Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardojmendez@mastodon.social

Just deleted the Google app from my phone due to an unwanted advertisement for a film sent to me via push notification. This is an abuse of the notification mechanism, and they should know better. Unfortunately it's becoming an all-to-common anti-pattern that is giving notifications a bad name.

Encryption can save lives. Here are our thoughts why encryption matters: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/encryption-mass-surveillance

Chris Webber, the co-editor of ActivityPub (which enables Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, etc.) is inventing the next generation protocol for decentralized social games & online collaboration.

It is really important work.

I am convinced that there are institutions out there that would give him a grant to work on this.

Foundations? Boston-area universities? If you know of one, please consider nominating him!

Please boost!

😂

Also, for the record, “will you be nice to Facebook and Google during the afternoon?” is the wrong question to ask one of your speakers. My role is to call out, not to coddle, multinational corporations that violate human rights when they’re being legitimised. #NordicPrivacyArena

“…You spoke about Privacy Settings. The setting you do not have is ‘private from Facebook, Inc.’ It seems to me the only honest presentation on Privacy at Facebook would be a single slide: ‘You have no privacy on Facebook.’ What are your thoughts on that?”

@ricardojmendez Yes, this looks like a bad one. I've shared this on our forum too, with the link to Hacker News discussion:

https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-dark-side-of-gdpr/2029/7

#HumaneTechNow

“‘Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have the same business model,’ says Balkan. ‘If Cambridge Analytica can sway elections and referenda with a relatively small subset of Facebook’s data, imagine what Facebook can and does do with the full set.’”

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-share-price-privacy
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/Xhu0iw-w7iv-npI2pA4
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/j--N5nlPXAyidSlRcg8

How to work at a saudi embassy

Funny that we seem to be going in circles.

The web started as a bunch of individuals running their own servers. Then things got professionalized, and we got the mostly benevolent, for-pay corporate services. Now that your data is more valuable than whatever meager subscription fee you're not going to pay for anyway, we're back to trusting the randos.

The plummeting server/software costs help, but it would be impossible without volunteer labor.

It behooves us to support the randos.

#mastodon

The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time.
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/human-brain-supercomputer-with-1million-processors-switched-on-for-first-time/

@ricardojmendez

Curiosity > Assumptions.

"A trick or treat!" he called with glee.
"A ghost, how cute!" they said.
He took the candy, but his treat
Was being seen, though dead.
The eve he could walk free.
#HalloweenPoem #SmallPoems