DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare@octodon.social

Don't trust Cloudflare with your personal data
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/dont-trust-cloudflare-with-your-personal-data/

(submitted by edent)

Why Silicon Valley CEOs are such raging psychopaths
https://nypost.com/2020/09/26/why-silicon-valley-ceos-are-such-raging-psychopaths/

(submitted by rmason)

The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2020-09-22/guardian-silent-assange-trial/

(submitted by k1m)

9/11 is coming up, which means i'm legally obligated to point out 9/11 here in chile is a different tragedy & also important

the 11th of september is when the chilean right wing (funded by the US gov.) bombed our gov. building, killed our democratically elected socialist president, gutted the welfare state & enacted martial law

followed by 17 years of a violent fascist dictatorship in which at least 3k people died, 40k were victimized and half of the country was traumatized

#Education
#LeSensDesPriorités
#TravailleConsommeFermeTaGeule

Au cas où tu aurais encore un doute sur les "priorités" du gouvernement en matière d'éducation, une petite mise au clair
⤵️

I was notified that @tateisu's Mastodon app "Subway Tooter" has received a warning from the Google Play Store citing user-generated content that "incites discrimination".

A Mastodon app does not host or promote any content. The user types the address to connect to. The responsibility of moderating resides with that server. So unless Google is going to drop Chrome, Firefox and Opera from its platform, this is completely out of line.

Source in Japanese:

https://mastodon.juggler.jp/@tateisu/104761652569820793

Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship

'Coup 53' Tells the Story of 1953 Campaign by MI6 and CIA to Oust Iran's Leader
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903505983/coup-53-tells-the-true-story-of-the-cia-s-campaign-to-oust-iran-s-leader

(submitted by AndrewBissell)

Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/microsoft-put-off-fixing-zero-day-for-2-years/

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Court Dismisses Genius' Lawsuit Against Google for Lyrics Scraping
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-lawsuit-over-lyrics-scraping-by-google/

(submitted by fortran77)

More than 23% of Tor exit relays operated by a single malicious actor
https://medium.com/@nusenu/how-malicious-tor-relays-are-exploiting-users-in-2020-part-i-1097575c0cac

(submitted by Santosh83)

What is the Small Web?

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

#SmallWeb

A message from 'Alle Dörfer Bleiben':

In Germany, coal corporation RWE is set to destroy our villages in order to burn the 600 million t of lignite underneath. They want to displace us and trash the climate.
Please share the video & join our struggle for #ClimateJustice and that #AllVillagesRemain!
🌏 🏡 ✊

You can donate via SEPA bank transfer https://www.alle-doerfer-bleiben.de/spenden/

#AlleDoerferBleiben #Rheinland

Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ancestry-m-a-blackstone-group-idUSKCN2512ES

(submitted by peterlk)

Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity
https://rumorsontheinternets.org/2010/10/14/magnasanti-the-largest-and-most-terrifying-simcity/

(submitted by riboflavin)

Trump will ban TikTok in the US because it is owned by a chinese company. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-01/trump-says-he-will-ban-china-owned-tiktok-from-operating-in-u-s-kdb1nhx1 In the future it will matter where services are hosted and who owns the data and the software. #nextcloud