kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

My Business Card Runs Linux

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/ #linux

Zuckerberg vs Santa

This is amazing, we evolved the alphabet from pictograms to highly stylized characters to letters and now we're going full circle by incorporating emojis such as 🐂 that thousands of years earlier became "a" and 🐟 that became "d"

A Twitter app bug was used to match 17 million phone numbers to user accounts

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/efbol6/a_twitter_app_bug_was_used_to_match_17_million/

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/24/twitter-android-bug-phone-numbers/

So the European Central Bank has published a white paper about a crypto currency.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/publications/pdf/ecb.mipinfocus191217.en.pdf?3824c3f26ad2f928ceea370393cce785

But this currency seems to be an own development, requires intermediate banks to be involved in all transactions and puts those banks in charge of remove your data from smaller transactions to make them anonymous.

Let me put it this way: this is broken by design. And that while we already have solutions for those problems implemented in GNU Taler.

https://taler.net/

It's just sad…

"Galaksija" or Galaxy in Serbian, was a DIY computer from Yugoslavia, invented by Voja Antonić in 1983

It ran on a Zilog Z80 at 3Mhz and had 6K RAM and 8K ROM max. You built the whole thing, including the keyboard

Here's the complete listing from the Računari magazine (January, 1984) with the complete build instructions including the keyboard wiring (language is Serbian, I think)
http://www.voja.rs/galaksija/0102.htm

And the ROM-a B instruction set http://www.voja.rs/galaksija/ROM%20B%20Listing%20Scans/ROM_B_listing.htm

Three French executives were convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/20/three-french-executives-were-convicted-suicides-their-workers/

@amolith @kev I'm more concerned with Clouflare's dominance (~75% of high-traffic websites on internet) regarding caching HTTPS in exchange for website owners private keys (in effect silently compromising all visitors to said sites as well). After digging into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed and the technical solution at Cloudflare making this security bug possible, along with their transparency (https://www.cloudflare.com/transparency/), it became apparent that this is the biggest orchestrated HTTPS weakness out there serving US government.

"Web design" has become kind of an oxymoron

On one hand, it's easier through building blocks, by including existing libraries. On the other, most people stick to the same or similar layouts

Also, browsing is a nightmare even on "non-app" type pages because of the sizes and number of third-party garbage. If it wasn't for uBlock Origin and uMatrix, I wouldn't be using a browser

Still thankful to @schnittchen for letting me know about uMatrix more than 2 years ago

The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland https://omarabid.com/the-modern-web