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2023-07-09 21:09:55

Freebird

#cartoon by Matt #Davies

Nicolas Constant - DevBlog

2022-11-06 21:58:28

Closing the official BSL instance

While it was always planed (and disclosed as such since the beginning) I decided to close the official instance of BirdsiteLIVE a bit earlier than expected. Here's why.

The aim of the project

Since not everyone may be familiar with the project, let me clearly state my motivations for it.

On the fediverse there was (and maybe still is) a trend of creating public accounts combined with a crossposter to bring twitter content here. This is an issue in many ways: it pollutes local and federated timelines with ghosts accounts, it creates publicly available mirrors, and is not great for multiple other reasons.

After a lot of debates and discussions with other fediverse users, I decided to create a service that would fulfill this need (and ease up a fediverse migration) while operating on a private and “personal usage” philosophy. The fact that ActivityPub permits to publish content under “follower-only” mode was ideal in this regard.

So cool, problem solved, we just need to convince admins to clean up the remaining bots now? Well...

The blind spot

As many seasoned users of the fediverse, I never use the search functionality for other reasons than resolving full handles and URLs.

If you're not already aware of it, due to the decentralized aspect of the fediverse (and contrary to the centralized functionality of common social networks) search isn't really working the way you might think: due to technical limitations, it will only look into the known accounts of the instance, that is a limited to a very limited view of the fediverse depending on the size of your instance, the age of the accounts, etc. Since the most reliable way to find and follow an account is to provide a full handle (@user@domain) or the URL to the profile, my guess is we all end to ignore this flaw and stop thinking of it.

Until...

The arrival of unacclimated migrants from the Hellsite

(if you're one of them, before you jump to your phone to tell me how horrible person I am, I'm just messing with you, you're impolite, noisy and driven with the birdsite habit to create indignation posts to get visibility, but hey! You're the victim of those services. And now you're safe. There is no need to behave this way here, there is no algorithm to surf on and what you will find here is a (mostly) peaceful place where we discuss more than we throw 2 words arguments to each other to appear clever. Sincerely and unironically, welcome here)

The issue with newcomers is they manage to pass through the “choose your instance” dilemma, log in, happily find the new UI full of promises and... oh yeah. Use the search engine to see if some of their friends are here. Oh no.

Let's say I'm happy words aren't the most effective way to kill someone since they would still be feeding on my corpse currently. 😶

BSL accounts are meant to be used under an educated understanding of what it is, what it does and how it does it. This clearly can't be the case when displaying those accounts on a search result list at the “I just arrived” state of evolution to a proper fedizen. And I understand how it can lead to misunderstandings, doubts, disbelief, anger and other great sentiments that leads to harmony and peaceful exchanges.

The fix

There is a solution that would fix this issue, I've reached Mastodon's dev months ago and reached them recently again to add a new label on the bots so that they don't appear on a partial search and only when using full handles / URL (you can't guess them, if you're in possession of one, you know what it is).

I'm sure they're very busy (and a bit mad at me too!) and that's ok, but the thing is the issue is still here currently. And that, that's not ok.

Closing the instance

So yeah. I'm closing it. Not much to say here. It's the best solution in my reach currently. I just hope people won't create again crossposters everywhere in response (if you read this, please don't).

If you're an instance owner

Please consider restricting the usage and availability of your instance, at least until a better solution is found and available.

The best way to use the software currently (in the way it was meant to be used), is to restrict it to a personal instance (or a small instance of seasoned users) and prevent other instances to be able to reach it (via ACLs, Firewall rules, etc) to prevent the creation of searchable accounts.

Also since the software isn't working in a truly private way due to this flaw, it could be a good thing that you check Twitter API conditions again and decide if you think those are still met, or not, and act consequently. There is diverse opinions about it, and I don't want you to trust my understanding of it (not a lawyer, etc).

What if I'm still mad at you?

Oh yeah. You can still write me delicate brutalities that you guys excels in (be original and entertaining please!). But while I lived in many countries, I'm still French in my DNA and I might answer with the best way, we, French people, deal with such content:

Jokes aside, I hope this article will help people to understand what BSL is, maybe stop harassing admins about it, and help evacuate some steam from everyone. You're free to share it, obviously.

