Notices by Kamalavelan (demonshreder@mastodon.xyz)

I'm very impressed with the production quality of this article covering #China's rollout of their social credit system based on 24/7 #surveillance to manage their 1.4 billion people population. It prioritises harmony of the nation over individual human rights (especially to #privacy) through case studies of two individuals (A respected member of society and a government opposition).
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278?pfmredir=sm

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This is genius!
Source #birdside: https://twitter.com/TheNextWeb/status/1039110745135427586

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Linus' Daughter Signed the “Post-Meritocricy Manifesto”
https://postmeritocracy.org/

(submitted by JoshuaAshton)

The most secret of secrets of IT:
1. Everything is done by people who have no idea what they are doing. The people who know awe busy doing things *they* have no idea how to do. Once you learn how to do it, the thing is done and there is no point doing it again, so you move on to new things.
2. There are a lot of things that would be (relatively) easy to do and that would improve the lives of many people tremendously, but nobody has the time to do them, because they are all busy doing hard stuff.

Hey @Gargron can we pretty please have limited Markdown formatting?.. I mean bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, monospace. That's all I'm asking for.

Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/

What is omitted : ALL Google searches are *already* linked to strong identifiers (accounts and/or phone numbers). This time it is just impossible to pretend it won't be used for massive social control, intimidation and repression.

This is what #Google is about though, as its core business model is mass-surveillance.

#FuckOffGoogle

#DidYouKnow that...

India's government is considering a #DataLocalisation proposal.

It has flaws. These flaws could harm India for generations.

But Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary want to fix it.

Read their latest:
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/07/the-draft-data-protection-bill-is-flawed-here-s-how-to-fix-it_a_23520171/

"Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache."

http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/socialists/english/e_fun

okay!

- alpine local mail set up
- IRC set up
- nginx set up
- ssh pubkey authentication set up
- torrent seeding daemon set up

http://nand.club is almost soon to be launched! if you'd like to join, let me know your desired username and send me a public RSA key for me to install!