Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

I deleted the toots with the specifics, but tl;dr: I'm feeling very burnt out by working with the group of people I recently stopped working with. If you know of any job opening for content/technical writing or even like, data entry, please forward it to me. I'm quite eager to start earning money again.

TSA announces “biometrics vision for all commercial aviation travelers”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18245617
#hackernews #tech

"GM captured minuted details such as station selection, volume level, and ZIP codes of vehicle owners, and then used the car’s built-in Wi-Fi signal to upload the data to its servers. The goal was to determine the relationship between what drivers listen to and what they buy and then turn around and sell the data to advertisers and radio operators."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17990052/gm-radio-listen-tracking-habits-advertising-future

‘Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia’

@aral recorded this video with BBC Ideas back in July. It gives a brief introduction to surveillance capitalism, complete with animation.

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia-bbc-ideas/2438

I have a dream. #publiccode

Hey, these people got scammed out of a home and they need help! Every bit helps, & please RT

https://www.gofundme.com/scam-victims-need-homes

After months of hard work by our operations and marketing teams - we have an awesome new website! Check us out at https://puri.sm/ - You can still pre-order our Librem 5 phones see https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-21/ for our latest update on our phones. #BePure

The 5 yr old Who Was Detained at the Border
wtAf #Murica 　
'...Helen was given a pack of crayons and spent the summer coloring patriotic images: busts of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the torch on the Statue of Liberty. She was granted an hour of “Large Muscle Activity and Leisure Time” each day, and received lessons on the human respiratory system, the history of music, and “the risk and danger of social media.” “Helen,” a caseworker observed, “has excellent behavior at all times.” She had no major sources of stress, her reports noted, aside from “being separated from her family.” Her teachers encouraged her to develop “smart goals”—ambitions that are “Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.” Helen’s goal was simple: “Minor disclosed wanting to live with her mother and family in the U.S.”...'
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-five-year-old-who-was-detained-at-the-border-and-convinced-to-sign-away-her-rights

The Engineer in the #Google vs. #Uber ‘Stolen Tech’ Case Really Was Terrible. Modified self driving #car software to travel in unauthorised areas. Caused major accident injuring a Google executive. Serious issues this bloke has.
https://jalopnik.com/the-engineer-in-the-google-vs-uber-stolen-tech-case-1829768721

elementary OS 5 Juno is here. It’s more refined, more productive, and an even better platform for developers. We've majorly updated apps, made the desktop more productive with several new features, refined the overall look and feel, and a whole lot more. https://buff.ly/2RSeAts

"holy balls. this is incredible

the [libssh] vulnerability literally works like this:

me: "can i log in?"

server: "no. you need a password."

me: "hacker voice i'm in"

server: "login successful. you're in""

https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/1052294419607506944

"Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server side" (as opposed to curl & save to a file).
Now this is some very clever, and scary, stuff. It's possible to detect if a #HTTPS request is being piped directly into #bash or just saved to a file. You can use this to send a different file (& commands!) only when it's going straight into bash.

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

RT @paulmozur@twitter.com: They worked in shifts in bases clustered in the foothills. Hundreds of soldiers. Their mission: to turn Facebook into a weapon for ethnic cleansing. Our look at how Myanmar’s military used a years-long, secretive Facebook campaign against its own people. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/paulmozur/status/1051855627318751232

My favourite fact about #Citizenfour is that it's freely streamable from the public domain because it was used as evidence in a court case.

https://archive.org/details/citizenfour.2014

As promised, version 1.0 of #PeerTube, a free and federated video platform, has just been released.

Thanks to all the people who supported this summer's crowdfunding.

This is only the beginning!

https://joinpeertube.org #JoinPeerTube

https://framablog.org/2018/10/15/peertube-1-0-la-plateforme-de-videos-libre-et-federee/ (article in English to come)