Developers, do not embed Google’s products on your sites & compromise the privacy of your visitors.
#CleanUpTheWeb & strip your site of tracking devices by Google, Facebook, etc. to make the web safer. Yes, that includes Google Fonts loaded from Google’s servers.
Help me federate! If you see this toot, interact with it, either my boosting or replying. A simple "Hi!" will do a lot 👋
Tried reporting via Spamcop. Both the SMTP sending host and all the links in the email are in the same class C, which Spamcop can't figure out a reporting address for. My suggestion would be to block all emails from avature.net in your SMTP server now.
The first cyberattack took place nearly 200 years ago in France https://boingboing.net/2018/05/28/paleohackers.html #chappesemaphore #happymutants #theclacks #History #infosec #france #Post
an engineer helping a designer
@bhtooefr @Gargron @stevelord Seems like Lord Techbro could sort this all out pretty easily with a simple "Yikes guys, I meant Murdoch for goodness' sakes, get your Nazi crap off my timeline you bunch of pathetic goons."
I reckon even odds on whether he does that, doubles down and goes full Infowars, or gives a denial with a nod and a wink to his new hordes of Nazi followers.
@matiu_bidule @julm Also see Maciej Cegłowski's "machine learning is money laundering for bias".
This is how NASA writes software:
https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
I want the software driving cars around my family to be held to the a similar standard of quality. In the context of self-driving cars, "Move fast and break things" means "Half-arse it and kill people."
Humans in the USA manage 1.16 fatalities per 100,000,000 miles travelled. Uber's software couldn't even get to 3 million miles before it killed someone.
We do this properly, or not at all.
I'm really happy to announce that the company I work for has just publicly opened a #Mastodon instance for all its 5000 employees.
This is the result of an initiative @moritzheiber and I have started a year ago and have pushed through with the help of many other colleagues.
So if you want to hear my voice as a #thoughtworker, you can follow me here: @judeswae
Or find others to follow at https://toot.thoughtworks.com
@kmj @bobstechsite let me be more specific about the users part: what is often sold with a startup is not a viable company making a profit, but a shell that contains users' private data. That's what the real product very often is when a startup is being sold.
And for the users, that's a bait-and-switch. Because now who knows where their data will end up? How it's going to be used?
@bobstechsite also, "ruin startups"? OH NOES NOT THE STARTUPS!
I am strongly suspicious of anything that calls itself a "startup". From what I see startups' modus operandi is:
1. have an idea
2. release the simplest and most insecure version of it
3. get some users locked-in
4. get VC funding
5. get more users locked-in
6. sell to the first sucker that wants to pay
...thus shafting both the users (they're the product, duh) *and* the investors.
USA Today made a version of their site for EU visitors that's compliant with the GDPR
Without:
- ads
- tracking
- personalization
- javascript
It seriously makes me want to check that site from time to time for news. If their point was "see how bad it would be if we didn't do all this stuff?" it's doing the opposite of what it wants because yes, I love this website, that's how I want it and every other one to be like
So Max Schrems is sueing Google and Facebook for ~4 Billion € each for #GDPR violations. We take this possibility for granted, but let that sink in for a moment: we live in a society where a random individual can sue multibillion dollar companies for huge fines, and doesn't have to fear for his life or fear significant other repercussions. Not too bad actually.
