Reason why /e/OS blocks applications' trackers and web trackers (ads) by default and this is really serious actually 🧌
"Web Browsing Data Is ‘Serious Security Threat’ To U.S. And EU, New Reports Show" 👇👇👇
@ieure there's the sm-t290 if you can find it: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/gtowifi
41 American and Canadian companies trialed a 4 day work week in 2022. None has reported going back to working 40 hours a week.
Requirements: a tolerance for risk, and trust, creativity, and open-mindedness. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1207991399/4-four-day-work-week-manufacturing-work-life-balance
Former Amazon VP Ben Smith on admitting he was wrong to push for workers to return to the office several days a week: “As someone once asked me, ‘Have you ever noticed the only people in favor of RTO are people with large admin staffs and grown children?’ I had not, because that was me. Touche.”
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7127027218362335232/
@mhoye which EV did you choose?
Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.
@yaelwrites if only the "sworn" part could be codified. Have it part of their profiles the way "in a relationship with.." has been. "Sworn enemies with x, y, and z" would be handy and easy to scrape/automate.
Privacy Badger 2023.10.31 has been released for all supported browsers.
The new version blocks embedded Tweets by default, replacing them with click-to-activate placeholders.
This opt-in approach to loading external but potentially desirable widgets protects privacy while giving you control over when the widgets get to load.
To install Privacy Badger, visit https://privacybadger.org/.
The auto industry has even more contempt for your privacy than Big Tech, which is saying something. Now an appeals court has ruled that the car makers can intercept and sell your private information, and you can't do a damn thing about it.
https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy
Well, one thing: Don't hook up your phone to these sleazy companies' "entertainment" systems.
Erin’s *Meta in Myanmar* cultural-technical incident report is important and difficult reading.
Coming out of part 3, incandescently angry, Erin’s part 4 reflections on the vulnerabilities created by a culture of moving on to the do-over stopped me short.
I’m still working out how to apply the lessons to my own work.
Privacy Badger is causing a storm in the cloud. It's meaner than ever. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/privacy-badger-learns-block-ever-more-trackers
@Greg depending on what you're looking for, it's touched on briefly in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Thanksgiving . The historical portion can be seen in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjqTxqQJM2w
@unlofl @molly0xfff
The 3 authentication factors:
- Something you forgot.
- Something you left in the taxi.
- Something that can be chopped off.
@wjmaggos @railmeat @briankrebs @signalapp @matrix or alternatively #xmpp / @snikket_im which has OMEMO that's based on the same double-ratchet algorithm as Signal. It also bridges well to SMS and voice phones using jmp.chat (or similar Vonage/Twilio for non-US/Canada numbers)
Matrix has some nice features that XMPP lacks, but XMPP is still a well used and reasonable alternative.
AWS *may* be using some of your data to train its AI models. I’m hoping for a vigorous, prompt, and specific denial from Amazon, but just in case, here’s how to stop it: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/How-to-Stop-Feeding-AWSs-AI-With-Your-Data/
Huh.
"[Emily Calandrelli, aka The Space Gal] a paid influencer for the propane industry, according to Propane Education and Research Council (PERC) documents." -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Calandrelli#Career
Which links to: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/climate/climate-propane-influence-campaign.html
"Last August, Ms. Calandrelli appeared on local Houston network CW39 to malign electric bus technology as expensive, unreliable — and, where the electric grid is still powered heavily by coal and natural gas, not very clean." And then pumps propane.
Does this book exist?
"How Universities Lost the Internet"
or has someone done research on this topic? That is, the fact that on many North American universities have ceded all technical capacity to Microsoft, Google, etc?
It used to be students could get web hosting, email, and even some cool experimental online stuff through their schools. Now every online communication channel is locked down.