(old account)Andrei Petcu @dreiann@mastodon.social

Every sheriff, district attorney, and police department in California should be required to get approval from an elected body before acquiring surveillance tech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/surveillance-oversight-across-golden-state

Internet Service Providers should never have the power to block or throttle connections to certain websites. From our own experience, we know how devastating this could be: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/comcast-blocks-and-unblocks-tutanota-net-neutrality
However, in the US, they are about to abandon net neutrality. We call on all our users in the US to fight for net neutrality now!
https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/reddit-its-friday-5d3811f1a6a8

It’s been interesting watching the republican for the Georgia governor primary try to out-crazy each other. One is pointing a shotgun at his daughter’s boyfriend making him recite the candidate’s platform at gunpoint, one shows himself doing a tough mudder competition against old guys in suits, and another tries to convince us that MS13 is being bused in to the country by Democrats to kill everyone.

The mastoverse, as part of an assignment for a uni subject. More visualizations soon #gephi #dataviz

Who wants to play!? Oh, wait, I'm already playing.

#fennec which is #fdroidorg's unbranded #Firefox build now updated to v60. Finally bringing all Firefox quantum improvements to android: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/04/firefox-60-now-available-finally-brings-quantum-css-engine-android/

When you use the app to share a link, it will automatically retrieve the title, a small summary and attach a media related to the page you are sharing.

#Mastalab #tips

In a way, @MarshaBlackburn is right that paid prioritization is like TSA Precheck. In that everyone else is stuck in a slow lane while those with money get to breeze past them. #NetNeutrality
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/isps-should-charge-for-fast-lanes-just-like-tsa-precheck-gop-lawmaker-says/