🏴Radio aka ThePunkGeek🏴 @Thepunkgeek@chaos.social

Privacy is not a science, it is a human right

https://ar.al/2019/02/14/privacy-is-not-a-science-it-is-a-human-right/

My response to a dangerous turd of an article by Bart van der Sloot (co-founder of Amsterdam Privacy Week – sponsored by Palantir and Google – and docent teaching “Privacy and Big Data” at Tilburg University)

Mr. Sloot attempts to reframe privacy as a “science” and shame those who work to protect it for having a “pro-privacy agenda” & not being “neutral”. He also calls for “new rules” to disallow such biased behaviour.

when I say MRF is God mode for the fediverse, this is not an analogy, it is a literal statement. MRF lets you spoof. MRF lets you bypass all security checks. MRF is the beginning and the end. this is a very powerful framework and it is very much a feature that the AGPLv3 infects modules which consume it.

Okay so tumblr is banning rotating cubes saying it's porn and facebook banned saying "i'm gay" saying it's sexual solicitation and Twitter always seemed like it could disappear at any moment

I feel like we need to be getting ready for Mass Migration to Mastodon, which means we need to fix anything that keeps Mastodon from being usable, and there is in fact something that keeps Mastodon from being usable, there's one specific thing, it's this:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177

How I would be looking ahead if I were Google:
- The biggest flaw in Android is that it's hackable and contains privacy features that make it possible to cripple the spyware in it
- The "look but don't touch" open-source model works great, let's clamp down even harder on it
- Why don't we try packaging most of the system in nice modular binary blobs, so that things like OEM drivers, platform-specific UIs, and apps are easy to install but impossible to modify
- Also how about it tracks all of its activity at the kernel level and reports it directly to us, and you can't disable that without refusing network access to the kernel altogether
- Sure, folks will try to fork it, but that won't go well for them if the OEM driver blobs are illegal to distribute and will only work with official signed kernels

App idea: "Resource Radar" to allow every citizen to model the systems on which they depend, so we can see the obvious democratic solution to the problems we face: communism, and the democratic control of those systems

I’m so glad that Thanksgiving is over, now I can sit back with some spiced rum and enjoy some real Baltimorean Christmas music:

https://youtu.be/j3Sj6VKYt4I

Final Straw: Mutual Aid In Wake of Hurricane Michael http://dlvr.it/QnSfl7

Never forget the complicity of YouTube/Google in spreading far right propaganda.

militant anti-war action is necessary

Hey, World of Toots, my friends' silly game Kickstarter (5 hours left!) about space cats overcoming space Fascists has come to the attention of IRL Fascists.

https://other98.com/why-are-neo-nazis-trying-to-destroy-this-game-about-space-cats/

If you want to support the interests of cats over those of Fascists, you can back the game!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1713701812/space-cats-fight-fascism-the-board-game/

What a gem

I teach at Lighthouse, an alternative high school in the very poor city of Holyoke, MA. I teach kids electronics, woodworking, drawing, and bookbinding, and this year we have a luthier on staff! Help us teach kids by buying us stuff from our Amazon list!

We're http://lighthouseholyoke.org/ !

(Aside: some of those kids on the site are my students and they are BABIES in those pictures!)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/TPJETLPRB504/ref=cm_wl_huc_view

subMedia: **Trouble #15: And You Don’t Stop**

"Trouble # 15: And You Don't Stop - our 35-minute love letter to radical hip hop"

https://sub.media/video/trouble-15-and-you-dont-stop/

#anarchism #bot

@aliasless @karyl universal basic weed

If your boss pays you minimum wage, it's their way of saying "I'd pay you less if I could."

shout out to all my fellow service workers who don’t get to relax on weekends but instead face an increased level of customer service based hell every friday through sunday. one day we will be free of the shackles of both capitalism and our gregorian calendar and no one will ever yell at us because we got their order slightly wrong again