@_microbe101🔒🛡🔐 @_microbe101@social.privacytools.io

:de: Der #fdroid Santa war da und hat eine ganze Schlittenladung abgeworfen: 5 neue & 75 aktualisierte #Apps!

:us: the F-Droid Santa was there with a full sledge of presents: 5 new and 75 updated apps!

🌍 Happy Install, Update, Test!

Die Adminas flüstern mir, dass der erste #rc3 Last-Test langweilig war.
Um nicht zu sagen SCHWACH!!1!
FAIL!

Macht mal bitte Räume auf und unterhaltet euch mit Video über http://jitsi.rc3.world/
Zum Beispiel in https://jitsi.rc3.world/LazyEvaluationsRemindWrong

@blacklight447 Is Taking Over PrivacyTools Service Administration

https://blog.privacytools.io/blacklight447-taking-over/

The third Little Brother book, ATTACK SURFACE, came out in the UK on Oct 1 (it'll be published in the US/Canada on Oct 13 - that's TUESDAY!). In honour of the launch, I sat down for an interview with Ian Tucker, The Observer's science and tech editor.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/10/cory-doctorow-technologists-have-failed-to-listen-to-non-technologists

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I've officially joined @privacytools as a Team Member 🎉

We're currently updating the Email Clients page, and we have a lot of other things planned!

https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/pull/1990

Nur 6 Gründe um WhatsApp zu löschen. Für immer.
https://www.vice.com/de/article/qj4qjd/whatsapp-datenschutz-warum-signal-threema-und-co-besser-sind

Heute ist ein guter Tag.
Heute habe ich guten Unfug fertiggestellt. Heute wurden diese Awards im !@metalab verliehen.

* Couldn't reach out to much people. Even though I combined the contact list of my diaspora and mastodon account I felt like my posts didn't reach as many new & existing contacts then any post on Mastodon. The main problem is that posts might/do not show up from my account, if there are not much people following my instance.

NOTE: If you want to leave a comment, please do at Mastodon.

Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them.

And yet that day has arrived.

ACLU: BREAKING: A federal appeals court just ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records was illegal.

This ruling, which confirms what we have always known, is a victory for our privacy rights.
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Weil ein Aufzug in Uelzen kaputt ist, hat der Lokführer mal eben gefragt, ob er auf ein anderes Gleis mit funktionierenden Fahrstuhl einfahren darf und es hat geklappt. #Metronom #DB

Kühlen Laub- oder #Nadelbäume besser?

#Laubbäume reduzieren Oberflächentemperaturen während extremer Hitzephasen stärker als Nadelbäume. Der statistische Vergleich von Wäldern die unterschiedlich stark von Nadel- und Laubbäumen geprägt sind, bestätigte dies für weite Teile #Europa. Eine Erhöhung der Laubbäumen von 10 auf 80% reduziert an heißen Tagen die Temp. um bis zu 1,8°C in der atlantischen Region und bis zu 1,5°C im kontinentalen und mediterranen Bereich.

https://www.wissenschaft.de/umwelt-natur/kuehlen-laub-oder-nadelbaeume-besser/

@epicenter_works
Man muss laut AGB der ÖBB die Vorteilscard dem Schaffner auf verlangen hin aushändigen. Diese sind angewiesen den darauf befindlichen QR-Code ein zu scannen. Die damit erfolgende Verarbeitung persönlicher Daten (Zweck und Umfang etc.) ist nicht in der Datenschutzerklärung aufgeführt, jedenfalls wurde ich nicht fündig. Sehe nur ich da ein Datenschutzproblem?

Wanna know whom you should donate to, based on your Masto/PeerTube interactions? Retribute sounds interesting for this: https://app.retribute.me/about

Checking the list of available services (like Liberapay, FlattR etc) it seems shocking, though, that the only payment processors they use are always PayPal and Stripe. Should you know any that also supports SEPA or at least Bitcoin, please let me know…

A better solution is more #decentralization, #FreeSoftware, and access to technical education. When people do not want to use software because of its bias, they can build their own using free software building blocks, rather than starting from scratch. If they do not personally have the technical skills, people can be hired to implement designs. But this is difficult because of #SiliconValley #monopolies run by quite homogeneous people control vast swathes of the #internet and #software. 2/2

https://www.projectsbyif.com/blog/how-to-measure-representation-in-a-data-set-and-protect-peoples-privacy/ this post proposes #DataCollection and measurement as a solution for #race bias in #software. But the bias comes from the people making the software, who would then be reviewing the data. They would still bring their inherit bias to the analysis. For example, Google Image Search has a race bias because it was trained that way, and very few black people were involved in the training, most likely because there are few black employees and therefore the social network.1/2