And if you're one of those newcomers, again, welcome here, I'm sure you'll love your stay among us.

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GunChleoc

2022-09-24 21:21:15

Anleitung: Tor Snowflake in Microsoft Edge installieren

Anleitung: Tor Snowflake in Microsoft Edge installieren

Diese Browsererweiterung hilft Menschen in Ländern, die von Zensur betroffen sind, z.B. zur Zeit #Iran #MahsaAmini und #Russland wegen #Ukraine. Mehr Informationen (auf Englisch) unter snowflake.torproject.org/

1. Die Seite der Browsererweiterung ansurfen

Geh auf folgenden Link in Microsoft Edge: chrome.google.com/webstore/det…

Das bringt euch auf die Seite der Erweiterung im Google Chrome Store. Diese Erweiterungen sind mit Microsoft Edge kompatibel.

2. Installation erlauben

Wenn du noch nie Erweiterungen aus dem Chrome Store installiert hast, musst du das erstmal zulassen. Hierfür klicke in dem blauen Balken auf "Erweiterungen aus anderen Stores zulassen"

Dann klicke auf "Zulassen" zur Bestätigung

Jetzt sind wir soweit, dass wir die Erweiterung installieren können.

3. Erweiterung installieren

Klicke auf den blauen "Add to Chrome" Knopf, um die Installation anzufordern

Klicke auf den grauen "Erweiterung hinzufügen" Knopf, um die Installation zu bestätigen

Nach abgeschlossener Installation bekommst Du ein Bestätigungsfenster. MIt dem Kreuzchen oben rechts schließen.

4. Snowflake an- und ausschalten

Wenn Du Snowflake mal an- uns ausschalten möchtest:

Klicke auf das Erweiterungssymbol in der Leiste oben (sieht aus wie ein Puzzlestück), dann klicke auf "Snowflake".

Jetzt poppt ein Dialog auf, wo Du Snowflake mit einem Knopf an- und ausschalten kannst.

Volker Quaschning 👉@VQuaschning@mastodon.green

2022-04-14 12:39:16

Wenn #ElonMusk #Twitter kaufen will, um angeblich die Meinungsfreiheit zu schützen, ist Skepsis angebracht. Bei der Eröffnung der #Tesla-Fabrik bei Berlin war das #ZDF ausgeladen, weil #ElonMusk die Meinung des Senders offenbar nicht gepasst hat.

spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unterneh…

Du Rove's Channel (@durov) - Telegram

2021-12-28 12:13:11

A recent report has proven that Telegram sticks to its promise of keeping its user data private, while apps like #WhatsApp give real-time user data to third parties, and despite their numerous claims about "E2E encryption", can also disclose message contents.

The report has confirmed that #Telegram is one of the few messaging apps that doesn't breach their users’ trust.

I am not surprised. Most other apps couldn't guarantee #privacy to their users even if they wanted to. Because their engineers reside in the US, they have to secretly implement backdoors in their apps when the US government orders them to. If an engineer speaks publicly about it, then can go to jail for breaching a gag order.

In most cases the agencies don't even need a court order to extract private information from messaging apps such as WhatsApp, and in other cases, court documents are shrouded in secrecy. Some supposedly secure apps have been funded by government agencies from their inception (e.g Anom, Signal).

For many years the National Security Agency (#NSA ) has been making sure that international encryption standards are in line with what the NSA can decipher, and all other approaches to #encryption are labeled as "non-standard" or "home-brew". Through their proxies in the encryption industry (like this one), the NSA imposed flawed standards onto the encryption used by the rest of the world, cautioning everyone else from "rolling out their own encryption".

No wonder US-based apps such as WhatsApp are plagued with backdoors – intentionally planted security loopholes that governments (and anybody else) can use to hack smartphones and extract private data from people.

