Maximiliané ǝlqɯuɹɟ @frumble@chaos.social

Friendly reminder. Full disk encryption on a server you have no physical access to grants you no security, same for your laptop if you carry it around in sleep mode. FDE protects your data at rest as from a cold boot you need to provide the passphrase. If your box is running the secret is present in memory and can be grabbed by a dedicated attacker.

For the same reason, when approaching border control, TURN OFF your phone, just locking the screen is often not enough.

Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff

Google already analyzes users’ Web browsing, search history and geographic locations, using data from popular Google-owned apps like YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps and the Google Play store …

The new credit-card data enables the tech giant to connect these digital trails to real-world purchase records in a far more extensive way than was possible before.

http://thelink.is/gsurveillance https://mastodon.ar.al/media/-kmjNkOd7tTcx2sfARg

we have all the logistical data and infrastructure necessary to provide for the material needs of all people, full stop. we could abolish prices on every survival commodity and we wouldn't run out of anything. food, housing, medicine. supply systems are documented and understood. demand is tracked and calculated. we could just drop the price tag and go on like nothing else had changed. we are that productive. scarcity is that fake.

Corrected a few schwa's, U's and A's that I missed on the first pass:

English orthography ought to be reformed. Let's start with making the vowels mor fənetik. That's məch bettər. Aftər wi fix thə vauwəls, let's əlimineit nidləss konsənənts, sou wi kən nou hau tu prənauns thəm. Let's olsou add bak þe Ould Inglish þorn and Istərn Iurəpien siblənts. Nau, wi hav ə languidč þat šud bi mətč isiər for þə biginnər tu lərn.