Chris Wiegman @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com

The Privacy Analyzer from Privacy.net is a good, comprehensive way to check what kind of data your browser is leaking to the ad-tech industry:

https://privacy.net/analyzer/

It steps through five separate tests:

I. Basic info (IP address, OS, etc)

II. Autofill leaks (does your browser allow malicious scripts to capture sensitive info with "autofill" capture?)

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When it’s too hot to fight Thanos

Does anyone have any compelling arguments for justifying your efforts at preserving privacy? Note, not why privacy matters, instead why individual privacy is something to work for. Not nothing to hide arguments either.

Is there a company that makes good Linux laptops that has a company culture that's pro-diversity and anti-harassment as opposed to "we're a bunch of straight white men who think free speech trumps everything"?

Asking for a friend

The friend is me the next time I upgrade my comp

"If you want to be alive on August 1st, stay home on July 4th."

-- San Antonio physician

More than 15 years ago, Onion Service (at the time named Hidden Service) saw the light of day. From today (July 2nd), the Internet has around 16 months to migrate from onion services v2 to v3 once and for all. ⏰

Read more:
https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline

DuckDuckGo burned a truckload of goodwill with me today

Their DDG-branded web browser for Android has a feature which [it doesn't matter what it does by design], but as a side effect it sends every URL you visited to DuckDuckGo's servers. That is the single worst thing they could do as a "privacy" focused web browser.

When this was pointed out to them, they doubled down. For a year. It took an HN front page (in the comments section they doubled down *again*) and 10 hours of arguing with them before the CEO stepped in and agreed to remove the feature.

Austin Hospital Withheld Treatment from Disabled Black Man Who Contracted Coronavirus

After doctors withheld treatment including nutrition and hydration for six days, #MichaelHickson died leaving his wife and five children behind.

https://bit.ly/3geanfd

Yall has anyone on the #fediverse ever found and/or read the English translation of Alexsandr Dugin's “Foundations of Geopolitics: the Geopolitical Future of Russia?” I can't seem to find it anywhere.

#book #books #russia #geopolitics

NWU in South Africa has implemented #Nextcloud and @only_office as a combined solution for secure data exchange and safe collaboration on research documents!

Check out the case study and learn more about what Nextcloud has to offer in your industry.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-and-onlyoffice-improve-user-storage-mobility-and-document-collaboration-in-north-west-university/

https://www.cyph.com/blog/open-source

Main website linking to this blog post says "open source"

Blog post url contains "open source"

Blog post title contains "open source"

Last paragraph of blog post "That being said, Cyph isn’t considered free software. In addition to the patents, our source code is licensed under Ms-RSL, which is effectively a read-only license"

That, my friend, is not ok. #foss #fossposters

Hello, I would like to follow more people who have founded or work for ethical*, non-tech (I.e. not web, programming, devops, etc) businesses/coops/enterprise.

Any suggestions?

(*ethical as far as it is economically and logistically possible)

How many #privacy breaches does #Facebook need to suffer before people wake up? 🤦‍♂️

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-says-5000-app-developers-got-user-data-after-cutoff-date/

#Dog thinks it's a #duck and duck thinks it's a dog

It's time to say goodbye to #Ubuntu 19.10, and hello to Ubuntu 20.04!
https://bit.ly/3gvS85d

DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527