Almost 5,000 people – security & privacy experts, cryptographers, researchers, professors, legal experts and Apple customers – have signed the open letter to decry Apple’s plans to undermine privacy and end-to-end encryption.

Apple has called us “the screeching voice of the minority.”

Join us! Let’s show King Tim what the screeching minority thinks of his plans to violate personhood in the digital network age.

https://appleprivacyletter.com/

Basically, if Apple implements this, it means your phone is no longer your own.

Every iPhone and iPad will come with parental controls activated. The parents, in this case are Apple, and your national government.

If you, yourself, are a parent, you will have the option to activate a second level of parental control for your children so you are notified if they share nude images. In some cultures this will lead to a stern taking to. In others, it will lead to honour killings.

(There are two easy ways to backdoor end-to-end encryption if you control either the signaling or one of the ends.

The first, if you control the signaling, is to simply add another end into the conversation and not tell anyone about it. Any centralised messaging service can implement this.

The second, if you control one of the ends, is to do what Apple plans to do: look through the data after it has been decrypted and have the end take some sort action based on what you find.)

Funny how it’s the folks that own a huge number of servers that want you to go serverless, isn’t it?

Almost like they want a world where a tiny group of people get to own stuff and everyone else has to rent from them and on their terms… hmm… 🤔️

@dublinux Right, it’s not practical for most people to fork a project. Correct.

It is also absolutely ludicrous to tell someone what they can and what they cannot work on.

Just read a post asking Eugen to resign from developing Mastodon and I really have to ask: what are you folks smoking?

It’s his project. It’s open source. Fork it if you want to. But what kind of mind-blowing sense of entitlement drives you to think you can tell someone they should stop working on something they’ve built?

*smh*

“A society where most of what people need and want is offered as trade-free, is a society void of most problems we see in the world today because there will be little to no incentive for people to create these problems in the first place.”

https://www.trade-free.org/

#PostTrade

“Bezos’ 62-mile-high jaunt comes the same day as reports that an Amazon warehouse worker miscarried after being denied pregnancy accommodations while others are forced to piss in bottles to meet daily quotas.

Fuck. This. Guy.”

https://www.inkl.com/news/we-take-no-pleasure-in-reporting-that-jeff-bezos-has-returned-to-earth?share=vBXpZvczxXz

We take no pleasure in reporting that Jeff Bezos has returned to Earth

https://inkl.com/a/vBXpZvczxXz

Having both the browser console and the log output from the server always on on different monitors is really helping with my flow right now but goodness the place is starting to look crowded.

@viv Just checked. Yep, they’ve quietly removed it.

The BBC is so “impartial” that they teach students “the positive impacts of climate change” along with the negative ones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zcn6k7h/revision/5

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu

Coca-Cola: Palestine is offensive. Israel is kosher.

https://us.coca-cola.com/store/personalized-bottle

#Palestine #FreePalestine #BoycottDivestmentSanctions #BDS #CocaCola

“our customers are able to stitch historical anonymous data to 95% of their converted users–this is even in the last few weeks after all the Apple device and browser privacy updates.”

https://www.narrator.ai/blog/how-to-track-users-for-analytics-in-a-privacy-first-cookie-less-future/

Fuck these people.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming

How to track users for analytics in a privacy-first, cookie-less future

https://www.narrator.ai/blog/how-to-track-users-for-analytics-in-a-privacy-first-cookie-less-future/

I found him. I found the apex douchebag.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Why’d they call it Twitter and not Jackass?

Our Vimeo Premium (which we got with a substantial discount coupon last year) is coming up for renewal at full price (€840/year) and our tiny two-person not-for-profit (Small Technology Foundation) can’t afford to renew it and, plus, I really want to explore small video streaming (see our latest Small Is Beautiful on the subject: https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-10/) so we’ll be switching to using Owncast for upcoming live streams and downgrade to Vimeo Pro to keep hosting the recordings.

#SmallTech

@punkscience Because (a) framatube, etc., wasn’t around when we set up the account and (b) they couldn’t do live steaming when we needed to start doing so (and Owncast didn’t exist) and (c) we are only two people working on creating our own software and we can either do that or spend 100% of our time self-hosting everything :)

Definitely things we will look into going forward but, sadly, we can’t do everything at once.

#SmallTech #SmallWeb

Meanwhile, at Taliban High in Florida…

https://www.boredpanda.com/school-yearbook-girls-cleavage-photoshop-florida/