Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

I see a fair bit of people saying things like "twitter is just going to be Nazis and porn" and first of all, porn is not a moral evil so linking it to Nazis is some bullshit, and second, I don't know about the rest of you, but all I'm seeing is the Nazis.

What we share online will be removed, banned or demoted due to the #OnlineSafetyBill. Platforms will take a restrictive approach to dodge large fines. And to deal with the large volume of posts, they'll use context-blind algorithms that return false positives. #freedomofexpression

There's plenty to unpick about the #OnlineSafetyBill but the #spyclause poses a real danger to our chats with family, friends, colleagues, doctors etc. Scanning tech on private messaging is a sledgehammer that'll fracture our privacy and security.

#cybersecurity #surveillance #privacy

lets have some fun

reply to this tweet with "privacy is" and finish the sentence using predictive text

Time OpEd:
"Amid Musk's Chaotic Reign at Twitter, Our Digital History Is at Risk"

https://time.com/6240415/twitter-digital-history-at-risk/

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Just going to leave this here.

This article, yet again, suggests that Elon's Twitter is in for a world of hurt. He's slashing the legal team, including his main legal advisor, just as he's deliberately taking on that much more liability, deliberately trying to not pay money he owes... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html

Communication between couples has come a long way

It looks like Apple is finally going to allow third-party app stores, which is a pretty big win. Why are they doing it? Upcoming EU requirements that will hit in 2024.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe

Google Fi letting you persistently set Preferred network type to LTE on Pixel https://9to5google.com/2022/12/13/google-fi-pixel-lte/

To all mastodon admins:

Hi! I’m Evan Phoenix, the primary author of puma, the ruby webserver that powers mastodon!

Please reply or DM me if you need tuning help! I’ve got no officiation with the mastodon, just want to see you succeed!

(Quick Tip: set WEB_CONCURRENCY to core count * 1.5 and then tune MAX_THREADS. High thread values will see diminishing returns!)

In a meeting and just reviewed the weekly flu activity map for the US and DAMN people. If you're not masking up out in the world right now, you WILL get sick. Haven't seen it look like this in a long time. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm

In 1933, Nazis led torchlit mob into the square and looted the library of the adjoining -Universitat. 40,000 people cheered as they burned over 20,000 books by mainly Jewish, communist, liberal and social-critical authors. Many years later, a panel of glass was set into the ground to mark the spot. It’s a window. Leaning over you can look into a room below. The room is white, lined from floor to ceiling with plain shelves—an empty library. The sort of world we’d live in if the fanatics had won.