It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes you have to in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, & surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy … it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected organisations in the world.

**shrimp eating mammal** · Jan 11, 2019, 13:13

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**jd Ⓐ★😼🚀🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺** @jd@soc.ialis.me · Jan 11, 2019, 13:13

Jan 11, 2019, 13:13

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‘Traditional masculinity’ deemed ‘harmful’ by American Psychological Association
– article: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/424829-traditional-masculinity-deemed-harmful-by-american
'...The American Psychological Association (APA) officially labeled “traditional masculinity” as “harmful” in a new report.

The label is in the report titled “Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Boys and Men,” a first of its kind for the association, which was featured in the January issue of “Monitor on Psychology” magazine.

“Traditional masculinity ideology has been shown to limit males’ psychological development, constrain their behavior, result in gender role strain and gender role conflict and negatively influence mental health and physical health,” according to an excerpt in the 36-page report...'

the .pdf report: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guidelines.pdf

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 11, 2019, 13:24

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 11, 2019, 13:24

Jan 11, 2019, 13:24

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#Jeff Gazebos

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 11, 2019, 11:54

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 11, 2019, 11:54

Jan 11, 2019, 11:54

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I guess "mobile first initiative" is how Google is sugarcoating its attempt to kill http/individually hosted web sites and turn the web into AMP pages hosted by Google

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 09, 2019, 16:20

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 09, 2019, 16:20

Jan 09, 2019, 16:20

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**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 06, 2019, 20:22

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 06, 2019, 20:22

Jan 06, 2019, 20:22

shrimp eating mammal @walruslifestyle@octodon.social

there's literally 100 things wrong with this

**shrimp eating mammal** · Jan 06, 2019, 16:47

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**HN Tooter** @hntooter@mastodon.social · Jan 06, 2019, 16:47

Jan 06, 2019, 16:47

HN Tooter @hntooter@mastodon.social

DuckDuckGo now fingerprinting visitors
https://forums.whonix.org/t/duckduckgo-now-fingerprinting-visitors/6497

(submitted by MikusR)

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2019, 17:19

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2019, 17:19

Jan 05, 2019, 17:19

shrimp eating mammal @walruslifestyle@octodon.social

here's a cool video about it. first ten minutes are about the lively kernel. the rest is about cool things you can do with it. https://hooktube.com/watch?v=if72CFsF_SY

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2019, 16:20

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2019, 16:20

Jan 05, 2019, 16:20

shrimp eating mammal @walruslifestyle@octodon.social

I was playing with the lively kernel the other day and I think something like that it is how web programming ought to work. the potential of it is so amazing and the world lost something not having the web go that direction, in my opinion.

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2019, 15:17

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2019, 15:17

Jan 05, 2019, 15:17

shrimp eating mammal @walruslifestyle@octodon.social

it seems like encryption is hacky authorization a lot of times. an authorization policy clearly states who can access what information and when. it enforces the policy with multiple mechanisms, including encryption. ideally, it also detects and alerts when the policy is violated.

when a service brags about encrypting stuff, what they're saying to me is that they've done the bare minimum to start keeping people from looking at stuff they shouldn't be. hacky.

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2019, 15:15

**shrimp eating mammal** @walruslifestyle@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2019, 15:15

Jan 05, 2019, 15:15

shrimp eating mammal @walruslifestyle@octodon.social

starting to realize that I'm not going to feel comfortable having information about me on someone else's server unless they have an explicit authorization policy that is vetted by third parties. encryption is not enough.