resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@thenewoil What bothers me about that article: it gives obvious tips on how loyal #Amazon patrons can reduce the data collection. Fuck those people for not boycotting Amazon anyway. Who gives a shit about the privacy of the idiots who choose to bring #Ring & #Alexa into their homes? The article says nothing about #AWS. What about consumers whose banks use AWS? What's collected from that?

@thenewoil Couple good quotes from that article-- a former amazon executive said: "[Amazon] happens to sell products, but they are a data company". The (current?) #Amazon CTO plainly admits: Amazon tries to “collect as much information as possible”.

@jrkuvoski @NaturalNews that #petition is only reachable on a restricted access #Cloudflare website. It's really not worth it to promote the kind of exclusive selective #democracy that #changeDotOrg pushes. It's anti-democratic. BTW NaturalNews, your website has the same problem. I can't see your article. Perhaps rightly so, I don't get the impression your articles good quality anyway.

@kzimmermann @realcaseyrollins my project ATM is to find out which tech giants have a role in thousands of websites. So if i inspect a single hostname using ipinfo.io or searx the IP, that's fine for one site.. but i need to automate it more. Github probably isn't MS's only project with branding that doesn't mention "Microsoft", so it's tricky to do robotically.

calling out @eff

@me Yeah. I don't know if that's the main project or a fork, but that's the tool. The gnu screen similarity is appealing

The fact that the #EFF did not sign the "Call to action against surveillance-based advertising" stands out like crazy. It's yet another indicator that EFF is still fixated on government surviellance, not #surveillanceCapitalism: https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-06-22-letter-to-policymakers-surveillance-based-advertising-draft.pdf

This “Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising” looks like a good read, apparently drafted in #Norway but pitched to the #EU: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210622-final-report-time-to-ban-surveillance-based-advertising.pdf

@me Have you tried Ratpoison? It was a toss-up betw. ratpoison & sway, and i went with ratpoison because it seem more conducive to a rodent-free experience. But if it gives me any trouble I think Sway would be my next choice.

@kzimmermann @realcaseyrollins I need to work out how to smarten my script, and i hope the answer is not to scrape ipinfo.io for every website i'm digging dirt on.

@realcaseyrollins @kzimmermann Does it also mean that MS #Github favors #Fastly over its own dogfood (MS #Azure)?

@kzimmermann @realcaseyrollins I was fooled when I 1st checked the IP of #libera.chat because my own script just checks who the ASN owner is (#Fastly in this case). But ipinfo.io shows that although Fastly owns that IP block, the org is #Github. Can anyone explain that? Does it mean that Github hired Fastly, and that Fastly allocated a block of their own to serve Github?

@angristan But overall that guide really helps remedy a problem most guides have: it's hard to know what is "local" and what is "remote" (because every endpoint can be either depending on where you sit). But when your guide says "Note that 127.0.0.1 here is localhost from the viewpoint of ssh-server" it really helps clear that up.

@angristan very nice aesthetics. One issue i see is with "ssh -L 192.168.0.1:5432:127.0.0.1:5432 ssh-server". The problem with that example is that the two port numbers are the same, so if someone must adapt that example to their own situation, they have to work out which position is for which port number.

@tristan957 @dallin i have to say most of the "hand-written" correspondence I receive is disguised as a personal letter to get my attention, but it's actually a realtor playing a sneaky trick with an autopen. Sometimes i get auto-penned post-it notes attached to an apparent cut-out newspaper article to really look like a legitimate non-ad.