@darkijah No idea. We are a standard federated mastodon instance running a custom fork called "smilodon" but we should federate as normal.
The announcement that the DEA was authorized to conduct covert surveillance on protestors got me thinking about how one could protect oneself against that kind of mass surveillance. In this post I give a quick overview of Stingray technology, the implications of its use at a protest, how aerial stingrays (“dirtboxes”) extends its mass-surveillance capabilities, and how the Librem 5’s hardware kill switches give you control over where, when and how you are surveilled.
@fribbledom Youmagine seems to be a popular alternative
Only earlier today I was defending DNS against claims that network problems are always DNS's fault, and now Amazon is down apparently due to DNS. #igiveup
@aral I'm going the other way. I think "my next laptop" for personal use is going to be a Librem 5 + a laptop dock.
For a good quality Jitsi recording (better than the recording feature):
1. Use a beefy machine
2. Run camera to it
3. Run mic to it
4. Set resolution to 1920x1080 or 1280x720
4. Join Jitsi in *spit* Chrome & stream your video/audio
5. Use OBS to record screen and audio
Then, on a second machine: join Jitsi and run screen sharing on Firefox (far better quality).
Switch between camera and screen sharing either on the first machine or via a third machine.
*phew*
"People only dislike ads when they aren't relevant" is at best a myth, at worst a lie. People dislike *all* ads, but tolerate them. Given a choice between irrelevant ads w/ no tracking or highly relevant ads w/ extensive tracking, most would choose irrelevant ads.
Even in a battle of wills w/ an 8-year-old, the key to breaking a standoff is to allow the other party to save face when they concede. #parenting
Bill aims to ban microtargeting of political ads. I'd argue the same reasoning to ban targeted manipulation for political ads should apply to *all* ads. The Internet (and society) would be much healither w/o microtargeting. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/proposed-bill-would-ban-microtargeting-of-political-advertisements/
@keverets dry hops go in, in a week so they are still in the freezer.
@keverets You're half right: double IPA
We moved libhandy from Purism's infra to GNOME's infra! Learn more here: https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2020/05/22/handy-1-alpha-1-migrating-to-gnome.html.
Repo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy
Doc: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy
Contact-tracing app caught sharing location data with Foursquare
https://mashable.com/article/care19-north-dakota-contact-tracing-app-sharing-location-data-foursquare/ #privacy #security #purism #librem5
With Twitter and now Facebook legitimizing permanent remote work I suspect we'll see others follow suit with a strong impact on Bay Area economics. So much highly-paid talent only moved here because a tech job required it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/21/facebook-permanent-remote-work/
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