keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
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Stolen from bird site screenshot w/o description:
"The #COVID lockdown has demonstrated 3 things:
* Our economy collapses as soon as it stops selling useless stuff to over-indebted people
* It is perfectly possible to reduce pollution
* The lowest paid people in the country are essential to its functioning"
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I enjoyed this article: Is Google Dying? Or did the Web grow up? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/google-search-algorithm-internet/661325/
@mntmn finally upgrade from my 7" eeepc
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#StreetComplete's new alpha now has support for a #layers, i.e. map #overlay's that enable only specific quests in a very convenient way!
Read more also about the history of that feature in #westnordost's blog:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/westnordost/diary/399378
Feel free to test it out and report bugs!
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Do you authenticate to various websites with your Github, Google or Facebook account? Be careful, if you get blocked by these companies, there's virtually no recourse and you might have a serious problem!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/big-tech-accountability/
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Imagine if YouTube was shut down.
It would be a literal tragedy for the human race. Billions of hours worth of creativity would disappear in an instant.
"That would never happen!" some believe.
But it already has.
Remember Google+? All of it's gone forever.
Or remember all that media stored on MySpace? It's vanished.
We must stop depending on Big Tech to archive our data. Their mandate is to profit off our data, not preserve it.
@Gina what are you putting in the invisalign trays for the whitening?
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10 years ago Tor Books dropped DRM on all their ebooks.
Tor's still publishing books without DRM and doing just fine.
@kinetix so it seems, sadly
Tim Hortons app found to have significant privacy violations.
"The app also used location data to infer where users lived, where they worked, and whether they were travelling. It generated an “event” every time users entered or left a Tim Hortons competitor, a major sports venue, or their home or workplace."
https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2022/nr-c_220601/
@kheya @snikket_im though desktop is still a weak point there
@kheya I've had most success with @snikket_im
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Is #duckduckgo your default search engine?
Then, if you use #OpenStreetMap a lot, you might find it interesting thing to know that there are #bangs focused on OSM that you can simply type in your browser's search bar
!osm <something> - search for "something" in OSM.
!osmw <something> - search the OSM wiki (very good results!)
!taginfo <something> check for taginfo data about tagas or key/key-value pair
!otw <something> data mining query with #Overpass
and more!
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Told you
RT @fightfortheftr@twitter.com
This is a geofence warrant. In this example, the FBI asked Google for the identifying information of all Android users who might have attended one particular Black Lives Matter protest in Seattle. Google coughed it up.
(Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr/status/1532057374244360192
@ehashman @needle@weirder.earth planet money covered this pretty well, not too long ago: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
Joined Jun 2019
