the real raccoon Ⓥ Ⓐ @therealraccoon@octodon.social

Oh, and is there a way we could stop hyping #SpaceX on here? Privatised space flight is just history repeating, just a new final frontier for capitalism. SpaceX launches spy satellites for the US government and is not your friend. No matter how beautiful their reentries look, SpaceX is evil. And in the future, they will harvest meteorites and you absolutely won't get your fair share. Stop faving the tyrant of tomorrow!

The last 10 years of development in computers were a mistake. Maybe longer.

Instead of making computers Do More, or making them Feel Faster, we've chased benchmarks, made them more reliant on remote servers, and made them less generally useful. We brought back the digital serfdom of the mainframe.

Hm, some CV-dazzlestyle hat whould be nice.
https://ahprojects.com/projects/cvdazzle/

Also we have to get rid of any messenger that requires your mobile phone number as your unique identifier, even much-lauded #Signal. It locks you inside the conventional, easy-to-track phone infrastructure. Try #Conversations instead, on a WiFi-only device. It uses the decentralized XMPP and works like a charm.

Google And Amazon File Creepy Patents That Can Further “Sniff” Your Conversations

https://fossbytes.com/amazon-google-patents-analyse-conversations/

"Google’s patent outlines how audio and visual signals can be utilized to analyze a user’s mood or medical condition. This could be done by analyzing the voice volume, breathing pattern or actions like sneezing, coughing, or crying."

Not creepy at all!

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffFacebook #FuckOffAmazon

"In perhaps the creepiest example, Facebook applied for (and received, last year) a patent for a tool called Techniques, for emotion detection and content delivery. It would use the camera in your phone to take pictures of you as you scroll through content. Facebook would then use facial analysis to measure how much you did or did not like the content in question, so as to determine what kind of stuff to send your way."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-facebook-can-we-be-saved-social-media-giant-w518655

Moxie Marlinspike, in his 2016 propaganda piece ignorantly bashing #XMPP, had one valid point: Enabling end-to-end encryption in a homogeneous environment is easier than introducing it in a heterogeneous #Jabber. Nobody is denying that. However, if something is hard to achieve, either try your best and don’t give up, or put your head in the sand and create yet another walled garden that is no different from other proprietary solutions.

The rocky road to #OMEMO by default
https://gultsch.de/omemo_by_default.html

"if you are publishing research behind a paywall, I don't know what you are doing, but it isn't Science."

"If you don't publish everything necessary to reproduce, including hardware decisions and settings, it isn't Science."

#TR18 #troopers #infosec #academia

@nolan If only TimBL wasn't pro-DRM... It's hard to take his calls to fight whatever is threatening the web seriously, when he himself supported one of those threats. He appears to campaign for a more distributed web, against powerful, dominant platforms. Yet, the DRM stuff he signed off on, benefits precisely those dominant platforms. The medium he posted his appeal on, is part of the dominant platforms too.

His words and actions sadly do not seem to match, and that's a shame.

#ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendatiiiiooooonnnnnn

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/01/activitypub

#Amazon may give app developers access to #Alexa audio recordings, #Google (#Echo) already does.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15960596/amazon-alexa-echo-speaker-audio-recordings-developers-data

You don't believe what #Google employees really think how they protect your #privacy: http://karl-voit.at/2018/01/14/google-privacy
#publicvoit #AMP #fail