Notices by ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social), page 2

Great news for Europe if the regulators don't back down.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889pk3/facebook-threatens-to-pull-out-of-europe-if-it-doesnt-get-its-way

New records show Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have thousands of previously unreported military and law enforcement contracts

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-amazon-pentagon-law-enforcement-contracts-2020-7

Let's Encrypt wil revoke many TLS/SSL certificates on March fourth due to CAA rechecking bug.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/revoking-certain-certificates-on-march-4/114864

EFF has confirmed that the Ring doorbell app on Android covertly shares personally identifiable information on its users with third-party companies, including Facebook. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers

Facebook faces $35 billion class-action lawsuit regarding misuse of Facial Recognition data. https://gulfnews.com/technology/facebook-faces-35-billion-class-action-lawsuit-1.1571462305092

thinking outside the box

Forget understanding what global warming is, a quarter of Americans think the Sun goes around the Earth.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says

uncanny

wait for it

Orwell must be spinning in his grave right about now.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

noble gasses next to a Tesla coil

Microsoft contractors are listening to some Skype calls. In other news, people still use Skype for some unfathomable reason. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xweqbq/microsoft-contractors-listen-to-skype-calls

Meanwhile in Twitter land:

"Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to."
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/07/twitter-fesses-up-to-more-adtech-leaks/

A 3D printed arrow by mathematician and sculptor Kokichi Sugihara uses curves and angles that the brain can't register to make it look like it always points right. https://www.livescience.com/62478-optical-illusion-arrow-mirror-symmetry.html

just doing some flips

Programming Languages Explained With Music 🤘

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Petition to open source all EU government software: public money -> public code https://publiccode.eu/

made a script to download images from the @pixelfed data export JSON file in case somebody finds it useful

https://gist.github.com/yogthos/94da937bcae2552b9501bfc4d9045f21