Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
Paul Sutton
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I just opened Mastodon and saw a long post on my screen and was like WTF I’m not going to read ALL OF THAT only to scroll past it and realize it was MY OWN POST.
I would say we need to expose what data is being collected, but people just won't bother listening to us, we are better off using our own bandwidth to post / boost / reply to interesting content, and to a point ignore Threads, the more we mention everything else the better it will be for promoting fedi.
Paul Sutton
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The Zuck suck is in full swing. In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."
Paul Sutton
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@LouisIngenthron @freemo @admitsWrongIfProven @skyblond I think it's risky for Meta to defederate after a long time. Their users will probably have Fediverse contacts they'd want to stay in touch with and might actually move then after defederation.
It's going to be an interesting game here.
I am seeing numbers around 30 million on BBC news, but without actual verification it is hard to get a true figure.
That is 30 million people happy for META to collect 14 different types of data from them.
Paul Sutton
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MicroProse now publishing Dying Breed a retro RTS like Command & Conquer https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/microprose-now-publishing-dying-breed-a-retro-rts-like-command-conquer/ #RTS #Gaming #Linux #Steam
Paul Sutton
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Pixy 🏳️🌈
@Alan exactly! If I wanna see what Zuck or Space Karen have to say, I'd follow them. I don't need an algorithm showing me all they and their rich friends have to say.
I love fedi for showing me what I choose not what someone else forces me to see. 😊
Yay for fedi! 
According to the Daily mail article on Threads it uses the following data
Health and Fitness
Financial Information
Contact Information
User Content
Browsing History
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Purchases
Location
Contacts
Search History
Identifiers
Sensitive Information
Other Data
So just as we syspected.
Paul Sutton
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You can't aim to build something better than big players without looking at what they do wrong and do something different. I feel that here, we aim to be something the big players are NOT which is open, honest, private, respecting and PROFESSIONAL.
Great work, lets keep it up.
Paul Sutton
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I gotta say, the Mastodon security disclosure for tomorrow's vuln puts most vendors to shame - and Mastodon are a non-profit doing open source code.
They just emailed me to let me know (I've never contacted them before, they've used the contact address on my Mastodon server) the details, including how it was found, how serious and when time wise the patch will be released during the day tomorrow.
I pay Microsoft 9 figures in licensing at job and they sometimes don't even issue a CVE.
Paul Sutton
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@davey_cakes this is totally unfair its not illegal right now its been illegal since at latest 2018
What concerns me is when the usual media claptrap gets out from journalists who don't understand the tech, esp the fediverse and what ever Threads does with data gets mixed up with how data is dealt with on fedi.
Paul Sutton
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@davey_cakes @silo64 They're still pissed because of that 1.2 Billion Dollar fine. Well, play stupid games, win stupid prices I guess. 
Paul Sutton
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Lets exhaust our remaining resources expanding moral bankruptcy to dead planets and moons
So this is an admission that it collects data on users.
We have been debating if we should simple de federate Threads, Meta seem to have made the decision for us.
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Paul Sutton
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Three things I’ve done recently; that if you run a website you might like to do;
1. Removed Twitter specific meta tags - at this point it’s wasted bytes. Stick to open graph stuff.
2. Updated links from Twitter accounts to their website - a good 70% we’re clearly abandoned accounts
3. Removed links to tweets - they are paywalled now.
This reduces page weight; gives crawlers less work to do; and improves user experience.
Paul Sutton
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Researchers induce cancer cells to 'commit suicide' with a self-produced bacterial toxin
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-cancer-cells-commit-suicide-self-produced.html?utm_source=DamnInteresting
Paul Sutton
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President Biden rallies with teachers and slams right-wing book bans https://americanindependent.com/president-joe-biden-national-education-association-teachers-union-meeting-address-book-bans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
- Website blog
- https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/about-me-n7gz
- IRC
- zleap@irc.libera.chat
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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