Emanuele @emanuele@m.divita.eu
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Computer engineer. Dreamer. Hero.
Joined May 2020
Mastodonians, is there any plugin/way to easely embed a #Mastodon timeline into a #Wordpress website? (Similar to what you can do with #Twitter https://publish.twitter.com/).
#Facebook says #Apple's #iOS14 will put a dent into its advertising business
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/preparing-our-partners-for-ios-14-launch
#DuckDuckGo Tips & Tricks.
https://eraser.heidi.ie/duckduckgo-tips-tricks/
Hint: there is much more than !bangs.
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Cutting Google out of your life
I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t have anything to show you either.
Alternatives to / filtering tools against Google services, surveillance, and ads.
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I’m noticing something emerge in the fediverse that probably shouldn’t be a surprise but caught my cynical ass off-guard: citizenship.
People proud of the community their instance provides, contributing not only financially, but building shared resources for their fellow netizens, and emotional support, counseling or even just cheerleading.
I genuinely believe that this is the way forward. Small, autonomous but communicating communities building shared resources because it feels good.
New #Oculus Users Required to Use a #Facebook Account Starting in October, Existing Users by 2023
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/ic4ye1/comment/g20dysu
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TikTok exploited an Android vulnerability to obtain user MAC addresses.
https://boingboing.net/2020/08/11/tiktok-exploited-android-secur.html #tiktok
On the inadequacy of US Cloud providers
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/joinup/news/privacy-shield-invalidation
In total, there are now 109 countries today that are either using or have approved the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes.
In the UK, Local Authorities (Councils) are looking at people’s social media accounts, such as #Facebook, as part of their intelligence gathering and investigation tactics in areas such as council tax payments, children’s services, benefits and monitoring protests and demonstrations.
«If you think that the police are watching you when you go to the bank, or you go to the doctor’s office, or you go to the church or the synagogue or the mosque, you’ll be less likely to exercise those freedoms».
Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights.
Once you have a centralized network of cameras that #police can easily have access to without a warrant, you essentially have a police #CCTV network by another name.
https://www.wired.com/story/private-security-cameras-police-surveillance-tools/
New: A #university in Michigan is requiring all students to install an app that tracks their #location around the clock. Students can't opt-out. If students refuse, they face suspension. Worse, the app had two major security flaws that exposed private data.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/19/coronavirus-albion-security-flaws-app/
«Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let #Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops»
#ChallengeAccepted I am going to leave #Twitter when the number of followers on Mastodon will be bigger than the one on Twitter.
Are you with me?
#Firefox 79 includes protections against redirect tracking.
