Personally, I don't care that Mastodon isn't grotesquely huge like our centralized counterparts. They may have millions of users, but its worth fuck-all if I can't meaningfully connect with any of them. Divisive, metric-driven algorithms that encourage conflict to generate revenue for shareholders is not MY social media... #MastodonIsMine.
How would you describe your social experience here versus elsewhere? (2/2)
Lobbyists for major ISPs are fighting against DNS over HTTPS. Wonder what our ISPs are doing with all that sweet sweet user data. Good on #Mozilla for informing Congress about their shady dealings and to look into what they're doing with our data.
#Wire messenger, while operating from Switzerland, is now owned by a US holdings company. They also quietly updated their privacy policy to some very vague language. PrivacyTools.io got a response from Wire's CEO after questioning them about the news and it didn't inspire much confidence. As a result, PrivacyTools.io is no longer recommending the Wire platform on their website.
#PayPal problems:
currently I cannot change my password, as the link to the security tab on the account settings page sends me to a non-existant page.
Anybody else?
Interesting that the Firefox VPN now uses WireGuard servers provided by Mullvad. It was OpenVPN provided by ProtonVPN at the start of the project if I remember correctly. US only for now but coming to other regions in early 2020.
Any neat tips & tricks for beginners in the command line? I'm quite experienced myself, but we have a Linux class at our college and I was asked to share some knowledge :)
Basic commands like ls, mv etc were already covered.
Think I'll handle some basics like arrow key navigation for history, sudo !!, some handy aliases they might want to set up, the prompt, differences between various shells.
This contradicts my entire-extremely limited-understanding of conductors. Gustav and Rudolph are probably rolling in their graves.
#science #physics
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-identify-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat
Well that's a start.
The advertisements that YT removed "violated company policy," however they didn't specify exactly how they were in violation. I'm all for taking down the criminal's political ads, but what metrics are they using to decide what stays and what doesn't?
https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-took-down-more-300-trump-political-ads-violating-company-policy-1475023
#youtube #politics
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Hi #fediverse, I'm a particle #physicist looking for #darkmatter and investigating #neutrinos. This involves simulating millions of radioactive decays on top500.org clusters. Our detectors often use liquefied noble gases and #highvoltage, which can lead to (undesired, but) amazing phenomena such as the attached arc in liquid argon.
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