kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Apple/Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention is a mechanism intended to improve privacy. It was found to have privacy vulnerabilities allowing sites to track the user (and fingerprint), and to stealing web browser history of a user. Incredible find.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07421

"What I learned as a developer from accidents in space" by Andrey Sitnik https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/what-i-learned-as-a-developer-from-accidents-in-space

UK has around 1/3 of total wind power installed in Europe, yet over the last day it was mostly burning gas at ~300 gCO2eq/kWh because... "installed" only works if there's wind. Compare to France at ~80 gCO2eq.

Meta Attack Language (MAL) for building computer system attack models and probabilistic simulations https://github.com/mal-lang/malcompiler/wiki/MAL-language-specification

iCloud is now officially a surveillance tool. Apps that are relying on it to store your private messages (such as WhatsApp) are part of the problem https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT

@blipp Yes https://www.electricitymap.org awesome real-time energy and CO2 tracking

@dump_stack We will all go uniformly nice and brown!

Today with no wind and cloud cover over EU non-nuclear countries are running coal and gas mostly, emitting plenty of CO2 and other pollution.

Nuclear Power: The Road to a Carbon Free Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ravKXD4iqQ

@DissidentKitty@radical.town Kermit Shrek is the evilest!

@crackurbones Per old sci-fi movies they should be now able to go there and back in time ;)

@freemo Today the concepts of left & right are just silly reductionism. If you're a pro-choice Christian supporting free market economy - is that left or right? Semantics is even more stupid, with Americans using "liberal" as synonym for "socialist" and "socialism" - for social democracy.

@yogthos Very unlikely Ali saw anything of real USSR except for some Potemkin villages

#snapcraft new feature:

snap find --section=server

@nextcloud per-client server-side data encryption

@saper Yeah, in every single aspect...