kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

If you wish to control your online identity and consider #keybase, please have a look at https://keyoxide.org instead :)

- fully #opensource
- #decentralized and #privacy focuse
- no vendor lock-in
- no #zoom takeover \o/

#pgp #gpg #encryption

Спасибо, Кирилл и Владислав!
Беларусы поймут.

@rf @russian_mastodon

@alcinnz One of my favourite talks ever (there's a video linked at the top): https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

> I want to share with you my simple two-step secret to improving the performance of any website.
>
> 1. Make sure that the most important elements of the page download and render first.
>
> 2. Stop there.

re "material conditions":
The anarchist criticism of Marxism is not that it fails. Changing the world is extremely hard, regardless of who you are, and you can absolutely find yourself in an impossible position.

The criticism is that it results in tyranny upon us. Us, who it claims to represent the interests of.

"the main Dutch public broadcaster… found that ads served to users who opted out of cookies were bringing in as much or more money as ads served to users who opted in."

"The results were so strong that as of January 2020, NPO simply got rid of advertising cookies altogether…"

https://www.wired.com/story/can-killing-cookies-save-journalism/

"NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise snoops and soldiers.

"It might be best not to ask how the NSA knows this and why it advises most mitigations don’t help."

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/05/nsa_location_data_guide/

An attempt was made yesterday to scam me into buying iTunes gift cards by someone pretending to be a relative. I think it might be helpful for folks to see and read how they operate, so I'm pasting the full conversation here: https://pastebin.com/2hH1bNB6

This scam involved hacking a primary Email account, sending an Email with a cunningly disguised reply-to (an "o" changed to a "0" in the address), and then pretending to be in distress.

And remember, if someone you know needs money, call them.

Oilrig (APT34) has become the first publicly known APT to incorporate the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol in its attacks.

It might make sense to block DoH / DoT network-wide:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/iranian-hacker-group-becomes-first-known-apt-to-weaponize-dns-over-https-doh/

And only allow the DNS/DoH that is supposed to be allowed on your network.

Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google

https://lwn.net/Articles/827233/

*visible concern and disappointment*

Word is that Linux based OSes are for tech savvy people. Truth is that if you need only web browser and sometimes office software Linux is best for your usecase. I've installed Manjaro (but any other one "easy" distro would work too) to my mothers laptop and she got used to it fast and barely notices difference between her laptop and her Windows machine on work. Seems to me like small thing you can do for your parents to keep them safer and more private on internet.

I wrote a blog post about @Eunomia!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2020/08/why-eunomia-builds-on-mastodon/

#Firefox 79 Is Released With 10 Security Fixes. The new #WebRender rendering engine is now enabled on #Windows by default. #Linux users can manually enable it and make #Firefox faster in some areas and slower in others.
https://linuxreviews.org/Firefox_79_Is_Released_With_10_Security_Fixes

They motherfucking did it. Google is now blocking everyone in Denmark from hearing Danish music on YouTube.

Everyone else can hear our music but us.

What The Fuck.

Article from Danish Songwriter's Union in Danish:
https://www.koda.dk/om-koda/nyheder/fa-svar-pa-sporgsmal-til-googles-blokering-af-musik-pa-youtube

The Welsh language isn't being 'forced' on anyone - we're just reclaiming our inheritance. https://nation.cymru/opinion/the-welsh-language-isnt-being-forced-on-anyone-were-just-reclaiming-our-inheritance/