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What if analytics services gave us clear measurements to make users spend less time on each task? If apps are solving problems for users, then users should not spend more and more time. requires ever more time because users are the products being sold

I recently stumbled upon the history of the Nazi promotion of automobiles. It turns out the Nazis loved cars, built the Autobahns, created VW, and promoted cars in general. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1 Henry Ford was also a huge fan of the Nazis and vice versa pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienc Italy's autostrade were built under Mussolini. Seems to be a lot of corrolation between fascism and promoting cars

I went hiking in the mountains near Vienna at the end of January and there were flowers blooming then. I thought it was a freak warm spell, but now after a month of Spring weather, it looks clear that this year Spring started at the end of January. This is in a place where Spring used to show up in April. is already here.

Enough is enough. If Congress can't bring meaningful reform to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, they should let it expire. act.eff.org/action/tell-congre

Schools need to slam the brakes on surveillance and think about what kind of dystopia they’re creating for their students. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/scho

promotes himself as a beneficial philanthropist these days, its key to remember that he was not a technical innovator. He innovated ruthless profiteering and marketing, selling his friend 's innovation and cutting him out of the deal

See the history of CP/M for early details
web.archive.org/web/2012062904

is proving to be quite -able, humans need to stay in charge, with only as an assistant:
"Hackers stuck a 2-inch strip of tape on a 35-mph speed sign and successfully tricked 2 Teslas into accelerating to 85 mph"
businessinsider.nl/hackers-tri

"The command line options we deserve" daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/02/20 - Why curl has so many options, why we can't change them and there will be more in the future. Should we add a (G)UI?

After more than ten years working to remove in software, I now see that tracking usage without tracking people is possible. Tracking is essential to , so is still full of moral hazards

One murky area of is what the do with the all the they inevitably collect. Big mirrors like mirrors.kernel.org/ have no apparent public . Purdue PLUG plug-mirror.rcac.purdue.edu/in and FAU ftp.fau.de/datenschutz post theirs

policies need not be dense legalese meant to confuse and obscure, @EFF's provides a well crafted, privacy promise for like minded organizations to adopt eff.org/dnt-policy

The CIA literally owned Crypto AG from 1970 on, pushing out weakened crypto systems and allowing them to read messages sent around the world.

washingtonpost.com/graphics/20

#infosec

"There was a popular idea that spying on your spouse was fair game...making it detectable was not a priority." Learn more about the fight against stalkerware from @evacide's keynote at @AppSecCali: twitter.com/AppSecCali/status/

free access to medical information is a moral imperative, is making this clear. publishing should be a requirement for medical research vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/

Without a moratorium or a ban, law enforcement agencies will continue to exploit technologies like Clearview’s and hide their use from the public. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/clea

Hey #fosdem, the #FSFE is hiring: We are looking for interns and trainees experienced in legal, policy or technical fields to join our team in our Berlin office.

fsfe.org/news/2020/news-202001

If you are interested, get in touch at our booth.

#publiccode #reuse #foss #floss #jobs

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