Notices by ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social), page 4

Home-made drone:

Laser-cut wood as a frame, Arduino as a flight controller, gyroscope from a Wii controller.

The rest is off-the-shelf: motors, ESC controllers, RC equipment.

parrot learns to speak cat 😸 🔊

just some nanomachinery assembling itself into an organism

Turns out I've been eating pineapples wrong my entire life!

Privacy International published the results of their latest app audit. Some apps violate privacy by automatically sending personal data to Facebook. They've released their testing environment so you can replicate the work.

https://privacyinternational.org/node/2732
https://privacyinternational.org/appdata

Mexico City

We can rebuild him; we have the technology.

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50,000 Photographs Combine to Form a Detailed Image of the Moon and Stars

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/02/andrew-mccarthy-high-def-moon-photography/

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If you have Android, Blokada is an absolute must. I've had it for a couple of days and it blocked about 1k ads. It sets up a VPN, so no root required. https://blokada.org/

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republicans in a nutshell

Facebook, Twitter Trackers Whitelisted by Brave Browser

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/facebook-twitter-trackers-whitelisted-by-brave-browser/

Dear Mr Zuckerberg: the problem isn't the internet, it's Facebook
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/04/facebook-15-anniversary-mark-zuckerberg

Facebook splits up the word “sponsored” to sneak past adblockers

I imagine that in not too distant future you'll only be able to browse Google approved sites in Chrome https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-kill-url-first-steps/

fake accounts likely exceed 50% of Facebook network
https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/fb.pdf

frontend vs backend :)

don't feed Zucc your data