Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 30

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

Followed a link to an earlier article where @enkiv2 shares this thought about a conference experience in 2008:

"... in the community at the intersection of tech and social justice, the political ramifications of fake news on social media was old news ten years ago."

I wonder if now is the time to approach Stuff and other news orgs and ask if they'd like their own fediverse instance, under their own domain?

NZ news site Stuff.co.nz has decided to stop publishing their news content on FarceBook:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018754217/midweek-mediawatch-ethical-conundrums

About time.

#Stuff #NewsMedia #SocialMedia

spoiler: it removed two heads and I got killed by the other 23

lost one of my best characters by being a doof, no other reason

I just had to test "how bad would it be if I tried to whack the lernean hydra with this flaming axe" didn't I

The "non-commercial" (NC) option in the Creative Commons suite of licenses introduces more confusion than it eliminates. I wrote a short essay to sum up the main problem, as I see it. This core problem can get lost in discussion of more technical issues. I'm hoping this short statement will be useful to share with well-intentioned copyright owners considering NC. But this "first draft" could probably use your edits or comments! https://freedomdefined.org/The_non-commercial_provision_obfuscates_intent

#Yggdrasil protip:
maybe check that your SSH authentication is secure before letting your computer be accessed by any rando.

"Furthermore, even without the [security] bugs, JavaScript is increasingly being used in ways that are fundamentally user-hostile – ranging from The Pirate Bay’s non-consensual cryptocurrency mining to advertising companies’ intrusive tracking of users across the web."

http://john.ankarstrom.se/replacing-javascript/ One of my favourites!

I will probably let links partially update their webpage like Intercooler.js & HTMX allow! Plenty of precedence for that...

#Humor #Statistics

The Dutch ministry of justice paid for a #privacy test of Office 365, finding a series of issues. Just one of these: 6 different companies receive user data including file names, without even a privacy policy.
https://www.privacycompany.eu/blogpost-nl/onderzoek-naar-microsoft-office-365-for-the-web-en-apps-microsoft-belooft-nieuwe-maatregelen-om-hoge-privacyrisicos-te-verlagen

@codesections no no no, the whole point of source code is for it to be readable and editable by humans, and the whole point of zero-width spaces is to *not* be visible to humans