Sam Howell @syntax@social.privacytools.io

I seemed to have gained a lot of followers recently! Thank you and welcome 👋

For those that are new, you may not know that I've been nominated for the #HackerNoon Noonie Awards. It's the last few days to vote, and if you could it would help me out so much!

https://noonies.tech/award/hacker-noon-contributor-of-the-year-privacy

PS. Sorry for the self promotion, I promise it doesn't happen too often 😉

I forgot to toot this yesterday, but I'm doing a reddit AMA on r/privacy today! Check it out an ask me anything https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/j89kpo/im_micah_lee_director_of_infosec_for_the/

🎉 duf v0.4.0 is out, a user-friendly alternative to 'df'!

What's new?

- Hide filesystems with --hide-fs
- Theme & styling options
- Auto-detects terminal theme
- Support for OpenBSD
- Support for Windows

Get this yummy tool here: https://github.com/muesli/duf 😋

**FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY**
How many times have you driven by an electronic road sign like one of these?
This is the ADDCO portable sign.

*** WARNING YOU SHOULD NEVER TAMPER WITH THESE SIGNS ***

The access panel on the sign is generally protected by a small lock, but often are left unprotected. Upon opening the access panel you can see the display electronics.

The black control pad is attached by a curly cord, with a keyboard on the face.

1/2

The App. I've just released my first short film about the rise of government surveillance during the pandemic. This is something different I've done — and I've had a great time making.

Watch full screen & use headphones!

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/466462180 (higher quality)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/yiYe9TYkWsg

What the bloody fuck, #apple

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21506995/apple-forced-in-app-purchase-protonmail-ceo-wordpress-iap

Forcing Protonmail to adopt in app purchases or threatening to kick their app from the store. If that's not the most Mafia thing ever…

Over the last 2 years, onion service usability has become a primary feature of Tor Browser. The security and improved usability of onion services are the reason we can run an onion adoption campaign like #MoreOnionsPorfavor.

Read our latest blog post:
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-brower-onion-services-challenges-opportunities

@syntax @moodlenet @privacyint @eff @humanetech @fsfe @moznews @alt3 @dajbelshaw @privacytools you just described what we're doing here: https://oeru.org (an example course: https://oeru.org/learning-in-a-digital-age/ ) all 100% openly licensed materials, all delivered with 100% FOSS. (the story from my technologist perspective: https://tech.oeru.org/democratising-higher-education-oers-foss )

BIG NEWS: Huge welcome to @gitchat@twitter.com, who are entering Matrix!! Gitter is moving from @gitlab@twitter.com to @element_hq@twitter.com & building the ultimate Matrix bridge, showcasing how a large chat app can natively talk Matrix, while bringing Gitter goodness to Element! 🚀🌉🎉 https://matrix.org/blog/2020/09/30/welcoming-gitter-to-matrix

"We must do better than subjecting our students to surveillance and violations of their privacy."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wxvd/students-are-rebelling-against-eye-tracking-exam-surveillance-tools

📺 If you're using Tor Browser on Windows and having issues watching YouTube videos after the last update, we're working on a fix. You can wait for a new Tor Browser update, or you can change one line configuration to fix. Check the update on the blog post:

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-100

Some bad news for folks who are fans of #uMatrix. It's being archived and no longer being developed :
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/291#issuecomment-694988696

Can't say I didn't see this coming since maintaining a plugin, particularly as an open source project, is often a thankless job with many personal down sides

I hope it can still continue, if not as uMatrix, then as something else. I really don't like to fiddle with uBlock Origin to get the same functionality

Someone is trying to build a #language learning app like #duolingo, but it's free software. Maybe you want to help out?: https://github.com/kantord/LibreLingo https://librelingo.app/ #librelingo