Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

@how

It's not perfect, but Firefox with uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger + telemetry disabled is probably the least worst option IMHO.

Understanding environmental impact is hard.

Me and my gas-guzzling mini-van have a much lower impact than most "green car" owners... simply because I drive way, way less than average.

Planes aren't bad for the environment because they burn lots of fuel. Planes are bad for the environment because they are convenient and encourage, enable and create a market for massive amounts of travel.

Switching to advanced, super-clean vehicles won't improve things nearly as much as telecommuting would.

After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right-2.html

#DRM #EME #Google

Education is moving to a divide along class lines: the rich are taught by humans in a tech-free environment. Everyone else will be taught by computers subsidized by Big Tech in exchange for data and lock-in.

@kylerankin You see this in Silicon Valley today. Tech billionaires send kids to private schools that tout being tech-free and hands-on with human teachers.

#privacy is the freedom to act without being watched and thus, in a sense, to be who we really are — not who we want others to think we are. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sunday/privacy-capitalism.html

We've reached a point where we'd like to start #hiring developers to work on the #WriteFreely roadmap 💻

This would be remote, contract-based work for now, with a chance to go full-time later in the year (assuming all continues going well). You'd be creating free / open source software.

I'll have more details soon, but especially if you're a #Go / #Golang developer and want to work on a growing #fediverse project, I'd love to hear from you!

#FOSS #job #jobs

Zuckerberg funded FB engineers to make a "personalized learning" platform for Kansas kids. Besides the educational concerns, how much personal data is this program storing indefinitely? Who gets access to it? #privacy https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/technology/silicon-valley-kansas-schools.html

Me:

I have far too many books to read, help

Also me:

Hey another PDF online, neat

@switchingsocial

Also worth mentioning is #Armory3D ( https://Armory3D.org ) - The libre 3D game engine built with deep integration into Blender, a powerful node logic system and highly cross platform outputs (Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Xbox, Playstation, Switch, HTML5 etc)

Real time image from Armory:

Ouch… I just had to realize that @matrix doesn't provide the ability to block other homeservers.

It's not possible because it messes up room states, great.

At the same time this will cause legal trouble for every server admin when illegal content is federated to your server due to a user of your server being in a channel it got shared.

Due to this it's a bad idea to recommend running a homeserver for more people than yourself. ☹️

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3173

#matrix #legalTrouble #legal

HTML5 ping tracking – Firefox will enable it by default:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-firefox-to-enable-hyperlink-ping-tracking-by-default/

– HTML5 ping attributes can be used to track people if they click a link (<a href=… ping=…>) by sending POST requests to an arbitrary amount of hosts
– tracking is possible without any JavaScript, or Cookies
– Steve Gibson talked about it in Security Now 709: https://mastodon.at/@infosechandbook/101899819296611698
– ping is enabled in Chrome, Opera, Edge, Safari by default

#html5 #ping #tracking #firefox #mozilla

There is both a risk and an opportunity in the current political sabre-rattling against "social media" in multiple countries. The #DataFarms will attempt to capture any new regulation and twist it into anti-competitive forms that disproportionately target smaller players, and even non-commercial ones like most #fediverse instances (eg #Article13). But if we can educate politicians enough, they might begin dismantling the datafarming revenue model that gives #TheStacks their dominance (eg #GDPR).

#Codeberg is a not-for-profit #CodeForge website launched this year:
https://blog.codeberg.org/codebergorg-launched.html

This seems like a chilling conversation for Americans:

what are the alternatives for cloudflare (ddos protection)?
my main goal is to avoid recaptcha

How does #Pinafore's new privacy policy look?