Michel Salim 
@michel_slm@social.privacytools.io
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Facebook Production Engineer by day, #privacy enthusiast by night. #Linux user since 1998, #Fedora package maintainer since 2005. @michel-slm for my cat pictures.
Joined Mar 2019
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RT @gonedark@twitter.com
One of the reasons contributions to open source fail is because they are submitted without the “why”, just the “what”.
Spend time to craft the PR with why the change is needed. What was the problem before? How does this solve it?
instance admin question
@BurungHantu @jonah any idea why some ActivityPub accounts I link in my profile - @michel_slm and @michel-slm don't show up as links properly? The latter is listed in my floss.social profile too and does render just fine.
@L1Cafe @blacklight447 it's certainly... interesting. It's not a lonely experience, I'd say a substantial percentage of employees, especially those who use Linux care about privacy.
@trebach@mastodon.sdf.org @therealraccoon @django ugh, thanks. Note to self, check if I can just turn wifi off altogether
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"You don’t have to be malicious to invade someone’s privacy,” says EFF's Tech Projects Director, @the_zeroth_law, about plans by Amazon and Walmart for in-home delivery, with surveillance videos maintained by the companies https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-walmart-amazon-google-camera-home-20190621-story.html
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Basically when you use #Chrome/ium this allows Google to track you for any site using this "feature" and you won't even know it nor can you easily prevent it. [2/3]
sources: https://blog.amp.dev/2018/11/13/developer-preview-of-better-amp-urls-in-google-search/
@therealraccoon @django I inherited a smart TV from a coworker who was relocating - and never connected it to my home network. It's in effect just a giant computer monitor.
Hello all,
I'm interested in #free_software, #privacy and concerned about the danger of #monoculture and #monopoly in technology and elsewhere.
I've been a #Linux user since 1998, and a #Fedora contributor since 2005. My $dayjob is with #Facebook though not on any product or ads teams, and I actually get to work with, and contribute to, #floss projects.
See my profile for my other #fediverse accounts. Looking forward to conversing here!
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"Smart" and networked proprietary devices should be very much called what they are: dystopian junk.
If you want a less polemic term, use "automated surveillance devices," but really all of these TVs, home assistants, toasters, fridges, smoke detectors, etc. are dystopian junk.
We need "low tech" appliances, and we need personal computing devices that are, by design, fully controllable by the people using them.
#Mastodon seems to be headed in the right direction, though we probably also need #dataportability - a way to easily move one's data from one instance to another as some will inevitably cease to operate (or someone just feel like moving), in a way that preserves one's network graph.
Social networks do not have to be natural monopolies! That's where federated open protocols come in, like the #fediverse. And in a federated network of small to mid sized instances moderation is a more tractable undertaking, and users can chip in to keep the sites running as much as they're able to. There's room for different funding models here too.
“Competition Won’t Fix Big Tech” by Zander Nethercutt
Rather disappointing to see the author arguing that we're in effect just commodities, like farm animals, and painting a false choice between competitive markets in which tech companies compete to screw us over and a monopoly in which we apparently get more humane treatment.
@xurizaemon if #Amazon wants to make money both from delivering goods and from #surveillance while doing so, we really should take our money elsewhere so we're not subsidizing their #drones
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Firefox's Multi-Account Containers add-on is awesome but, what about all the random browsing you do on a daily basis? I stumbled across this gem the other day and it's taken containers to a whole new level but automagically creating temporary containers for new sites you browse to. I highly recommend it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/
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New blog post: "How to de-Google your Android phone" https://nolanlawson.com/2019/06/13/how-to-de-google-your-android-phone/
That's right; I'm getting back into handy tips and helpful guides. Hopefully this post will steer folks in the right direction!
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Still unsure if using #HTTPS on your website because of performance?
Have a look at https://imagekit.io/demo/http2-vs-http1
HTTP2 (which relies on TLS) can parallelize your data requests. You will see the differences with your own eyes.
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@Wetrix (I can't comment on internal matters, obviously)
Michel Salim has moved to @michel_slm@floss.social:
has moved to @michel_slm@floss.social:
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Facebook Production Engineer by day, #privacy enthusiast by night. #Linux user since 1998, #Fedora package maintainer since 2005. @michel-slm for my cat pictures.
Joined Mar 2019
