kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

i kinda wanna babble about this now. okay so RPN is Reverse Polish Notation. before explaining what it actually is i wanna tell y'all a bit about why i even give a shit. so, story time.

Turns out avoiding Facebook is not just good for your privacy, but also leads to "… improvements in well-being, and in particular in self-reported happiness, life satisfaction, depression, and anxiety.”

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/02/29/top-economists-study-what-happens-when-you-stop-using-facebook/

BREAKING: @CNIL is launching an investigation against @Criteo following our AdTech complaint! https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3395/cnil-launches-investigation-criteo-following-pis-complaint

This is a great news: the AdTech industry needs to be scrutinised for its massive data exploitation of people's personal data and GDPR needs to be enforced

Good resource for hardening your nginx server:
https://github.com/trimstray/nginx-admins-handbook/blob/master/README.md

"/e/ OS is about freedom of choice. We want the core system to be better, and then offer as many possible options to users, by informing them as much as possible. In short: they can still any application they need. Next step will be to offer a feature to actually block trackers used in applications." Great interview with @gael about /e/, a de-Googled Android smartphone OS. #ungoogle #nextgenerationinternet

"There's also a more subtle effect of this performance loss: waste of electricity. Regardless of how fast your computer is, making it work harder makes it eat more electricity. So #JavaScript code is both increasing energy costs and contributing to #ClimateChange. You can see this for yourself by measuring how long your laptop battery lasts with and without JavaScript turned on in your browser."
https://onpon4.github.io/articles/kill-js.html

#MakeJavascriptOptional

Here's an excellent flow chart laying out the many reasons why over-use of #Javascript in websites is a bad idea, even for serving users who don't habitually block some or all JS:
https://kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html

#MakeJavascriptOptional

I wanted to welcome Harry Chen PhD to #QOTO his account is @HarryChenPhD

He lives in China, and from what I can tell is currently living in Wuhan, the epicenter of the #coronavirus where he posts videos updating us all on the situation. He labels himself as a "renegade journalist".

He was recently banned from twitter because, well, China doesnt really like renegades or journalists. So we are proud to act as a platform to help him host his videos and get the word out on how things develop. Consider following him.

You can read a bit about how twitter oppressed his freedom of speech and what ultimately brought him to the fediverse at these two links:

https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-suspends-harry-chen-phd-cornavirus/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/f938j3/twitter_suspends_harry_chen_phd_known_for/

#Wuhan #CoronaVirus #FF #FollowFriday #China #Journalism #Journalist

The Threat Hunter Playbook is a community-based open source project developed to share threat hunting concepts and aid the development of techniques and hypothesis for hunting campaigns by leveraging security event logs from diverse operating systems. 

https://threathunterplaybook.com/introduction.html

How a mapping party in Berlin lead to a global movement to map Africa and beyond https://medium.com/@sabman/how-a-mapping-party-in-lead-to-a-global-movement-to-map-africa-9d870c0bae0e
#MissingMaps #OpenStreetMap

Menstruation apps have been sharing the most intimate details of our lives with Facebook and others. We must fight back by exposing their practices and their impact on users #iwd2020 Women’s bodies are not commodities. https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3196/no-bodys-business-mine-how-menstruation-apps-are-sharing-your-data https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/no-bodys-business-mine https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1236578150760366080/photo/1