keverets @keverets@librem.one

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

#ElonMusk

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/

Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

I don't (ever) post Tumblr screenshots I found on other websites, but this is, the correct shit

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.

https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

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

@unlofl @molly0xfff
The 3 authentication factors:

- Something you forgot.
- Something you left in the taxi.
- Something that can be chopped off.

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/

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.

PC World - September 2003
Well-Connected Handhelds
https://archive.org/details/pcworld219unse/page/104/mode/2up

Google Maps vs Apple Maps vs #OpenStreetMap. The park only opened yesterday, so I went to the opening ceremony and 3D scanned it with LiDAR on my phone, following this guide: https://jakecoppinger.com/2023/03/generating-aerial-imagery-with-your-iphones-lidar-sensor/ Meanwhile, Google still thinks it's a parking lot.

America's car culture is broken -- cyclists and pedestrians know this.

But what's not acknowledged often enough is just how broken it is for *drivers*

Our roads are deadlier than they have been at any point in the past ~20 years.

And the average price of a new car now exceeds $40,000.

It doesn't have to be this way!

Pretty much the rest of the world is embracing micro- and mini-mobility.

Here's what that looks like.

(gift link)

🧵/1

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/evs-electric-vehicles-micromobility-smart-car-ultracompact-4b6a6e6b?st=mz0640r6cedjnr1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Last year we released a statement in which we said we will continue “to monitor changes at Twitter in conjunction with internal discussions about whether our presence on the platform will continue.”

We now announce that as of today, 20 October 2023, all our #socialmedia engagements will be from this Mastodon account, as well as LinkedIn and YouTube, and none from our 5 #Twitter / X accounts.

Find out about these changes and more here: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/10/announcing-the-carpentries-departure-from-x-and-facebook/

#Carpentries #CarpentriesCommunity

@cameron since I didn't see the second thing before, i did my due diligence before boosting so pasting links here for others:
* https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/google-hosted-malvertising-leads-to-fake-keepass-site-that-looks-genuine/

* https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-notepad-plus-plus-google-ads-evade-detection-for-months/

Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware

IG/Meta has been inserting the word "terrorist" into the bios of users that included the words Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” (which means praise to Allah, or God) https://www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-translation/ #meta #instagram #palestine #war