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Threat modeling is the cornerstone for teaching all other digital security concepts. Help learners use the question-based methodology for assessing risks and get them ready to understand what they face as well as to create a plan of action. https://sec.eff.org/topics/threat-modeling
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We just shipped v0.10.10! 🥳
For more info see https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.10.10
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“…the mutability of the past”
“It was therefore necessary to rewrite a portion of Big Brother’s speech, in such a way as to predict the thing that had actually happened.”
“But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.”
“…when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.”
Some phrases in 1984 are downright scary.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.
A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violen
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
#/etc/ #html5 #web #weeknotes #work
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As the copyright lobby calls for more technological measures to restrict the use of copyrighted works, YouTube’s Content ID provides a sobering study in the dangers of such systems. https://www.eff.org/wp/unfiltered-how-youtubes-content-id-discourages-fair-use-and-dictates-what-we-see-online
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@angdraug @nar @isolategab you can follow this list of bad actor instances and if you happen to stumble over such an instance yourself you can report it there: https://fediblock.org/
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RT: @BioDivLibrary@twitter.com
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#Science #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenSource #PublicData
@angdraug @isolategab As far as I know, you can make a toot explaining why the instance is bad, and add the tag #fediblock. Instance admins sometimes look at this tag (and other tools). But the thing is, since Mastodon is decentralized, there's no way to report or take down an instance, since the instance isn't owned by Mastodon. The only thing you can do is have the instance be blocked by most other instances.
@52fighters There's been a whole issue with Gab federating with Mastodon. Most people here blocked Gab, and then when Gab realised racists aren't welcome, they left Mastodon.
Look at @isolategab's profile for more info.
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Now that #Gab is fully defederated from ActivityPub and the Fediverse..and that this fight seems thoroughly won..I have.been thinking about the purpose of this account.
What do folks think? My first idea here is that the work is fully over, but in some ways can serve as a model for community organizing for when NAZI's or similarly bad come knocking on the Fediverse's door again. They are never gone for good.
So good to keep the account alive to document the pushback we helped, to denote best practices. To advocate that free speech and freedom of association can co-exist quite well.
And that distributed moderation of individual instances with clear Federation policies worked FAR better than any of the mainstream centralized goliath's handling of hate, abuse, threats of violence has done.
What do folks think?
@mistermonster Ok. Thanks.
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@isolategab I believe this account is best for letting people know about other nazi instances so we can #fediblock them.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat On it! Thanks!
@TheDoctor :)
Hi there! I'm new here. I have an account at @nar, which I might move to, but I seem to like this instance more for now.