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Countering confirmation bias (source: http://blog.ncase.me/jigsaw-puzzles/)

end to end encryption is great, I love it, use it when you care about message privacy or want to chaff your metadata for when you do need it

its just basically irrelevant for most privacy concerns here. yes, having dms unreadable by anyone but involved parties, forever, would be great

but all that's needed for the 90% of the way is to guarantee it remains unseen by anyone but addresses and admins

I keep seeing shit like this.
and at this point I can't comprehend anyone misunderstanding so badly.

the difference between data privacy and "I don't want an audience" is huge. both are privacy. one is using a pm, the other one e2e

one risks immediate pushback if the wrong people see it (which, for many, is a large population). the other, usually consequences later and immediate. but e2e requires enough setup that it's rarely worth it for most use of a dm/pm

https://mastodon.zombocloud.com/users/staticsafe/updates/1103 https://witches.town/media/4KHFA8V9fMdhPqf-WEE

"Communicating to the development staff that these features are important to you is the best way to ensure they are made priorities and quickly implemented. The current project manager for Mastodon is @maloki, and you can (respectfully!) contact her with any questions you have about these new features."

"If you're really not comfortable with this change, you should petition your instance's administrator to hold off on the update until better features are in place."

"So what changed?
...
In an attempt to fix this problem, as of the 1.3 update, Mastodon now will share your private posts with every server that follows you, regardless of whether or not that server supports privacy settings. The name of “private posts” has also changed to “followers-only” in the user interface to indicate that these posts are no longer truly private."

"Everything You Need to Know About Mastodon's New Privacy Settings" https://marrus-sh.github.io/mastodon-info/everything-you-need-to-know-about-privacy-v1.3-020170427.html

I can't believe Ja Rule did DashCon 2017

When they're talking, their defense is weakest, so punch them in the face!!

the world's most powerful hot dog...

#hotdog #bandsaw #sensing #animatedgif

Our local Commission on Human Rights, which checks on human rights violations by the state, raided a local police precinct and uncovered felons hidden from the public behind a wall.

My country is so awful to poor people

https://twitter.com/AieBalagtasSee

The decline of #Livejournal is an important lesson about user #privacy on sites. Sure the site might be friendly today, but they might be bought out later and the new owners have all your old data.

There's a chance some Russian #LGBT people organised & hung out on #LJ 15 years ago, and now all that data is available to #Russia today 😨

These tech companies are keeping all our data forever (to make money), and it's a bad thing.

Conventional economics enjoys a tenuous grasp on reality and the "market" of conventional economics requires an artificial scarcity to function. The disconnect between the real world and the world of conventional economics is so gross that we literally destroy our own world in order to match it.

Capitialism is a state of artifice.

https://anticapitalist.party/media/EtO_Gfcoqo3WojM1U7o https://anticapitalist.party/media/l9GSg9Fc7YvCwgMic00 https://anticapitalist.party/media/MRAHok1Os6StWC2v6Io

reminder cops dont belong as cops at pride. if they want to show up as not-cops they're still bastards but at least not acting like an arm of the state

In response to something I've read on reddit: It's a disturbed view of reality when people say that free software is not political, that involving politics in free software projects has to do with morals. Even the decision to not be involved in politics is political.

Internet Archive to ignore robots.txt directives https://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/internet-archive-to-ignore-rob.html . This is great for a couple of reasons: 1) IA is a good organization preserving our history, and 2) it's a good reminder that robots.txt only "blocks" spiders that obey it. You can't slap a policy file on your site and say "my users are protected now!"

The current list of ways something can get into the federated timeline:

- someone from your server is following that user
- someone from your server replied to that user
- someone from your server is following someone who replied to that user
- someone from your server liked/boosted it
- someone from your server copy/pasted the link into the search box, causing the server to load it

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Venture Capital for IoT-connected juice bag squeezers $120,000,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my tech bubble is bursting