certainlytwice @certainlytwice@qoto.org

#Google and #Apple charge app developers 30% of their earnings to allegedly vet for security risks.
And yet, a fake @signal app has found its way into the @GooglePlay app store.
Big Tech monopolies don't lead to better security. They stifle innovation and kill competition.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/30/malicious-signal-app-planted-on-google-play-by-china-linked-cyber-spies/

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft

These are the first 6 companies designated as ‘gatekeepers' under the Digital Markets Act.

They have 6 months to ensure their core platform services comply with our rules, including:

✔ Allowing users to unsubscribe and remove pre-installed services
✔ Allowing the download of alternative app stores

❌ Banning tracking outside of their services without consent
❌ Stopping ranking their products more favourably

➡ https://europa.eu/!NbfBbn

#DMA

If you’re ever in the Boothbay area in Maine, definitely go to the botanical gardens!

The trolls themselves are worth the price of admission

#Privacy Not Included by #Mozilla Foundation
It’s Official: #Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
They collect too much personal data
Most (84%) share or sell your data
Most (92%) give drivers little to no control over their personal data
Mozilla couldn’t confirm whether any of them meet our Minimum Security Standards
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy #surveillance #automobiles

Warehouse.
#bnw #BlackandWhite #photo

⚪ Mehr... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 by Artist: #JoshDane in Loc.: #Iceland 🇮🇸 - Title: "Icelandic Horses" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #PhotoArt #Photography 🐴#Fotografie #Horses #KeineKatze #Monochrome #Animals #Pferde
➡️ #APhotoLove

La base de données libre, ouverte et collaborative sur les produits alimentaires commercialisés dans le monde Open Food Facts @openfoodfacts a les honneurs d'une mention dans The Guardian pour un article concernant les aliments ultratransformés (AUT).
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/sep/06/ultra-processed-foods-the-19-things-everyone-needs-to-know

Tout comme @primtux Open Food Facts bénéficie du programme AIC de la DINUM (Accélérateur d'Initiatives Citoyennes).
https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/actualites/accelerateur-dinitiatives-citoyennes-4-nouveaux-communs-numeriques-laureats/

PS à notre communauté scolaire : OFF a un beau potentiel pédagogique.

Des scientifiques créent un modèle d’embryon humain sans spermatozoïde ni ovule https://www.liberation.fr/sciences/biologie/des-scientifiques-creent-un-modele-dembryon-humain-sans-spermatozoide-ni-ovule-20230907_M3A3MIMUNBCTLDK7IAWEG7N5WY/

Iceland runs almost entirely on renewable energy, which Bitcoin miners have been buying to power data centers.

But environmentalists worry the demands will result in more power plants, which could damage unique ecosystems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmA4WvohMSQ&ab_channel=BloombergOriginals

Just catching up on the JWST SN1987A image!

It’s glorious!

In 1987, astronomers around the world witnessed a first in modern times - a nearby supernova.

One of the biggest mysteries to me is why we haven’t seen the neutron star or pulsar that formed during the event.

Wrote about this for #SpaceAustralia … you can read the feature article here: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/did-1987-supernova-produce-pulsar

Also …. hurry up pulsar!

#Astrodon #Astronomy #Pulsar #Supernova

Honestly, I don't think there is a better way to read your morning news than in Links on a memory LCD. This is how the internet is meant to be consumed

#Beeper #Beepy

🐳 Animal #33 🐮
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
🟧🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.7

https://metazooa.com/
#metazooa

I would definitely have taken even longer on this one if I hadn't learned some things via practice 😊

Ouch

Fatal #accidents at #work in 2019, by country [#EU + #Norway and #Switzerland]
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Highest: 🇫🇷#France 3.5
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Lowest: 🇳🇱#Netherlands 0.5
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#maps #job #lavoro #geospatial #dataviz #travail
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Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy.

Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $.

If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.)

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

Great column from
@ShiraOvide, looking at differences between private messengers. Note Telegram isn't listed, because Telegram is not a private messenger.

And note that Signal is the gold standard, providing the foundation for the rest.❤️

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/22/encryption-imessage-whatsapp-google/

Just got suspended by #Facebook after less than 24 hours of creating an account. Only reason could be, I said in my bio I won't be posting there as I now have the #Beeper app to handle messaging on my phone without the metadata tracking...

It doesn't pay being honest sometimes ;-) but no ways I'd actually install an app like WhatsApp or Facebook on my phone...

I took this photo of my kid playing with his blocks the other day, and when I realized it reminded me of something, well...I had to make this.

Open source artificial pancreas software has gotten FDA approval! And open source hardware solutions are coming!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02648-9

#opensource #fda #diabetes #t1d #foss #fosh