DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare@octodon.social

https://www.wired.com/story/databases-coding-real-programming-myth/

<< Code isn't enough on its own. We throw code away when it runs out its clock; we migrate data to new databases, so as not to lose one precious bit. Code is a story we tell about data.

But programmer culture tends to devalue data. >>

This is a very good article.

h/t @enkiv2

CryptPad is an #opensource collaborative editor (think: Google Docs/Drive) with a strong focus on #privacy. I have been using it for a while, and would like to recommend it to others as well!

You can try it here: https://cryptpad.fr/drive/

You can create and share text documents, sheets, presentations, code, kanban boards and more.

You can use it for free, but I recommend supporting them either by upgrading to a paid subscription, or by donating here: https://opencollective.com/cryptpad/

lmao Google invents Ransomware as a service

(Relatively) Physically Accurate Black Hole Visualization in Unreal Engine
https://twitter.com/overdrawxyz/status/1316066431684030464

(submitted by mroche)

when you or i say 'the economy':
things being made, things getting done, people getting paid

when conservatives say 'the economy':
the process of wealth being transferred from the many to the few

UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”
https://www.exberliner.com/features/julian-assange-trial-2020/nils-melzer-assange/

(submitted by dotcoma)

Je viens de publier un billet, où j'explique que je souhaite une conversation apaisée à propos es technologies : https://standblog.org/blog/post/2020/10/04/Devenir-technolucide . Bonne lecture à vous !

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/

(submitted by todsacerdoti)