kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@kravietz That's one of the better bits of what I think of as "St Paul's Blog", and certainly in the Gospel accounts Jesus opposes hierarchy often.

I might point to the opening of John's Gospel as more central to Christianity, or even John 3:16 -- For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

But the crapitalist caricature of Christianity is just that: a caricature.

Over 267 million Facebook users reportedly had data exposed online https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/19/facebook-data-exposed-online/

I really want to love nodejs, but whenever I try to install a server side nodejs app, it's like "Install yarn... <KABOOM!> install the latest version of node.... Use nvm... Oh, you have to start your app as root... <KABOOM>

And people complain that Python apps are hard to install and distribute? Yeesh! :)

I'd say this sums up our philosophy on #QOTO rather well

#Facebook is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons. A database containing more than 267 million user IDs and matching phone numbers has been discovered on the internet.

#mstdn

https://www.androidauthority.com/facebook-data-leak-1068230/amp/

> Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014974099930714115.html

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero #Privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

[Photo of terrifying horse skulled puppet]

In the Welsh Christmas tradition of Mari Lwyd, a horse skul lvisits your home singing rhymes outside your door

Wholesome Pyromaniac:
"That's not even the best part. The person inside needs to sing back with excuses why Lwyd can’t come in. It goes back and forth until one gives up. If the person in the house can't respond, they let Lwyd in and it gets to raid your pantry and drink all your beer."

Mozilla just decided on Matrix for their preferred replacement for IRC. https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-the-decision/50620/2

I might consider trying that out again. At least for cases where Mastodon doesn't really excel.

Of course, I still want to create an IRC/slack-like interface to Mastodon that creates rooms out of hashtags. But, out of scope for life.

A simple #PinePhone vs #Librem5 comparison

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/librem-5-price-hike-2020

#smartphones #libre #free

Facebook admits to accessing user location data in app even when opted out- Technology News, Firstpost - https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/facebook-admits-to-accessing-user-location-data-in-app-even-when-opted-out-7801261.html

@acrata

"For a company that holds personal information about billions of people’s lives, the company is afraid of its workers even knowing their own legal rights to organize to hold the company accountable" <-- This so much

First release of Sequoia PGP! The seedling has seen the light of day! https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2018/11/26/initial-release/

Just learned that

gpg2 --default-new-key-algo ed25519 --generate-key

will generate a signing-only key.

Use

gpg2 --expert --full-generate-key

and select ECC, ECC options to get "ed25519" signing key and "cv25519" people can encrypt to

#gpg

Seems that Mozilla and Mullvad are teaming up to provide Wireguard VPN service soon.

Firefox Private Network: VPN to Protect Your Entire Device

Use the VPN from Firefox for full-device protection for all apps. With servers in 30+ countries, you can connect to anywhere, from anywhere.

https://fpn.firefox.com/vpn

@rysiek Unfortunately, I'm quite bad at social media (federated or otherwise). But, I want to give a shout out to two associated projects: OpenPGP CA, a tool to make using PGP in an organization trivial (https://gitlab.com/hkos/openpgp-ca) and Umschlagend, an encryption remailer that you can put in front of a service to signing and or encrypt outgoing mails (https://gitlab.com/umschlagend/umschlagend).

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/radiocapture-software-to-capture-archive-and-listen-to-trunked-radio-from-many-sources-now-open-sourced/