Internet Kevin @InternetKevin@mastodon.cloud

Please spend 2 minutes today and use https://resist.bot to ask your reps to please, with sugar on top, not build concentration camps to incarcerate children indefinitely.

Greta Thunberg, why are people so angry at her?

Written by our very own @sargoth

https://medium.com/@sargoth/why-people-are-so-angry-at-greta-thunberg-and-why-she-is-right-3f6bf6a20f78

Curiosity poll:

If you regularly work on software development, how often do you work code out using pen and paper?

What services or companies do you feel most infringe upon your #privacy rights? Please add a comment for others...

Dr Hannah Fry has joined calls for a Hippocratic oath for tech & maths specialists.

"The issue has become urgent now that researchers are building systems that gather and sell personal data, exploit human frailties, and take on life-or-death decisions."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/16/mathematicians-need-doctor-style-hippocratic-oath-says-academic-hannah-fry

Seattle! A decentralized web meetup for you! Next week!

https://www.meetup.com/ProtoSchool-Seattle-Learn-to-Make-the-Decentralized-Web/events/262328555/

Friday feelings with #FollowFriday 🍸 🍻

📔 @Carnet Carnet: Free open alternative to Google Keep

🏭 @olimex Olimex: Makers of open electronics

🛡️ @protonvpn ProtonVPN: Hides your metadata from your ISP

👾 @itchio Itch.io: Cool DRM-free indie games

🐉 @rpginabox RPG in a Box: Create your own voxel-style RPGs

Previous Follow Friday posts:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/followfriday

#FF #FFed

1969: I bet we will have flying cars in the future

2019: Coffee with DRM

This is a Fosstodon and general Mastodon appreciation toot. I love it here, and have had some great conversations with people already on my short journey thus far. Such pleasant people.

Out today: History of the Internet: Free as in Freedom.

This episode covers the creation of the EFF, the Free Software Movement including Richard Stallman, the GNU manifesto, Tivoisation and more.

https://simpleprogrammer.com/part-18-free-as-in-freedom/

You're a beautiful coder.

Ward Cunningham

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham

Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (May 26, 1949 - July 31, 2019)

was an American programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and extreme programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of the software consultancy he started with his wife

Cunningham's Law

Ward is credited with the idea:

"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."

This refers to the observation that people are quicker to correct a wrong answer than to answer a question.

Google plans to make it harder for security and privacy-protecting extensions to function in Chrome, including @privacybadger and @ublockorigin.

“No doubt this will cause more users to question whether Chrome is the right browser for them,” writes @Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/08/01/warning-issued-over-google-chrome-ad-blocking-plans/#5429b6e5219a

Gotta feel kind of bad for nation-state hackers who spend years implanting and cultivating some hardware exploit, only to discover the entire target database is already exposed to anyone with a web browser.
https://xkcd.com/2166/