Sam Howell @syntax@social.privacytools.io

If you (like me) are watching #Hackers for the 25th anniversary, you should check out the novelization! So amazing and with subtle differences from the film.

You should follow Distributed Denial of Secrets on here. They've been draconianly suspended from Twitter for publishing BlueLeaks, an 270gb archive of leaked police documents @ddosecrets

Working with local government to ban invasive technologies can have great rewards. Here's to those that fight for privacy. 🎉

The city of Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday banned the use of facial-recognition technology by city departments — including local police...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/tech/portland-facial-recognition-ban/index.html

(Please use tools like EFF's Privacy Badger and browser settings to block trackers on this link.)

#Privacy #AI #FacialRecognition #News

Whoever came up with adding a "Currently Reading" field to their Mastodon profile, great idea! Added to mine ...

From Tristan Harris, co-founder humanetech.com:

"The Social Dilemma" has completely popped and gone viral:

#3 in Top Movies in U.S. across Netflix.
#6 in Top 10 across all Netflix categories.

Best way you can help spread the word: Host a screening with friends who are less likely to hear about the film.

The film makes concepts of #surveillancecapitalism and #privacy infringement we all know about, accessible to a broader public, in a way they feel impact personally.

https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/

Contact tracing and pubs will soon be compulsory. ORG’s legal and policy officer @ds_m4riano discusses opportunities to minimise #privacy risks.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/pubs-vs-privacy-what-changes-for-contact-tracing/

If you'd like to get a piece of art and support an artist, I've got lots of originals and prints available in my shop!
Boosts are super appreciated 💙 ✨
https://anaisfae.art/shop

#art #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #watercolor #CreativeToots

Twitter to Mastodon crossposting in one pic.

if your github readme is meant to explain how to run your application, but running all the commands you list fails to start your application, your readme sucks

90% of the times that i give up on using/contributing to FOSS it's because the readme assumes i already have and am a poweruser of some dependency that i've never used and doesn't explain anything about how to use it

Planned obsolescence can undermine privacy - and our pocketbook. For example, Apple computers, that get phased out of new software updates, may force us to make unnecessary choices.

This could force us to purchase new computers (when they are still viable) and to use hardware and software that may be outside our needs.

Try to install Linux before you opt for a new device. POP_OS performs wonderfully on outdated iMacs. Many distros can take a slow Windows PC and give it new life.

Where will you be a week from now?
If you answered "preparing to watch Open Tech Will Save Us #6, with great speakers from @laquadrature@twitter.com, the latest news about E2EE and MORE to be announced", then you were 100% correct!
Goes live 2020-09-09 5pm UTC! https://matrix.org/open-tech-will-save-us/ #otwsu

I don't wanna argue with random YouTube commenters about why Facebook owning and meddling with Oculus is bad, and why being an original Kickstarter backer is relevant to that argument.

The fact of the matter is, even if they didn't sell any consumer builds of the hardware before the Facebook takeover, I personally, and literally hundreds of other early VR videogame developers, sunk a significant investment of development costs into the original two dev kits and their hardware drivers,

only to have the rug pulled out from under us as a walled garden suddenly appeared at the last moment and we were forced to upgrade our drivers and sell in their market or get out, basically?

No? myaa, come on. I'm on Linux, I paid hundreds of dollars for VR hardware, and I can't even use it because of commercial interests and spyware.