Notices by 🇪🇺 David Ross 🇬🇧 (davidross@mastodon.social)

Q: "You mention that WhatsApp isn't safe to use in Kenya. Can you elaborate on why?"

A: "First of all we all know it's not an open source tool. They always say 'end-to-end encryption' so we are not sure if it's *actually* E2EE.. I know some of my fellow journalists whose information has been intercepted through WhatsApp."

Cecilia Maundu - Journalists & Digital Security Trainer - Kenya

https://archive.org/details/decentralizedwebsummitmedia-2018-hashlounge-2/DWeb+Hash+Lounge+080218+02.mov

I just helped to stop #CensorshipMachines that would filter ALL of our online content. You too can help too #SaveYourInternet: http://d.shpg.org/417205234t Contact your #EU representative before 20 June!

Takes just a few short minutes to take a stand.

#OpenWeb #Copyright #Blogging #LiveStream #Memes #Article13 #Activism

Examples of successful #community #fork|s/run projects:

Gitea
Monero
LibreOffice
Ayo.js
MariaDB
NextCloud
Jenkins
XOrg
WordPress
ZenCart
Inkscape
PostrgreSQL
OpenBSD
Django
Wikipedia
etc.

Everyone else: stop what you're doing. I'm doing something. Well trying to. But I can't. Because you're doing something. Stop it.

#Matrix app #Riot getting an overhaul. Captain obvious: "The current Riot interface felt too busy — there is a fair amount of cognitive load for a new users to understand what everything in the UI is and how to navigate around"

https://medium.com/@RiotChat/a-sneak-peek-at-a-whole-new-riot-im-1114df653782

A stack of #RemoteWorking roles were just added to #Mozilla's #careers page. Work in #FOSS

- Senior #Cryptography #Engineer
- Senior #SpiderMonkey Engineer
- Junior #DataAnalyst
- Infrastructure Engineer Manager
- #IT #Operations Engineer
- Senior #ProductManager
- Senior Cloud #Security Engineer
- #Firefox #ProjectManager
- Senior #ProductDesigner
- #UX Designer

https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/

Welcome to Mastodon @openrightsgroup !!

If you really must use Facebook - How to remove apps #tracking your #Facebook account. Really helpful ste by step..

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-to-see-block-facebook-app-tracking

#Mozilla petition #Facebook against the #CambridgeAnalytica use of 50 Million members data..

"This wasn't a data breach, no one hacked into Facebook or stole passwords. It happened because Facebook allowed apps to access not just sensitive information of people who used those programs – but their friends as well."

https://foundation.mozilla.org/campaigns/facebook/