jotbe @jotbe@chaos.social

How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7l56sb/how_much_bandwidth_does_the_spinal_cord_have/

(submitted by jacobedawson)

I finished my stint as a Mozilla Fellow and now I'm relaunching my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media.

This means I'm going to continue my concerted work trying to make the fediverse a better place, in the form of best practice guides for running instances, external advocacy, and technical tutorials and training so that more people can contribute software to the fediverse at large.

You can read a partial summary of my work so far at my new Patreon page!

https://www.patreon.com/tinysubversions

Gibt es eigentlich eine vergleichbare Alternative zu #Blokada ? Auf meinem #Huawei M5 läuft das einfach nicht stabil, es hängt sich immer wieder auf und dann kommt man gar nicht mehr ins Internet.

Also, let me say this: the webpages of the independent are shite! Half the page on my phone was covered by a video that didn’t scroll off and that I couldn’t immediately close. Uuuugh. Ads nosed with the content, multiple times. A battered face right in the middle of it all. Nope nope nope. 👎
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-home-smart-speaker-audio-recordings-privacy-voice-spy-a9000616.html

I grew up on dialup. 1200bps, max. I remember what it was like to get anything done at that speed, and now that it's no longer a thing I wouldn't inflict it upon anyone. That's why I try to keep my stuff as lightweight as possible, with as few deps as possible.

Treat others as you'd want to be treated, right?

A couple of years back I went to an HTML5 meetup and hung out with a bunch of web developers. I suck at web design (so much so that I didn't bother to try to write a new theme for my website, I used one that someone else made and tweaked it a little). One of the webdevs noticed that I use a couple of adblockers and yelled at me for taking money out of his mouth. That one cannot eat money, and that he gets paid a (much larger) salary (than I do) is beside the point.

So I put my laptop on the local network (Windbringer had been tethered to my mobile - OPSEC, ya' know) and asked him for the URL of the website he works on. He gave it to me. I opened it in a bare Firefox profile (no addons, no config tweaks, new right out of the box). His precious website loaded fully after just under three minutes.

Then, to make things fair, I rebooted Windbringer, got back on the local wireless, and opened it in my usual Firefox profile, with all the adblockers turned on. His website loaded in about five seconds.

"Your website loads so much tracking garbage up front that your page won't load in less than three minutes. I don't have time for that." And I left.

Unsurprisingly, I haven't been invited back, but my point stands - too much crap means your page won't load in a reasonable period of time.

Google people listen to private recordings from around your house – to me this is obvious: there will be times when you unintentionally say the hot word or something like it and it will start recording. On my iPhone I can start playback by pressing a button on the headphones. Half the time Siri starts up even though I disabled it. All those seconds are getting sent to Apple, surely. There, it sounds like garbage so every now and then somebody will have to check whether it is Swiss German or not.

Surprise! #Google

"Google admits workers listen to private recordings from around your house

Google claims listening to recordings is 'critical' to improving its AI voice assistant"

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-home-smart-speaker-audio-recordings-privacy-voice-spy-a9000616.html

Mit dazu gehört auch der frühere Geheimdienstkoordinator Fritsche im Kanzleramt, der heute z.B. die rechtspopulistische österreichische FPÖ berät.

Er war - ist? - eng verdrahtet mit Bundestagspräsident Schäuble.

Themen wie Klimawandel, Chancengleichheit oder Armut würden „jeden Tag aus den Nachrichten rausgeschubst von irgendwelchen kleinen Aktualitäten“."

"„Im Grunde schicken wir doch Politik-Paparazzi los. Und die machen ein Thema aus einer Sache, die uns von den wirklich wichtigen Fragen ablenkt“, so Kliche.

".. es ist einfach auch ein schlechtes Beispiel, wie man sich für die Gesundheit fremder Menschen interessieren soll: nämlich nicht einfühlend, sondern kontrollierend, im Grunde in einer Form von Tratsch als sozialer Kontrolle“
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/gesundheitszustand-der-kanzlerin-im-grunde-schicken-wir.2907.de.html?dram:article_id=453649

Hat sich schon irgendwer von denen, die #Maaßen jahrelang gelobt, bestärkt und in seiner Position als Verfassungsschutzchef gehalten haben, rückblickend kritisch geäußert?

Es ist ja nicht so, dass er vor dem Rausschmiss ein Täubchen gewesen wäre.