Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 35

On Tuesday, the Brazilian Senate is scheduled to vote on a “fake news” bill that will undermine human rights. [1/6] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/5-serious-flaws-new-brazilian-fake-news-bill-will-undermine-human-rights

Well... I've updated mastodon.social and mastodon.online, now if you upload an audio file that has album art, the album art will be displayed in the audio player. Beyond this, there's a new API for manually adding such thumbnails to audio (and video) uploads, but no UI for it yet.

I really wish phones with a fingerprint scanner had a Burn Mode. Like, from locked if you use a specific finger to unlock it, it shuts off the screen and wipes the phone aggressively.

I get almost literally sick of privacy infringement. Just don't collect data about people. Just don't film people. Just don't stalk people. No, I don't have to explain why. And you don't have to explain why you infringed my privacy. Just stop it.

"Unless we are vigilant now, even as we are put under so much additional strain by the pandemic. . .we shall live also through the death of freedom."

Check out Mishi Choudhary & Eben Moglen's essay in the @timesofindia on #FacialRecognition

READ:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/peril-of-face-recognition-tech-facing-the-end-of-freedom-one-face-at-a-time-supreme-court-must-intervene/

New Pepper&Carrot "Episode 33: Spell of War" is now published online! https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article466/episode-33-spell-of-war
#peppercarrot #krita #creativecommons #webcomic

Dear #software #security developers: if your (web) #form limits our #password length, it is a clear sign your software is NOT #hashing our passwords, but storing it in clear / #plaintext. This is a huge red flag for #cybersecurity, and makes it so that the security-aware among us will hesitate to sign up. #UserExperience #UX #privacy #encryption

Nace un sindicato global contra la economía de plataforma https://www.elsaltodiario.com/falsos-autonomos/nace-red-trasnacional-trabajadores-sindicato-global-gig-economia-plataforma #Artículo

So the moment Apple acquired Fleetsmith they immediately and without warning removed the ability to manage 3rd party apps:

What the actual fuck? How do you just remove a major portion of your MDM product's functionality with zero warning to your customers?

Anyone willing to help ccMixter with making HTTPS work across their whole site?
http://ccmixter.org/

#ccMixter #HTTPS

Oh goddammit. *facepalm* I really need to start checking the dates on blog posts before I start deconstructing them.

That said, people do make these kind of 'wasting RAM doesn't matter' arguments and appear to be serious, so it was still worth the braindump ;)

"... blockers will definitely not block advertisements that are completely integrated with the content that you wanted to open, but when that sort of thing happens, it means that the author of the content knew about what they were advertising, instead of just having a banner ad automatically stuck to their page. Figuring out if you can trust the author of the web page that you opened is something you had to do anyway."

Word.

It's about time we stopped buying into the propaganda phrase "ad blockers", and started calling user-protection tools like #uBlockOrigin and #NoScript what they are; spy blockers. If I display ads on my website using HTML and CSS, spy blockers won't block those. As far as they know, the text, images, audio, or video that make up the ads could be anything. So what's really being blocked is not ads, but tracking. Thanks to the authors of this site, for pointing this out:
https://shouldiblockads.com/