Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

wow i sure do love begging surveillance companies to maybe give me some of the data they have on me which they're only required to do once per year

Hell is an endless Google reCAPTCHA ™️

Ridiculously simple idea:
Bootloader shows a colorful background which is derived from the hash of the kernel you're booting. If you get evil-maided, they would have to install a new custom firmware which fakes the same colors, and there are a number of ways to make this really difficult to reproduce...

logging on

(Photo taken from Mauna Kea today as myself and the family went up to join our fellow Hawaiian kia'i)

Also, the international astronomical community & beyond are more and more on the side of the Native Hawaiian protectors of Mauna Kea each day. Currently seriously investigating the Canary Islands alternate site for TMT. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/08/09/astronomy-faces-a-field-defining-choice-in-the-next-steps-for-the-tmt/#598df10244ff

The cool new UI trend is to smash the titlebar and menubar for every window into a single bar which is:

- somehow three times as big as a menu bar and title bar combined
- will not disappear when I disable window decorations because it has menu bar functions
- prevents me from customizing the title bar buttons (close, maximize, minimize) or shading the window
- hides all menubar functionality behind an extra click of a fat gear icon with no more keyboard shortcuts for popping down the file menu etc like my desktop is Android motherfucking Gingerbread and I don't have a keyboard

Please stop. If you want convergence with mobile don't handicap my desktop in the process.

If you use Firefox or Chrome, we developed an easy way you can help people bypass censorship.

Our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects Tor users in censored regions to the Tor network. https://snowflake.torproject.org/

I adopted Ziggy 8 months ago today 😍

1969: I bet we will have flying cars in the future

2019: Coffee with DRM

in 10 years all your favorite authors are going to be the pen-names of predictive-text neural networks given a paragraph of narrative to use as a seed

Updated my blog entry about using a wireguard VPN for only select processes on Linux with an example guide walking through setting up deluge-daemon with the webui so the daemon uses the VPN and the webui is accessibly on your regular connection for managing the torrents.

Y'know, for sharing gratis content 😉

https://write.lain.haus/thufie/using-a-wireguard-vpn-for-only-select-processes-on-linux
#FileSharing

bby possms time

i think this lecture is gonna be fun

some people think Windows is their computer. I can only feel sorry for them.

Amazon’s Ring turns your front door into a spy for police and the corporate giant.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/amazons-ring-perfect-storm-privacy-threats

New Amazon Service Lets Customers Boost Shipping Speed With Easy One-Click Charge To Whip Delivery Person https://www.theonion.com/new-amazon-service-lets-customers-boost-shipping-speed-1837071939 #vol55issue32 #business #amazon #news

If you ever needed a reason to get off of Windows here's a nice little nugget at the bottom of the "Windows is no longer a cornerstone" 10K filing

"Our ambition for Windows 10 monetization opportunities includes gaming, services, subscriptions, and search advertising.”

This is probably reading too much into a 10K filing but it highlights to me that the horrible advertising and partnering in Windows 10 is only going to get more intrusive.

https://winbuzzer.com/2019/08/06/microsoft-says-windows-10-is-no-longer-a-cornerstone-product-as-focus-on-cloud-continues-xcxwbn/

#windows10 #microsoft