ばねちゃん 🏴☠️ @bane@librem.one
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How to Protect Your Business and Yourself from Formjacking #security
https://medium.com/@trothaar/how-to-protect-your-business-and-yourself-from-formjacking-bd166c41fe88
Google Is Finally Copying Apple’s Approach to Privacy #security
https://onezero.medium.com/google-is-finally-copying-apples-approach-to-privacy-b9f612475080
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No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.
You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.
It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.
"Arch Linux can now also be installed and used in Windows 10"
wew lad
Seaweed “bioreactor” on the Space Station can produce oxygen for astronauts #technology
Baidu, the Chinese tech giant, can clone your voice using 3.7 seconds of audio. #technology
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On a more serious note.
Browsers + the web are mutually causing the degradation of each other. It can't be undone. Why would you want to support that?
The web is always supporting new questionable protocols/frameworks/standards and what not, and I have to make the choice as a user. Do I use a browser that supports all those, several hundred megabytes in size, and as secure as walking naked in the street? Or do I reduce my attack area, on the immediate expense of usability? One simple extension, noscript, is all it takes to break 80% of the surface web. If I try to harden my profile a bit in about:config to avoid some fingerprinting, even those that survived noscript get broken. So what do I choose?
Like hell. Why would I need http referrals to post on 8chan and why on hell is there no alternative to Google's captcha on 4chan. And I mentioned those image boards because their interfaces are extremely simple text-based ones that should not break. They should be the first to accommodate for a simplified web experience.
That is the web's part in this shitty foot-stomping dance. Browsers in return are all projects so big, supporting and patching up so many broken web "features"*, that there's no chance for a FOSS newcomer to produce a browser designed well from ground up while still supporting current web.
* Google takes a big part of the blame here, using underhanded methods to swallow up the browser market like always adopting new standards that break compatibility before the entire web agrees to use them, producing a never ending game of cat and mouse that fills the web with half-baked solutions.
The options I have are being either text based ones, AI-ridden botnet gateway with 15M lines of code, barely trusted but hyper-suplorted sjw furry project, hardly functional safari clones, or forks of the above.
Firefox may sound to many (incl. Me) like the better option. But that speaks volumes of how broken the web is when the best option is "awful, but less shitty than the others." Not by merit even, mind you, it's just by the sheer number of development/support workforce behind it.
So even if a superior well designed FOSS solution with large resources pops up, the devs will have to make the choice; Get caught up in this endless chase to get some crumbs out of the competition, or fight against this spiral and end up being swallowed into obscurity as your project gets deprecated by the ever changing web. Only very niche group of users will daily your browser then, those who don't mind a broken web experience.
Fork the web.
It's a harder solution. By forking I don't mean forking the frontends. I mean using the existing infrastructure to create your solution from ground up. Something modern, scalable, and better designed. Make the switch seamless and reproduce popular websites in your format. The network is already here, the infrastructure is too big to fight against. The best way is to offer a better, working mirror to it. One that does not compromise on usability, access of information, or performance, but offers a secure better designed alternative.
Offer compatibility as optional, and make conversions to "legacy" web happen on the client side.
The only way for this solution to work is with a huge community undertake, or the backing of a large company with their own interests. It's just likely never gonna happen.
Browsers + the web are mutually causing the degradation of each other. It can't be undone. Why would you want to support that?
The web is always supporting new questionable protocols/frameworks/standards and what not, and I have to make the choice as a user. Do I use a browser that supports all those, several hundred megabytes in size, and as secure as walking naked in the street? Or do I reduce my attack area, on the immediate expense of usability? One simple extension, noscript, is all it takes to break 80% of the surface web. If I try to harden my profile a bit in about:config to avoid some fingerprinting, even those that survived noscript get broken. So what do I choose?
Like hell. Why would I need http referrals to post on 8chan and why on hell is there no alternative to Google's captcha on 4chan. And I mentioned those image boards because their interfaces are extremely simple text-based ones that should not break. They should be the first to accommodate for a simplified web experience.
That is the web's part in this shitty foot-stomping dance. Browsers in return are all projects so big, supporting and patching up so many broken web "features"*, that there's no chance for a FOSS newcomer to produce a browser designed well from ground up while still supporting current web.
* Google takes a big part of the blame here, using underhanded methods to swallow up the browser market like always adopting new standards that break compatibility before the entire web agrees to use them, producing a never ending game of cat and mouse that fills the web with half-baked solutions.
The options I have are being either text based ones, AI-ridden botnet gateway with 15M lines of code, barely trusted but hyper-suplorted sjw furry project, hardly functional safari clones, or forks of the above.
Firefox may sound to many (incl. Me) like the better option. But that speaks volumes of how broken the web is when the best option is "awful, but less shitty than the others." Not by merit even, mind you, it's just by the sheer number of development/support workforce behind it.
So even if a superior well designed FOSS solution with large resources pops up, the devs will have to make the choice; Get caught up in this endless chase to get some crumbs out of the competition, or fight against this spiral and end up being swallowed into obscurity as your project gets deprecated by the ever changing web. Only very niche group of users will daily your browser then, those who don't mind a broken web experience.
Fork the web.
It's a harder solution. By forking I don't mean forking the frontends. I mean using the existing infrastructure to create your solution from ground up. Something modern, scalable, and better designed. Make the switch seamless and reproduce popular websites in your format. The network is already here, the infrastructure is too big to fight against. The best way is to offer a better, working mirror to it. One that does not compromise on usability, access of information, or performance, but offers a secure better designed alternative.
Offer compatibility as optional, and make conversions to "legacy" web happen on the client side.
The only way for this solution to work is with a huge community undertake, or the backing of a large company with their own interests. It's just likely never gonna happen.
This doesn't look so bad tbqh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmzyj-ovkg
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Arnold's Laws of Documentation:
(1) If it should exist, it doesn't.
(2) If it does exist, it's out of date.
(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
(1) If it should exist, it doesn't.
(2) If it does exist, it's out of date.
(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
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On this day in 1917, at Bullecourt in Northern France, Lieutenant Rupert Moon led an attack on an enemy strong point and was wounded four times before he agreed to retire. For his actions he was awarded the Victoria Cross. #history
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-California) called on his fellow members of Congress to ban cryptocurrency purchases within the United States. #economy
Authorities say Ever AI in San Francisco, California trained its facial recognition model using photos that were uploaded to its app without users' consent, which is likely illegal. #security
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In the previous ruling, a California judge decided that both face and finger biometrics are protected.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/#4a967c1842b7
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https://hydra-editor.glitch.me
"Hydra is a platform for live coding visuals, in which each connected browser window can be used as a node of a modular and distributed video synthesizer".
@4chan Please could I have a response to the email I sent last week? This is a serious matter, one which I will escalate through legal recourse if I do not receive a satisfactory reply by return. Your cooperation is appreciated.
@moonman "Hi! I just wanted to let you know, because of the lack of moderation policy and because I am a massive fucking retard, I don't accept followers from Shitposter.club. Sorry about that!
If you want to follow me, feel free to fuck off from the one you choose to join and account on any instance that has moderation."
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RT @oliviasolon@twitter.com
Surveillance capitalism’s new normal: lure unsuspecting consumers to give you their photos with warm and fuzzy branding & then use those photos without informed consent to train face recognition tech you market to police and military https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/millions-people-uploaded-photos-ever-app-then-company-used-them-n1003371
Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-on Outage #security
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/
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- Dallas, TX
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Joined May 2019
