⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Interesting story by @briankrebs, personally I figure I might be preaching to the #infosec choir, but I do encourage you to always plow through the various settings deep in your account info for your various providers and opt out of anything and everything you can.

For anyone in the #UK - especially if you, or anyone in your family, are #autistic, have #PTSD or young children:
📢 A siren warning sound will blast from your phone unexpectedly on the evening of 23rd April to test the government’s new ‘emergency’ alert system. It applies to Wales too, even though it's not mentioned here. Please warn others about this.
@actuallyautistic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64999417.amp

While the #CryptoWars continue, we would like to remind everyone of two very convincing facts for the pro #encryption side:

✅ 1. Encryption can't be outlawed

✅ 2. Backdoors for the good guys only are impossible

Read our position on the ongoing crypto wars: https://tutanota.com/crypto-wars/

#CSAM #OnlineSafetyBill #BackDoor

Twitter email: "You've got 157 recent notifications on Twitter. Take a look."

Me: Nah.

@Hey_Beth As I've said, and made the case for, Mastodon gets 10x reach of Twitter. 10m Mastodon users is the equivelant of 100m Twitter users. That's what professionals on Twitter need to know.

Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.

Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.

Right finished leafleting about E2EE message scanning for now. Off to a session on political campaigning technology with Mark Pack.

NHS threatened with legal action over £480m patient data platform https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/17/nhs_threatened_with_legal_action/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.privacydev.net/TheRegister/status/1636717387163549699

Greatest 90s Sci Fi TV show that isn't a Star Trek?

#SciFi #90s #90sTV #90sTelly
#Babylon5 #Farscape #Stargate
#StargateSG1 #TheXFiles

Them: What about the latest new syntax that isn't ubiquitous in browsers?

Me: What about it? Isn't production stability more important than code aesthetics that likely will change?

Them: Less typing is faster!

Me: Not having to re-write code or re-build deps is faster than having to do that. Way faster than saving a few characters. Typing speed is never the problem.

We thought the internet would advance civilization by providing instantaneous access to all of human knowledge. Instead it enabled the loudest most wrong people on the planet to build a world in which facts are subjective.

My weekend project:

"Turning a Raspberry Pi Zero W into a travel media centre."

I'm impressed with how usable Kodi on a Raspberry Pi Zero W is. *Really* impressed.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/03/turning-a-raspberry-pi-zero-w-into-a-travel-media-centre

With many thanks to @SimonJohnGreen for the Pi Zero W!

#Linux #RaspberryPi #Kodi

The UK government recently told the BBC that its Online Safety Bill does not represent a ban on end-to-end encryption. So I fact-checked it. https://untidy.substack.com/p/fact-check-the-uk-and-its-online

The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

Those looking for a one-stop summary, this is a great, well-researched piece on the UK's Online Safety Bill, why Signal, WhatsApp et al are raising the alarm, & the serious threats to privacy & (ironically) safety the current Bill poses.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/10/uk-osb-e2ee-warning/

Create safe internet spaces for children instead of making the internet unsafe for everyone.

Read the full story at https://mullvad.net/chatcontrol

#StopChatControl #EU #privacy #openSource

via: @mullvadnet