Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I enable #telemetry in projects I trust if it's opt-in.

I disable telemetry in *any* project, even trustworthy ones, if it's opt-out.

If you think my usage data is valuable for you, no matter how minimal and how anonymous, you could at least ask.

Like, that's just good manners.

HN comment thread about Mastodon: guy talking about the early 00's chats and forums as barely thriving and only being used by a few people until Facebook came and brought the mainstream online.

Another answers that the net was already thriving for him back then. He gets dismissed with "Many of us software devs are a different sort".

Dude. It was everyone from children to soccer moms to my grandma. The primary draw at the time was email and once they got that they also visited forums and set up terrible GeoCities homepages about their cat. Yahoo! was exploding, Amazon was starting, pets.com was collapsing and people wouldn't shut up about eBay.

Non-techies were very much online in the 00's and they didn't need a centralized social network to do it.

It's so weird go see recent history being rewritten like that, this is barely 20 years ago.

I am going to go out on a limb (not) and say that I think CWs are a great idea, and that people should use them whenever they want *and* should also consider what their followers might reasonably want to be CW'd. That might not mean CWing everything that everyone wants, but being community minded.

I am also a fan of users muting and blocking as and when they see fit.

I know this will put off some people, but to me a basic degree of consideration for others is fundamental.

watching all these different folding ideas videos about rich grifters

like decentraland, the mikkelsen twins, NFT's...

all these huge fucking amounts of money that're talked about... like goddamn

rich motherfuckers really are swimming in opulence while the rest of us get the crumbs huh

Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices.

TL;DR: Don't turn it on.

The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.

We analyzed the network traffic when the app syncs the secrets, and it turns out the traffic is not end-to-end encrypted. As shown in the screenshots, this means that Google can see the secrets, likely even while they’re stored on their servers. There is no option to add a passphrase to protect the secrets, to make them accessible only by the user.

Why is this bad?

Every 2FA QR code contains a secret, or a seed, that’s used to generate the one-time codes. If someone else knows the secret, they can generate the same one-time codes and defeat 2FA protections. So, if there’s ever a data breach or if someone obtains access .... 🧵

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #2FA #Google #Security

Self-driving cars are not going to be designed for safety, regardless of whether it's technically possible. We're already seeing that in San Francisco.

Take Teslas for instance. They could use their "self-driving" technology to make sure the car yields to pedestrians, stops at stop signs and red lights, and drives below the speed limit.
They don't, though. Musk knows what cars are for: they are for using violence to put your convenience over other's safety. If Tesla made a car that followed the law, customers would be furious.

We're seeing autonomous vehicles become more aggressive and reckless as well, because cars don't work without the threat of violence.

hi all ✨
i'm monir (they/de/den), based in copenhagen, denmark.

i'm a techno-anthropologist who's researched how unfairness is embedded in social media platforms, machine learning algorithms and tech in general.

key words: queer activism, sustainable and fair tech, ngo work, anger towards the system(s)

i live for: (vegan) food, my partner and our cat, the community™, doing pottery, growing fruits and veggies, gaming and tv-shows, queer futures and ethical traveling

#introduction

Hard not to feel worn down towards earning your degree when it seems like every field you could be getting into seems to have bought into ChatGPT/machine learning evangelism at the expense of ethics or even basic quality control.

I still mask up and I am thankful to everyone else that does as well. The reality is that the pandemic has not ended, and for people in high risk categories (like myself and my partner), the pandemic has become quite a bit more dangerous because no one is masking.

Tfw you're a lefty ""tech""" person (the quotation marks matter), but you also are an anarchist so you starve for analysis of the harms of social media, AI etc that doesn't default to an argument in favor of strengthening the state

I agree that these technologies need limits, I do not trust the state to make or enforce these limits in a non-oppressive way

HI! I'm Freeman I'm and I'm creating a fully open source texture library composed of base materials that you can use as they are or modify to create more unique and complex ones. I currently have:

-Wood
-Concrete
-Steel
-Iron
-Copper
-A paint overlay to apply over any other material.

I would like to make at least 4 or 5 more for the first release. What base materials would be useful for you?

Boost are really appreciated.

(First image is big)
#MaterialMaker #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

Adblockers are security software

Let’s welcome #Russia state media to Fediverse by defederating their pravda.me instance.

It seems to be run by a volunteer and for now it has hundreds of mirrored state media accounts such as RT, TASS and 40k fake users boosting these news as the admin likely wants to boost this project and obtain government funding.

Research by Kovaliov21185@mastodon.social and evidence can be found here https://mastodon.social/@Kovaliov21185/110259577733421165