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Google: Removes 'Don't Be Evil'
Me: The canary is gone, I repeat, the canary is gone.

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The real benefit of GDPR is I get emails reminding me of all the sites I have to delete my account on.
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I recommend PGP as often as I can. Thanks to this shitty journalists I've received a bunch of mails like "hue, PGP doesn't seem secure. Why were you lying?".

Thanks for nothing.

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"So, PGP is broken. We recommend to just send unencryptede-mails from now on. Thanks for your attention."

Great solution.

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Ah, they've published their paper, but the tl;dr seems to be: Don't use HTML mails. If you receive an encrypted HTML mail, don't load external ressources. It's a nice attack, sure, but not trusting HTML mails in the first place is hardly a novel concept. Details: efail.de/ #gpg #pgp

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Every day is #backup day. Borg Backup! Resistance is futile.

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Main effect of GDPR so far is getting fucking bombarded by google e-mails

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Mastodon tip: You can reply to your own toots. This won't put your username in the toot, but it /will/ mark your reply as part of a conversation.

Among other things, this makes it easier for others to follow what you're saying, if you're posting multiple toots in succession; all they have to do is click one toot and it'll expand the whole conversation thread.

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I'm scared as f*ck every time I see this message

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''The Inside Story of Reddit's Redesign

Goodbye, dystopian Craigslist. There's a new Reddit, and it's all grown up.' this is going to end up being a crappy Modern Web(TM) Design isn't it? I hate those.

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Oh no.

Oh this is gonna be BAD.

Millions of old registration forms are just going to be unfinishable now. Great. Good.

Google Finance is so great after the re-design. I mean finally, they listened!
More white-space everywhere! So great! Hopefully v3 will just make the entire page white-space

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Great blog post on Slack's "bait and switch".

opkode.com/blog/slacks-bait-an

"The reason email is federated, is because it was developed before surveillance capitalism was a thing and because it was established and entrenched long before these companies came around.

There's a reason why your email address is still the de facto way to sign up for any service on the web (sometimes with one or two degrees of separation), and it's because of federation."

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So, #quad9 is a #DNS provider with a memorable address, 9.9.9.9, much like one you probably already know and love. But it returns an error for known #malware domains, and has a no-IP-logging privacy policy. It's a nonprofit initially funded mostly with $25M in cash seized from online fraudsters and the like by law enforcement.

quad9.net/about/

I ... kinda trust the cops more than I trust $GOOG for my DNS, at this point, and considerably more than Comcast...

#infosec #blacklist #RBL

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Really liking the updates to
ssh agent! might have to try that out instead of gpg-agent for ssh keys

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