I hear our US-based competitors are frustrated that they can't match Telegram's growth, despite heavily investing in marketing (something Telegram has never had to invest in). But in order to match our growth, they have to first make sure their actions match their marketing claims. Until then, data breaches and security issues in their apps will, unfortunately, remain unavoidable.

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Daring Fireball

2021-12-28 21:17:39

Reuters: Amazon Kowtowed to P.R.C. and Removed All Reviews of Xi Jinping’s Book in China

Steve Stecklow and Jeffrey Dastin, reporting for Reuters:

Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping’s speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident. The American e-commerce giant must stop allowing any customer ratings and reviews in China.

A negative review of Xi’s book prompted the demand, one of the people said. “I think the issue was anything under five stars,” the highest rating in Amazon’s five-point system, said the other person.

Ratings and reviews are a crucial part of Amazon’s e-commerce business, a major way of engaging shoppers. But Amazon complied, the two people said. Currently, on its Chinese site Amazon.cn, the government-published book has no customer reviews or any ratings. And the comments section is disabled.

I don’t know why the Chinese government is so sensitive about this. Even here in the U.S., where we’re free to leave whatever reviews we want on Amazon for Xi’s book, it’s rated 4.7/5 after nearly 2,000 reviews. Seriously, go look.

(That’s an affiliate link that will make me rich.)

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Fa Conti

2021-10-06 12:37:04

"O #Telegram pode ser o centro das preocupações na próxima #Eleição. O app permite grupos com 200 mil pessoas (no WhatsApp são 256) e canais sem limite de inscrições (o canal do #B0ls0naro tem quase 1 milhão). Em 2018, 15% dos celulares no Brasil tinham o app instalado. Agora são 53% "-
pic.twitter.com/8D2A8o6t8J -
RT Guilherme Caetano -
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Durov’s Channel

2021-09-28 19:13:31

On Telegram, people can publicly express reasonable concerns about #vaccines . Large Telegram #channels are one of the few remaining places on the Internet where users can raise their voice against various anti-Covid measures, which they feel have restricted their rights.

What #Telegram does not allow, however, is the distribution of calls for violence via public channels. Inciting #violence has been prohibited by the Terms of Service of Telegram since 2015, so we take action every time this line is crossed. Yesterday we had to shut down an Italian channel "stopdittatura", which incited subscribers to harm medical doctors and other public officials related to vaccinations. Unfortunately, the channel admins failed to act even after our team warned them about the violation.

We also had to block a similar German public channel "menschenreise_diskussion", which, just like "stopdittatura", had over 40,000 subscribers and actively incited violence against doctors. Such channels violate Telegram's rules, the rules of Apple and Google and also local laws.

It's OK to fight for your rights.
It's not OK to harm other people.

ramil rodaje**

2020-11-12 12:44:31

#keepthememoryalive

Ilya Zhitomirskiy

October 12, 1989 – November 12, 2011

Co-founder, diaspora

#IlyaZhitomirskiy #brilliantyoungleader #RememberingIlya #RememberingIlyaZhitomirskiy #ilya #ilyaz #zhitomirskiyi #zhitomirskiy #thankyouilya #epicandawesome diaspora #2020 #diaspora2020 #weremember #keepthememoryalive #HEROcks! #epic-awesomeness #youmaketheinternetabetterplace

Nathan

2021-05-20 05:50:20

Everyone gangsta until youtube turns on ads for all videos.
P.S. You dont get the 40% cut unless you have 4,000 valid public watch hours in the last 12 months.

YouTube’s right to monetize: #YouTube has the right to #monetize all content on the platform and #ads may appear on videos from channels not in the YouTube Partner Program.

#ublockorigin #odysee #peertube

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Jonne Haß

2021-01-14 08:09:21

@Norz Tech In my opinion this is a huge fallacy in this context. There's many technical, objective and subjective perspectives we can take on this topic that don't require any attachment to a person. More importantly, traits or history of a person don't necessarily transfer over to their (future) work. That they do forever is a pretty bold assumption really.

Signal is a great example here, its leader is a highly opinionated person, many of his opinions I cannot share. But his work is open source and peer reviewed. We can understand the full architecture and its implementation and reason it objectively. Just being able to do this is already a huge bonus over Telegram where we can only do this partially.

