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☆ Dmitri ☭  

Colorized footage of the first ever space walk by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in 1965 . 🔊

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Wetrix  

If you thought "The Great Hack" was terrifying, check out "Do You Trust This Computer" (2018) - it's free on YouTube and Prime Video. Of all the recent documentaries on Artificial Intelligence and it's implications, this one is my favorite.

reddit.com/r/Documentaries/com

youtu.be/aV_IZye14vs

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kravietz 🦇  

After a few months of running pretty flawlessly on my prod servers I have just officially issued packaged into "stable" channel snapcraft.io/nftables-pk

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☆ Dmitri ☭  

Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis.
theguardian.com/environment/20

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Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers

theguardian.com/environment/20

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Jonah :ptshield:  

I am extremely happy that @matrixdotorg@twitter.com has responded to the community's concerns and have put in a lot of effort to make Synapse and Riot a more privacy friendly place 😄 — Very glad to recommend them again for group chats on privacytools.io: github.com/privacytoolsIO/priv

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kravietz 🦇  

Is there anything like F-Droid for iPhone, or you can only install what is approved by the Cupertino Censors?

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Apple has yanked an app called HKmap.live from its app store just days after approving it. The app used crowdsourcing to track the location of protestors and police officers in real time. The app's anonymous author says it's intended to help people in Hong Kong stay safe by avoiding potentially dangerous areas.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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Wetrix  

Twitter: We Mistakenly Used User Phone Numbers, Emails for Advertising - thedailybeast.com/twitter-we-m

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OECD takes aim at tech giants with plan to shake up global tax

Proposal to stop companies shifting profits around world to minimise bills

amp.ft.com/content/b16fd228-ea

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"If you wanted to secure the phone numbers you’d just put them in a database table called '2FA numbers don’t sell to marketers,'" says Matthew Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University.

:D

wired.com/story/twitter-two-fa

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CryptGoat  

The #Invidition add-on for #Firefox to redirect #YouTube links to #Invidious instances received a big update. It now allows you to redirect #Twitter links to #Nitter instances.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

Changelog: gitlab.com/Booteille/inviditio

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Tested:

Find a friend who's into alt-med.

Ask them for their favourite homeopathic tablets for common cold.

Clearly demonstrate presence of mercury (mercurius solubilis, "yes, the same as in vaccines!").

Watch their brain shut down.

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Twitter used 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting -company described issue as a bug -issue fixed on Sep 17 -seventh Twitter ad/security bug fixed in the last year -Facebook was caught doing the same last year
zdnet.com/google-amp/article/t

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Sailor Kingu  
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In which the EU and Canada (=commies) compete on cost vs quality, while US (=the land of the free, neocons invisible hand etc) just moans for more import tariffs...
thedailybeast.com/how-boeing-t

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Heh. Russian MP just came up with a draft law to block "distribution of forbidden information" in... personal email and instant messages.

...always one step ahead the West.

currenttime.tv/amp/block-messe

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PM: - But we can't do security requirements because there's too many functional requirements from our users

Me: - So your users aren't expecting your app not to leak their private documents to random people?

[:facepalm emoji not found in Tusky:]

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☆ Dmitri ☭  

A team of researchers led by Elena Reckzeh has developed a new molecule called Glutor that blocks a cancer cell’s ability to uptake and metabolize glucose. The drug works against 44 different cancers in vitro. acsh.org/news/2019/10/02/starv

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Left-wing fraction in European Parliament makes a drama because IT support won't allow them to install a 3rd party app on work computers.

The app is Signal, "recommended by heroic NSA analyst Edward Snowden".

Apart from sheer stupidity of this recommendation, good luck installing an arbitrary 3rd party app in any private or public enterprise.

netzpolitik.org/2019/eu-parlam

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