resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

Following a long message thread on #Mastodon is the worse UX I had in ages.
Even Usenet / #NNTP clients from 1991 had better message sorting, threading, filtering, searching, general responsiveness, memory usage and offline use...
Is anybody working on a serious desktop client?

American activists: (call to action) #Mastercard's info sharing opt-out page blocks #Tor, which violates the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Plz file a complaint at consumerfinance.gov or ftc.gov. The more complaints, the more likely the consumer protection agencies will act. The offending site: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/privacy/data-analytic-opt-out.html

@resist1984 is it still an "open standard" if it's published in a restricted access area? Is archive.org the crutch that incidentally enables RFCs to be "open" standards?

#IETF, the place where people turn to for open standards, RFC's, etc, has put itself in the exclusive #walledGarden of #Cloudflare. How utterly despicable.

Anyone know if #USPS scans the backside of all envelopes, or just the front? https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html

"#Psychedelic drugs have been exiled to the fringes of #medicine, dismissed as recreational drugs with limited #therapeutic potential. That changed with the #breakthrough therapy status granted last year to #psilocybin, the active compound found in magic mushrooms, for its ability to reverse treatment-resistant #depression. In our latest interview series, we discuss the potential of #psychedelics to revolutionize clinical #neuroscience with thought leaders in the field."

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/articles/the-neuroscience-of-psychedelic-drugs-ending-psychedelic-myths-with-professor-david-nutt-328359

if we collectively decide that vaccine hesitancy in the USA is enough of a problem that we need to fix it, maybe we should stop raising our kids in a culture of unbridled me-first individualism.

This is a copy of the #DDG-related post that Bruce #Schneier #censored at
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_as_1.html

@ashwinvis #SoftwareHeritage is not archiving the bugs db. That's a big oversight IMO. The issues are usually not part of git, so their more difficult to liberate and sometimes get sabotaged or lost in forge migrations. Note that Tor users are blocked from reading the issues on #Gitlab.com, so it would be very useful if archive.softwareheritage.org gave a way to access them.

@ashwinvis We need an underground version of #SoftwareHeritage, #scihub-style, that would preserve copies of commercially abandoned proprietary software. https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=uulMxLyiBZg&local=true&quality=medium&start=99

Data scraped from 500 million #LinkedIn users found for sale online

#privacy #security #cybersecurity

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/data-scraped-from-500-million-linkedin-users-found-for-sale-online/

I'm really trying to practice brevity in my writing. I tend to be really long-winded, but I read a really good article in Practical Typography about how readers' attention is finite and it really got me thinking.

The article is about typography, but applies equally well to writing in general: https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.html

I got a bunch of non fungible tokens, but now mushrooms are growing all over them! How could this happen??

I also pointed out that his blog uses #DDG as the embedded search mechanism, and that #DuckDuckGo uses #Microsoft both for hosting & for Bing queries (so MS sees both user's IP address and queries, which it can combine). Why would Bruce #Schneier consider those facts unworthy of response, and even unworthy of exposure? Why is he censoring that? Does he work for DDG?

When Bruce #Schneier said #DuckDuckGo "doesn’t track you", I posted a comment asking if he wanted to revise his statement because he can't possibly know that. His response: he deleted the comment (my comment not his). https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_as_1.html

Apple Blocked ProtonVPN Updates in Myanmar - Surveillance Report 35 https://tube.privacytools.io/videos/watch/8fea6475-ba15-4a5a-9c61-ccb8e8a2ec8f