Notices by Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social)

Regarding #youtubedl situation, I strongly recommend watching Good Copy Bad Copy:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Copy_Bad_Copy

You can watch it on #PeerTube thanks to @documentaries here:https://peertube.nomagic.uk/videos/watch/20b07947-85e8-4d50-a42b-796810193c8a

Or just torrent it, as the GCBC creators suggest themselves.

One of the best moments is when an MPAA chief talks about how people won't share things for free, and you watch it in a film explicitly made to be shared on a FLOSS operating system using VLC.

We need #copyreform.

Google started editing people's e-mails in GSuite, replacing links with a link through google.com:https://mobile.twitter.com/sneakdotberlin/status/1317734739537653760https://twitter.com/tblodt/status/1317875714981416962?s=20

This means that Google will track a click on a link *in e-mail* even if you're using an external client.

I am *guessing* this is under the pretext of phishing protection, but it actually *creates* additional phishing risk for text-only clients, since now all links are google.com links.

#FuckGoogle #privacy

Hey #Fediverse, has anyone heard of a #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource "Smart TV" project? Something like what #OpenWRT is for WiFi routers?

@tek "Multiple issues were addressed by updating to PHP version 7.3.11 (CVE-2019-11043)"

Huh.

On my way to #FOSDEM. Going to be in #Brussels starting tonight, leaving 03 Feb. Any Fediversians wanna grab a beer, happy to oblige.

I am watching some anonymous editor from the White House trying to whitewash Washington Examiner on Wikipedia, and random Wikipedians undoing the changes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Washington_Examiner&action=history

Pretty hilarious.

This is cursed:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/nicolas-cage-new-movie-unbearable-weight-massive-talent-film-release-date-a9205506.html

Nicolas Cage to star as Nicolas Cage in film about Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage is reportedly in talks to play himself in a film about him trying to land a role in a new Quentin Tarantino movie.

The meta-sounding film, titled Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, is undergoing final negotiations to be picked up by Lionsgate, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Hot take: hackers are computer witches.

tired: OK Boomer
wired: OK Computer

"Every time one person amasses a fortune worth a billion pounds, we are witnessing a policy failure."

Damn straight.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/viral-billionaires-super-rich-exist

@jeffalyanak I love these.

@djsundog

@sillystring you know what they say, the two hardest things in IT are:
- naming things
- cache invalidation
- off-by-one errors

Fun fact: wizzair.com let's you set a long password, but behind the scenes it truncates it to 16 characters (because obviously every byte is precious these days, I guess?).

When you try to log-in with your long long password, it fails. You have to *know* to truncate it yourself to 16 chars.

This is a major airline in 2019.

#InfoSec #WizzAir

@maloki I like the idea of talking about the ways federated social media can both help and harm marginalized people

This is absolutely stunning and incredible: https://howhatesleeps.com/index.html

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