Notices by Michael Downey :xr: (downey@floss.social)

:boost_love: #boostsWelcome

#FridayFeeling #quotes #Threads #Meta #Facebook #FediPact

:boost_love: Hey folks - please boost for visibility!

:mastodon: The brilliant & hard-working 16-year old Lucas @moshidon is doing a great job building a fun and innovative fork of the #Mastodon #Android client.

💡 Take a moment to download and try it out, and if you can, toss him a little money to support & encourage his work!

https://github.com/LucasGGamerM/moshidon

:mastodon: #Mastodon 4.0.0 released.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0

@codewiz

As a collection of human knowledge #Wikipedia should be liberated using Ward Cunningham's federated wiki concept. Of course then the #WMF would be unnecessary and would lose that sweet sweet cash so not ever gonna be something they promote.

#nonprofits

@codewiz #Wikipedia #WikiMedia

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/

@torproject Will the upcoming WhatsApp support channel for #Tor at least be bridged to #Matrix? It would be nice if those who have privacy concerns but still need help could use a safer protocol/platform.

The @tails project is looking for #beta testers for their upcoming release that improves persistent storage features and more.

#Tails #OpenSource

https://tails.boum.org/news/test_5.8-beta1/

@Mastodon

@jason123santa next week''s poll :)

⚠️ TIL

:microsoft: If you use #Microsoft #Outlook, it scans all of your arriving #email and sends the URLs to #Bing for indexing.

😬 #infosec

https://scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-links-can-end-up-in-bing-search-results-rendering-them-useless-37def0fae994

🚨 :facebook: NEW: #Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal #data about #abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion organizations to use that data as a tool to target and influence people online, in violation of its own policies and promises.

#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/15/facebook-and-anti-abortion-clinics-are-collecting-highly-sensitive-info-on-would-be-patients

:google: :android: ⚠️ If you use a version of #Android distributed by #Google, they've been spying on your calls and SMS without your permission.

This is great time to de-Google with an AOSP-based OS focused on #privacy like #GrapheneOS. :grapheneos:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/21/google_messages_gdpr/

RIP #Wordle. Capitalism does all it can to ruin everything nice.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220131224442/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html

#FreeSoftware #stickers

Cool cool, @Gargron moving all @Mastodon project discussion behind a proprietary walled garden that requires agreement with Microsoft terms of service (and their analytics tracking). Now THAT makes a ton of sense. 🤦♂️

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #privacy

https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/we-are-moving-to-github-discussions/4010