Justin Plock @jplock@plock.social

Last week, Google announced its own VPN service. Trusting Google's VPN would be like trusting a VPN from the NSA. Here's why giving Google direct access to all your online activity is a terrible idea: https://protonvpn.com/blog/google-vpn/

The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket

https://puri.sm/posts/the-general-purpose-computer-in-your-pocket/

"One of the neatest tricks Big Tech ever pulled was convincing people that phones weren’t general-purpose computers and should have different rules than laptops or desktops. These rules conveniently give the vendor more control so that you don’t own a smartphone so much as you rent it."

#privacy #software #freedom

Dropwizard 2.0.14 has been released with minor bug fixes and dependency updates.

Release notes:
https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/releases/tag/v2.0.14

Dropwizard Metrics 4.1.14 has been released with some minor improvements, bug fixes, and dependency updates.

Release notes:
https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/releases/tag/v4.1.14

Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice: Today marks 20 years since the source code to OpenOffice was released. And today we say, LibreOffice is clearly the future of the suite (see the timeline). Let's all get behind it, for the benefit of all users: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

We found an open source license that Google is against so we're changing to it: Hello AGPL!

It helps prevent corporations from taking our code and selling it as a proprietary competitor.

No change to you as a Plausible subscriber or self-hoster.

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses

Every user of Google, Facebook, ... should absolutely watch #TheSocialDilemma

It makes people understand how those services are designed with the ultimate goal to sell your brain time at the highest price.

Show it to Children, show it to Friends!

https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224

"Ah, er, yes.” Martín is trying to break some unfortunate news as gently as possible. “The point of these questions is… for you to write the program yourself, rather than using someone else’s code.”

You shift, surprised. “People haven’t seemed to like that so far.”

https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview

Your Phone Is Your Castle

https://puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-your-castle/

"If your home is your physical castle, your phone is your digital castle. More than any other computer, your phone has become the most personal of personal computers and holds the most sensitive digital property a person has..."

#privacy #freedom #security

📣 We would like to get to know our users better with the first Dropwizard User Survey:

📊 https://forms.gle/4Ek7KLgvWcEXjks3A

The responses to this survey will help us to focus our time and energy on the things that really matter to Dropwizard users.

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Let me play the smallest violin I can find for you Facebook

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/ios-14-privacy-settings-will-tank-ad-targeting-business-facebook-warns/

Making this video took me pretty long but I wanted to correctly underline how great and unique the design of this smartphone is :

https://puri.sm/posts/the-design-behind-a-modular-and-secure-mobile-phone/

How Librem 5 Solves NSA's Warning About Cellphone Location Data

"...the best mitigation to protect yourself from tracking is with all of the security features of the Librem 5–a phone designed from scratch to protect your #privacy, #security and #freedom"

https://puri.sm/posts/how-librem-5-solves-nsas-warning-about-cellphone-location-data/

Blog post! Mastodon 3.2:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2020/08/mastodon-3.2/

Share with your friends!