resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

Is fax making a come back or is it just me? I've basically quit sending email. I can't even recall when I last sent #email. But I send a #fax almost daily. The fax machine never forces me to solve a #CAPTCHA & the receiving side very rarely rejects my fax on the basis of not liking how I sent it (probably ~1 in 100 get rejected because I send using caller ID rejection). Fax #justWorks.

Okay, since their IRC wasn't exactly helpful:

Did any of you #Matrix heads ever use #TOR to register at and use a Matrix service?

And did any of you set up S2S through TOR on a Matrix server and/or Matrix as a TOR hidden service?

How well did that play out?

@resist1984 @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @VictorVenema@bonn.social

When I find bugs, I want to report them as a responsible user. But if the project uses Github, I can't do it.

@VictorVenema @VictorVenema A developer just told me they would be willing to expand & enhance a #FOSS tool, but because the project is in MS #GitHub, they opted not to. I just want that on record for those who think putting their project on Github encourages support.

@VictorVenema Scientists are practised at making comments look like questions. So as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy was there I asked:

"Mr. Sheehan, is the White House #OSTP aware that the main Open Source Code repository #GitHub is forced by the US to block several countries, which makes it useless for scientific use?"

#OpenScienceUN

@zacchiro There really needs to be an online service where you can report #censorship and also search the db for censorship actions before participating on a project.

When a bank blocks Tor, it's bad for environment. Liberals (who tend to care simultaneously for the environment & privacy) are forced into a dilemma in which privacy may prevail over paperless statements. So assessing whether a bank protects the environment is not simply whether they have e-statements.. they must also permit Tor so those e-statements are reachable.

@rysiek If TomTom stops selling maps or Roku or Wii stops their online svc, you're fucked & yet article 1-5 miss this. A #RightToRepair that leaves someone w/a proprietary box doesn't go far enough if it only gives legal rights & not tech means. I don't just want TomTom to allow fiddling w/their old box- I want TomTom to release the SDK & src code when it decides it's EOL.

Fight for the #RightToRepair:
https://securepairs.org/statement-of-principles/

#InfoSec

"The phone number of a freelance Mexican reporter, Cecilio Pineda Birto, was found in the list, apparently of interest to a Mexican client in the weeks leading up to his murder, when his killers were able to locate him at a car wash." https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus?__twitter_impression=true

#Lowes & #Macys are both using #FacialRecognition on customers who enter their store. #Boycott them.

This is a long but interesting read. TL;DR: the group that makes the very standards on which the internet is based is being filled with people and orgs who don’t care about your privacy. https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war