Zero Trick Pony @zerotrickpony@mastodon.technology

BREAKING: a federal judge has ruled that suspicionless searches of travelers’ cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices when we cross the U.S. border are unconstitutional.

This is an enormous victory for privacy. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops

This article about the recent arrival on Mastodon of many Twitter users from #India is by far more complete than many others I've seen these days: https://qz.com/india/1746734/angry-twitter-india-users-are-migrating-to-mastodon-in-thousands/
But unsurprisingly it ends with a common doubt about Mastodon being a platform filled with echo chambers.

Well, being an italian that in the last days interacted with so many people from India and having learned from many new things about indian society from them it sounds fun 😄

On Mastodon you can find and interact with a huge amount of different communities: LGBT communities based in UK, vegans from the States, german metalheads, Solarpunks, some algerian guys, italian anarchists, french hackers, anime-fans from all around, indian muslims, south american activists...

It's a kind of variety that is rarely encountered on commercial social media.

http://jenngineering.glitch.me/dude-twitter-jail/

Apparently you can fake out Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant by shining a laser at the microphone and injecting audio from as far away as 110m, making them do things they probably shouldn't be able to do.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/researchers-hack-siri-alexa-and-google-home-by-shining-lasers-at-them/

COMPUTERS WERE A MISTAKE. BURN IT ALL TO THE GROUND 🔥

Tech Workers Walked Off the Job After Software They Made Was Sold to ICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k8mp/tech-workers-walked-off-the-job-after-software-they-made-was-sold-to-ice

boomers vs millennials meme

"i'm sick of each new version of OSX being more of a shitshow than the last" -- PREACH!

“At the end of the day, when you’re vending an API, it isn’t done until it’s documented. Full stop.” https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2019/apple-your-developer-documentation-is-garbage.html

ok this made me actually chuckle (masa vs wework)

i can't highly enough recommend the analog antiquarian blog series on the great pyramids: https://analog-antiquarian.net/2019/01/11/chapter-1-the-charlatan-and-the-gossip/

i'm halfway through, and it's really more of a history of how the pyramids were uncovered and explored, generation by generation, with diagrams and backstories, and how each culture projected itself into them

gripping!

I just heard a documentary youtuber refer to 1995 as “the late nineteen-hundreds”, and I felt another old.

in that emoji where the sun is wearing sunglasses...

why does the sun need to wear sunglasses? is there an even brighter sun just behind us?

Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers

Apple + Tencent • iOS sends info on what sites you visit to the Chinese company. For security. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/10/13/dear-apple-safe-browsing-might-not-be-that-safe/ #linkblog #appletencentbrowingsafetygooglebadtechtootme

first draft of the 65c02 disassembler fits into 1KB (plus one byte) (not counting the test suite) ... that'll count as a success for tonight, time for sleep!