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

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(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.