Harri H @harri@mastodontti.fi

Some Google employees made a website. I would summarize their three objections as follows:

1) helping out border patrol and immigration with data
2) helping the fossil fuel industry with machine learning
3) doing (and publicly asking for more) mercenary work

I think these are also valid reasons to leave Google as a customer.

https://www.alphabetworkers.org/resignation-letter/

#google #deletegoogle

Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/

#TIL that one of the advantages of self-hosting a Mastodon instance is that you can create custom emoji.

https://laurakalbag.com/custom-emoji-on-mastodon/

#customEmoji #federatedEmoji @laura

Reverberations:
An 8-bit approach to J.S. Bach

“It struck me that, at least in theory, organ pipes should generate quite primitive sound waves. If so, how come a church organ doesn't sound like a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually it will, if you remove the church. And if you connect a Commodore 64 home computer to a loudspeaker in a large hall, it will sound like an organ.”

https://www.linusakesson.net/music/reverberations/

#HardwareHacking #Music

#introductions
hi all!! i'm moona, your local fenno-ugric linguist! new to weirder.earth, not that new to masto anymore. lately i've been into historical fashion, video editing, writing and reading spec fiction and umm i guess i should say my MA thesis 😰 i'm moving to ivalo, lapland in a week and starting a new job there, so you can expect updates about that as well 😊

The Prado Museum Digitally Alters Four Masterpieces to Strikingly Illustrate the Impact of Climate Change

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1071919 https://t.co/7YbbNdzuiL

After many months of hard work, Delta Chat now has the 1.0.x release series on Google Play (other platforms including iOS and Desktop releases to follow soon!) ... see here for why it's nicer, faster, more secure than ever: https://delta.chat/en/2019-12-18-google-play-store-release

Time for some trivia. All of the Aussie fires combined exceeds the size of Egypt as of a couple of days ago (it's even larger now). This event would have wiped out any of 135 individual countries of the world if it happened to them.

In the UK we like to name our gritters (vehicles that spread grit on the roads to increase traction in icy conditions, owned and operated by the county council)

Lanarkshire just got Gritter Thunberg

Really tired of the debate over crippling encryption being phrased as “Law enforcement access” or “crypto backdoors”

The cops are asking to plant a bug in every single online conversation, and just trust them not to abuse that access. It’s not a “backdoor” — it’s an ask for massive and routine surveillance on every personal and business conversation you’ll ever have

Striking Workers Are Bringing Back 1970s "Mindfuck" Tactics

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/kzd7az/striking-workers-uk-mindfuck-tactics-uvw

"Deliveroo and UberEats riders, [...] are masters of the mindfuck. Because they’re technically self-employed, the laws on strike action and trade unions don’t apply to them. That means that the slow bureaucracy of postal ballots and turnout thresholds designed to prevent workers from taking collective action goes out the window. Instead, these workers can just do what makes sense to them. The result has been an explosion in militancy, as the platforms try to cut their workers’ already-low wages. Strikes are now breaking out every couple of weeks with little or no prior notice. They’re organised through complex networks of encrypted messenger chats which are completely invisible to platform bosses, meaning that all their standard management techniques need to be rewritten."

#syndicalism #unions #strike #JoinAUnion

How do I make my (LaTeX) document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-do-i-make-my-document-look-like-it-was-written-by-a-cthulhu-worshipping-madm

#Tiktok is:
- Sending your searches to Facebook.
- Sending your watched videos and usage time to Appsflyer partners.
- Fingerprints the hardware of the person watching the shared video on both web browser and mobile app using canvas leak and audio API.
- Embeds sharer ID into shared video URLs, hides it via URL shortening.
- And more!

Since they do not ask for consent they're in violation of multiple EU privacy laws. ​

https://rufposten.de/blog/2019/12/05/privacy-analysis-of-tiktoks-app-and-website/