Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

How iPhone Hackers Got Their Hands on the New iOS Months Before Its Release

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dzpxz/how-iphone-hackers-got-hands-on-new-ios-14-months-before-realease

“Disable the fucking scripts.”

Snowden to Poitras and Gellman about disabling JavaScript when using the Tor Browser Bundle.

From the new book, “Dark Mirror.” A fascinating read so far.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316047/dark-mirror-by-barton-gellman/

#Privacy

Google Drive takes down user’s personal copy of Judy Mikovits’ Plandemic after it was flagged by The Washington Post

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-plandemic/

#DragonFlyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD and other all BSDs hardware compatibility list website https://bsd-hardware.info/

Microsoft steals name of Linux Desktop project (MauiKit and the Maui distribution) for their project that does the same thing and then blames Linux community for using that name to begin with (which is obvious trademark infringement as they've both had those names for years now). Abusing power over GitHub to then delete any issues on their project related to the name collision and deny they are at fault for ignoring the first search result that comes up for the name Maui.

https://medium.com/@probonopd/microsoft-loves-linux-a-little-too-much-cff91023e4b8

You can tell they are trying to embrace, extend, and extinguish. But with blunders like this and the way their megacorp stooge bosses like to handle it they won't be extending anything.

I forwarded this article by @kev to my little brother to see if I can get him to fire up a blog. He's a high school English teacher who is a prolific reader, motorcycle and mountain bike rider who coaches track and football. Oddly, he thinks I'm a better writer than him and he doesn't think he has anything to write about. Any words of encouragement?

https://themeta.blog/how-to-start-a-blog-if-youre-not-a-nerd/

If anyone knows grapheneOS well and wants to help a noob install it shoot me a message. I’m having a lot of issues

It's #FOSSFriday y'all, time to launch a new #foss side project!

You will all be the judge of how useful this is gonna be. And if it will survive 😅

https://smdl.io

It's called "Social Media Disclaimer Links". When in an increasingly-heated online discussion (that never happens…), just link to a disclaimer instead of wasting characters to explain it's just your opinion, you respect the other's view, that sort of stuff… repo on @codeberg

https://smdl.io/b1

What the actual fuck, microsoft.

We love linux but can't be bothered to play by the rules.

https://medium.com/@probonopd/microsoft-loves-linux-a-little-too-much-cff91023e4b8

Ditto, Brave: they may not see what you’re browsing but they make money by allowing insight of your behaviour to be used to manipulate you.

Privacy exists to protect the weak from manipulation by the powerful. Manipulation by proxy is still manipulation.

https://basicattentiontoken.org/

The Ad-industry is the "sugar daddy" of the internet. It sponsors a ton of stuff which you wouldn't buy or be able to afford otherwise while exploiting you and ruin everyone's life.

This is really cool to see: in addition to SimpleLogin, another email cloaking provider, AnonAddy, now has detailed self-hosting instructions.

SimpleLogin:
- Instructions: https://github.com/simple-login/app#self-hosting
- More: https://simplelogin.io

AnonAddy:
- Instructions: https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy/blob/master/SELF-HOSTING.md
- More: https://anonaddy.com

#Privacy

@sir I don't think most users would agree, but if you made something like "open source portal" that required all of its projects to use OSI approved licenses, then yes.

also, would be interesting if you shared the most popular licenses used by projects in sr.ht

@sir The FSF and the OSI have good intentions, but I'm extremely wary of organizations taking it upon themselves to assert what is or is not a "free" or "open-source" work. In reality, people choose a variety of ways to make their software free, and peoples' choices shouldn't be restricted by arbitrary authorities.

You might agree that copyright law has gotten out of hand in recent years, but the FSF & OSI take advantage of copyright law just the same to assert their interpretation of FLOSS.

❓ Poll: Have you ever had to report content in your feed to a fediverse mod?

Followup: how fast was the response time?

Boosts requested; I'm writing an article about the moderation of decentralized networks.

Well it took over a year but we managed to get Google Fonts removed from the Mozilla Rust project. Thanks to everyone who helped out and supported this.

https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1188

Devs don’t let devs add surveillance to their tools.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Google is partnering with the Department of Defense to fight cybercrime

https://www.businessinsider.nl/google-department-of-defense-deal-to-fight-cybercrime-2020-5