I am in favour of the term "Web4" to describe small, local, personal, private, efficient, cryptography-based decentralisation that is not linked to cryptocurrency, far right money-laundering, slow non-parallel non-deleteable global public ledgers, proof-of-e-waste, proof-of-pluto … | Continue reading
(To everyone saying "this is just an enterprise policy": Look at the conversations in the bugs. Somebody said, to the Chromium team, schools are using Google Forms for testing, and the kids can see the right answers in the forms, so to address that, we want to prevent students fr … | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageIf you use #GMail, #Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt, and even if you didn't buy the product from them. Here's metadata from my takeout showing price, delivery address, description, vendor, etc. #privacy | Continue reading
I am happy to reveal that a non-profit legal entity for Mastodon, Mastodon gGmbH, is in the process of being entered into the German company register.For context, I have been operating as a sole proprietor so far.It's been in the works for 8 months but I didn't want to announce a … | Continue reading
I was notified that @tateisu@mastodon.juggler.jp's Mastodon app "Subway Tooter" has received a warning from the Google Play Store citing user-generated content that "incites discrimination".A Mastodon app does not host or promote any content. The user types the address to connect … | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageHere's a photo displaying all the government-funded inventions that Apple compiled into its devices, which subsequently everyone clapped at saying "look what the free market did!": | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageYesterday, I finally pushed my current source code implementing the Exposure Notification API to the @microg@fosstodon.org git repository.This will allow using apps that use the Google/Apple framework for COVID-19 contact tracing on Android devices without the Go … | Continue reading
According to the-federation.info the #fediverse has crossed 3 million registered users (and this is excluding Gab) | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageIterated Function Systems with #OCamlA message is hidden in this screen shot. Use it here: https://stegano-web.herokuapp.com#fractal #programming #steganography #stegano | Continue reading
Since some people are talking about the “death of the URL” … again … it felt like the right time to re-post something I wrote 2 years ag on the topic https://medium.com/@torgo/in-defense-of-the-url-adbec59c7cf4 including a link to research that seems to indicate people DO know wh … | Continue reading
I recently had someone contact me asking if my PGP key was safe to use because there appears to be a user id called "Dontuseee" on it -- it's actually a malicious user id that someone else added, not signed by key.It prompted me to re-read this bug report that would be trivial to … | Continue reading