Padraic Harley @pauricthelodger@mastodon.social

WTF https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg

Members of the CCC were raided as "witnesses" because they were collecting donations for RiseUp, an American e-mail provider, which some actual offender has used. Their tech was confiscated and some still not returned. WTF

Actual thing I wrote in an email today: "Your metrics reporting library is adding 6 seconds to your page load." 🤢

"Hi there I'm raising money to go to Africa and volunteer at an elephant sanctury can you donate anything for this wonderful cause?"

Idk maybe instead you could stay here and donate the cost of the plane ticket to the sanctury so they can pay local trained professionals instead of you crowdfunding to send your white teenaged self to bumble around on holiday patting elephants and speaking English at everyone

Chrome's private browsing is broken

This defeats the purpose of Incognito. If any website is able to tell you're browsing in private mode, then the browser is leaking data that shows it's not private

I need to rave about #Python.

One of my colleagues has deep knowledge about #GreenhouseGas calculations but doesn't write code, in any language. She was giving me instructions on how to perform a calculation, which I kept getting wrong. Frustrated, I just show her my Python code. She instantly recognises the error and tells me how to fix the code. This is the first time I show her Python.

Can *your* programming language do this?

tired: git diff

wired: whatever the fuck this is

The people who invented waste recycling systems probably get along great with Linux developers.

They actually expect average people to a) know what their rubbish is made of and b) care.

Yes, you can probably expect people to understand that if it's dirty it can't be recycled. People mostly understand the concept "dirty". But expecting them to know what all this packaging is made of? And which types are recyclable in which bin?

Doomed to fail. Forever. Sorry.

Make better recycling systems.

Find out how much your website costs someone to access on mobile networks around the world: https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/

We already know that automated content filters don't work. They put absolute power over content in the hands of a system that is opaque and broken.

A couple of days ago YouTube took down all of the Blender Foundation's videos from the Blender Foundation's channel due to a copyright claim by... the Blender Foundation.

The BF is an official YT partner, but days later they still cannot get a straight answer from YT about what is going on:

https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1007952844329189377

https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1008677459640881152

"Employees who practice mindfulness meditation are less motivated, having realized the futility of their jobs"
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/17/tune-in-turn-on-slack-off.html
https://social.coop/media/g36SsSaEZvh6N8pKQeI
#meditation #psychedelics #mindfulness #meaning

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/google-to-fix-location-data-leak-in-google-home-chromecast/

google home and chromecast have a vulnerability that lets remote attackers query the precise physical location of your wifi network. google marked it "wontfix, working as intended" because they care about your privacy and all that

It hadn't occurred to me until just now, that in addition to all the other disgusting #privacy violations #Google's "Connected Home" and "IoT" devices do to you, they can also simply use the devices to correlate your home's traffic online. E.g., even when logged out, with no cookies etc., google will be able to see who you really are because their device is on your LAN, seeing your computer make the DNS and HTTP requests they're seeing with their ad network. Ugh.
#humanrights #surveillance

Irish radio news today sounded like an advertorial for Amazon. No criticism of the company whatsoever allowed - just a glowing report about the benevolent US tech overlords gracing Ireland with a few hundred jobs.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0618/971353-amazon-web-services-jobs/

This is what a country that has sold its soul to Big Tech looks like.

It would appear that YouTube really doesn't like hosting popular videos unless they get some ad revenue off of it. This would explain the #blender situation as well as their changing of ad sharing requirements.

"You must be this popular to get ad revenue, but not too popular without ad revenue".

I think we figured out their sweet spot for how they monetize the service.

The plot thickens...
It seems Google may have taken down Blender's videos on YouTube because they wouldn't display ads for them.

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/

After the chaos over #YouTube's inexplicable takedown and enforced monetisation, Blender is now testing its own #PeerTube instance:

https://twitter.com/blender_org/status/1009077941676986368

#Alternatives #DeleteYouTube

Happy to see Blender looking at adopting PeerTube, the federated, peer to peer, ActivityPub-using video platform (especially because YouTube weirdly started blocking Blender's stuff in some countries) https://twitter.com/blender_org/status/1009077941676986368

BTW, PeerTube is currently running a crowdfunding campaign. They could use your help! https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform