Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardojmendez@mastodon.social

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Support journalists' ability to talk to whistleblowers securely - work as an Associate Site Reliability Engineer.

Remote work OK, anywhere in the Americas.

Applicants from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-associate-site-reliability-engineer/

Deadline to apply is 4th November. They're happy to have short calls with you if you want to know more before you apply.

If you're a lead at a European studio, push your executives/HR to publish the percentage of devs who have opted out of the Working Time Directive.
Push to lower the percentage in order to attract more experienced devs looking for long-term careers. Show your studio understands crunch isn't sustainable.

Firefox is removing RSS features, but defaults to allowing third-party cookies.

Firefox, your priorities are wrong.

Remove the old RSS code, make it new. Block third-party cookies.

Or drop RSS like it was gopher+, and block third-party cookies.

Or ignore everything I've said and block third-party cookies.

And the next time you hear about a breach from these companies, know they mean that their data of their product (you) has been copied by other theives.

Unless the original data was destroyed (including offline backups), nothing was stolen.

Nothing was impacted.

#Privacy #Hacking #InfoSec

Identity Thieves that *copy* data from Surveillance companies are doing this same thing as those companies - using data of our lives against us without our input or control.

We should have control over our data.

This is a political issue.

Technology has only and will only continue to allow this surveillance at massive scale.

Vote, run for office, conduct civil disobedience (if you’re willing to face the consequences), call your representatives and hold them accountable.

#Privacy

Interesting read on why #Microsoft joined #OIN https://www.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-billions-android-patent-royalties-141047213.html TL;DR Microsoft is in a transition from a product company to a service company. With Azure they earn a lot of money these days with people running Free Software on their cloud platform. Which means that the threat of software patent interferes with the growth of their services business these days.

Evan Prodromou (who is the grandfather of federated microblogging, I don't think you wouldn't be here without them.) is hiring someone to work on ActivityPub software.

"If you want a (paying full-time permanent) job (with real human money) building #ActivityPub server software please DM me"

https://twitter.com/evanpro/status/1046926911111348229

#jobs #job #hiring

We are looking for a recent graduate to join our developer advocacy team based in London (UK). See details here: https://sec.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Samsung_Careers/job/Communications-House-Staines-Upon-Thames-United-Kingdom/Web-Developer-Advocate-GRADUATE_R6882 We actively seek a diverse pool of applicants, including those from historically marginalized groups. Come join us!

Yesterday, 26th of September was Stanislav Petrov Day.

A day to celebrate that you, me, everyone isn't nuclear vapour right now.
SP - disobeyed orders and military protocol, used his own thinking, and by doing so averted nuclear retaliation based on false alarms that would likely have caused a mass nuclear war in 1983.

Stanislav Petrov, often referred to as "The man who saved the world" died in December 2017

2018 will go down as the Year of the Bad Employer
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-09-27-2018-will-go-down-as-the-year-of-the-bad-employer
Telltale just the latest in a parade of game dev horror stories likely leading to unionization

Is there an open standard for sharing book highlights like Amazon’s proprietary Kindle highlight-sharing system?