Notices by ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social), page 3

1920s bike races were wild

the history of Facebook https://prettyzucky.com/

a sunset from space

Facebook: “There is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy.”
https://www.law360.com/articles/1164091

Fascism is capitalism in decay

In 1982 Exxon predicted that by 2020 carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would reach roughly 400-420 ppm. This month’s measurement of 415 ppm is right within the expected curve Exxon projected.

https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-predicted-high-carbon-emissions-954e514b0aa9/

"WhatsApp had a huge security flaw that lets attackers call you and install spyware to collect messages, location data, and even enable a phone’s camera. It’s patched now, but the update notes don’t even acknowledge it! wild."

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1128222021937258496

modern software development in a nutshell

Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-million-users-email-contacts-without-permission-2019-4

the survivors of the climate apocalypse can rest assure that their Amazon packages will still be delivered on time
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828

Chrome, Safari, and Edge to prevent disabling of click tracking, just another reason to use Firefox https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/major-browsers-to-prevent-disabling-of-click-tracking-privacy-risk/

Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries. Just another reminder that DRM is hostile towards users.

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-old-posts-mark-zuckerberg-disappeared-2019-3

conference call bingo

looks like I moved off gmail just in time https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/26/google-makes-emails-more-dynamic-with-amp-for-email/

too real

Facebook stored ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of user passwords as plain text 🤦♂️

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvy9k7/facebook-hundreds-of-millions-user-passwords-plaintext-data-leak

Other people who are struggling are not your enemy. It really embarrassing that this needs to be explained to conservatives.

demo vs product

WhatsApp cofounder tells students to delete Facebook https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/whatsapp-brian-acton-delete-facebook-stanford-lecture