Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

Ouch, looks like gitlab-letsencrypt has not been maintained for a year. Given it's the only NodeJS app I have to use I wonder if it's time to write a Python version?

https://github.com/rolodato/gitlab-letsencrypt

It should be easier to sunset a Mastodon instance.

Theres lots of reasons they shut down. And that's going to be a fact of life. But the software needs to be aware of that reality.

1) Actors have PGP keypairs. They can prove your identity on a new instance, but currently, exports don't contain the private key.

2) Admins should be able to enable a "sunset mode" which among other things would show site-wide banners encouraging users to grab their exports

A lot of people get robots.txt wrong.

It is, more than anything, a courtesy to *the crawler*. It's you flagging things that may break it (infinite recursion) or things that are fleeting and pointless to cache or index.

It's not a privacy control, and it's definitely not a security measure.

If you're still using any flavour of Chromium (Chrome, Brave, MS Edge,...), please do consider switching to a Gecko browser. Google abusing its monopoly to disable ad blocking is just the beginning, they'll try turning the internet in a gated Google services network as long as we let them

telnet http://mapscii.me # For maps in your terminal from OpenStreetMap. Use arrow keys to move around and a/z to zoom in/out. Or use your mouse if your terminal supports that.

You might notice a new set of options when making your account private.

Our commitment to platform privacy, safety and security remains a top priority and we are proud to offer some of the best safety tools in the fediverse.

#pixelfed

"Surveillance scoring" is a commonly used computer algorithm practice that can cause some customers to be charged more for products &/or be used to deny housing/employment.

@dellcam says experts are calling this behavior illegal & are fighting to end it: https://gizmodo.com/the-surveillance-scores-companies-use-to-rip-you-off-mi-1835812385

UK government and local ISPs are putting the pressure on browsers to drop plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-group-names-mozilla-internet-villain-for-supporting-dns-over-https/

UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS' | ZDNet

UK government and local ISPs are putting the pressure on browsers to drop plans to support DoH protocol.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-group-names-mozilla-internet-villain-for-supporting-dns-over-https/

#Alexa won't delete your #Amazon Echo transcripts. Here's the best you can do - CNET
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/alexa-wont-delete-your-amazon-echo-transcripts-heres-the-best-you-can-do/
#privacy #freedom

@privacylab "One recent study found that Amazon is the second most-trusted institution of any kind in the United States, ahead of Google, the police, and the higher-education system, and trailing only the U.S. military."

that's gotta be one of the most fucked up sentences I ever read

Facebook auto tagging people even if you don't. So much for respecting user's privacy.

🤨 🤨 🤨

#FacebookOutage #ImageTagging #Privacy

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/20681231/facebook-outage-image-tags-captions-ai-machine-learning-revealed

"Before implementing a captcha, it’s worth considering if one is necessary to begin with."

"The comment form of my blog is protected by what I refer to as “naive captcha”, where the captcha term is the same every single time. This has to be the most ineffective captcha of all time, and yet it stops 99.9% of comment spam."

https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/

v @ekaitz_zarraga