Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

I've always had very short fingernails but I'm learning classical guitar so I've grown the fingernails on my right hand out a tiny bit. I have a renewed respect for those of you who type every day with long fingernails.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

Musical Instruments To Be Exempt From Restrictions On Heavily Trafficked Rosewood https://n.pr/2ZkHlX4

@o It's important to respect copyright/ownership of work, even more so as FOSS supporters, as we want everyone to respect FOSS licenses also.

That said, most media outlets enforce these paywalls with client-side javascript which presents a security hole if your client disables client-side javascript.

This article does a good job on presenting the many different ways that data about your credit card purchases are shared without your knowledge or permission: #privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/26/spy-your-wallet-credit-cards-have-privacy-problem/

This is why attending a Battlebots event is risky--future generations might view it like we view the Roman Colosseum. I'm already going to have a hard enough time explaining my Roomba to future generations. #singularity #ai https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/youtube-robot-combat-videos-animal-cruelty-a9071576.html

@antonionardella I lean more toward simpler solutions--standard code signing to start, supported by Reproducible Builds so 3rd parties can verify integrity.

@freakazoid You may want to rethink inciting violence or misdemeanor vandalism on a public forum.

"Users who decline to share footage through the app may have police showing up at their door asking them to share in person if online requests don't work out. Law enforcement can also go to Amazon directly with a valid legal demand and bypass the user's consent to access the footage entirely." #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/dont-call-our-surveillance-products-surveillance-ring-tells-police/

@wsaewyc Yes, the example I just gave in the smilidon issue--a user must choose to *opt in* to the user-provided hashtags by following people. They then choose how they apply them (filters vs searches).

@wsaewyc https://source.puri.sm/liberty/smilodon/issues/6 this is the approach I'd like to take, for instance, for Librem Social.

The main difference between the Webmin RCE and similar build infrastructure attacks in proprietary tools is that since Webmin is FOSS, it has the opportunity to use Reproducible Builds so we all can detect this kind of attack in the future.

https://www.virtualmin.com/node/66890

@wsaewyc I prefer solutions that empower the user to control their own content instead of solutions that put ever greater power into central authorities.

So happy that the ribs turned out.

When your shopping cart has 8 racks of pork spare ribs, 3lbs of Kosher salt and 2lbs of brown sugar, everyone you meet in the store knows your plans for the weekend. #bbq #lowandslow

@drewmoore I don't believe their customer list has been made public (and I don't expect it to be) and the article only hints at it ("US co-working space") so I don't know.

It's gonna take a lot to drag us away from you
There's nothing that a hundred nodes on Tor could ever do
I wish domains weren't all trackin' ya
Gonna take some time to build a `net without those ads

The AI bots cry out in the night
As they parse user data for some advertising company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Amazon Echo fights Google Assistant to own the data from me
I seek to cure what's deep inside
Frightened of this thing that they've become

It's gonna take a lot to drag us away from you
There's nothing that a hundred nodes on Tor could ever do
I wish domains weren't all trackin' ya
Gonna take some time to build a `net without those ads