Gritty @gritnot@social.privacytools.io

Al's Geek Lab posts videos about the history of the PC and PC software, especially its early days in the 1980s and 1990s. You can follow at:

➡️ @alsgeeklab

If the videos aren't visible on your instance yet, you can see them all at https://tilvids.com/accounts/alsgeeklab/videos

#AlsGeekLab #PeerTube #PeerTubers #Videos #Gaming #Games #Retro #RetroGaming #Technology #Tech #TechHistory #Computing #MSDos #DOSGaming #VideoGames #History #PC #IBMPC #IBM #1980s #1990s

Do you have a WordPress Blog?

Did you know you can connect it to the Fediverse so that people on Mastodon can follow you and comment on your posts?

It works through the WordPress ActivityPub plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub

(You can also find this by searching for "ActivityPub" in the plugins section of your WordPress blog)

The plugin's developer is on the Fediverse at @pfefferle

#WordPress #FediTips #Fediverse

BREAKING NEWS: #Apple #Neuralhash algorithm reverse engineered and has been found to be in #iPhone since 14.3

See: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/08/apples-neuralhash-algorithm-has-been-reverse-engineered.html

Manufacturers affected include:

Realtek brand routers, AIgital, ASUSTek, Beeline, Belkin, Buffalo, D-Link, Edimax, Huawei, LG, Logitec, MT-Link, Netis, Netgear, Occtel, PATECH, TCL, Sitecom, TCL, ZTE, Zyxel..

Multiple flaws in realtek WiFi SDK, used in around 200 IoT devices. Not looking good here.

#Realtek #WiFi #Infosec #Vulnerability #Cybersecurity #News #IoT #InternetOfThings #NIC

https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/multiple-flaws-affecting-realtek-wi-fi.html

@gritnot https://blog.privacytools.io/the-future-of-privacytools/

/e/ develops and sells de-googlised Android smartphones. You can follow at:

➡️ @e_mydata

Their website is at https://e.foundation and their phone shop is at https://esolutions.shop

The /e/ version of Android can also be self-installed onto your existing device.

One of the models with /e/ preinstalled is the @Fairphone, which is built as ethically as possible (fair wages & working conditions, recycled materials etc).

#EFoundation #Fairphone #Android #Smartphones #Hardware #FOSS #Privacy

As w/anything: more mainstream a tech, the more open to abuse.

As is potential w/code discovered in iOS 15 to integrate #facialrecognition -> gov digital ID.

In future could lead to a digital ID #biometric expectation/tracking.

#Apple #Privacy #iOS

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/28/apples-ios-15-to-reportedly-use-facial-recognition-to-validate-id-card-storage

The feature that made Waze more popular than Google maps until Google bought them was the crowdsourced identification of speed traps.
https://www.osm.org has the ability to log face traps (surveillance/facial recognition cameras). I have been mapping them as points of type: surveillance.
Some mobile mapping apps such as #OrganicMaps could show these features to help us know how to safely navigate around town. Edit your neighborhood maps.

Hello, I’m the reel2bits project main developper (a #FLOSS self-hostable #soundcloud like with #ActivityPub federation).

It’s written in python/flask/vuejs and I need help because of health issues I’m unable to work a lot on it anymore, if you are interested to help me on some of the issues and more specially the ActivityPub part, you can contact me through:

the project matrix channel
the issue tracker
this account

boosts appreciated, thanks.

The right to be online should be coupled with a right to be offline.