Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

London Cops Will Use Facial Recognition to Hunt Suspects

https://www.wired.com/story/londons-cops-facial-recognition-hunt-suspects/

Fake F-Droid App im Play Store. Wer einen Google-Account hat bitte die App melden!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.source.managefile

I sneaked a tiny change into the next #FDroid app release (1.8). App-details will now also display the summary text.

While it's a tiny trivial change, I'm hoping it'll make the app way more usefull. Because often summaries are the only translated text we've got. Also search results sometimes only show the first few words of a summary. Now it's becoming easy to find closure. Last but not least this will make the app and webiste more consistent.

Ugh, just blocked https://skippers-bin.com/, a “sister site of the H.M.S. Neckbeard, https://neckbeard.xyz/“

Total surveillance isn't what America signed up for - well, no, but we're there...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-privacy-rights.html

Librarians: Resist the surveillance state and help bring privacy back to your local community.

Apply to be part of the next Library Freedom Institute (LFI) cohort by Feb 10: https://libraryfreedom.org/index.php/lfi/

Do you know that for every websites/services you can limit the tracking by opting out a button ?

This website explain you how to do it for many companies, such as Apple, Visa, Netflix, Twitter etc. ⬇️

https://simpleoptout.com/

Your cranky weekly reminder to back up your goddamn computer. Your friendly tech support worker will thank you someday. || Ĉi tiu estas via grumbla semajna rememorigo sekurkopii vian damnan komputilon. Via amikema teknikanto dankos vin iutage.

On privacy versus freedom. @matrix details a reply to #Signal lead developer Moxie Marlinspike after his recent #36c3 talk

#Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom/

New years resolutions for woke cis het men who are comfortable with their pronouns:

1. Put them in your bio
2. Put them in your email signature at work
3. Wear a pronoun badge

What could be manlier than LITERALLY labelling yourself as a "he" man?

What's your favorite self-hosted issue tracking software?

I just saw this meme and thought it was funny.

Fedi instances are fairly hierarchical by design, so I was wondering if it'd be useful to put together a resource for how to run an instance anarchically.

Stuff like making admin/mod positions rotational and/or recallable, ways to introduce consensus to instance decision making etc.

Maybe I'm strange for thinking this, but it seems odd that some people refuse to eat certain species of animal because of the intelligence level of that species, not because of its ability to feel pain.

Why are an octopus's puzzle-solving skills more valuable than its capability to suffer physical pain (from being killed) or psychological pain (from being kept captive)?

Why is it THIS value that makes some of us draw the line, and not something else?

I'm very curious to know more about these kinds of consumers and what their choices say about them.

#Australia's Angry Summer: This Is What #ClimateChange Looks Like

The catastrophic #fires raging across the southern half of the continent are largely the result of rising temperatures.
The fires raging across the southern half of the Australian continent this year have so far burned through more than 5 million hectares.

https://youtu.be/KrhWsXCB3u8

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/australias-angry-summer-this-is-what-climate-change-looks-like/

#ClimateCrisis #Wildfire

"For now, even the biggest tech companies have different interpretations of the law, especially over what it means to stop selling or sharing consumers’ personal details."

We need privacy by design. Can't be an afterthought.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/technology/california-privacy-law.html
.onion: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2019/12/29/technology/california-privacy-law.html

For real like Bandcamp is exactly the kind of service we *hoped* the internet would give us: “hey, people make things, they set their own price inc. free, we provide the storefront, you buy it and the money goes to the creator, you get it in a DRM-free format and can play it however you want, we just make money to keep going & improving and aren’t a VC-funded nightmare company of rampant reckless growth that will do something nightmarish and implode.”

We need more media platforms like that.