Adam Monsen
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BREAKING: We’ve confirmed that the Ring doorbell app on Android covertly shares personally identifiable information on its users with third-party companies, including Facebook.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers
Cool machine learning research by a colleague of mine: https://alexandersimes.com/machine/learning/docker/pose/estimation/2020/01/02/pose-estimation.html
Adam Monsen
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We're down to the wire,so we wanted to let everyone know that you have until 2020-01-15 23:59:59 in AoE (Anywhere on Earth, UTC-1200) to help us make the last US$17,938 for our big annual match challenge. Let your donation to us count twice by giving now! Less than 40 hours left!
Great article.
"If Apple were a country..."
https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2020/01/06/day-1-apple-state-of-the-nation-2/content.html
Adam Monsen
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Learn #python and #datascience (or volunteer to mentor) at the sixth "Community Data Science Workshops" in #Seattle in January/February! Register before noon Sunday January 12 at: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Community_Data_Science_Workshops_(Winter_2020)
Adam Monsen
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Feeling like you want to put some money towards something that matters? Invest in software freedom today -- and get your gift doubled! https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/nov/25/match2019/
Adam Monsen
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Going to be seeing friends and/or family this week and wondering if you should talk with them about software freedom? We asked some of our #freesoftware pals for advice! (Thanks Alice, @mako @meonkeys Eric and Abby!) https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/dec/23/friendsandfamily/
Adam Monsen
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It's been a historic week in the fight against face surveillance:
Brookline, MA, San Diego, CA, and Seattle, WA each took steps to limit local use of face surveillance.
On Tuesday, Sea-Tac airport halted plans to implement face recognition: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2019-12-11/sea-tac-airport-officials-opt-out-of-facial-recognition
"open URLs in a private/incognito web browser window/tab by default" would be a handy GNOME/KDE/etc desktop setting.
I tried to do this manually on Ubuntu and it took a ton of fiddling. I got it to mostly work by mucking with command line flags directly in /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop and /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/chromium_chromium.desktop .
Firefox still doesn't want to start private when I click its icon in the GNOME dock.
Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-11/silicon-valley-got-millions-to-let-siri-and-alexa-listen-in 👂
Adam Monsen
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Did you watch the Sunday Keynote from the #Nextcloud Conference yet? Executive Director of the Smart Citizenship Foundation & international human rights lawyer, Renate Avila talked about the fight for a better, fairer and more open internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sp0pTbx64
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/at-seagl-2019-free-software-was-in-fine-feather
nice write up on SeaGL 2019. With special mention of someone really cool: https://github.com/ecmonsen
@purism what is the battery capacity in watt-hours for the Librem 13 laptop?
This is a critical read about human rights and modern life, especially for folks in the tech world: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/
Check out Facebook's response in the full report, too.
I noticed a suicidal user on Hacker News, a popular tech news blog / discussion forum. I let the Hacker News staff know via their email contact link and I'll recommend the suicide prevention line to the user.
Anyone have any other ideas on how I might be able to help them?
Adam Monsen
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“The technology behind the internet is not incompatible with our rights, but the business model Facebook and Google have chosen is.”
Yep, that’s Amnesty International saying that.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/
Adam Monsen
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Come join my research collective @comdatasci! Applications to work directly with me at @UwCom are due 12/1. I'm happy to talk about the possibility of joining our group either this round or at some point in the future!
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RT @comdatasci
It's grad school application seaso@comdatasci@twitter.activitypub.actore considering a PhD in communication, infor@UwCom@tw…
https://twitter.com/comdatasci/status/1197662920580009984
Some cool collaboration/sync/privacy research by Kleppmann et al at Ink & Switch: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html . Nextcloud should have got at least an honorable mention ( https://nextcloud.com/ ).
Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) sound cool.
Many interesting links in there, including the library of congress recommended formats: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/TOC.html
Taking about trends in gendered language, using Ann Leckie's amazing book Ancillary Justice as an example of a story with all gender neutral pronouns or "gender flattening." At Eva Monsen's talk on the Regender project. #seagl2019 @SeaGL
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