With the deplatforming of forums where trumpists and right-wing figures congregate, there's a lot of chatter about whether and when private entities have the right to remove speech, and what obligations come with scale.
The most important - and overlooked - area of this discourse is the role that monopoly plays, and the role that anti-monopoly enforcement could play.
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@caarlos0 heyyyy Caarlos! π
#darktable source code 3.4 was tagged today, that means the release is frozen entirely, code and translations, waiting for packagers to build the binaries in the next week. Then it shall be on time under the Christmas tree.
Happy holidays on behalf of all the darktable developers, contributors, translaters and testers !
πΎ #Inkscape, my favorite Free/Libre and Open-Source vector software reached 1.0 today! Congratulation to all dev & contributors! I'm using it since 2004 and all Pepper&Carrot translation system is based on it.
https://inkscape.org/news/2020/05/04/introducing-inkscape-10/
Just following along with some Mastodon releases, I see a nice, up-to-date version on Docker Hub:
https://hub.docker.com/r/tootsuite/mastodon
and a ready-to-install image in the Digital Ocean Marketplace:
https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/mastodon
soon to be updated to latest 3.0.1.
round of applause to @Gargron and friends. π
Mastodon 3.0 in-depth: New APIs, deployment options, and admin settings
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0-in-depth/
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world."
- Agent Smith, The Matrix
Mozilla Research call to integrate TOR Browser into Firefox for "Super Private Browsing" mode.
https://blog.torproject.org/mozilla-research-call-tune-tor-integration-and-scale
mastodon.social is experiencing technical difficulties right now. I have resolved the internal errors, making it usable again, but outward federation has a massive backlog that will only clear in about 7 hours, and I have not found a good way to speed up that process so far.
This means people on other servers might only receive your posts after 7 hours π¦
looking forward to the #brexit update to Euro Truck Simulator 2
Software Eng. Mostly human, writing #scifi #books. Blogging about: #tech #photography #science #art #music.