Adam Karkowski @adz@mastodon.technology

So I've been thinking about my ideal version of a social network...
1. It should be built on encrypted chat systems. So all DMs should be E2E encrypted. Public messages should be signed (to prevent spoofing) but not encrypted. Importantly, it should be a federated system, like Mastodon or email. This is definitely possible since Signal (TextSecure, at the time) used to federate with WhisperPush by CyanogenMod.

Here's something I've been thinking about for a while.

If an ultra secure messaging system were to be subverted by the developer(s) compromising the app by adding a silent/invisible extra party to all conversations (i.e. all 1-on-1 chats become, in effect, group chats), would there be any way to know? That is, this silent/invisible extra party would get all messages and replies for anyone the developers wanted to spy on (if, for example, they were served with a warrant or any other reason).

This is why I don't trust Netflix. Nor most of Silicon Valley.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-17/netflix-nflx-earnings-strategy-is-growth-so-no-growing-pains

What the actual fuck. How is one of the most, in theory, secure organisations in the world have this problem?

https://reason.com/2019/07/03/defense-department-computers-among-top-sharers-of-child-pornography/

Some weird shit is happening. It could be an escalation of the situation between the US and Iran. I really hope not. I'm flying to Europe in about a week and I need to fly through the middle east.

Funny cartoon. But when I first read it, I thought that Victoria was going to shit out Tasmania after the second frame. Then I immediately remembered that that was impossible. #MelbourneSucks

Horny cicadas. Yep. Horny cicadas.

https://www.sciencealert.com/fungal-hallucinogens-cause-cicadas-to-go-on-sex-binges-after-they-lose-their-genitals/amp

I just watched this documentary.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/522320-bob-lazar

It was rather compelling. I can't say that I'm 100% convinced, but I can highly recommend watching it. I was quite tired and it kept my attention the whole way through.

The right may shift - and very quickly - from outright climate denial to complete ecofascism in a radical 180deg move.

https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2019/6/16/worse-than-climate-denial

Exposing the sinister lies at the heart of Big Kelpie [tm].

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-06-28/kelpie-study-finds-no-detectable-dingo-dna/11250106?fbclid=IwAR2F6XJ9jsJ5q3yq9bpx7XRfF4D97afxY6k3qygmreeEpCOaPfu957sZSLo

@AnarchoNinaWrites On the inevitable direction that US detention policy is heading.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2019/06/27/summer-camp/

Big round of applause for the town of Ostritz in Germany for being awesome, but also hilarious.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/we-wanted-to-dry-the-nazis-out-german-locals-hoard-town-s-beer-ahead-of-far-right-festival

"What's with all this entropy? Every time I check, there's more than last time."

"Well, it's not called leavetropy."

Interesting article by @AnarchoNinaWrites positing that even though the ICE raids were "delayed," the situation is bound to get worse. The US - and by extension, the rest of the western world - is heading towards an awful place while the public is desensitised and apathetic.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2019/06/23/parsing-the-pork-reichs-family-raid-pause/

A British MP assaults a woman.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1141819192020295680

The correct term for a female mammoth is "ma'ammoth. "

Whatever you think of Assange as a person, he clearly doesn't belong in gaol. Also, has contributed much to public knowledge over the years.

https://arena.org.au/may-curious-eyes-never-run-dry-by-felicity-ruby-and-scott-ludlam/

See: Cape Town last year.

Check out the animations in this story. Chennai's in some deep shit, but that's not the take away. The take away is that this will be happening closer to you with increasing frequency as time goes on.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/why-chennai-indias-sixth-biggest-city-has-run-out-of-1835736767/amp

My dog is such a Heater Hussy. She was fast asleep, but I turn the heater on under my desk and within minutes she's sitting 10cm away from it.