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In a 23-1 vote, Google vetoes Web Privacy Proposals at the W3C
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/google-blocking-web-privacy-proposals-at-w3c/

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Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.

#nheko, the native #matrix client for GNU/Linux got a big update recently. It added support for voice and video. It also fixed encryption bugs and added device verification support.

https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/releases/tag/v0.8.0

I was excited to try it, @hubert had updated nheko in #debian sid already when I looked in the archive.

But because of a bug in gcc 10, the build was failing. So I used an older version of gcc from snapshot.debian.org to build and you can get the new version from

https://people.debian.org/~praveen/nheko/

@wnymathguy @itsfarseen I'm not sure if Mastodon users see long replies from Friendica correctly, but...

I spun-up a mastodon server for potential business purposes after making a couple of accounts on other mastodon servers because somebody told me it was normal to make an account on each server you want to be on. Their reason for that was you don't get to see the local community feed of an instance if you aren't on it. I didn't know it at the time, but that is a bit against the grain of the Fediverse, despite it being true in practice.

I wasn't that into having multiple accounts. I let a few of them go fallow, and at least one server isn't on anymore.

My instance hit a wall during an upgrade and stopped working. They made it more for Nginx systems than Apache systems, and I have a lot going on Apache. I looked all over the Fediverse for what to do instead of Mastodon and settled on Friendica.

The reason I took you on this diversion is the main reason to have multiple identities on the Fediverse should be based on how you want to express yourself. Friendica has a Facebook level of posting, where you are writing microblogs to interactive long blogs including embedded content. Pixelfed is the new cool kid and is a replacement for Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, and other photo-heavy social media options. There are so many nuanced choices, but Mastodon, Friendica, and Pixelfed get you pretty far.

Since you can follow anybody on any Federated system and get their updates, the reading aspect of content is independent of the platform. How you produce content is very platform dependent. That's where multiple accounts matter, but you won't have the same followers on the various accounts, so that makes your outgoing content distribution iffy.

Like you said though, business and personal life seem to be a natural separation. Wherever a person does "code-switching" is a place they would want a different identity. I spin two Friendica instances now; this is the business, and the other is personal.

If you were looking to write the perfect *non-technical* book on decentralisation, what would you include? 🤔

(boosts appreciated!)

Smooth(er) Text Scrolling on HD44780 LCDs

Most Hackaday readers are likely to be familiar with character LCDs driven by the extremely common Hitachi HD44780 controller chip. If you’re looking for a cheap and easy way for your microcontroller project to … https://hackaday.com/2020/07/16/smoother-text-scrolling-on-hd44780-lcds/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1283996415908294658

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- Portugal ends coal burning two years ahead of schedule -

- #Futurology - #Futures #Studies and #speculation about the #development of #humanity, #technology, and #civilization - #bot -

r/Futurology - Portugal ends coal burning two years ahead of schedule

136,000 + Americans being for-profit covid-massacred by capitalist US elite, 740 billion bi-partisan military budget approved to massacre the world and ecology -- landback and fighting apocalyptic empires is the only way forward. Silver Spook Live!
https://twitch.tv/silverspook

The real #CancelCulture is to #WearAMask😷 and keep distance so we all together can cancel this pandemic. 🤷‍♂️

It's cool when countries can put aside all their differences and work together to do what's important: war crimes.

Do you have any foss project that is funded only by voluntary donations? Do people actually pay?

Help funding a new anime making system!

The current anime making system pays low wages to animators and working there it's unsustainable.

https://gogetfunding.com/new-anime-making-system-project/

#anime

Software Defined Radio Academy Goes Virtual

They say every cloud has a silver lining. It’s hard to find a positive among all the bad news about the current global pandemic, but it has pushed more conferences and events to allow online participation eith… https://hackaday.com/2020/07/08/software-defined-radio-academy-goes-virtual/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1281052042220515328

KeePassXC 2.6.0 Free Password Manager Released With New Light And Dark Themes, Password Checks

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/07/keepassxc-260-free-password-manager.html
#Linux #passwordmanager #security #windows #macos

https://libranet.de/proxy/7a/aHR0cHM6Ly8xLmJwLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbS8tbC1fYTZSQnZja1UvWHdXeWEzektBWkkvQUFBQUFBQUFFbzAvckg2cC1HXzJOS0lxLUxScjQ0VTcwaVlNZm95bzlEYVl3Q0xjQkdBc1lIUS93MTIwMC1oNjMwLXAtay1uby1udS9rZWVwYXNzeGMtMjYwLnBuZw==.png

*KeePassXC 2.6.0 Free Password Manager Released With New Light And Dark Themes, Password Checks*
> KeePassXC 2.6.0 was released recently with improvements like an overhauled user interface with new light and dark themes, new offline password health check, check passwords against the Have I Been Pwned online service, and more.
www.linuxuprising.com https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-515f-05b7-66a5-2b7716960606