Notices by Tek resources? Yipe! (tek@freeradical.zone)

This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion

Cancel it. Delete your account. Help your friends delete theirs. Abandon that dumpster fire.

@null @s0 I prefer the wording “sly TVs”. Smart is one thing. A clever spy in your living room is another.

@snder @sinblr @seb @TheGibson @ajroach42 @angristan Meta:

One of my things in the fediverse is when one of the #admins notices something odd and posts about it, then everyone else is like "OMG ME TOO LET'S KILL IT WITH FIRE". This is our network, darn it, and we're gonna protect it.

@aab @t3rr0rz0n3 @fanta Not exactly the same ones, but same pattern.

O'Rourke: 'There can be no tax break' for orgs against same-sex marriage https://www.nbcnews.com/video/beto-o-rourke-says-he-would-strip-tax-exempt-status-for-religious-institutions-opposing-same-sex-marriage-71111237752

I am increasingly convinced that Beto’s role is to open the Overton window for other candidates, and he’s hacking the system brilliantly.

We ran out of coffee beans yesterday, so this morning I broke out a bottle of Trader Joe's concentrate I had sitting around. Well. I apparently misjudged the coffee:water ratio badly because my heart is beating like a hummingbird and I can smell plaid.

Need coffee. Walk downstairs. Find roomful of gothy kids listening to gothy music.

Tek Jr: Dad, what song is this?

Me, fumbling with coffee pot: Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts I, track 4.

Gothy kid: Whoa!

Tek Jr: Told you!

Get a load of this Zoom bullshit (https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2019/07/08/response-to-video-on-concern/):

> This is a workaround to a change introduced in Safari 12 that requires a user to confirm that they want to start the Zoom client prior to joining every meeting. The local web server enables users to avoid this extra click before joining every meeting. We feel that this is a legitimate solution to a poor user experience problem, enabling our users to have faster, one-click-to-join meetings.

Well, that makes it OK then. ಠ_ಠ

@mngrif Ugh, for real? Hold on for the ride!

Motherfuck the GasBuddy privacy policy at https://www.gasbuddy.com/Privacy:

If you access the Service through a mobile device [...] we will also automatically collect information about your driving habits, including, but not limited to, driving distance, speed, acceleration and braking habits (collectively, “Driving Data”). Such collection occurs even if you are not logged in to the Service. [...] GasBuddy may share your Driving Data as described [...].

Alex Jones gets banned from birdsite and the alt right loses their minds. If any of you tell them about the fediverse, I will strangle you.

My #mastodonadmins friends: I think the wave of spammers is going to get worse, and I think it goes a lot further than just spam. Basically, I think Russia is going to try to use us the same way they used Twitter and Facebook in the 2016 elections. We can't let that happen.

I wrote a little about this at https://blog.freeradical.zone/the-russians-are-coming/ which includes something you can do on your own instance today to help.

Mastodon admins: I'm getting a lot of spammers signing up from 191.101.24.175.

"The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user": https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user

One time a previous boss insisted I try to do some graphics design work. I gave her this, and she quit pestering me about it.

I'm dying: Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030