "You could see a lot of jaws dropping. That’s not a strategy — that’s just hoping things don’t go bad.”

☝️ "Employees worry that, should Signal fail to build policies and enforcement mechanisms to identify and remove bad actors, the fallout could bring more negative attention to encryption technologies from regulators at a time when their existence is threatened around the world." #signal #theverge

Long article about #signal, demanding moderation policies to avoid bad press:

https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging-employees-violence-misinformation

Occasionally, stories in "Humans of New York" make me cry a little: https://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/641197408909443100/before-she-passed-she-told-my-dad-that-she

They have an #RSS feed, I highly recommend subscribing to it. It reminds me of what's important in life. 🙂

#humansofnewyork

Fun: Rope has health indicator (Link to reddit, sorry):

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/l0j4tc/the_rope_tells_the_truth/

I found a nice #blog article on covert contracts:

Work: “If I review your code quickly then you’ll make it a priority to review mine.”
Parenting: “If we do a fun craft then you won’t pitch a hissy fit when I say no candy afterwards.”
Friendships: “If I don’t make fun of your weight then you won’t make fun of my height.”

https://critter.blog/2021/01/19/death-to-covert-contracts/

This high-res scan was fun to play around with indeed.

https://kottke.org/21/01/an-incredible-10-gigapixel-scan-of-girl-with-a-pearl-earring

Recordings of an #Obama-#Putin meeting that inexplicably also feature a guy preparing tea with a leather boot...?! (0:50) 👢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P1q3IDjBaI

#ipfs question: Governments can still try to take down individual nodes, just like they go after regular servers and #bittorrent nodes, right?

Hey #mastodon, remember to #boost posts that you like to give them some visibility! 🎉

"#Wikipedia is the first digital Wonder of the World"

That's a fitting title, I guess.

https://netzpolitik.org/2021/podcast-npp-219-wikipedia-ist-das-erste-digitale-weltwunder/

Hilarious: "Ivanka #Trump and Jared Kushner’s refusal to allow their Secret Service detail to use any of the bathrooms in their home forced the agents to look elsewhere in the neighborhood"

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/01/16/the-event

"The dirty secret is that there are two pandemics. While a quarter of America is food insecure and behind on rent, the shareholder class has experienced an explosion in net worth and spends less time commuting, more time with family and Netflix. "

- Scott Galloway on #corona #stimulus #stocks

https://www.profgalloway.com/the-great-grift/

PSA: Star Wars Battlefront 2 is currently available for free in the #Epic Games store! 🎮