I haven't read anything this delightfully cheeky in a long time.
This was funny to read and also quite informative
tl; dr: Don't post your boardingpass on social media
mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-…
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RT @KiwixOffline@twitter.comCool project from Wakoma: the Nimble - a rapidly deployable, wireless mesh network. Tons of stuff, and completely offline:
wakoma.co/nimble/
I don't really like the term "tribalism"... instead I try to use "sportsballing", because I think it makes it clearer when referring to arbitrary fanatical grouping. "Go team X... we hate team Y!"
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The solution to the control of hosted software over our infrastructure is quite simple: we have to decentralize the power. Just like freedom of press can be achieved by giving people the tools to print and distribute underground pamphlets, we can give people their freedom of software back by teaching them to control their own server.
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Surveillance capitalism is the same as climate change, but for data:- Some people have been warning about its consequences for years
- Most people don't care because they don't feel concerned, they can't see it affecting them
- A few companies are making a lot of damage with the help of governments
- When we will face the consequences it will be too late
- We can still do something about it, and the sooner the better
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We learned yesterday of the death of fellow worker, activist, and anthropologist @davidgraeber. Graeber has written numerous books on direct action and anti-capitalist theory. He also coined the phrase, “We are the 99%” during OWS. Rest in power, fellow worker.
Fuckin' hell, Google.
Chromium, aka Google, just keeps proposing new standards to make the web less private and secure for users. We need to find a way to stop this.Allow JavaScript to make direct TCP and UDP connections? Sure!
theregister.com/2020/08/22/chr…Packaging up an entire website into a file so individual ads can't be blocked? Also sure!
brave.com/webbundles-harmful-t…
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Good morning, friends.
This is a check-in post. How are you doing? What do you need that others might have to share?
It's Monday!
What in your life has been magical or meaningful lately?
oh my god check this outthis just might be the coolest thing i have seen in my entire life
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Now that I've set up a music-streaming app on my home server, I now have an opportunity to do one of my favorite menial tasks: tagging, organizing, and standardizing a music library.
I'm not kidding. I actually really enjoy this. 🤓
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The last time I underwent a significant music library organization effort was the very end of 2012/beginning of 2013. My now-wife and I were down in Tuscon so she could do thesis research on the border. I didn't have any such task to occupy myself, so I decided to clean up my music library.
My personal library has stayed pretty clean over the years since, but now that I have a home music server, I'm integrating my wife's library as well, and she... is not nearly as fastidious as me.
California doesn't have enough prisoners to fight wildfires for submimimum wage because too many are sick of or dying to COVID-19.
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The SAND Lab at University of Chicago has developed Fawkes, an algorithm and software tool (running locally on your computer) that gives individuals the ability to limit how their own images can be used to track them. At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images and makes tiny, pixel-level changes that are invisible to the human eye, in a process we call image cloaking. You can then use these "cloaked" photos as you normally would, sharing them on social media, sending them to friends, printing them or displaying them on digital devices, the same way you would any other photo. The difference, however, is that if and when someone tries to use these photos to build a facial recognition model, "cloaked" images will teach the model an highly distorted version of what makes you look like you. The cloak effect is not easily detectable by humans or machines and will not cause errors in model training. However, when someone tries to identify you by presenting an unaltered, "uncloaked" image of you (e.g. a photo taken in public) to the model, the model will fail to recognize you.
TFW you realize that there reason you hate Disney and Apple are because both companies took ideas that were freely given to them, reworked them, and then proceeded to threaten and sue everyone who dared try the same thing.
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I've successfully set up my own #selfhosted Navidrome server (thanks to @YunoHost@mastodon.social, @deluan@twitter.com, and Éric Gaspar on Github), and it's awesome.
I love having my own music streaming server. As Google prepares to kill Google Play Music (and shuttle users to YouTube Music), and in an era when we're seeing the idea of "ownership" in tech degrade more and more, it's nice to have my stuff and know it's mine.
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