jotbe @jotbe@chaos.social

Deutsche Haltung widersprüchlich: Ministerin Barley sieht die Möglichkeit, dass die Richtlinie wegen der anhaltenden Diskussionen um #Artikel13 im EU-Parlament keine Mehrheit erhält http://www.taz.de/Urheberrechtsreform-der-EU/!5575122/

Google put hidden microphones in people's houses and when caught admitted they shouldn't have been so secretive about it. They claim innocent intentions and the mics were never on. Most people believe them. That's the difference between them and Facebook. If FB did this, folks would flip. Google has credibility, and it's worth asking how they got it, how they maintain it, and whether they deserve it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47303077

dns was one of (not so many) system configuration options that every piece of software respects, even web-apps

with #DoH implemented in browsers and enabled by default, you will lose even this, the ability to control your dns configuration system-wide, to choose an alternative dns root. and what about mdns?

imagine, each browser, each electron app using different dns servers, many won't even allow you to change it

it's all a conspiracy led by cloudflare (well, no, but looks like it...)

What if privacy law was as strict as copyright law nowadays? You are not allowed to copy any private information about someone until 70 years after their death, even if it was non-commercial, and you can sue the heck (that is: €€€) out of someone if they do.
And then do the reverse to copyright law: copying anything copyrighted is the standard, creators who don't want it are refuted with "Oh, but you don't have something to hide, do you?", and Big Tech and Government actively help people to copy work from creators and to spread it further.

41 Years Ago, There Were BBS Instead of the Internet
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/18/41_years_of_the_bbs/

(submitted by laphony)

Dank Eurer Unterstützung gibt´s jetzt eine neue Folge vom @denkangebot@twitter.com #Podcast zum Thema rechtsextreme und sonstig verwirrte Hater. Habe bei der Recherche selbst viel gelernt. Viel Spaß beim Hören! https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/da002-hass-und-gewalt-im-netz/

There are a couple of open source automated #Translation sites available.

Both are still under development so they lack some languages/features, but you can try them already on their demo sites:

Apertium
https://www.apertium.org

OpenNMT
https://demo-pnmt.systran.net/production#/translation

#AlternativesAtoZ #Langauges

Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance
https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/

(submitted by shocks)

Capitalism in a nutshell:

1. Invest all money in businesses that exploit natural resources (the environment/people) in an unquenchable, shortsighted & illogical thirst for perpetual growth within a closed system.

2. When ramifications become visible, blame the people forced to patronise those businesses due to lack of alternatives for being irresponsible in their personal consumption choices.

Rinse and repeat until we all die because we’ve destroyed our habitat.

So, how’s your week going? :)

OnionShare 2 adds anonymous dropboxes, supports new Tor addresses, and is translated into a dozen new languages https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/

Save $69K Using On-Prem Server vs. AWS P3dn.24xlarge
https://lambdalabs.com/blog/8-v100-server-on-prem-vs-p3-instance-tco-analysis-cost-comparison/

(submitted by rbranson)

why shame someone for having an old phone when you can congratulate them for successfully defying planned obsolescence