RT @iNPUTmice@twitter.com
http://Quicksy.im user count has grown by more than 30% over the last two weeks.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iNPUTmice/status/1351613901104963592
Many of our followers are FOSS people, but for those who are not, WhatsApp now insists you share data with Facebook or delete the app. I say delete the app AND Facebook. We use #Signal on the farm, private, secure, open source!
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/
Zoom and Privacy...
https://www.ntd.com/zoom-shared-us-user-data-with-beijing_544087.html
"We should delicately and subtly undermine the idea that truth and facts are possible in the first place. Once people have become doubtful about the truth of anything, all kinds of things are open to us."
I am so impressed with how Pullman has, with the 20 year gap since the Golden Compass / #HisDarkMaterials, seamlessly updated the themes of his work to deal with today's pressing issues in The Secret Commonwealth.
@books
🎄🎄 Join your #fediverse friends for #AFediverseChristmas!! 🎄🎄
How are you celebrating #Christmas this year? Whether its at home, abroad, with family or behind a screen, you know that the fediverse is always online! Join us for a nice chat!
We've set up a Christmas room on Matrix.org. Go to https://app.element.io/#/room/#afediversechristmas:matrix.org and create an account. See you there!! 🎉🎅
Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.
Have you tried inviting someone to join you on Mastodon?
✅ You can invite people to join your Mastodon instance by clicking on "Invite People" in the bottom left corner of the desktop interface. This lets you generate customised invitations to suit your purposes. Share the generated links with those you want to invite.
Many instances which are officially closed to new members still allow sign-ups through invitations from existing members.
Please note: everyone who's doing all this performative work to get something Chrome-like to respect their privacy and agency instead of switching browsers is actively making the ecosystem worse by showing the webdev community that it's fine to ignore non-chrome browsers.
Visa and Mastercard, acting together, are currently a chokepoint for online payments. This means their arbitrary policies often decide what you can read - or watch - online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-are-trying-dictate-what-you-can-watch-pornhub
Consumers in Canada have until Sept 2021 to be paid as part of the class action lawsuit against Microsoft. No receipts needed for software purchased since 1998 (Windows, Office, Word, Excel, or MS-DOS) for claims up to $250.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/canada-class-action-settlement-microsoft-1.5840305
Stop Paid Content on CBC
... CBC management has launched a new marketing division called CBC Tandem. Its purpose is to sell corporations the opportunity to disguise their advertising as our journalism. CBC is using its resources to help advertisers trick Canadians.
They call what they produce “paid content”. And it’s insidious. It looks and sounds like the news stories and podcasts we produce. It’s found on the same websites and apps. But it’s not news, or even information. It is advertising that pretends to be news. And we believe strongly it must stop.
CBC Tandem promises corporate clients they can “leverage” the CBC’s reputation by aligning their message with the “trust Canadians have in our brand”.
That reputation was built by people like us - generations of journalists who earned your trust by informing you faithfully and truthfully every day. “Paid content” does not leverage that reputation, it makes a mockery of it. ...
https://www.stoppaidcontentoncbc.ca/open-letter
The term Fake News dates to 1989 when prepared propaganda Video and Audio "News Releases" (VNR/ANR), packaged to look like native news, began appearing on local TV and Radio stations. The CBC are going down this path.
It's not "leveraging trust", it's #betrayal.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fake_news
#CBC #FakeNews #PaidContent #NativeAdvertising #VNR #AVR #Propaganda #advertising #canada
Jailbreaking is not a crime, and offering an alternative app store shouldn't be one, either. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Early-app-store-on-iPhone-sues-Apple-alleging-15791279.php
Oh wow, Bunnie and Sean Cross's Precursor is 96% funded. Maybe it'll make it. Good for them.
When @HP unilaterlly withdrew its "free ink for life" plan for its rental ink customers, they demonstrated the danger of devices that can be updated by the manufacturer in ways that owners can't override. https://www.consumerreports.org/printers/hp-ends-free-ink-for-life/
"Pleins d’objets « connectés » sont en panne partout dans le monde puisque le service de cloud AWS est en panne dans un ensemble de datacenter "us-east-1", qui est proposée par défaut il me semble lors de la création d'un projet AWS aux États-Unis."