Nat Tuck @nat@ferrus.net

I'm tempted to recommend this to every parent I know, but of course none of them do it. Ironically it'd also be the ones working in #tech that would be likely to do this. #parenting #surveilencecapitalism

Important→ Someone hacked the official site of #PHP PEAR and replaced package manager (go-pear.phar) with a "tainted version"

https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/php-pear-hacked.html

If you have downloaded/updated #pearPHP package manager from its official site in past 6 months, consider yourself compromised. https://t.co/PUm7o9CP8S

Annotated version of my #35c3 presentation "Modchips of the State" about hypothetical SPI bus hardware implants in Supermicro servers' BMC: https://trmm.net/Modchips

"Big Tech's problem is Big, not Tech" by Cory Doctorow (video) https://archive.org/details/decentralizedwebsummitmedia-2018-courtyard-2?start=509

I missed this when it came out a few months ago, but this is a great talk. I'm becoming more and more convinced that the problems of technology centralization can't be solved without antitrust. Tim Wu's recent book "The Curse of Bigness" also comes to mind here.

Genius, if real https://mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/181613778915

the microscope my parents got me comes with a QR code to download the vendor's official android app. It has banner ads and in-app purchases and also doesn't work.
Why is everything so fucking shit?
At least it works fine on a laptop with Cheese/Kamoso

Become a Facebook-Free business

https://m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-facebook-free-business-5bfefc20c09d

Seriously, @mozilla ?
Not only you went and implemented this DRM crap and now you're downloading non-free binaries behind our back???

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915582

The New York Times reports Facebook gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Apple, Yandex, Yahoo and others far more access to users' data than previously admitted, including access to private messages:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

There is never going to be a better time to #DeleteFacebook, the violations are only going to get worse.

If you know someone who wants to try alternatives and needs a simple non-technical guide, try sending them this:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-facebook/

(via @bobstechsite)

RT @aaomidi@twitter.com

So @SlackHQ@twitter.com decided to send me this email. No way to appeal this decision. No way to prove that I'm not living in Iran and not working with Iranians on slack. Nope. Just hello we're banning your account.

courtesy: I love Mathematics

I released a new version of my Firefox extension that will forcefully redirect you away from privacy erosive services to better alternatives. It started as a joke, but I end up actually using it.

When I want to look up a place, I instinctively and mechanically start typing "maps.googl...". This extension will instead take me to OpenStreetMaps. It will also functionally translate Google Search links to DuckDuckGo and Google Translate links to Deepl.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resist-the-internet/

#FuckOffGoogle