Notices by Rafael Bonifaz (rbonifaz@mastodon.social), page 29

RT @dhh@twitter.com
Email is the next big thing. We're finally realizing just how precious these open standards were all along. Your way around Facebook, and all the other walled-garden parasites, goes through email. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hot-new-channel-for-reaching-real-people-email-11547874005

“Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services as free, but now surveillance capitalists think of us as free.”

Siempre llevo un #Tails en mi llavero.
Nunca me falla. 😜
#privacidad #tor

¡Hola #Fediverso!

Llegó el día.

Hoy domingo 20 de enero de 2019, podremos ver en toda nuestra #América el primer #EclipseTotalDeLuna del año. Coincidirá con el mayor acercamiento de nuestro satélite natural, por lo que será también una #SuperLuna.

Revisen el horario que les toca dependiendo del lugar en el que se encuentren. Si inician su velada alrededor de las 8pm, en algún momento lo verán. La totalidad será a las 23:12, hora del centro de #México

https://youtu.be/e3lEO9tD__E

¿Existe un dilema entre #privacidad y conveniencia en internet?

https://rafael.bonifaz.ec/blog/2017/08/internet-privacidad-vs-conveniencia/

Don't forget about the other free and open operating systems these days. A ❤️ for #BSD! #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #HardenedBSD #NoMonoculture

🛎️ Website update: finally revised a short article that critiques Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (that I am a member of) for their strategy of shunning proprietary software:
https://datagrok.org/gpl/shun/

What I don't get about Slack or any other 'chat as a service' system is why tech companies would willingly backdoor themselves with a surveillance system to harvest all their most private in-house discussions.

All those chat logs must be worth quite a bit to the right buyers.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Klonick/status/1085685104901533696

<< Me, starting Internet Law class w/a joke: Guys, the last time this course was taught here the cutting edge case was Napster!

[blank stares]

Me, horrified: Wait. DO YOU KNOW WHAT NAPSTER IS?

[sheepish shaking of heads]

Me: I'M ONLY 34 I CAN'T ALREADY BE THAT PROFESSOR >>

but seriously, somewhere between 2000 and 2019 the IT industry seamlessly transitioned from

"we provide precision engineering tools, your data is yours, you should not need to trust us or anyone, mathematics is your guarantee, crypto 4 ever. "

to

"give us your data. all of it. give. no secrets. hold nothing back. in return we will... train AIs on it.. and provide unspecified 'services'... for someone, who may be you... that can change at any time... and we are funded by, uh. Look, a unicorn!"