kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Not everyone realizes the media oligopoly also works in team with a rarely seen companion: the mobile operators. Everything in Google and FB platforms encourages bulky downloads. This is one of the features I love most in F-Droid: being able to quickly transfer all of your apps to another devices without using even a byte of mobile data. You can transfer apps over LAN WiFi, Bluetooth or SD cards. https://f-droid.org/en/2019/06/20/two-new-ways-to-get-apps-nearby-without-internet.html

Have you seen these misleading marketing practices recently? Now we have a directory of stores using them! https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/ #privacy

Nice! Trick web trackers into thinking you're someone else https://trackthis.link/ #privacy

"Yet just hours before Zuckerberg reassured investors about Facebook’s commitment to privacy, his own lawyers argued in court that “there is no privacy” on Facebook." #privacy #facebook https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/06/01/in-facebooks-own-words-this-week-there-is-no-privacy-on-its-platform/#7a13868f5b32

Absolutely fantastic series lectures on #russian #poetry & #prose classics by Dmitry Bykov https://invidio.us/watch?v=pn_gnILEoYs no English subtitles I'm afraid

"People are terrified of nuclear power (the most scalable form of carbon-free energy) because of images of Three Mile Island (which killed no one), Fukushima (which killed no one; the deaths were caused by the tsunami and a panicked, unnecessary evacuation), and Chernobyl (which killed fewer people than are killed by coal every day). " https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/focal-point-harvard-professor-steven-pinker-says-the-truth-lies-in-the-data/ #ecology

"The buffer holding random values contains some predictable content left over from the FIPS power-up self-tests" https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2019-02/

Overzealous activism is just as bad as denialism.

"Analysis of "New Report Warns "High Likelihood Of Human Civilization Coming To An End" Within 30 Years" Published in IFLScience. Six scientists analyzed the article and estimated its overall scientific credibility to be ‘low’. A majority of reviewers tagged the article as: Alarmist, Misleading." https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/iflscience-story-on-speculative-report-provides-little-scientific-context-james-felton/

Why you need to give Firefox a chance
https://dev.to/dtroode/why-you-need-to-give-firefox-a-chance-5g5a #privacy #firefox

UK ICO's Update report into adtech and real time bidding https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/2615156/adtech-real-time-bidding-report-201906.pdf #privacy #advertisingandmarketing

Do ask your ISP and hosting provider about #bgp security - kudos to Hetzner who just replied: "We're using RPKI, filtering and Anti-Spoofing mechanisms". If yours doesn't send them this https://www.manrs.org/isps/guide/ #bgphijacking