This is getting out of hand. https://pocketnow.com/axs-spyware-concert
"Recently, tech companies have come to a troubling consensus: that they can change your computer, remotely (and often silently) without your knowledge or permission."
https://puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-when-tech-takes-remote-control-without-your-permission/
How to fix your phone’s shitty portrait mode https://pocketnow.com/how-to-fix-your-phones-shitty-portrait-mode
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Consent Matters: When Tech Shares Your Secrets Without Your Permission
https://puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-when-tech-shares-your-secrets-without-your-permission/
I wrote a piece on the @purism blog on why consent is critical for #privacy, the tech industry's failure to get consent, and as a result how "Privacy has become the tattoo removal of the information age". https://puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-when-tech-shares-your-secrets-without-your-permission/
“@DuckDuckGo is a poster child for a future in which companies stand with their users and still make money...They counter the assumption that we’ve all been socialized to accept: that it is normal to hand over all your information." - EFF's @jenuhhveev https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/technology/duckduckgo-private-search.html
The #Zoom vulnerability timeline took from from "everybody raves about this and I wish my company used it" to "I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole" in about 5 seconds.
Jitsi Meet doesn't have any of these Zoom security issues, right?
https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5
9 Open Source Password Managers to Secure Yourself With https://fosspost.org/lists/open-source-password-managers
Photography and Linux
Hollywood has begun to embrace open source. #FOSS photography software, like Linux itself, is quietly making in-roads in the professional photo industry. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/photography-and-linux
This is still the most useful #css website ever written https://learnlayout.com/
Can I buy a phone that doesn’t use anything from Google or Apple? #privacy #libremone #librem5
If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. Richard Stallman
How many user tracking scripts do you think this blog post about how "Superhuman is spying on you" has? https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2019/06/superhuman-is-spying-on-you
@nextcloud Oh good! Is there a pre-configured SD card image available to download, burn, and plug in?
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