James Mullarkey @jamesmullarkey@w3c.social

Leaked Reports Show EU Police Are Planning a Pan-European Network of Facial Recognition Databases
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/21/eu-facial-recognition-database/

An artist has created an archive of Mark Zuckerberg haircuts https://mashable.com/video/mark-zuckerberg-haircut-archive/ @sam_lavigne@twitter.com

Why doesn’t Jeff Bezos pay more tax instead of launching a $10bn green fund? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/18/jeff-bezos-amazon-10bn-more-taxes

Dear Fediverse,

we have a request:
we are looking for the 2008 comic about the Chrome browser by Scott McCloud.

If you have a high-res copy or the paper version, please get in touch! (We are planning an update 😉 )

Boosts welcome!

Dear Fediverse,

we have a request:
we are looking for the 2008 comic about the Chrome browser by Scott McCloud.

If you have a high-res copy or the paper version, please get in touch! (We are planning an update 😉 )

Boosts welcome!

#Kashmir just emerged from a 6 month Internet blackout. Now the Indian government is blocking social media, news sources, and VPNs. https://apnews.com/6c9f105f899cadee6c22e567057a4fd4 We call on them to end this censorship. Defending #FreedomOfSpeech and online freedom is part of our mission. #KeepItOn

Why is it that so many parts of the #bitcoin network like #exchanges and third-party wallet infrastructures, appear to be controlled by #Google and/or #Cloucflare?

It's as though Google and/or Cloucflare want to control and analyse the network in a big way. *wink*

https://notochrome.org

#notochrome #surviellance #resistance #monopoly #oligarchy #boycottGoogle #bitcoincore #opensource #frontrunning #bernie2020 #tooBigToExist #decentralisation

An interesting read that focuses on the psychological aspects of social media.

https://medium.com/swlh/why-pixelfed-wont-save-us-from-instagram-4c991557d5cf

Our personal health history is too valuable to be harvested by the tech giants https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/our-personal-health-history-is-too-valuable-to-be-harvested-by-tech-giants

500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/500-chrome-extensions-secretly-uploaded-private-data-from-millions-of-users/

Looks like #Mycroft called their bluff, and they folded. Hopefully this troll will keep its tail tucked and we'll never hear from them again.

"Patent Troll Update - Mycroft"

https://mycroft.ai/blog/patent-troll-update-1/

Easy to use, end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer, zero knowledge free/open everyday tools are a prerequisite for human rights and democracy in the digital network age.

We don’t have them.

They should be the norm.

We have a lot of work to do.

https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

#SmallTech

My "How to fight back against Google AMP" post is going on another Reddit trip. Trending on /r/programming now.

99,200+ visitors to that post since published in December 😮

https://markosaric.com/google-amp/

#FF And more than this, another huge thank you to :

@ArchLinux_Community
@AsteroidOS
@Blender
@debian
@dino
@elementary
@exodus
@fdroidorg
@fedilab
@fedora_fr
@fosdem
@fosstodon
@Framasoft
@fsf@status.fsf.org
@fsfe
@gamingonlinux
@GIMP
@gnome
@inkscape
@kde
@krita
@lgm
@Liberapay
@libreoffice
@ManjaroARM
@Mastodon
@matrix
@mobilizon
@mozilla
@mycroft_ai
@opensuse
@peertube
@PINE64
@pixelfed
@silence
@SolusProject
@torproject
@ubports
@ubuntu
@wikipedia
@xmpp
@yunohost

And so many others ! 🖖🤩

#ILoveFS

Dear IT workers, are you about to #burnout ? 💊
https://burnoutindex.org

Hello, World! The #fsfe wishes a happy "I love Free Software" Day to all #FreeSoftware users, developers, contributors and everyone else!

You are the ones who give us meaning and empower us day by day ❤️

Join us today and show your love on #IloveFS: https://ilovefs.org

Tracking, surveillance, and censorship are widespread online. Let's #TakeBacktheInternet. Join me and donate to @torproject: https://donate.torproject.org

The Ultimate Online Privacy Guide

https://proprivacy.com/guides/the-ultimate-privacy-guide

"Innovation + Equality“

How to create a future that is more Star Trek than the Terminator

Joshua Gans & Andrew Leigh

#innovation #inequality #books #socialism #startrek #technology