Gritty 
@gritnot@social.privacytools.io
Privacy-focused computer nerd
Joined Dec 2020
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700 followers! ☺️
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It's often assumed that because Twitter has a larger userbase than the Fediverse, that accounts would automatically get more followers there.
However, many accounts (especially FOSS projects) have more followers here on the Fediverse.
Some examples (as of 26th July 2021):
@fdroidorg has 10.8k vs 7.33k on Twitter
@k9mail has 1.57k vs 680 on Twitter
@Minetest has 1.39k vs 785 on Twitter
If you know any Libre projects that are yet to join the Fedi, please ask them to give it a go!
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PostmarketOS is a version of Alpine Linux for smartphones. You can follow at:
Their official site is at https://postmarketos.org
The distro is available for many different devices, but the most compatible is the PinePhone made by @PINE64
(You can check device compatibilities at https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices)
#PostmarketOS #AlpineLinux #Alpine #Linux #GNU #GNULinux #Computing #FOSS #Smartphones #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Distro #Distros
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@gritnot Sometimes people see things as binary. Resistance is futile. It takes a little explaining to convince them that it is not an all or nothing situation. The more privacy you can retain, the more power you have over your own destiny. This article kind of explains the situation. https://reallifemag.com/personal-panopticons/
@krock great article
@krock i hear you on all of that. Education is key but some of my harder cases are technical people who seem to just not care: “the government has my data, they have had it for years.” But it’s just not that simple, it’s HOW it’s being used to make decisions that affect your life or modify the way your see or think things. Utility and convenience outweigh the effort it takes to pore over privacy policies and practices.
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"This de-anonymization industry uses various terms... including "identity resolution" and "identity graph." Other companies claiming to offer a similar service... FullContact, which says it has 223 billion data points for the U.S., as well as profiles on over 275 million adults in the U.S."
""whole-person Identity Graph provides personal/professional attributes, as well as online/offline identifiers... adding that can include names, addresses, social IDs, and MAIDs."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnmvz/industry-unmasks-at-scale-maid-to-pii
When I talk to friends and coworkers about online privacy, I feel like someone who should be wearing a tinfoil hat, a conspiracy theorist a-la far left or far rightists. Some times it makes me step back and think… am I blinded?
But no, I’m reminded that online privacy needs to be a basic human right.
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Police Destroy 1,069 Bitcoin Miners With Big Ass Steamroller In Malaysia
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Conservatives ARE being censored by Big Tech. So is everyone else, from Palestinians to Christian ministries to sex educators. Big Tech won't get moderation right for billions of us - but interoperability lets communities set their own standards. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship
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Never Obsolete posts screenshots and photos of retro computing and gaming history. You can follow at:
➡️ @256
It's also worth checking the replies under the posts, as some images provoke lots of memories!
#NeverObsolete #2000s #1990s #1980s #Computing #Gaming #History #Technology #Retro #Nostalgia #Fun
@256 not sure if you have it, but I remember watching defrag move all the different colored blocks. It was somehow soothing
@256 I used this so many times
“By engaging in surveillance of their own against themselves, they became instrumental in their own domination and subjugation.”
“Panopticism in the digital era is more subtle in its nature, we are forced to conform to norms and behave accordingly while never actually being aware of the hold it has over us. The watchtower has been replaced by security cameras and algorithms, police presence and data trawlers.”
SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY – PANOPTICON IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA (DONNA SUSAN MATHEW), PART 1
@nikolal ah so maybe it’s my client. I’ll have to shop around for ios
@TheDoctor I’ll check those out
