RT @WolfieChristl@twitter.com

@PrivacyMatters@twitter.com FB on accessing sensitive Android app permissions:

"we are seeing complaints among our beta testers regarding the new permissions, in particular the read_SMS permission, and are working to develop reactive messaging and figure out ways to minimize such complaints going forward"

??: https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1193999949249368064

RT @WolfieChristl@twitter.com

@PrivacyMatters@twitter.com In 2013, FB considered to partner with a firm who provides "credit verification and scoring services", "sees 90% of credit card transactions in the US" + "buys the anonymized, user level transaction data directly from the banks and then works with Epsilon to re-identity the data"

??: https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1193995204535234561

RT @WolfieChristl@twitter.com

Very interesting stuff in the leaked Facebook documents, indeed.

See e.g. from page 1561:
https://dataviz.nbcnews.com/projects/20191104-facebook-leaked-documents/assets/facebook-sealed-exhibits.pdf

For example, Facebook did actually analyze "call log data (e.g. duration/frequency/recency of incoming/outgoing calls/texts)" and use it for friend suggestions.

??: https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1193990979721793537

@debacle @stevenroose @0

To be honest, I don't know. The configuration options come from the server. Sounds like this is a server feature where you can have a PubSub node associated with a MUC. But I don't know the particulars of this or which XEP it relates to.

RT @drybones_5@twitter.com

FYI, Google is trying to kill web URLs

Google wants users to use Google search as the access point for all content on the web. They are doing this by:
1. Removing visible URLs in Chrome
2. Penalizing sites for not using Google AMP
3. Removing URLs from search results

??: https://twitter.com/drybones_5/status/1190694123965210625

RT @humansofny@twitter.com

“I’m pretty sure life is going to start sucking around 15 or 16 because that’s when I have to get my first job..."

??: https://twitter.com/humansofny/status/1189941031900348422

RT @fasterthanlime@twitter.com

@bigevilboss@twitter.com Sorry, I had to

??: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1189210610497720321

RT @julianpopov@twitter.com

The year is 2192. The British Prime Minister visits Brussels to ask for an extension of the Brexit deadline. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world.

??: https://twitter.com/julianpopov/status/1185664196178042880

@kirschwipfel

No it's not possible and won't be.

It's trivial to run your own webserver, you can do `make serve` inside a checkout of the repo and then open localhost:8080/dev.html (or edit index.html to use local resources).

Or with Python you can run `python -m http.server` to create a local webserver.

Quite happy with my little garden of death. It's over to years old now and the plants look very happy with multiple ones in bloom.

Five different types of sundew, two types of Venus fly traps and a pitcher plant. The tropical pitcher got too big, it's in its own pot now.

@haskal

That link is broken.

This is the right link: https://write.lain.faith/~/Haskal/debugging-xmpp-by-stripping-starttls

RT @Gizmodo@twitter.com

ABC News broadcasts fake Syria bombing video that's actually from a Kentucky military show in 2017 http://gizmo.do/O8Xd96O

??: https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1183773245163687936

@amsomniac @MadestMadness

Here's the link for that:

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_2019_(Sex_between_an_adult_and_a_child_is_wrong)

IMO you're not telling the full story if you post to something he wrote 16 years ago without posting his own retraction of that.

@amsomniac @MadestMadness

BTW, in July Stallman made this statement:

"Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."

@amsomniac @MadestMadness

You quote an email from 2003 and then you pretend as if it's in the context of Epstein/Minsky.

This is deceptive and wrong, but I've come to expect it from people by now.

Just like the blog post that started off this witch hunt flat out lied about what Stallman's stated position was concerning Minsky.

@badrihippo

Yeah, me too :)

@Sosthene

I can't wire money to my bank account in South Africa (from EU) without first going through a bureaucratic process of providing the SA bank all my details and explaining to them why I'm transferring my own money to my own account.

Also, some German banks don't want to wire to SA at all, so I have to carefully choose the sending bank.

Maybe this bitcoin thing has a usecase after all.