Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@tarkowski

Fediverse servers are entirely independent, it's up to the owner(s) of a server to decide how it's governed.

The protocols on the Fediverse just cover how servers talk to each other, they don't say anything about how each server is run.

If a community wants to own a server (or anything else!) collectively, they could form a co-operative which would share decisions and costs. I am not a lawyer, but I think co-ops give each member a legal right to participate in how the server is run. I think social.coop is run by a co-op?

Alternatively, every user could have their own single user instance, which would give them total control over governance.

It's rare though as most people just want to be an end user without thinking about governance or self-hosting.

But there's nothing to force it to be rare, if everyone wanted to have a co-op or personal Fedi server it's very easy to do technically, and costs start from about 5-10 euros a month:

https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network

Now they're calling adblockers "content blockers". Moving the goalposts much?

How can privacy survive in a world that never forgets?
https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-machines-behaving-badly-toby-walsh-la-trobe-university-press-150017213.html?src=rss #privacy #purism

#Anonymous #StreetArt with a political message – in pictures | #Art and design | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/20/anonymous-street-art-with-a-political-message-in-pictures

#Politics

I learned that some people don't know that Social.Coop is accepting registrations. We are, so feel free to register or tell others they can.

#socialcoop

Please boost

What the....! 😳

RT @KrauseFx@twitter.com

🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps.

https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-what-javascript-commands-get-executed-in-an-in-app-browser

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KrauseFx/status/1560370732705742848

https://MapKnitter.org will be going offline at the end of the month due to lack of funds, which is very sad!
1000s of maps of environmental injustices people have made over the years

And also http://SpectralWorkbench.org too.
database of 200k+ community-contributed open source spectra.

Both will be archived on archive.org

If you want to check and help
http://publiclab.org/mapknitter

http://publiclab.org/spectral-workbench

It's really fucking hard and violent blow for environmental activism and community based open environmental investigation

On the recent news about Signal "leak"

"Was my personal data accessed or hacked?

No. Signal is designed to keep your data in your hands rather than ours. Signal does not have access to your message history, contact list, profile information, whom you’ve blocked, and other personal data."

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242-Twilio-Incident-What-Signal-Users-Need-to-Know-

RT @Pal_action@twitter.com

BREAKING: Real estate giant Fisher German abandons office responsible for leasing factory to Israeli arms company Elbit, following direct action. Elbit’s kill chain is crumbling under direct action - another victory for #ShutElbitDown

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1559537021420556291

On Canadian Tire Fire, #FairyCreek blockade continues, actions on #PrisonerJusticeDay, violent sweeps of tent cities in #Vancouver, #Wetsuweten tour continues as do solidarity actions, #Montreal celebrates #Pride despite corporate event falling apart. https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-42/

Fox News is whipping up hate, nationally, against Minneapolis teachers, and some other right-wing source must be distributing some people's phone numbers… anyone know of an app/service that lets people have their friends help screen their calls to prevent abuse? i thought i had read about such a thing but i can only find this Android-specific, voice-assistant, local-to-your-phone feature https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/9118387?hl=en

Went out to a thing tonight connecting artists and scientists about the future of Antarctica. If all that ice melts, sea levels will be sixty metres higher. Imagine. Already change can be seen in Antarctic mosses. It’s overwhelming.

🌩️ Schools in the #USA continue to outsource highly sensitive data about students to #proprietary #software vendors to store in the "cloud", er, #Amazon #AWS.

🔓 A vendor used by some of the country's largest cities was recently breached, despite years of increasing legal policies ostensibly to protect #education data.

🤦🏻 You won't believe what happened next.

#privacy #infosec #security

https://web.archive.org/web/20220815122301/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/business/student-privacy-illuminate-hack.html

🕵🏻 What could possibly go wrong?

🇬🇧 #UK Home Office and Ministry of Justice has hired a contractor to run a program that will require convicted migrants to take selfies via a #smartwatch 5 times per day.

#privacy #surveillanceCapitism

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/facial-recognition-smartwatches-to-be-used-to-monitor-foreign-offenders-in-uk

☣️ 💧 "Atmospheric levels of toxic “forever chemicals” are so high that rainwater everywhere contains amounts that are unsafe for long-term human consumption according to safety guidelines, scientists say."

#climate #health #PFAS

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gban/rainwater-everywhere-now-considered-too-toxic-for-safe-consumption-study-finds

Yes, we've known about dangerous human-caused climate change from fossil fuels for over a hundred years, climate scientists have been ignored that entire time, and we're still being ignored even today

Yes, they'll have to be brave and weather the abuse from the entitled elite who think it's in the public interest (ticket prices guarantee it will not be patronised by a uniform cross-section of society, so it's effectively a publicly funded project for the benefit of the wealthy)... but all they need to do is point to the beautiful new (empty) Convention Centre, which should be dubbed the "Albatross Millstone Necklace" as that's what'll be for ratepayer for its lifetime. Why add another one?!

It also seems Apple's ad tracking rules exempt much of its own tracking behavior since it only shares the data it collects about you with itself and not third parties. At least according to this analysis: https://mobiledevmemo.com/att-advantages-apples-ad-network-heres-how-to-fix-that/