Jon Spark @jon@jonspark.com

Want to get away from evil #privacy threatening clouds? Check http://thegood.cloud - where a hosted #nextcloud keeps your data safe!

Aryeh Nirenberg has created an amazing video, which lets you feel the rotation of the earth:

Using a tracking mount aligned with North Star, he kept taking photos every 12 seconds for about 3 hours. The camera is looking at the same portion of the Milky Way.

A police department collected 65,000 face scans — but the system hasn't been connected to a single arrest | #facialrecognition https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/san-diego-police-facial-recognition-no-arrests-2020-1

#Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone #Locations In Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search | #android #geofence #privacy #smartphone #surveillance #tracking https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/google-gives-feds-1500-leads-to-arsonist-smartphones-in-unprecedented-geofence-search/#7e36570827dc

#Google Street View image of a house predicts #car #accident #risk of its resident | #insurance #modeling #privacy #streetview https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05270

The thought occurs to me: what if we had a "no Xmas tree strike" this year... by my back of the envelop calculation, that'd be a few hundred million carbon sequestering, oxygen belching trees... towards our climate-change-arresting global tree planting goals. Not an inconsequential amount.

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Read now in: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian

#android #privacy #opensource #ungoogled

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Eat more plants to be less sad

https://neurosciencenews.com/aging-depression-nutrition-15195/

“The consumption of fruits and vegetables was protective against depression in our study, which has also been found in previous research.”

That’s right, this just confirms what we knew.

“Various minerals and vitamins (e.g., magnesium, zinc, selenium) present in fruits and vegetables may reduce plasma concentrations of C-reactive protein, a marker of low-grade inflammation associated with depression. “

Uhm, didn't see that coming (totally did):

The Wire messenger changed ownership in July, didn't really notify anyone as per their own privacy policy, and now belongs to a US entity called "Wire Group Holdings":

https://www.zefix.ch/de/search/entity/list/firm/1116851

Not sure how I feel about that (totally do).

Mozilla + Intel + Red Hat Form The Bytecode Alliance To Run WebAssembly Everywhere at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/announcing-the-bytecode-alliance/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/xtcjfe2e4i #freepost

It appears Facebook might be actively using iphone camera while you’re scrolling your feed at https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/k7mqmejd0t #freepost

oof

"Bypassing GitHub's OAuth flow with a HEAD request"

https://blog.teddykatz.com/2019/11/05/github-oauth-bypass.html

Why Adding Client-Side Scanning Breaks End-To-End Encryption

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/why-adding-client-side-scanning-breaks-end-end-encryption

We did it! We came together as a community and met our fundraising goal to defend software freedom from patent litigation.
💙
Next up comes the hard part - winning this lawsuit and setting precedent. Stay tuned for updates as we progress forward

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

@Gargron Well,that's the reason why nobody should use Google.It has ever been evil and bad but gets worse every few weeks 🤢 Some alternatives (I think you know them,but also for others reading this...)
- https://metager.de - Non-profit,hosted in Germany,no data collection
- https://github.com/asciimoo/searx - Open source,self hosted,no data collection
- https://mojeek.com - Independ,no data collection,has Mastodon account
- https://qwant.com - Hosted in France,no data collection,has Mastodon account
- https://swisscows.com - Hosted in Switzerland,no data collection

"Google is removing URLs entirely from the search results"

https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/comments/def9gg/google_are_removing_urls_entirely_from_the_search/

A new piece in the Google surveillance program... 😡
More and more, nad even though they are related in some ways, I think we have two distinct problems :
- general privacy matters
- the Google surveillance program, at Earth scale
#privacy #ungoogle
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943318/google-fitbit-acquisition-fitness-tracker-announcement

Today, our developer team has released a new article about a piece of /e/: its default launcher!
Read "Meet the Bliss Launcher -/e/OS’ default launcher" at /e/'s developers' blog!
https://community.e.foundation/t/meet-the-bliss-launcher-e-os-default-launcher/8988

Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs at https://00f.net/2019/11/03/stop-using-low-dns-ttls/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/dheuklnfwq #freepost