Chien Po @chien_po@mastodon.social
I'm interested for #books #music #opensource and #china
#Protonmail being hit by massive DDOS attacks. Wonder who is behind them?
Sometimes I think other countries must get a really distorted picture of the US from the weird products that are manufactured there for us.
Other times I think they get a pretty accurate one.
Hubble observations by @_sublunar_@twitter.com of an amazing strong lensing system creating a nearly complete ring that is comprised of a single background galaxy positioned directly behind (if I understand correctly).
https://flic.kr/p/JYM8yc
h/t to @dstndstn@twitter.com & @AFJonkeren@twitter.com
Jupiter Broadcasting have just posted their first video on #peertube ! :D
https://getjupiter.com/videos/watch/ea5f616a-e219-41ba-bfcf-ae10b550dc48
#YouTube makes money from videos promoting extremism. Its algorithm radicalises viewers, because it wants people to be angrily clicking on more videos.
YouTube is tearing society apart by encouraging us to hate each other:
The most promising ethical alternative to YouTube is #PeerTube, which is decentralised and in beta testing.
You can support development of PeerTube to a release version at its crowdfunding page:
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
I've recently switched away from #DuckDuckGo and migrated to:
It's a meta-search engine that mixes your queries with other queries and sends them to a handful of other search engines.
You get fast results from highly specific search engines (Google, Erowid, Archive.is, Soundcloud, YouTube, all the good ones) without actually sending them your real query.
I love it.
The team behind #SecureDrop (open source whistleblower platform originally created by Aaron Swartz) has been investigating the use of #QubesOS for building an integrated workstation for journalists using SecureDrop.
Folks interested in newsroom security, or the use of virtualization to mitigate digital security risks may want to check it out. Thoughts on this approach appreciated:
https://securedrop.org/news/road-towards-integrated-securedrop-workstation/
God no 😭 Please save us GitLab 🙏
#GitHub #Microsoft #enemyofopensource
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/
Liberapay is in danger of closing at https://github.com/liberapay/salon/issues/232 - discuss at https://freepo.st/post/udhbvgpnyy #freepost
Is anyone doing a #federated #OpenSource alternative to Meetup.com?
It's useful for local events, but very expensive for organisers ($15 a month for a basic events page). People pay purely because others use it, an open alternative would be 👍
Meetup's "network effect" might be overcome because it isn't a global network (e.g. someone in London is only going to care about meetups in London).
Also, an open alternative would be perfect fit for #federation, each community having its own instance.
“Encrypted Email and Security Nihilism” by Daniel Kahn Gillmor
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/encrypted-email-and-security-nihilism
“Nihilism is tempting, both from an absolutist perspective and because of despair in the ongoing litany of technical failure. But it's not a realistic option, and we need to keep up the good fight.”
Lubuntu (the lightweight flavor of Ubuntu with LXQt desktop).
The Lubuntu dev team finally switches from LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) to the more modern and actively maintained LXQt (Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment), the switch is now official.
LXQt gives users a classic light desktop with a modern look and feel, supported for a long time thanks to the Qt technologies (KDE Plasma is built on it too).
--> https://news.softpedia.com/news/hands-on-with-first-lubuntu-18-10-build-featuring-the-lxqt-desktop-by-default-521200.shtml
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#Lubuntu #Ubuntu #Linux #desktop #LXQt #Qt
Took some more pictures of the pepper plant, aubergine plant, and the snack paprikas I cut off of the pepper plant today (not chili).
Ex-CIA Agent Recounts Violent Arrest on Capitol Hill for Protesting CIA Torture
"In addition to strategizing the most effective cocktail of torture — waterboarding, forced nudity, sleep deprivation and physical assault — Haspel, reportedly destroyed video footage of the events in 2005, despite knowing that this violated the law."
A lifetime civil servant peacefully protested against Gina Haspel’s nomination to lead the CIA last week in Hell
https://sputniknews.com/military/201805151064457198-cia-agent-violent-arrest-torture/
Nissan and Renault turn to China’s battery maker CATL for new electric cars - To comply with China's aggressive zero-emission vehicles targets #EV https://electrek.co/2018/05/11/nissan-renault-china-battery-maker-catl-electric-cars/
#OECD countries: % of #health #expenditure covered by #government
https://jodi.graphics/2018/05/11/health-expenditure-government/