If Telegram decides to do something we don't like, it's live with it or leave it. If Signal does, we could fork it entirely.

Now both Telegram and Signal made the architectural decision to use a central service and phone numbers as an identifier. There's certain trade-offs on why they did it and its pretty subjective on whether you prefer paying those trade-offs vs. paying the trade-offs a decentralized approach like XMPP or Matrix imposes. But non of that judgement is dependent on "who made this".

So I've been hearing "the guy who made is cool" for years as the only argument towards why Telegram is better than anything else. I just don't buy it, it's an entirely empty argument to me.

riveravaldez

2021-04-21 17:04:31

"There is no good reason for #Google to do this, other than to force people to use #Chrome."
bodhi.fedoraproject.org/update…

Google has announced that it is cutting off access to the Sync and "other Google Exclusive" APIs from all builds except Google Chrome. This will make the Fedora Chromium build significantly less functional (along with every other distro packaged Chromium). It is noteworthy that Google gave the builders of distribution Chromium packages these access rights back in 2013 via API keys, specifically so that we could have open source builds of Chromium with (near) feature parity to Chrome. And now they're taking it away. The reasoning given for this change? Google does not want users to be able to "access their personal Chrome Sync data (such as bookmarks) ... with a non-Google, Chromium-based browser." They're not closing a security hole, they're just requiring that everyone use Chrome.

Or to put it bluntly, they do not want you to access their Google API functionality without using proprietary software (Google Chrome). There is no good reason for Google to do this, other than to force people to use Chrome.

I would say that you might want to reconsider whether you want to use Chromium or not. If you want the full "Google" experience, you can run the proprietary Chrome. If you want to use a FOSS browser that isn't hobbled, there is a Firefox package in Fedora.

Let's learn this "open-source" lesson. Let's go #FreeSoftware, #CopyLeft, #GPL, etc.

#firefox #capitalism #community #open-source #mit #api #chromium #gnu #linux #licenses

Fla

2021-01-13 21:14:35

#Signal is fully #OpenSource (#Telegram server is not) and run by an NGO.
It has the best ratio of security & privacy VS usability & mass adoption. So go for it ;)

#MT

Aktion Freiheit statt Angst

2021-01-10 09:13:47

10.01.2021 Ansturm auf alternative Messenger

Facebook verärgert Fans mit neuen AGB

Das freut uns sehr: Endlich wenden sich größere Mengen an WhatsApp Nutzern anderen Messengern zu. Facebook möchte noch mehr Geld verdienen und hat zum Jahreswechsel seinen Nutzern diesen Hinweis präsentiert:

"Whatsapp aktualisiert seine Nutzungsbedingungen und seine Datenschutzrichtlinie."
Wer den Änderungen nicht bis zum 8. Februar zustimmt, wird ausgesperrt.

Außerhalb Europas wird Whatsapp die beiden Dienste Facebook und WhatsApp noch enger verknüpfen und Daten auch zu Marketingzwecken oder mit Drittunternehmen teilen. Aber auch innerhalb der EU und unter dem Schutz der DSGVO erhält Facebook Informationen wie die Handynummer oder Kontakte aus dem Telefonbuch des Nutzers.

Selbst ein anderer Superreicher, der Tesla Chef Elon Musk, twitterte seinen 40 Millionen Followern: "Use Signal". Das wäre eine Alternative, die 2013 auch unser Ehrenmitglied Edward Snowden empfahl.

Inzwischen gibt es noch viele andere Alternativen, die man empfehlen kann. Die Grafik links vergleicht die drei Messenger Element, Telegram und Signal. In unserer Publikation über die Gefahren, die in Handy Apps lauern können, haben wir 12 verschiedene WhatsApp Alternativen aufgezählt.

In der nebenstehenden Tabelle fehlt auf jeden Fall die Schweizer App Threema - und noch viele andere. Jede/r muss selbst wissen, was ihm oder ihr wichtig ist und zu welchen Alternativen man seine Freunde überreden kann. Denn für einen Wechsel ist es "sehr hilfreich", wenn auch die Freunde dabei mitmachen.

