Nat Tuck @nat@ferrus.net

"So, there you have it. It is tinfoil-hattedness to raise these concerns. The one area in computer science where tinfoil-hattedness is of absolutely importance is cryptography; and the maintainer of the only Haskell entropy package dismisses these very valid concerns as tinfoil-hattedness."

https://leonmergen.com/on-the-state-of-cryptography-in-haskell-c272fb0b6478 (Medium)

Very good read, especially since I want to discuss crypto later!

Did you know that @Fitbit can track your sleeping patterns or even whether you are having unprotected sex? Wondering what @google could do with this data?

Sign the #NotOnOurWatch petition to the @EU_Commission to stop the merger!

https://pvcy.org/googbit https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1274747659102892033/photo/1

FINALLY! Ramsey Orta, Who Filmed The Police Killing Of Eric Garner, Released From Prison

Orta was serving time for a gun possession charge that he said was set up by the police.

https://gothamist.com/news/ramsey-orta-who-filmed-police-killing-eric-garner-released-prison

#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners

Anyone else finds the word "deeplinking" and the court battles around it completely bonkers insane?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking

I mean, this is linking. It's the whole point of the Web. Why do we even need a separate term for that.

Happy five year anniversary of twitter keeping us safe from dangerous postings.

we're 80% funded 🖤 https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

Zoom acquired Keybase today.

Keybase helped me to identify a trend in the software industry: using a pretty UI to cover up the disruption of an open ecosystem with a closed, centralized replacement. Keybase seemed cool on the face of it - making encryption easier is a laudible goal, and PGP certainly could use the improvement. But, thanks to Keybase, now I ask different questions upfront.

Beware the Keybase formula:

1. Integrates with an existing, open ecosystem
2. May have open-source clients, but server is closed source and does not federate
3. Pretty UI and good marketing
4. VC funded

I have connected to #FreeNode using #telnet after 3 minutes of reading of #RFC1459.

It is really *THAT* easy to use.

It's still not a perfect trolley meme for this situation, but it's much better than the previous one than screamed “hurr durr cApITaLiStS want to kill us for profits”

"But if I want Self-Criticism Virtue Points, criticizing the Grey Tribe is the only honest way to get them. And if I want Tolerance Points, my own personal cross to bear right now is tolerating the Blue Tribe."
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

Nicely done Scott, nicely done.