⚠️ IMPORTANT: Users of Element Desktop/Web/Android, FluffyChat & Nheko should upgrade immediately to address a critical encryption vulnerability.

We are not aware of this being exploited in the wild yet, but as the bug is now disclosed please upgrade now. https://matrix.org/blog/2021/09/13/vulnerability-disclosure-key-sharing

A Vice thing about self hosters!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkb4ng/meet-the-self-hosters-taking-back-the-internet-one-server-at-a-time

You can hate the patriot act, the TSA, homeland security and all those infringements, and still believe Mohammed Atta is a piece of shit that is burning in hell, and that none of those people that were murdered on 9/11 deserved what happened to them It's not mutually exclusive.

So Audacity has fucked the dog...

https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/

Ths first of many, I am sure.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article252544473.html

Yes you will
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/324134-i-will-never-use-a-microsoft-account-to-log-into-my-own-pc

@lnxw37b3 @neikocat @Moon I do think we'll get a resurgence in a lot of 'going out and doing things with other people' stuff. Theaters have rested on their laurels for years though.

@CarolDanvers I knew back in Summer when the news about vaccines really started to land that this would precipitate a surge in anti-vaxx rhetoric like we'd never seen before. When you combine conspiracy theory thinking with the urgent timelines you've got a recipe for stupid.

If this is true then Google are not merely scanning files for software fingerprints but are parsing them through ML and deciding what users are permitted to read. Absolutely disgraceful.

https://twitter.com/BreesAnna/status/1384763150109716481

In person, this is easy to check, and in effect we have trained the users not to think for themselves.

@lnxw48a1 ..And I should say I don't think it's their fault. They're often working to a fatally loose brief, have too much design freedom and end up frustrated when they run into organisational and infrastructure walls.

@lnxw48a1 I have not had a good experience with contractors on IT projects. Not one.

There's an insidious and deceitful form of Nazi revisionism that seems to occur in the comments of any history-focused video essay. It drives me nuts that these people are so ignorant yet think they're being clever.

When you hurt the money they'll come after you quicker than any other reason.