Decided to look at network stats again. There are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.
Great interview of Shoshana Zuboff, author of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", on Triangulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIrFAi5R9yg
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1541758005/
#surveillancecapitalism #survelliance #capitalism #shoshanazuboff #triangulation #leolaporte
Given how easy it is to move to a different Mastodon instance, it will be interesting to see in the coming months to see how many new folks will live in the "big cities", how many will move to small towns, and how many will start their own homesteads. #fediverse
This is our first in-person hackathon since the Before Times. Come and make a difference with us! https://t.co/teRJ3yxEoD
#Illinois man pleads guilty to assaulting #Reuters journalist during U.S. Capitol riot
Last year, Jason Woods became the first defendant to be charged for assaulting a member of the news media during the riot.
A total of 11 people have been charged with assaulting journalists that day, while about 269 have been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers, according to a Justice Department tally.
#January6th #JasonWoods #Journalism
https://www.reuters.com/legal/illinois-man-pleads-guilty-assaulting-reuters-journalist-during-us-capitol-riot-2022-09-09/
Did you know that GNU Taler has been making the news in Europe for being a privacy and freedom respecting digital alternative to cash? Read the news (in German): https://u.fsf.org/3uq Also, read more about #GNUTaler at https://taler.net/
"Dawn Over a New World" - #dragonforce #cover
https://odysee.com/@DanVasc:a/dawn-over-a-new-world-dragonforce-cover:3
After years of separation from our parents, my wife and I have no desire to be separated from our SONS.
After two years of waiting and nearly ten years of exile, a little stability will make a difference for my family. I pray for privacy for them—and for us all. https://t.co/24NUK21TAo https://t.co/qLfp47uzZ4
@dcz I've never been comfortable with E2EE solutions that are not encrypted *before they leave the computer*.
I'd much rather use GPG, and encrypt something on my machine, before it ever gets onto the net. Solutions like Protonmail (using a browser), while they are better than nothing, I just don't trust them.
Important announcement: end-to-end encryption concerns USERS, and not APPLICATIONS. The ends are the AGENTS, not the CODE they run.
If your communication application processes your messages on behalf of someone other than you or your recipient, then it's NOT #E2EE.
I'm surprised how many people seem to accept that applications exchange messages rather than people. Nope. If the application censors you or leaks contents to someone else, then your communication is not E2EE by definition.
@dallin@fosstodon.org I got in early, when the phone was $650. Still pretty pricey for a phone, but I was (and still am) excited about an alternative to iOS and Android.
That said, I'm still waiting on the phone, though it sounds like I should have it by end-of-year. I have an idea of what it will be like because I have a Pinephone running Mobian (with Phosh). The Pinephone isn't bad, but I'm looking forward to more horsepower.
Using a Commodore 64 on the modern internet! https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/f52ba9ea-04fa-4d35-b6d7-cf2e694d1769
ATTENTION server admins: #letsencrypt defaults to RSA signatures, which are vulnerable
https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/is-it-still-safe-to-use-rsa-encryption/
I you upgrade your Fedora crypto policy, you'll see that:
```
sudo update-crypto-policies --set FUTURE
curl https://foo.bar/
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: EE certificate key too weak
```
This guide shows how to set up ecdsa encryption:
https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/using.html#using-ecdsa-keys
"Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc)"
"20 years ago, if you were eating your dinner under the unblinking eye of a video-camera, it was because you were in a supermax prison. Now, thanks to "luxury surveillance," you can get the same experience in your middle-class home"
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust
An old commission - portrait of a cat.
#caturday #cats #cat #catpainting #catportrait #mastoart #fedicats #fediart #catoftheday #art #ink #drawing #catdrawing #portrait #commission #commissions #realistic #realisticdrawing #detailed #detailedart #inkpen #inkpenart #blackandwhite
Catholic father of 10. Programmer by trade. I like reading, writing, running, geocaching, chess, spending time with my family.