digicana @digicana@social.privacytools.io

@doctorow Nothing more Xenial than selling cassettes with robot booty.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/harvard-chemist-permafrost-n2o-levels-12-times-higher-than-expected/

@wxcafe If you’ve got good backups, SSD failure wouldn’t matter anyhow. You can get Veeam community edition and some veeam backup clients for the low low price of free and can restore entire machines with basically a couple clicks.

@Outernaut What stinks is that most websites require opt-ins to this sort of thing to proceed (thanks to GDPR). Click no, you don’t get to see the content. Privacy minded browsers make browser fingerprinting and tracking much more difficult. Probably the best thing you can do is always surf with a VPN - with your IP masked and all tracking disabled, it’s much harder to follow you across the web.

@darylsun That last one is a doozy. I wouldn’t trust most users to have their own server at home, at least not with ports forwarding to it from the WAN. Here on Mastodon maybe peeps know what they are doing in this respect, but you sure don’t need to break into a house to get to a server as the guide suggests. Even good NAS manufacturers like Synology require some lockdown of the device to safely let the internet see it in any way.

@janellecshane This kinda stuff is why I browse federated from time to time, now I have a new book to read!

@Outernaut Use Firefox w/ blockers like Ublock Origin, privacy badger, etc, in private mode and you won’t have to worry nearly as much about cookies and trackers.

@medusa @michel_slm If you’ve never read it, this is a very... unsettling book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40796190-eyes-in-the-sky

Hah - first time I’ve used the Apple Watch theatre mode actually been at the theatre

Now they just need to give it a friendly name like Gorgon Stare or Eye of Sauron or Evil Death Star 1984 Camera System https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

@doctorow Hooray, it’s everyone!

@edavies @lachs0r@nazrin.moe @dtluna If you’ve never read the Pulitzer winning “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert, it’s worth a go. It’s a bit... unnerving.

@edavies @lachs0r@nazrin.moe @dtluna We’ve likely baked in warming well past “mild damage” at this point and our foot is glued to the accelerator. Climate models are pretty adamant about this. Societal collapse is much more tricky to predict, so that is indeed speculative. But when you find yourself actually able to witness in historical time things that are supposed to occur over geological time (like a mass extinction event) and you discover that you are the cause, it’s a pretty bad sign.

@jonah @joey @darylsun I dunno, I’d guess Signal is more secure with the ratcheting keys. You lose a PGP key, all your base are belong to us.

@darylsun What do you want to use it for? For encrypted chat Signal is probably better if you don’t mind sharing a phone number. What keybase is good for us proving identity, having an easy method of E2E group chat w/o sharing phone numbers, having 250GB of free E2E encrypted file sharing, E2E and signed GIT, etc. Just get it and play with it, you’ll know real fast if it’s for you or not.

@Wetrix Why yes, who wouldn’t want this feature in an E2E messenger 🙄

Is Godaddy still using SHA1 certs? How the hell is that possible?