kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

A great long read on how Google became a surveillance company. In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

https://longreads.com/2019/09/05/how-google-discovered-the-value-of-surveillance/

If you are using Firefox with multiple tabs open and you are experiencing high RAM usage you can fix the issue with setting this tweak in about:config to TRUE (disabled by default):

browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory -> true

New blog post: One thousand women of STEM! (https://11011110.github.io/blog/2019/09/22/1000-women-stem.html)

Today I created my 1000th Wikipedia biography of women in mathematics, computer science, statistics, and other areas of science and technology. The post lists some of the highlights of this set.

My (33F) husband's (35M) career in academic philosophy is ruining our marriage.
@OCRbot

German ministry hellbent on taking back control of 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft. 'Pain points' include data collection, lock-in and uncontrollable costs.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/19/german_government_report_digital_sovereignty/

A camel sat on a woman at a Louisiana truck stop, so she bit its testicles, cops say

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/d80t92/a_camel_sat_on_a_woman_at_a_louisiana_truck_stop/

https://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article235366162.html

My dream for Mastodon is for it to be a viable choice as a publishing platform for any creator. In other words, for people to not feel like they're locked in to Twitter or Instagram if they want to be professionally successful.

Friends building a sand bridge out to a bonfire on the beach

#cute #bat 😄

reminder that trusting Google, or any centralized entity, with your personal data leads toward dysfunctional, authoritarian walled gardens: "Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/gmails-api-lockdown-will-kill-some-third-party-app-access-starting-july-15/

'muppet-grade security' at Scotiabank 😆
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/18/scotiabank_code_github_leak/

Nextdns.io, a combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-hole

https://nextdns.io/

Some further considerations of DoH as a secure set of protocols. I have been using it with Android Pie for some time to good effect

https://dzone.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-dns-over-https