kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

https://freedomhongkong.org/

Conveniently skips CA and other shenanigans but still interesting PoV:

"Why would Facebook or Google owe you anything? (...) You willfully used a service and generated data that wouldn’t otherwise exist. What you get in return is Facebook itself, for which you’ve not paid a nickel. (...) You’re an infinitesimally small part of a data cooperative whose benefits accrue to the very users that generated it." https://www.wired.com/story/no-data-is-not-the-new-oil/ #privacy #facebook #google

Herd immunity animated https://invidio.us/watch?v=XJFoOCmJsdg

"Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0175799

Here https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=afghanistan+gdp+per+capita

Funny how nobody warning about DoH ever notices that "organisations" could indeed run their own DoH/DoT servers and implement any policy they like https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dutch-govt-explains-the-risks-behind-dns-over-https-move/

Main limitation being of course that it would require ten year long transition program as your whole "organisational" DNS runs on some ancient crap commercial or cloud nameserver, who only heard about DoH/DoT in 2019 and it's just as new to them as say IPv6

OMG so this is a project with some History: started in mid-90's, then I left ISP job and gave it to another guy, then Jeroen changed job too and the project was half-abandoned, so I decided to take it back. Now, refactoring C code written over the course of 20 years is... real fun although I must admit back in 90's I avoided quite a lot of typical C pitfalls - no CVEs so far even though it's relatively popular in some circles https://github.com/kravietz/pam_tacplus

Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet’s Google have failed to provide adequate transparency for global users around political advertising on their services, a privacy advocacy group said on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-privacy/privacy-group-says-tech-giants-not-delivering-on-political-ads-pledges-idUSKBN1WH2NW #privacy #twitter #google #facebook

STEP will be an innovative plan for a commercially-viable fusion power station – offering the realistic prospect of constructing a powerplant by 2040. The investment will allow engineers and scientists to produce a conceptual design for the reactor (known as a ‘tokamak’) that will generate fusion energy and convert it into electricity. UKAEA and partners from industry and academia will pool their expertise to complete the design by 2024.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-take-a-big-step-to-fusion-electricity

Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/apple_hong_kong/ #HongKongFP

How to break #Zcash anonymity using side channel leakage https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/ #cryptography #cryptocurrencies