Interesting paper on people evaluating threats: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1465
#facebook Marketers (and thus, anyone) get to access private group member lists. https://boingboing.net/2018/07/12/facebook-allowed-third-party-m.html
In case anyone missed this old Snowden / Greenwald / Chomsky interview: https://theintercept.com/a-conversation-about-privacy/
Retweeted @bio_derek@twitter.com:
Sweet Jesus, I am laughing so hard at this. #lovecraftiannightmare
@bob Why is the design decision to use device identity in rather than user identity in OMEMO a good deal?
All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.
We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?
This is one of the worst deals in history.
@kristina Some more detail on Darwin's finches: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/finches
Copyright is brain damage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc
no really: they had nothing better for these people to do, so they made them dig out this lake with shovels.
I mean, it's neat I suppose, but that's what you'll be doing under the "universal jobs guarantee."
it's basically work that has no purpose, like this lake has no purpose other than to sit there and look nice.
instead, we could pay people to improve themselves and their skills through universal basic income.
so, no, a universal jobs guarantee is not what I'm looking for.
Note to self: When opening an all-you-can-eat buffet, don't offer an all-you-can-eat-for-a-month card for $25
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/29/all-you-can-eat-restaurant-shu.html
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
A really good example of that was the Personal Democracy Forum earlier in the year, sponsored by those companies and promanently fearuring Google and Facebook speakers. It's hard to discuss what democracy means, or should become, in the internet era if Facebook is dominating the narrative.
I've recently seen plenty of Linux gamers get excited about DXVK and it is an interesting technology. However, you should remember that buying Windows games to play with it doesn't really help Linux gaming. "No Tux No Bux" is still the most reliable way to support the platform and make sure it develops on all levels.
Here's an example of how trading away advertising opportunities on your social life can go wrong:
