Achilleas gioypi @gioypi@social.cleverlibre.org
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- https://github.com/gioypi
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gioypi
Computer scientist with a passion for open-source projects.🤘☮️
Always interested in making games, playing games and talking about games.
Joined May 2020
Sometimes conservation projects manage to bring back almost-extinct species.
Probably hard to do it right, but totally worth it.
6 successful stories (article by #Greenpeace ):
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/six-conservation-success-stories/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=stay-connected-july&utm_campaign=recent-action-takers
NPO, Dutch national broadcaster: a case study of 3rd party ad trackers as a form of revenue, by Brave.
Bottom line: you don't need 3rd party tracking in your website to be lucrative! ✌️
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Blackbaud Hack: Universities lose data to ransomware attack - BBC News
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While there's some talk of relaxing planning rules to enable the rapid deployment of seawalls, this is - as the local residents say - "too little, too late."
But when they say "too little, too late," they mean, "We should have built a seawall long ago."
When I say it, I mean, "You should have lived up to your Kyoto obligations, not denied climate change, and pulled out of the Five Eyes spying alliance, whose priorities include neutralizing climate activists."
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The Ministry of National Education in #Poland describes global warming as bringing benefits to the planet!
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In a decentralised world, an inside job could only impact a single server instance... and in an E2EE verified world, the insider wouldn't be able to spoof messages anyway. We should get on and add signing for public messages to Matrix's E2EE.
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With the Atlas of Surveillance, EFF aggregates 5300 datapoints about US police forces' use of surveillance technology and maps them, providing an at-a-glance/searchable data on everything from Ring partnerships to shotspotters to fusion centers to drones.
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
Hundreds of community groups, university labs and other institutions contributed to the database:
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/about
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For development of facial recognition technologies, the #ACM has published a set of guidelines: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/public-policy/ustpc-facial-recognition-tech-statement.pdf?link_id=4&can_id=9fa45eaf1cbfc6b4e65285352e9cd062&source=email-your-insider-update&email_referrer=email_859181___subject_1163917&email_subject=some-updates-on-what-were-working-on
Since most of my toots are either alerting or dispiriting, here’s some good news:
- #Amazon and #Microsoft admit that #FacialRecognition is a dangerous technology that needs regulation and will delay development
- Proposed US laws suggest prohibiting police use of facial recognition
- #Zoom will finally implement some form of e2e encryption (but I still prefer Jitsi)
Sources:
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2020-06-10-amazon-and-microsoft-facial-recognition/?link_id=3&can_id=9fa45eaf1cbfc6b4e65285352e9cd062&source=email-your-insider-update&email_referrer=email_859181___subject_1163917&email_subject=some-updates-on-what-were-working-on
https://www.cnet.com/news/lawmakers-propose-indefinite-nationwide-ban-on-police-use-of-facial-recognition/?link_id=2&can_id=9fa45eaf1cbfc6b4e65285352e9cd062&source=email-your-insider-update&email_referrer=email_859181___subject_1163917&email_subject=some-updates-on-what-were-working-on
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/big-victory-zoom-provide-end-end-encryption-mounting/story?id=71319373&link_id=12&can_id=9fa45eaf1cbfc6b4e65285352e9cd062&source=email-your-insider-update&email_referrer=email_859181___subject_1163917&email_subject=some-updates-on-what-were-working-on
A simple guide on how to protect yourself digitally during a protest, by Evan Greer.
For people that are not experienced activists or privacy/security experts or for folks that want a checklist.
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Ubisoft announces departures of three execs following investigations into abuse allegations - VG247
An interesting interview for AI in self-driving cars with Gill Pratt and Wolfram Burgard:
The European Central Bank has a big impact on how we will achieve a Green Recovery. So they decided to gift a few billions € to the big polluters!
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The Privacy Analyzer from Privacy.net is a good, comprehensive way to check what kind of data your browser is leaking to the ad-tech industry:
It steps through five separate tests:
I. Basic info (IP address, OS, etc)
II. Autofill leaks (does your browser allow malicious scripts to capture sensitive info with "autofill" capture?)
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The Chinese government just made its oppressive domination over Hong Kong indisputable.
A new law suggests that taking part in the protests could be interpreted as a crime with a maximum penalty of life in prison. Also, anyone suspected of breaking the law can be put under (more) surveillance.
And what if you want to flee the country, because you don't enjoy being a 1984 character? The "crime of secession" has a maximum penalty of—you guessed it—life in prison.
And may the odds be ever in your favour...
Summary of the security law:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52765838
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RT @arvidkahl@twitter.com
Genius. They wrote a script to make a PDF look like it's printed, signed, and then scanned again. Because digital signatures are still not accepted in many places while a signed and scanned printout is.
This is hacking bureaucracy. I love it!
https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1248523267712917504
According to an investigation by earthsight, #IKEA is buying illegal wood supplies from Ukrainian mountains. The interesting part is that this wood is certified as sustainable by FSC and IKEA promotes it as eco-friendly.
Sadly, #FSC is not that trustworthy after all.
https://www.earthsight.org.uk/investigations/flatpacked-forests
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Hello, I wanted to let you know I will be writing a full Blog post, detailing my inquiring about an inter-instances issue, and the responses you offered.
I replied corteously, and do not understand the reasoning to find my personal account at Todon.nl Suspended (deleted is the proper word) this morning.
Too bad, but I now feel free to use the messages in my Journalism. I truly believe this was uncalled for and arbitrary.
A Blog page to follow with Full Disclosure of the whole issue.
Have a good day, sir/madam.
cc. : @anarchiv - which I admire as a writer and inspired some of my own posts.
#FediReporter Banned for asking Questions at a Supposedly Progressive instance.
The Nairobi National Park in #Kenya is now threatened by several plans for development, including a luxury tourist resort in rhino breeding grounds and a plan to fully enclose the park.
These proposals contradict the 2030 National #Wildlife Strategy recently adopted by the government which aims to sustain natural habitats and reduce biodiversity loss.
- github
- https://github.com/gioypi
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gioypi
Computer scientist with a passion for open-source projects.🤘☮️
Always interested in making games, playing games and talking about games.
Joined May 2020
