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“Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seriously worried about Apple. He had long labeled the phone manufacturing company as “one of [Facebook’s] biggest competitors”” (https://mazech.com/2021/01/facebook-accuses-apple-of-interfering-with-its-business-and-engaging-in-anticompetitive-behavior/)
Naw. They’re your dealer and finally cutting you off. Withdrawals suck but they’re not usually deadly.
I found a bug in the #r3c iPad app and would love to run up a PR. Anyone know where the repo is?
Hey #FLOSS #Privacy #Fediverse, is there any non-google, ethical, metrics service for app metrics out there? Asking for a @cguess
Cybersecurity practitioners often underestimate the importance of compatibility and usability. https://xkcd.com/2365/
Keep hearing mastodon notification sounds in the #HOPE talk and it took me like three times to grok that it's coming from the video^^
Computers can't solve fake news but it can help humans work on the problem. A new article by my colleagues Bill Adair and Mark Stencel https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/07/a-lesson-in-automated-journalism-bring-back-the-humans/
"voting software should always be fre-"
Voting software should not exist. Software should not be involved in casting ballots. Period. No such thing should exist. It's not possible to do it right in theory, it sure as shit will never happen in practice.
Paper. Ballots. Paper. Ballots. Paper. Ballots. If you don't understand and insist on using anything electronic, it better fucking have a paper backup copy that cannot be disabled.
Electronic voting is stupid, man. It's universally stupid.
Just in case you are as confused as I am about all of the various Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
To everyone following this the best option I found (at first, wait a second) was GNU Mailman. It had everything you’d want but in typical GNU fashion was basically impossible to get set up on a server in less than the long weekend.
So after sinking three days into poorly documented docker-compose files I just ended up going with groups.io. Took 10 minutes, the free tier is great and it allows private boards.
RT @TheBADASS_army@twitter.com
2 weeks into our #CyberSecurity awareness month campaign, and it’s going swimmingly!! Here’s all of our infographics thus far, to help you get yourself and your friends and lovers secure!! #csam #CybersecurityMonth #infosec #security #sextech
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheBADASS_army/status/1183883362160787463
Deployed 82nd Airborne unit told to use these encrypted messaging apps on government cell phones
“Unfortunately, those apps are more secure than texting in the clear, which is more or less the alternative. Granted, if a hostile party has access to the handset, that encryption isn’t particularly helpful.”
Well this is properly terrifying. https://apple.news/ApVBkkFHrTgy2jwx2LQ_5MA
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