Trevor B @trevorb@mastodon.sdf.org
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Every Mastodon article is like "But what about my follower counts! There's no celebrities on this platform! People don't talk about Trump all the time!"
Yeah. Those are all features.
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Putting my bins out in the standard #Australian configuration, with recycling and kangaroos separated from general waste.
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Swedes! Poles! Germans! Luxembourgers! The world is depending on you to save the internet from the EU! (PLEASE RT!)
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Reportedly, in Tokyo, local gangs have started using drones to transport drugs across the city.
In response, the police are using net-carrying drones to try to capture these packets mid-air.
The gangs are counter-attacking with their own net-drones to try and drop police drones.
In a statement with the Tokyo police, they say they "Haven't had this much fun in years"
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mountaintop Microwave relay station emerging from the fog
It's getting closer. Moscow has just celebrated. Now less than three hours before new year reaches me. As its now left Asia there are more people on the planet in 2019 than 2018. So whether it's already happened or yet to come, happy new year tooters.
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'Tartu Rebase Street' one of six buildings of this design in Tartu, Estonia
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'Political correctness' is what impolite people call being polite.
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the LGBT standard was refreshed to LGBTQ and most recently LGBTQIA, but you may see the following proprietary extensions in older equipment:
LGBT+
LGBT-X
mini-LGBT
LGBT-HD
LGBT 2000
LGBT for Workgroups
i.LGBT
ASUS® LGBTQ Boost™
LGBTQ.11ac
μLGBTQ (embedded only)
LGBTQ Creative Cloud
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In this picture you're looking at the sun from inside the sun's corona.
Think about that for a minute. This is closer to the sun than anything human-created has ever been.
The two bright arcs shooting from left to right? "two distinct jets of solar material, known as coronal streamers."
The bright spot on the left? That's Jupiter. Almost 500 million miles away.
Sometimes we can do pretty amazing stuff, we humans. In a pretty amazing universe.
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masto is tech but fedi is a place
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@blakehaswell One factor to consider is that if the Australian law is considered to be "successful" then similar laws will be passed elsewhere.
Some possible tactics:
- Ensure that any backdoors which the government adds are discovered and publicized
- Work towards reproducible builds
- Encourage everyone not to trust proprietary chat apps. Assume that such apps are already backdoored
- Devise and deploy systems for monitoring the relevant open source projects. For example, a system which monitors open source chat apps and lists changes to cryptography related sections. Make code review of sensitive files trivial
- The government won't follow its own laws, and will use apps which are not backdoored. Use FOIA or anything similar to check what apps are used/purchased by officials and point out the hypocrisy
- Run cryptography workshops for your people. Make cryptography cool. Make it fashionable. Make songs and art about it. The government will prefer that people are uneducated on the topic
Some possible tactics:
- Ensure that any backdoors which the government adds are discovered and publicized
- Work towards reproducible builds
- Encourage everyone not to trust proprietary chat apps. Assume that such apps are already backdoored
- Devise and deploy systems for monitoring the relevant open source projects. For example, a system which monitors open source chat apps and lists changes to cryptography related sections. Make code review of sensitive files trivial
- The government won't follow its own laws, and will use apps which are not backdoored. Use FOIA or anything similar to check what apps are used/purchased by officials and point out the hypocrisy
- Run cryptography workshops for your people. Make cryptography cool. Make it fashionable. Make songs and art about it. The government will prefer that people are uneducated on the topic
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Guys, please don't use this website to conduct anything that would land me in legal trouble.
Instance admins are usually single individuals who have their domains and servers registered against their names, we're not giant corporations with infinite legal defence funds.
What you do here has an impact, please consider that.
humanist/internationalist
engineer/scientist
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live in Britain/keen European
Joined Aug 2017
