Cathal Garvey @cathal
Omnihaxor, Data Scientist at Scrapinghub.com. Enjoying a bucolic country life in Cork, Ireland. Passionate about Privacy, Social-Democracy, Human Rights. 🇮🇪
Wtf is a Jort srsly
This appears to be due to the ongoing crackdown by Spanish police against Catalan independence folks.
Um, fyi, apparently the .cat registrar is being raided by Spanish police.
OFFICIAL because of MY AUTHORITY:
motion to stop using "a11y" everywhere ever and use the actual work "accessibility" because "a11y" is not fucking accessible
Reminder that social.coop has a Matrix chat channel as well. Using the Riot web interface, it's kind of like Slack, but open source :).
Or kind of like IRC, but you don't have to set up your own bouncer to keep logs for when you're away, and the web interface is nicer.
I am 'Xirzon' over there:
while W3C moves forward with #EME and #DRM @BryanLunduke
was the only journalist, on planet Earth, that showed up to the W3C press conference and questioned them on it.
Bryan also asked the #w3c if he could broadcast or puplish the press conference, they rejected. Say'n they don't know if other journalists have the questions they form under #copyright.
wtf is that?
...time to build and use new patterns to form #standarts protecting our #freedom!
Here's a fun TIL: Because the ratio of terms in the Fibonacci sequence approaches phi, and because phi is close to the ratio of km to miles, you can approximate conversion between distances with adjacent Fibonacci numbers.
So 2 km ≈ 1 mile, 3 km ≈ 2 miles, 5 km ≈ 3 miles, 8 km ≈ 5 miles, 13 km ≈ 8 miles, etc, etc
The man who once saved the world has passed away. Stanislav Petrov was 77 years old
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I've updated yesterdays article on W3C/EME/DRM to include a list of the items W3C wanted changed/removed.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3225456/internet/w3c-drm-appeal-fails-votes-kept-secret.html
So your open-source browser can now have a closed-source and illegal to test or reverse-engineer attack surface built on top of it.
From a security perspective, if your browser allows this built-in DRM, your browser can get hacked/compromised silently and with no way of knowing. And it's illegal to audit the vulnerable part.
just so you all know i am ABSOLUTELY going to abuse the mastodon theme system to create themes that do the tacky web 1.0 stuff with low res pumpkin gifs and javascript snowflakes at the respective holiday seasons
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/18/antifeatures-for-all.html
Cory Doctorow / EFF's open letter to the W3C https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership
@neil I enjoy the personality some people put into their readings, I tried to do the same. :)
Tired of the Spy-Hegemons' control over useful speech-to-text technology? Help make a common alternative right now: https://voice.mozilla.org/
Pourquoi l'Europe a tellement de mal à prendre et faire respecter des décisions qui nous protègent des #GAFAM : nos députés européens sont constamment sous leur pression : https://framapiaf.org/media/TKpxnFI6CfqztzWtbjo