FAELIX @faelix@toot.host
Congress forced Silicon Valley to answer for its misdeeds. It was a glorious sight great Guardian piece by @matthewstoller@twitter.com https://buff.ly/3gd6xU4
Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s cell tower repairmen https://buff.ly/30IxSa0
Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply https://buff.ly/39lKQ1m
Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier - Deepfake spotting is getting harder. https://buff.ly/2WlhATb
TikTok and many other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data - list includes News, Weather, and Games apps https://buff.ly/2VqS7XV
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and its for sale - In-depth analysis of location data and privacy by NYT https://buff.ly/2B4wamx
Steve Bannon used location targeting to reach voters who had been in Catholic churches - geofencing + fingerprinting = means the geofencing data isn't anonymous https://buff.ly/2JOTER3
“We have an allergy index, a dog-walking index, a barbecue index” Accuweather doing important work during the COVID crisis https://www.adexchanger.com/publishers/accuweather-president-steven-smith-on-how-the-pandemic-changed-the-weather-business/
60Gbit/sec of additional network function virtualisation capacity… should be enough for little while!
RT @NetworkMoose@twitter.com
Need more Gigabits!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NetworkMoose/status/1278816126370226178
Economics of restaurant food delivery stinks - the companies are propped up by VC cash - good commentary from @nytimes@twitter.com https://buff.ly/2NO8JEU
Robot lawyers are thriving during the pandemic - software is eating Law https://buff.ly/2BSiTS7
Apple Just Crippled IDFA, Sending An $80 Billion Industry Into Upheaval - from Forbes (which sets around 40 cookies). This change is big: "almost every large mobile-first business is completely dependent on performance marketing on mb for revenue growth" https://buff.ly/3dKCZLv
Nothing says "we care about you" like outsourcing your company's first contact with its most important partners… to AI chat bots.
Rocket scientists "disrupting" human resources by removing the humans is peak techbro startup culture.
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Traintrackr connects to the tube's API for live location data every second and uses a powered circuit board to show a map of the London Underground, lighting up in real time - shows train locations on 333 stations on all 12 main lines. You can buy them! https://buff.ly/3i2b50L
RT @ISPAUK@twitter.com
@mozilla@twitter.com is nominated for the #ISPAs #InternetVillain for their proposed approach to introduce DNS-over-HTTPS in such a way as to bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining #internet safety standards in the UK. https://bit.ly/2XM7Gfd
Great DuckDuckGo backstory, the privacy search engine - inspired by a glassmaking class https://buff.ly/2CfDb8p. And tech analyst thinks it would be a good acquisition at around $1 billion for Apple to support its privacy-focused brand image https://buff.ly/3dbxrcx
When the response to a peering request is the @SaltStack@twitter.com command their NOC engineer used to deploy the BGP configuration to their routers: well played, @digitalocean@twitter.com, well played.
…and right back at you! ;-)
It's the @LINX_Network@twitter.com Manchester #peering LAN's birthday today: eight years of exchanging traffic outside the M25! We're celebrating by turning up BGP sessions on both #LINXManchester (where we've been for ages) and now #LON2 — the latest exchange that AS41495 has joined.
RT @LINX_Network@twitter.com
“We were in a situation where we needed to increase our #networkresilience...@faelix@twitter.com were recommended to us and then came the next steps of taking control of our own network and joining #LINX to start #peering directly.”
Read our latest news here; https://www.linx.net/contact/linx-news/faelix-expansion-linx-welcome-pinnacom/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LINX_Network/status/1270692932950134789
