Toni Lampela @toni@mastodon.toni.im

#Galileo satellites all still out of service!

https://www.gsc-europa.eu/system-status/Constellation-Information

Mastonaut is currently featured in the Mac App Store discover screen! 🥳

Next time your site doesn’t hit 99.99% uptime, remember that the European sat nav constellation has been down for 2 days now https://www.gsc-europa.eu/notice-advisory-to-galileo-users-nagu-2019026

urls often contain tracking information added to the end of them. when you are linking articles, stuff like the "utm_source" and "fbclid" sections allow people to track where you got the link from and how you are spreading it. this allows cops & corps to map out social groups.

while you can remove that stuff by hand, there's a firefox/chrome addon called "neat URL" that comes with an existing blocklist that automatically cleans off a lot of that stuff.

A: dns record
AA: battery
AAA: battery
AAAA: dns record

The dev of Toot! for iOS isn’t very patient with Gab enthusiasts, either. ❤️❤️❤️

mastodon vs twitter.

I love how Mastodon is 100% functional and contains zero trackers.

It's almost as if you don't need trackers to make a functioning site and any trackers on other sites are wholly unnecessary and should be fought against on every possible level...

UK ISP association names #Mozilla "Internet villain" -- for circumventint Net censorship and surveillance mechanisms.

No, seriously.

https://www.ispa.org.uk/ispa-announces-finalists-for-2019-internet-heroes-and-villains-trump-and-mozilla-lead-the-way-as-villain-nominees/

@alexl

I did find it though 👇 This is some serious bullshit

YouTube is deleting videos and channels it deems containing instructional hacking vids. This obviously has chilling effects for confs and security youtubers.

I'm setting up a 44CON #peertube instance, hopefully later today but moving offices (yay hexchange day!) so it may take a while. If there are any security youtubers who want an account, reply here.

- Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.

- Coders from (Indian company) HCL were typically designing to specifications set by Boeing. Still, “it was controversial because it was far less efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code,”

- Engineers who worked on the Max [..] have complained of pressure from managers to limit changes that might introduce extra time or cost.

Rabin, the former software engineer, recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature. “I was shocked that in a room full of a couple hundred mostly senior engineers we were being told that we weren’t needed,” said Rabin, who was laid off in 2015.

- U.S.-based avionics companies in particular moved aggressively, shifting more than 30% of their software engineering offshore versus 10% for European-based firms in recent years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers

Reminder: iOS Betas are for devices you don't mind putting in a drawer for a bit. Potentially September.

Nothing wrong with installing one, but you need a backup plan.