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securitycheckli.st

An open source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security.

Gute, crowdgesourcte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Sicherheits­maßnahmen, die man bei seinen Streifzügen durchs Internet beachten sollte.

Signal v Noise exits Medium

Signal v Noise, das legendäre Web-/Tech-/Work-Blog von 37signals Basecamp, hat Medium endlich den Rücken gekehrt und setzt wieder auf ein eigenes Blog jenseits von zentralisierten Plattformen.

Traditional blogs might have swung out of favor, as we all discovered the benefits of social media and aggregating platforms, but we think they’re about to swing back in style, as we all discover the real costs and problems brought by such centralization.

Guter Move und es war abzusehen: Medium kann man langsam abschreiben.

Update, 31.01.2019:
In der aktuellen Episode des Rework-Podcasts erzählen die Basecamp’er etwas zu den Hintergründen für den Wechsel.

Tweetbot 5 is such a nice app. A shame it’s based on and build for a platform, whose management doesn’t value and encourage a rich ecosystem of third party clients and instead pushes a „one size fits all“ approach for millions (!) of users, just because they don’t understand their own product (which could have been the centralized real time layer of the web) and how to monetize it.

In the long-term their missing understanding will turn out to be a good thing, because it forced us relatively early to create truly open and independent microblogging alternatives, which will replace their privately owned predecessor sooner rather than later.

The future is here today: You can’t play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions

Boing Boing-Posting von letzter Woche, das zeigt, was für ein Wahnsinn nach der Pro-Upload-Filter-Abstimmung von heute absofort noch viel häufiger auf uns zukommen wird:

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Facebook account, but it didn’t go up — Facebook’s copyright filtering system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds‘ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.