the real raccoon Ⓥ Ⓐ @therealraccoon@octodon.social

There are two spots where #Google, #Amazon, #Facebook, #Apple, #Microsoft (and others) are most vulnerable. You have to attack them where it hurts them the most.

1) Is their public image. Make them look as shitty as possible, they deserve it. Ideally, make them *deny* things that make them look good. This is the high art of pissing someone off. Claim publicly that Google is stopping AI research or whatever. You will win.

2) Don't use their services. Seriously. Stop. Stop. STOP. Delete. Forget.

Due to numerous complaints and privacy concerns, Google ReCaptcha has been disabled on https://pixelfed.social. We will evaluate a better solution.

@dashie

FLOSS community:
> hey let's put all our eggs in this one GitHub basket
> what could possibly go wrong
> GitHub is so convenient

Microsoft:

Leaked Emails Show #Google Expected Lucrative #Military #Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially | #email #leak https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-drone-ai-pentagon-lucrative/

@tastytea https://crimethinc.com/2018/05/29/theres-no-such-thing-as-revolutionary-government-why-you-cant-use-the-state-to-abolish-class

Alexa recorded a couple's private conversation and sent it to a random contact.

Amazon said it's "an extremely rare occurrence."

Get this thing out of your home, folks.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/amazon-alexa-recorded-conversation

The team behind #SecureDrop (open source whistleblower platform originally created by Aaron Swartz) has been investigating the use of #QubesOS for building an integrated workstation for journalists using SecureDrop.

Folks interested in newsroom security, or the use of virtualization to mitigate digital security risks may want to check it out. Thoughts on this approach appreciated:

https://securedrop.org/news/road-towards-integrated-securedrop-workstation/

#Efail press release – An Official Statement on New Claimed Vulnerabilities by the #GnuPG and #Gpg4Win teams

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060334.html

I miss this little guy.. don't see him round so much anymore.

https://social.coop/media/wvWysfTnYiEpJy-TAbY

Amazing story of local, decentralized resilience in Gaza in the face of Israeli blockades using free/libre medical hardware. Literally saving lives by 3D printing stethoscopes, tourniquets, and gears for xray machines, using solar power and plastic recycling. Pretty incredible.

An interview with the founder Tarek Loubani.

https://therestartproject.org/podcast/3d-printed-medical-devices-gaza/

#gaza #3dprinting #floss #openhardware

@gc @fabianhjr Also making our own computers will become more relevant as unencumbered general purpose computing gear becomes increasingly difficult to find.

Want to search without being spied upon? Get results without paying with your data and life? Want to escape the "filter bubble" and say #FuckOffGoogle?

Use https://search.fuckoffgoogle.net

(powered by Searx <3)

(via https://mastodon.social/@FuckOffGoogle/99993829243440585)

#google software is #malware:
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html

#security #privacy #proprietary #foss

Domain fronting is critical to the open web https://blog.torproject.org/domain-fronting-critical-open-web

Tor is an open network, and all Tor relay IPs are public, which makes it simple for repressive governments to block them all.

Meek is a domain fronting pluggable transport that censored users rely on to bypass these blocks. Since Amazon and Google have blocked domain fronting, only Microsoft's Azure cloud still works, but Tor hears Microsoft might block it next.

#briar is out of #beta ❤

''Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate''

It can operate over wifi and bluetooth, even during an internet blackout, encypts, @torproject integreated, has private chats, forums, blogs and more to come like crisis mapping and collaborative document editing

''Briar 1.0 release candidate'' is out
get it on @fdroidorg

forget about #telegram

Before I have brought up my dislike of finding FOSS projects using Slack as a primary communication channel. I also want to express disdain for projects using Discord as well. But I would like to go one step further.

No FOSS project should make a proprietary service a primary communication channel, ever. It excludes those who do not want to risk their privacy being exposed, excludes those to do not user proprietary software, and does not fit with the principles of something like Mastodon.

Mike, @torproject, on Google and ReCaptcha:

"This is a company that is basically the primary/only gateway to much of the Internet, and it has decided that certain IP addresses *do not deserve access to that Internet*. Full stop. This is not a problem that gets solved by having our devs talk to their devs to "nerd harder". This should be a PR bloodbath.. We should have made it one months ago."

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-April/001738.html