Notices by Dhave Config (paul@social.device5.co.uk)

Facebook finds another way to scam your credit card details out of you so it can track you more

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/instagram-checkout/

So the FBI Infragard is a collaboration between companies and the FBI where they share information on threats to america.

Sounds like the sort of thing you don't really want to be sending information to imo.

See "Membership requirements":

(PDF) https://www.infragard.org/Files/INFRAGARD_Factsheet_10-10-2018.pdf

@izaya add ".rss" to any reddit URL and it will give you a feed . Works on subreddits etc

One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

15 years in prison for a click.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/13/uk_counter_terror_act_royal_assent/

Facebook has a team working on getting kids under 13 hooked on Facebook.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/08/facebook-youth-team-messenger-kids-app-lol-meme-hub

If you have followed the advice of @switchingsocial and are trying @GIMP after previously using Photoshop, you might find the different paradigms confusing.

If you get stuck how to do something, use the GIMP tag on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com to find an answer quickly:

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gimp

The docs also have some useful tutorials for common tasks:

https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

Google pays "gig economy" workers $1 per hour to train its killer drones for Project Maven

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/04/google-ai-project-maven-figure-eight/

@slackz Organising on Facebook is handing a nicely formatted list of all activists, all their contacts, friends and family, their 24/7 location data, browsing history, and a list of how to manipulate them to the authorities.

It doesn't matter how many people are there, it's not worth it.

If people truly care about an issue they'll go to the extreme inconvenience of typing a different URL into their browser to visit a safer site with less surveillance built in.

Don't organise on Facebook.

Ever.

I’ve been saying this for years. Ants are communists https://theoutline.com/post/5974/ants-helping-each-other-survive-and-thrive

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-location-tracking-android-iphone-mobile

Google records your location even when you tell it not to. On iOS and Android. Pausing location history basically does nothing

Upcoming Firefox release will start sending all your DNS requests to Cloudflare

https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2018/08/04/mozillas-new-dns-resolution-is-dangerous/

Looks like this will override local resolvers and therefore break any LAN only domains (as well as sending data to a US company).

Details on how to change this in about:config here https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-privacy-in-firefox/

morning loves

Disappearing Signal messages are stored indefinitely on Mac hard drives

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzke7z/signal-disappearing-messages-are-stored-indefinitely-on-mac-hard-drives

"The FBI is 100% wrong that they're going dark; it's really the golden age of surveillance, and the FBI's panic is really just its own lack of technical sophistication."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/02/e-mail_leaves_a.html