sirmacik @sirmacik@mastodon.technology

Do you have it too?

When I use chromium or fennec on android, do a google search and click on a link it gives me google.com/amp/domain address and it seems almost impossible to get to original website without manual URL bar edit.

WTF Google. I hate you.

And it feels like the biggest news of the day is that this little guy from Taiwan is not extinct after all!
https://returntonow.net/2020/03/22/extinct-formosan-clouded-leopard-spotted-for-the-first-time-in-37-years/

It's like EU just can't decide if they're one of the good guy's when it comes to internet neutrality and privacy protection or just blindly go in America's footsteps and get it self another NSA... https://www.statewatch.org/media/1434/eu-council-draft-declaration-against-encryption-12143-20.pdf

And I very much liked being client of OVH for so many years >:

Now they too are honoring takedown requests:
https://nitter.net/GuerrillaMail/status/1324190197580328961

For quite some time I wanted to close my GH account. Reuploading yt-dl tomorrow.

> GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned * TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/github-warns-users-reposting-youtube-dl-they-could-be-banned-201102/

@pluralistic Attack Surface is a great book and one of the best reads I've ever head. Thank you for writing it! (:

If you needed any more proof that decentralization of the internetz is one of the most important issues of today:

RIAA forced GH/MS to takedown youtube-dl

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

@pluralistic hi, I just got an email reminding me to grab my kickstarter reward, but I've already claimed it. After clicking the link I think I can claim it or other rewards of similar value again which seems like a bug of some kind.

Billboard as a hacking tool of the future
https://www.newsweek.com/hacked-billboards-can-make-teslas-see-phantom-objects-1539478

And again... #cyberpunk is NOW.
Have you tried those new EULA licensed grapes?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jm4y/proprietary-grapes-come-with-draconian-end-user-license-agreement

Funny thing is that over the ages not much has changed. Nowadays we've just changed materials and added some electrical machinery to the mix.

One of the best things to see today: an animation of how the bridges in middle-ages were built
https://nitter.net/KiwiEV/status/1316493212605911040

Besides fighting such laws other option might be to create some phony logs generator so you have them for authorities and still protect your users.

I really don't like where this is going. Look's like we're already living in a world of mandatory surveillance even in EU
https://www.cozyit.com/french-bar-owners-arrested-for-offering-free-wifi-but-not-keeping-logs/