Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

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Going into year 5 of the age of SARS-CoV-2, to your knowledge you have been infected:

Please boost for larger sample size.
#CovidIsNotOver @novid #COVID19

The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/ #ai #climatechange #climatecrisis

Registrations for SMLMS2024 are now open! Happening between Lisbon and Oeiras, on August 28th-30. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, including keynotes from Jonas Ries, Melike Lakadamyali and W. E. Moerner. Gorgeous settings ☀️🌊🏄‍♀️🔬.
Looking forward to seeing you in Portugal!
2024.smlms.org

The #ProtonPrivacyReadingList is back!

If you’re not a cybersecurity professional but you’re looking to dive deeper into the subject, our friend Christina Morillo has you covered.

She edited and curated “97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know in 2021”, authored “The Future of Security,” and has more in the works: https://www.christinamorillo.com/

Will Whoever is putting these signs in the shops near me, please stop as it’s too funny watching the farage acolytes meltdown 

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #SunakOut #Labour #immigration #housing #conscription #davidcameron #BrexitBenefits #sunday

Kleiner Reminder für alle Abgeordneten der Parteien mit "C" für "Christlich" im Namen:

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

Camembert is an endangered species! It relies on a mold that had lost the ability to reproduce sexually... and now, thanks to inbreeding, this mold has also lost the ability to reproduce using spores. Roquefort is also in trouble, but for Camembert it's worse:

"The world over, this other symbol of French gastronomy is inoculated exclusively with one single strain of Penicillium camemberti, a white mutant that was selected for Brie cheeses in 1898 and Camemberts in 1902.

The problem is that ever since then the strain has been replicated by vegetative propagation only. Until the 1950s, Camemberts still had grey, green or in some cases orange-tinged moulds on their surface. But the industry was not fond of these colours, considering them unappealing, and staked everything on the albino strain of P. camemberti, which is completely white and moreover has a silky texture. This is how Camembert acquired its now-characteristic pure white rind.

Year after year, generation after generation, the albino strain of P. camemberti, which was already incapable of sexual reproduction, lost its ability to produce asexual spores. As a result it is now very difficult for the entire industry to obtain enough P. camemberti spores to inoculate their production of the famous Norman cheese.

Worse still, while the Roquefort PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) standard retains a degree of microbial biodiversity, the PDO specifications for Camembert require farmers and other producers to use P. camemberti exclusively."

What to do about it? Read on....

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Proton for Business got major new features in 2023 – and there’s more on the way.

📤 SMTP submission
📨 Automatic email forwarding
💻 New desktop apps
🔒 Advanced account protection
🧑‍💻 Admin controls
🌐 VPN for business
🔑 Password Manager

Read the thread for more details. ⬇️

There are times I realize how much of an influence Terry Pratchett has had on my life.

#TerryPratchett #Ethics #Morality #philosophy

"OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material"

10 years ago three dudes from Sweden were hunted by FBI, Interpol and their own government for challenging copyright laws and seeking a fresh approach without ever profiting from it. 🏴‍☠️

Now venture capitalist-backed corporations will sell us our own copyrighted material at a premium. Working tirelessly to embed it in every product designed from now on so you will not be able to avoid it. 💰

Die verbreitete Überraschung darüber, dass Nazis tatsächlich vorhaben, Nazi-Dinge zu tun, ist Teil des Problems.

Man kann für Steuer auf Millionenerben sein oder dagegen. Aber zu argumentieren, dass Oma dann den Enkeln ihre paar Tausender nicht mehr überlassen kann, ist halt wie gegen Autobahn-Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen sein, damit Oma mit dem Rollator auf dem Gehsteig freie Fahrt hat.

In Oulu, #Finland, temperatures will be down to -20 C this week.

Yet 12% of all journeys in the city will be by bicycle.

How do they do it? Good wayfinding for starters, with symbols projected onto the snow...❄️ 🚲 🧵

Contra Chrome: in the style of Scott McCloud's original comic https://scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/ used to announce Google Chrome to the world back in 2008 (yes it's been over 15 years), now here is a similar comic demolishing Chrome for what it has become: a surveillance machine
https://contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

Time to install Firefox if you haven't yet: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/

Remember to setup a Firefox container (right-click on the "+" to open a new tab, choose "Manage containers") for any Google service you use, and to keep all its services there, spying on themselves and not able to see anything else that you do on the web. And trivially open URLs in other containers by right-click and choosing "Open link in ..." to starve the data munching machine.

Don't forget to install the add-ons ublock-origin, Privacy Badger (from the EFF @eff) and perhaps also DuckDuckGo privacy essentials.

#Firefox #GoogleChrome #Google

If you think big fines work on #BigTech, think again.

Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft generated enough revenue in the past 7 days to pay off their fines for 2023.

Taking advantage of your privacy is so lucrative, that these fines are nothing more than the cost of doing business.

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Du wirst eine Familie haben und Du wirst glücklich sein! So könnte sich unsere Welt bis 2030 ändern.

WERTEUNION

Farmers have blocked nearly all access ramps to major highways in the region. Similar blockades are happening throughout Germany.

And again the farmers are protesting not against the brutal pressure they face from food multi-nationals and grocery store chains - who force low prices, exploitation of the land, animals and people - but against policies protecting the environment, here demanding tax-free fossil fuel.

Politically, industry wins: low-wage sectors require cheap food to work.