kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Windows Core Networking will soon support DoH.

Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS - Microsoft Tech Community - 1014229

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Networking-Blog/Windows-will-improve-user-privacy-with-DNS-over-HTTPS/ba-p/1014229

Jimmy Wales looking into their new platform joining the #fediverse through #ActivityPub

ugh i really hope crossposters don't slowly choke mastodon like they did to diaspora*

if you're just crossposting everything you tweet on birdsite then what even is the point of making a mastodon account? that's glorified spam at worst, and a recipe for abandonment.

Друзья.
Где-то когда-то в Англии.

@rf

Remember, privacy doesn't exist without security! Keep your server updated and follow our announcement channels. If you run NGINX, did you already update the configuration and PHP packages on your server? You should!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/urgent-security-issue-in-nginx-php-fpm/

Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/interstellar-space-weirder-than-expected-nasa-voyager-2-reveals/

Just read about Google pushing out a lovely update that caused outages all over the globe, and read this portion in the article (from zdnet, which i don't reccomend, so I'll find another link to somewhere less... um somewhere I'd feel better about linking to.)

A sysadmin wrote this angry message to Google about this:
"Do you see the impact you created for thousands of us without any warning or explanation? We are not your test subjects," said an angry sysadmin. "We are running professional services for multi million dollar programs. Do you understand how many hours of resources were wasted by your 'experiment'?"

Dear Sysadmin: Yes, yes you ARE their test subjects, according to their behavior. Take this as a lesson to NOT use their services or their products, because they treat you as a test subject, _always._

Also, they're not the only one.
(I seem to recall finding this in Firefox at one point and saying "HELL NO WTF")

Linus Torvalds: Git is a distributed version control system, which means even if you lose a remote, you still have your local copy, so your code is safe, unlike centralized VCSes.

Developer Community: wut?

Microsoft: Hmm. How about you use our Visual Studio Online and push it to GitHub, both hosted on our computers, so that you don't have a local copy?

Developer Community: Yaay! Such innovation! Very cloud! Much wow! 🎉

Trump: Thou shall not use US services.

Developers: Where's my code? 😭

**Investigators link MH17 plane crash to Russian officials**

"Dutch investigators say they have intercepted telephone calls that implicate the Russian government in the MH17 downing over Ukraine in 2014."

https://www.dw.com/en/investigators-link-mh17-plane-crash-to-russian-officials/a-51250231?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

#news #bot

[BREAKING] Leaked Facebook emails reveal "number one threat" to its platform: decentralized platforms.

#FediverseNewsNetwork

My current production software on Linux:

Photoshop → https://www.photopea.com or GIMP
Illustrator → Inkscape or https://vectr.com
MS Office → LibreOffice
Premiere → OpenShot
Audition → Audacity or Ardour
Acrobat → Master PDF Editor (not FOSS)
Lightroom → darktable
RDC → Remmina
InDesign → Scribus
Skype for Business → Sky
An actual phone - Zoiper

Facebook is on the defensive after its head of news was revealed to have cofounded a website critical of Elizabeth Warren https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-news-chief-cofounded-site-that-has-attacked-elizabeth-warren-2019-11