Notices by Derek Caelin (argus@mastodon.technology)

@switchingsocial this is a bit off the normal track, but have you seen any good alternative music services?

You Can Pay Taxes in #Bitcoin in This Small Canadian Town - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zjjd/you-can-pay-taxes-in-bitcoin-in-this-small-canadian-town

#cryptocurrency

The #ActivityPub protocol is freaking fascinating. A blogging site (WriteFreely), a video sharing site(Peertube), and a social network (Mastodon) all communicate using the same standard, enabling the decentralized services to share freely with each other.

https://video.writeas.org/videos/watch/cc55e615-d204-417c-9575-7b57674cc6f3

"We found that at least 61 percent of apps we tested automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens the app. This happens whether people have a Facebook account or not, or whether they are logged into Facebook or not."

😱😱😱

Investigating Apps interactions with Facebook on Android | Privacy International

https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/investigating-apps-interactions-facebook-android