parrot @parrot@mastodon.online

What's everyone's favorite massively-important, thanklessly maintained library/program?

Mine's either libpng or zlib, the latter of which is used in almost all computers today, and both are massively deployed and have been well-maintained since the 90s and yet have almost no recognition.

There is no coming back, but it's OKAY. #Linux #Fun

In case you’re wondering if Google or Facebook, etc., will keep you secure, yes, they will try. In the same way a farmer tries to keep their sheep secure from everything else but their own knife.

Security does not imply safety.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Breaking good news: Clearview Facial-Recognition Technology Ruled Illegal in Canada

"Canadian authorities have found that the collection of facial-recognition data by Clearview AI is illegal because it violates federal and provincial privacy laws..."

https://threatpost.com/clearview-facial-recognition-canada/163650/

#privacy #AI #clearview #Canada #news #biometric

FYI Mozilla / Firefox shares user data with Google, Leanplum, and Adjust [1] by default except on Klar [2] [3]. Learn how to opt-out here [4]. Also doesn't hurt to search for "telemetry" in `about:config` (not available on Firefox iOS) and toggle the entries to `false`.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/privacy-and-security/no-surprises
[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/send-usage-data-firefox-mobile-browsers#w_why-do-you-enable-data-collection-by-default
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Focus#Firefox_Klar
[4] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/send-usage-data-firefox-mobile-browsers#w_how-do-i-turn-off-data-collection-and-reporting

#Privacy

Agent 327: Operation Barbershop https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/264ff760-803e-430e-8d81-15648e904183

If you are looking for a privacy-friendly alternative to Facebook Events, you might want to check out Mobilizon:

https://joinmobilizon.org/en

It's a free open source federated events platform, and is part of the Fediverse as it uses the ActivityPub protocol.

Because it's still new, it currently only federates between Mobilizon instances. You can't follow Mobilizon instances from Mastodon yet, however this is planned for the future.

#FediTips #Fediverse #Mobilizon #FacebookEvents #Alternatives

PS: If you need a bigger comparison, I recommend this page https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

#secure #messenger #whatsapp #signal #privacy