The book that is mandatory reading at every data collection and aggregation company
@cypnk People should not be surprised that this is happening - after all, this is just a small deviation from expected behavior. Some might even find it cool/entertaining. The bigger problem is that these devices can literally do whatever they want, they can listen, monitor, locate, collect, do statistics, upload and download everything, install unwanted updates, hell they could even be programmed to overheat some circuits and burn down the house. All WE can do is trust Google... #FuckOffGoogle
@switchingsocial
Most "ethical" alternative to Internet connected wiretaps that always listen is nothing.
Go start your music and look your shit up yourself.
If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years
"Amazon staff have called on CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement and government agencies, due to the potential that the tech is used to "harm the most marginalized." This follows similar demands from Microsoft employees and Google workers over those companies' contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Defense, respectively."
Working people are the last bastion of ethics under capitalism.
Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17347560
#hackernews #tech
«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html
'The pitch by various ancestry operations is to send in your DNA by spitting into a vile and they will tell you your ethnic background. Sounds nice, but they then keep it. Why?'
'The danger presented is if you “voluntarily” give up your DNA, they can argue you “waived” all your rights'
'insurance companies are NOTORIOUSLY dishonest' 'These companies change their policies all the time'
Want a quick feel for the future of Web publishing?
1. npm install -g dat
2. Ask friend to install Beaker Browser (https://beakerbrowser.com/install/)
3. mkdir mysite && cd mysite && echo "Hello, world!" >> index.html
4. dat share
5. Ask friend to open the DAT URL you’re given in Beaker Browser. They’ll see the index page with “Hello, world!”
So, should I rather trust a VPS provider or a VPN service? This is here the questions.
Tbh, it was quite easy to set up your own openVPN service on a VPS.
I forget where I read it but someone summed it up perfectly when they said "Windows subsystem for Linux is like leasing land from Satan to build a church."
https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub
#microsoft acquires github? check out #gitpub - https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub a #federated #web #git
By all means, #movingtogitlab-dot-com does not solve the problem GitHub has (centralization), and moving to a privately hosted GitLab re-introduces the problem GitHub mostly solved (separation).
#GitPub is trying to solve this problem by defining a federation protocol for git services: https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub
This is a note to people moving their repositories blindly to Gitlab.org: do you know Google is actually a huge investor in Gitlab?
The issue is not about Microsoft buying Github. The issue is about centralization and silos.
You do not solve that by moving your data from one silo to another.
You solve that by relying on small providers you can trust, or by becoming a provider yourself.