Dazu kann es helfen, sich selbst erst einmal klar zu machen, was einem wichtig ist - außer der Tatsache, dass man dort auch seine Freunde zum Chatten wiederfinden möchte:

• eine freie und offene Software
• den Schutz der eigenen Privatsphäre
• Verwendung ohne Angabe persönlicher Daten, wie Realname oder Handynummer
• Benutzerfreundlichkeit
• Verwendung auf allen Plattformen (Handys, Tablets, Desktop) und unter allen Betriebssystemen
• keine Serverstandorte außerhalb der EU
• vielleicht sogar keine Server sondern eine gleichberechtigte dezentralisierte Lösung (wie Bitmessage)
• ...

Mehr dazu bei sueddeutsche.de/digital/whatsa…
und t-online.de/digital/handy/id_8…
und alternativeto.net/software/wha…
Link zu dieser Seite: aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/…
Link im Tor-Netzwerk: nnksciarbrfsg3ud.onion/de/articles/7511-20210110-ansturm-auf-alternative-messenger.htm
Tags: #Facebook #Messenger #WhatsApp #AGB #Werbung #Threema #Wire #Element #Telegram #WhatsApp #Hacking #Trojaner #Cookies #Verschlüsselung #Verbraucherdatenschutz #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #Datenpannen #Datenskandale #Privatsphäre #DSGVO #EU #USA

know

2021-01-10 19:28:48

#tos #bigtech

Brad Koehn ☑️

2021-01-10 04:13:31

Buh bye, Nazis.

#podmins keep an eye on your registrations, or shut them off for a time.

buzzfeednews.com/article/johnp…

#aws #parler

Daring Fireball

2021-01-09 00:38:47

Apple Gives Parler 24 Hours to Implement a Moderation Plan or It Will Be Removed From the App Store

From Apple’s letter to Parler, as published by BuzzFeed News:

We require your immediate attention regarding serious App Store guideline violations that we have found with your app, Parler.

We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 that led (among other things) to loss of life, numerous injuries, and the destruction of property. The app also appears to continue to be used to plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities.

Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service, found here: https://legal.parler.com/documents/Elaboration-on-Guidelines.pdf

It’s just a chef’s kiss to encapsulate so much with “(among other things)”. Consider what it includes: the breakdown of society, an attempted coup, the disgrace of our nation in the front of the world, all the way down to evidence of poor personal hygiene. Truly a parenthetical for the ages.

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Daring Fireball

2021-01-08 23:39:41

Twitter Permanently Bans Trump

Twitter:

After close review of recent Tweets from the @[url=https://xcancel.com/realDonaldTrump]Donald J. Trump[/url] account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

Behold his account. It’s a beautiful thing to see. We never have to read another Trump tweet again.

Can I just take a moment, while we’re dancing on his Twitter account’s grave, to talk about how stupid the “real” prefix in his account handle was? Even the way it was camel-cased was stupid and cut-rate.

Anyway, good fucking riddance.

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fle

2021-01-04 10:47:39

pour contourner ça j'ai essayé #LineageOS . C'est très bien, mais des services comme les banques, location de vélo, airbnb... utilisent les services de géolocalisation ou notivication de google. Et alors c'est parfois difficile de les faire fonctionner. Il faudrait qu'il y ait une plateforme universelle minimum, libre et ouverte, parce que du coup il peut etre difficile d'utiliser sa carte bleu sans google

Privacy International

2021-01-07 16:43:39

WhatsApp's notification to accept its new policy or lose your account is wrong on so many levels we need a short thread to talk about it

🧵👇 1/9

Thorsten Claus

2020-12-07 07:10:33

The #insporation #App for #diaspora can be now a share-target for #iOS (on Android a bit longer).
inporation is the App for diaspora upcoming version 0.8 (7.99). Some Pods already supports this.
Load the iOS App from TestFlight-App: testflight.apple.com/join/K9N7…
Official Insporation Site - contains more information as well as the Android Version.