Bassam @bkurdali@mastodon.social

Can I emphasize one more time how cool Blokada is?
You don't know it but your phone is *full* of trackers. It's not better than the web. I thought that we don't have any tools to deal with it - after all, it's not a browser. But turns out there are!
Blokada works as a VPN but locally. It has a blacklist (which you can change) and it just blocks all connections to trackers or ads. It works wonderfully.

Of course Google wouldn't let it in the Play Store.
https://f-droid.org/app/org.blokada.alarm

In the 90s-era demo scene, rendering a 3D object was called "vector" and rendering a 3D object made of translucent polygons was called "glenz vector." I never thought to wonder what "glenz" meant until recently. It turns out to derive from "gläns," Swedish for "glitter"!

speaking of throat singing brought into different genres of music, mongolian throat singing rap goes fucking hard as hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el93MIxAf-c

📖 All new default brushes in #krita 4.0 are now documented here:

https://docs.krita.org/The_Krita_4_Preset_Bundle

#introductions

hi i'm a friendly former mastodev; Western MA Sanctuary activist; hobby poet; queer shitposting furry; jack of all trades creative-type; and grad student studying Library & Information Science. Most notable thing I've made is http://sailingroughwaters.com which is a website about coping skills for the mental stress of dealing with daily racism/sexism/homophobia/ableism etc. with a focus on being accessible in all senses of the word.

Also check out Better Everyday on stipes.co

Photogrammetry is the most recent topic to go right over my head.

#libreplanet

A good friend of mine was like, "do you know anyone in MA? fairly urgent stuff around imminent legal work around immigrant rights"

I think most of the MA folks I know are on the fediverse, so here you go:

http://www.safecommunitiesact.com/

via our friend, @willrad

PERIODIC REMINDER THAT THE RED HAT LOGO IS ACTUALLY A T-REX PUNCHING A TRICERATOPS

https://mobile.twitter.com/willrad/status/607737190735618049 https://witches.town/media/dMSLMS4B-4J9LVzZsiA

i put together a blog and wrote a post about browsers: https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/browsers-are-a-mess.html

jesus usually appears in a T-pose because he left his body and that is the default model pose for humans

I mentioned I was writing a Mastodon client named Rackstodon.

It's till very WIP, but you can see a screenshot here: https://dustycloud.org/tmp/rackstodon_test.png

Soon I'll refactor it into an ActivityPub client that "translates" itself to Mastodon's API and rename it "Postsaurus".

#FF some cool comics folks who are actually posting on here fairly often: @stevelieber @Trungles @rubenbolling @Inkskratch @AmyChu @shingworks

I called my senators and asked them to overturn today's disastrous ruling by the FCC https://www.battleforthenet.com/

You should too! The fediverse is a place full of folks who are well informed about how critical net neutrality is to the internet as a democratic institution, as it was designed to exist. Make your voice heard!