kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Open hardware and open source software for low cost device which measures air pollution in most polluted country in the world, Serbia. You can see product "climerco" and people behind it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdLfDc-AlAc&t=374

Iz Srbije si i zelis da ucestvujes u mapiranju zagadjenja? Mozes da se prijavis na ovoj formi:

https://www.isoc.rs/opencall/

Vise o organizaciji ovde: https://www.isoc.rs/

Which is better for privacy? Signal or Matrix?

Matrix Pros:
Open protocol
E2E keys stored on device by default (not on homeserver)
Federated/decentralized like #mastodon so no single point of failure/control by outside influences.
Authenticated sessions
Open source server (to my knowledge)

Matrix Cons:
Fewer users compared to signal (my guess)
Learning curve (user must understand how to use e2e, auth sessions, on-device backups properly)
More? Maybe few full featured clients.

Signal Pros:
Simple to setup
Larger user base
More well known
E2e encryption
Open source app

Signal Cons:
Requires phone number
Central point of failure/control
Registration lock and PIN may be uploading more data to signal servers than user is led to believe (unproven by me)
Closed source server (to my knowledge)

Would love comments on this.
#signal #matrix #opensource #privacy #encryption
Boosts appreciated.

@GNUxeava To be clear I added this all up and they’re asking for a total of:

18,560 CPU cores
122,880 GB RAM
960 TB disk

What the fuck.

@kensanata "Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook"

There is no other way to interpret Facebook’s privacy invading moves over the years—even if it’s time to simplify! finally!―as anything other than decisions driven by a combination of self-serving impulses: namely, profit motives, the structural incentives inherent to the company’s business model, and the one-sided ideology of its founders and some executives. All these are forces over which the users themselves have little input, aside from the regular opportunity to grouse through repeated scandals. And even the ideology—a vague philosophy that purports to prize openness and connectivity with little to say about privacy and other values—is one that does not seem to apply to people who run Facebook or work for it. Zuckerberg buys houses surrounding his and tapes over his computer’s camera to preserve his own privacy, and company employees went up in arms when a controversial internal memo that made an argument for growth at all costs was recently leaked to the press—a nonconsensual, surprising, and uncomfortable disclosure of the kind that Facebook has routinely imposed upon its billions of users over the years.

Tufekci, 2018.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook/

#ZeynepTufekci #facebook #MarkZuckerberg #surveillance #privacy #hypocrisy #trust #sincerity #credibility

Does #Facebook use sensitive data for advertising purposes?

#acm
#privacy
#surveillancecapitalism

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/1/249457-does-facebook-use-sensitive-data-for-advertising-purposes/fulltext

Outlier looks pretty exciting. At first glance it appears to be something like Masterclass but for STEM, plus it counts as actual college credits for anyone in university. basically it is university level courses taught by famous experts in the field.

Also gets some brownie points from me for highlighting Hannah Fry as one of the instructors. She is awesome and has done a lot of great stuff over the years. I got to talk to a her a few times and she helped me out with some problems I was working on once or twice (not through outlier)... so cool they snatched her up.

https://www.outlier.org/ is the link for anyone who wants to check it out.

#Science #Math #Mathematics #learning #elearning @Science @math

@rf Михаил Лидин et al. vs "Университет" Синергия - что происходит сейчас

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq8CO9jeaQ4

@zubrzysta
Będzie bardzo przyziemnie. KDE jako najbardziej przyjazne moim zdaniem, kompletne i spójne środowisko graficzne, przy tym zawierające programy tj. Krita czy Kdenlive.
Nextcloud, który sprawił że wolę używać własnego VPS-a jako skromne miejsce na pliki niż google drive, google keep itd.
Mastodon, dzięki któremu sfederowane sieci społecznościowe nie stanowią przeszkody dla mniej technicznych użytkowników. Wyjątkowo dopracowany UX/onboarding.

Reject modernity