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I refuse to get a Twitter account, since Twitter refused my registration attempts with privacy-enhanced browsers and without giving away personal data I deem irrelevant to Twitter.

So I turned to good old RSS and started using http://twitrss.me/ to be able to follow Twitter accounts. Works pleasingly well.

Firefox now shows what telemetry data it's collecting about you | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-now-shows-what-telemetry-data-its-collecting-about-you/

Your browsing data is so valuable that even an AV company that's supposed to protect you from software that capture and sells your data, itself captures and sells your data. #privacy
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation

Don't dismiss compulsory student tracking via a phone app just because it's limited to athletes. These measures always start with a small powerless group, then use that "success" to justify expanding to others. #privacy

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14274

Numberphile / Colouring Numbers - Numberphile
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Holy shit, you can create a disk which is ext2 and FAT at the same time
https://github.com/NieDzejkob/cursedfs

Smart TVs give corporations another device with which they can monitor your activity and collect your personal data — and they compromise your #cybersecurity. See what you can do to protect your #privacy here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/smart-tv-privacy-risk/

https://sha-mbles.github.io/

> We have computed the very first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1. In a nutshell, this means a complete and practical break of the SHA-1 hash function, with dangerous practical implications if you are still using this hash function. To put it in another way: all attacks that are practical on MD5 are now also practical on SHA-1. Check our paper here for more details.

To other Mastodon sysadmins: Check what pg_repack can do for you, especially if your server has been around for a really long time. PostgreSQL indexes get bloated over time and VACUUM does nothing about it. pg_repack can re-build indexes without downtime.

@xinayder A good book is "How Linux works" by Brian Ward:

▶How Linux boots
▶How the kernel manages devices,
▶device drivers,
▶processes
etc.

https://nostarch.com/howlinuxworks2

Openstreetmap is reaching the point that it is just more information rich and beautiful than google maps and that is awesome

The day has arrived! ProtonCalendar is now in open beta. Stay organized and stop corporations from spying on your schedule. Paid users can begin testing it today. Full details here: https://protonmail.com/blog/protoncalendar-beta-announcement/

2000s hackers: My dream is to connect all of my devices to the internet.
2020s hackers: My dream is to disconnect all of my devices from the internet.

Wrote a blog post about experience of using the @kde #PlasmaMobile on @PINE64 #PinePhone as a daily driver.

https://blog.bshah.in/2019/12/20/plasma-mobile-as-daily-driver/

The Linux Mint Blog / How to upgrade to Linux Mint 19.3
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It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 19, 19.2 or 19.2 to version 19.3.

Wow, the latest Palemoon update is intense! It literally feels like a new browser. Well done to the PM team. #foss
https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

New features are available on Jami! A new major release of Jami "Free as in Freedom" has been launched.

Learn more about the new features: https://jami.net/free-as-in-freedom/

@micahflee These might be useful then:
https://github.com/nycdsa/tech-rejection-letters

“The technology behind the internet is not incompatible with our rights, but the business model Facebook and Google have chosen is.”

Yep, that’s Amnesty International saying that.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

Stop 👏 Using 👏 Facebook

So many reasons, why you should consider closing your #Facebook account. Here is a nice documented list:

https://www.stopusingfacebook.co