Katherine M. Moss @cambridgeport90@qoto.org

[#wfdev] Closed #89: Support new commentsEnabled property https://writefreely.org/pull/89

#WriteFreely

“Cloud” is a five-letter word meaning “someone else’s computer.” https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/industry-watch-crumbs-for-cupcake-native-development/

@bclindner I do not acknowledge the existence of turban sage

Company behind #wordpress does #proprietarysoftware now https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/01/automattic-launches-happy-tools-distributed-workforce-products-that-cost-5-per-user/

Troubleshooting a Dell dimension 8400 https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/87b53cdd-4370-4b31-827a-10cf59e4b827

"There's growing interest in social networks that prioritize user control. Two of the popular ones are #Mastodon and #Diaspora ." https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/04/02/are-there-viable-alternatives-to-facebook-and-twitter/

The Network Timeline is finished, and ready to ship! Will be making a big announcement tomorrow 😁 #pixelfed

Another reminder that carrying around a "smart" 'phone' is a liability not worthy of the 'privilege' of making calls 'on the go' https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190331/18014441916/7th-circuit-punts-border-smartphone-searches-says-riley-decision-doesnt-affect-anything.shtml

In the Netherlands, medical data of hundreds of thousands of patients has ended up in Google Cloud. The data has been 'pseudo-anonymized' but experts consider it easy to connect to individuals, and the move to Google 'unwise', 'risky'.
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/data-honderdduizenden-patienten-in-stilte-naar-google-verhuisd~af1950a9/

Why not #selfhost?

spookiness levels are 66% and steady

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a reminder that the game Stealth Inc. used to be called "Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole"

Even though it's a single point of failure the appearance of LetsEncrypt has been an important factor in the re-decentralization of the web.

I first started running gnusocial some time in 2015. I would have started earlier but I only had a single TLS certificate to be used sparingly and didn't particularly want to run it unencrypted, given firesheep and all that. Self-signed certs were also an annoyance since they tended to produce a lot of browser warnings.

The cost and complexity of obtaining CA certificates was a limiting factor before LetsEncrypt.

Why Garfield phones have littered French beaches for 35 years: https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/31/garfield-phones-ocean-plastic-the-big-picture/

Announcing a BBS mode for Pleroma: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/ssh-support-in-pleroma/

Speaking of crows, friendly reminder that survival of the fittest doesn’t mean strongest, crows keep on by keepin together

I just read this article by my #phylogenetics professor. It is framing a bit the natural sciences as historical, tackles the envy of physics held by many natural scientists and makes an analysis of #Darwin as an ecologist, highlighting how he already pointed out most of what is now the staple of #ecology.

Wildly interesting.

https://f1000.com/prime/reports/b/7/49/

THE VETO: Exposing CNN, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, western media propaganda war in Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VMTfkP0jSQ&ap...