keverets @keverets@librem.one

Trying to move instances has made me realize how communication is controlled by fediverse instance admins, not users, to the users's detriment.

This is frustrating as picking an instance that some admins start to disagree with means that communication is cut off between users without them having a say.

Currently octodon.social and mastodon.technology block my main instance.

Email had its problems, but it is rare for admins there to decide who you can & can't email wholesale.

Counterpoint to "Humans are space orcs", Humans are adorable

Did you know that /e/OS users can enjoy @only_office fully integrated in our @Nextclouders instance at https://e cloud.global?
And this works flawlessly on mobile.
No more @google docs!

#mobile #OS #unGoogled #Android
#FOSS

We conducted a new technical analysis on the Ring doorbell app for Android. Ring is handing over customer data including names, private IP addresses, mobile network carriers, and persistent identifiers to third-party trackers.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers

BREAKING: We’ve confirmed that the Ring doorbell app on Android covertly shares personally identifiable information on its users with third-party companies, including Facebook.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers

The tools are maturing... enabling products built entirely on privacy-oriented decentralized platforms.

Iotex is a user-first home camera alternative to Nest, Ring, Wyze.

Built with decentralized identity and IPFS.

https://medium.com/iotex/how-we-built-the-worlds-first-truly-private-home-security-camera-4c4f97eb4b27

Thx @jennwrites@twitter.com for spotting!

These are baseless accusations of "cybercrimes."

The charges are “an obvious attempt to attack a free press in retaliation for the revelations we reported about Minister Moro and the Bolsonaro government.” - Glenn Greenwald

https://nytimes.com/2020/01/21/world/americas/glenn-greenwald-brazil-cybercrimes.html
.onion: https://nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2020/01/21/world/americas/glenn-greenwald-brazil-cybercrimes.html

Things which your project could use which immediately make me stop being interested in touching it at all:

- Google groups
- Bazaar
- LaunchPad
- SourceForge
- Slack

Don't use those things, thanks.

The idea that I am constantly under video surveillance at the store, walking on the sidewalk, going to school, driving or working:

(Choose the one that most applies.)

@kyle mastercard sells realtime transaction data: https://www.mastercardservices.com/en/data-analytics

There was some way to opt out per card, but you need to look that up.

Dear IETF: Are you fucking kidding me?
To get an RFC .txt file I must allow Cloudflare and Google tracking?

Are you serious? This is wrong on all OSI layers!

Tor Browser 9.0.4 is out now.

This release fixes a critical security issue in Firefox: CVE-2019-17026. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-904

"Off-by-one errors" isn't the easiest theme to build a party around, but I've seen worse.
https://xkcd.com/2248/

Enlightening look at the power of location data that almost everyone's phone is giving up constantly. Claims of anonymity debunked in chilling way:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

"Yet Another #Librem5 and #PinePhone Comparison" is an in-depth technical comparison of the two devices by #postmarketOS developer @martijnbraam

You can read it here: https://tuxphones.com/yet-another-librem-5-and-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/ #linux

Looking at #KDE Plasma Mobile and #PinePhone is giving me the sort of a glimmer of hope that I haven't felt in a long time as far as mobile anything is concerned.

I love your phone, @PINE64

This opt-in requirement is critical, and the precise thing tech orgs successfully lobbied to remove from the CCPA:

"As a first step, governments must enact laws to ensure companies including Google and Facebook are prevented from making access to their service conditional on individuals “consenting” to the collection, processing or sharing of their personal data for marketing or advertising."

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/