ace36 @aaronco36@fosstodon.org
Linux and FOSS user
Joined Nov 2018
"it's very tempting for people to give away their privacy for the ability to communicate with others, but the fight against data collection shouldn't stop at any point in time"
Unfortunately, the almighty #google is among the worst purveyors of data collection :(
See the DuckDuckGo founder's take on this at https://bit.ly/2UsoPrL
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As much as I hate talking about work during a situation like this, it's very tempting for people to give away their privacy for the ability to communicate with others, but the fight against data collection shouldn't stop at any point in time
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RT @rskikuli
Not surprised. @Cloud68HQ we will work hard in the next days to help people stay away for evil proprietary tech that spy on us! https://twitter.com/dhh/statu…
https://twitter.com/rskikuli/status/1243250688550993920
@Tayo
"They say it's the law that you must participate but if you read the law, it allows them to collect the info and has no teeth for noncooperation."
Not only that, but door-to-door census employees with paper census forms now have to be VERY VERY worried about contracting the #coronavirus #COVID19 each time they visit another household 😬
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On the topic of the census, I don't participate or cooperate. I feel many of the questions are too invasive. There's really no need for this because they already know how many of us there are at the IRS. It's purely an information grab. At no time in the last century has collected information been free of abuse by bureaucrats or law enforcement. They say it's the law that you must participate but if you read the law, it allows them to collect the info and has no teeth for noncooperation.
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Was really disappointed with Jitsi Meet since I've heard nothing but good things about it. It would have been my first choice since it's FOSS.
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I spent 1h30 tonight testing 3 videoconferencing apps for a group of elderly people who want to keep in touch in these confinement times. The most important feature was simplicity.
- Jitsi Meet: simple and straightforward, no registration required and no software needed on PC. Unfortunately, performance was abysmal. Impossibly long lag between audio and video.
- Skype: works relatively good but requires registration
- Google Hangouts: best audio video sync, near impossible to start convo!!!
@normandc
- Jitsi, Skype, Google Hangouts
What abt zoom https://zoom.us/ for videoconferencing?
@lucasdondo
"... suddenly #Google Classroom is in the top!"
Yeah, as if the #google techiebros don't have enough private info on you already!😦
'Google sells the future, powered by your personal data' https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-sells-future-powered-your-personal-data-n870501
@xinayder
"US wants to incorporate China-levels of state censorship and surveillance on a free country."
Am wondering 1) if ppl realize that the authors of that US bill are craftily using online child sexual exploitation as a deliberate Red Herring bit.ly/3cWp05Q to smooth the bill's passage, and 2) if the bill's authors are relying on all the attention to #coronavirus #covid19 so that the US public's attention is fully diverted from their bill ?? 🤔
@Linux4Everyone
"3 things you might not know about ubuntu"
Thanks much for the brief intro to what the video is about 😃
I might've thought that the caption and current #ubuntu logo 
was somehow related to the #coronavirus #covid19 😌
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Shameful. The US wants to incorporate China-levels of state censorship and surveillance on a free country.
@Linux4Everyone
" SERIOUSLY?"
😖 POINT?
#reuters #coronavirus #covid #china
Also out from Reuters yesterday is the PR-spin 'China government spokesman says U.S. army might have brought virus to China' https://reut.rs/2IIl4aW
Wonder if the PRC's "news" release is in any way connected to ongoing attempts to fully debunk and bury the bioRxiv paper 'Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag' https://bit.ly/39P0KAQ ??
WT story https://bit.ly/2Qb9byo also refers to this bioRxiv paper
#facebook #twitter #instagram
Apparently, at least two Russian-linked #troll factories in #Ghana and #Nigeria have been and probably will continue to target U.S. people on social media. Besides the CNN vid youtu.be/lbHI9lq0cTg , there is also yesterday's Reuters tech news story 'Facebook, Twitter remove Russia-linked accounts in Ghana targeting U.S.' https://reut.rs/2wVhcke
Are these NGO-posers going to twist fears of #coronavirus #covid19 into some sort of an anti-racist ploy??😬
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Please use Firefox, if for no other reason than to keep the browser landscape diverse and alive.
#scale, #linux, #coronavirus #COVID
Any Linux persons attending (or even not attending) next week's 18th annual Southern California Linux Expo https://bit.ly/2Pyp9CF have further updates, timely facts, speculations/inklings, keen insights relevant thoughts, helpful advice...etc to share regarding measures by SoCal authorities and event organizers to deal with the rapidly developing Coronavirus COVID-19 ☣️ threat ??
Already viewed SCaLE 18x's related blog https://bit.ly/32xlb2t
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#facebook and the Bloomberg-for-POTU$ machine at it again from today's story 'Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes' https://bit.ly/2tUNGKm
"Facebook has decided to let political campaigns pay online influencers to spread their messages, a practice that had sidestepped many of the social network's rules governing political ads."
#facebook and the Bloomberg-for-POTU$ machine at it again from today's story 'Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes' https://bit.ly/2tUNGKm
"Facebook has decided to let political campaigns pay online influencers to spread their messages, a practice that had sidestepped many of the social network's rules governing political ads."
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Linux and FOSS user
Joined Nov 2018
