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@guizzy @lain I'm really pretty tired of this "Pleroma/GNU Social/SomethingElse is Nazi software/space" bullshit.

I had a StatusNet account until Evan killed identi.ca years ago; a shit-ton of great people I talk with here every day have accounts on Pleroma or GNU Social. Some are their developers.

benefited handsomely from there being a large community of dedicated people in Fediverse before Mastodon was a thing. Let's acknowledge that and stop being so condescending.

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time! I'm a hacktivist, free software advocate, strong supporter of free and open internet. Used to be a policy hacker. Co-founded the Warsaw Hackerspace.

Currently trying to make sure journalists at @OCCRP have the tools and training to safely expose corruption and organized crime.

Also, I bake bread, sail, and dance Lindy Hop. So, there's that.

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After cursory investigation there are quite a lot of Google references in the Riot android app. It looks like analytics is not much of a problem, especially if you installed from f-droid. It's either off by default or you can turn it off from settings.

The main Google integration is GCM and that only applies if you installed from Google Play.

So basic opsec with the Riot app is to only install it from f-droid and prefer xmpp when possible.
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@switchingsocial Also, I should do this more myself, but readers with e-books looking into DRM etc. ought to try to contact any small publishers they know (and [would] support) to discuss the example of, for example, Verso, and others (like Tor?) who support Creative Commons and the like. They may not know there is a market, and indeed, it may at times appear contra-intuitive to them that this may help them find an enthusiastic audience.
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this is an inadvertently great allegory for humanity

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New Emoji on bsd.network

:flan_guns: :flan_hearts: :flan_on_fire: :flan_piteous: :flan_racer: :flan_set_fire: :flan_squee: :flan_stars:

:cherry_heart: :bi_heart: :cobalt_heart: :dkcyan_heart: :emerald_heart: :grape_heart: :lemon_heart: :tangerine_heart:

Courtesy of the illustrious @pamela / @pmosetc

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@cwebber @rysiek @Gargron We're getting there with Lightning Network. But it's early days still. You can already try a working demo for paywalls though: yalls.org/

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@rysiek @cwebber both are unfitting for a paywall system which is how people use patreon

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DECEIVED BY DESIGN
How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from
exercising our rights to #privacy

fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-conte

An impressive report on a situation not at all surprising.

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The book that is mandatory reading at every data collection and aggregation company

I have just set up a small testing rig (3 VMs) for playing with Salt Stack.

I now find myself running `salt '*' state.highstate` over and over and over again, even though I *know for a fact* the result will be the same each time.

tl;dr I got a new toy and I'm playing with it

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tired: algorithm
wired: algorhythm

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microsoft announces a $80 surface usb-c dongle so you can connect your other dongles to it

And since I have you all here already, do watch "Good Copy Bad Copy": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Cop

Available here: archive.org/details/Good_Copy_

Seriously, get informed about copyright in the digital era. It affects us all, for better or worse.

Also, watch her great film, "Sita Sings the Blues": archive.org/details/Sita_Sings

And then read all about how restrictive, bloated copyright on almost century-old music stifled her creativity and distribution options for this film:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita_Sin

Nina Paley is great in cutting through the bullshit around copyright on the Internet.

Consider the following:
youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM
youtube.com/watch?v=jcvd5JZkUX

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reclaim.technology assets finally coming online for the 500px-grab, fashionably late

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Wow. I've been head in the sand for the last few years and not following what's going on with Blender. Huge things are happening! blender.org/2-8/

The new realtime rendering and 2d drawing tools are amazing looking

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500px is shutting down access to their #CreativeCommons images! Use this VM to backup the data before the capitalists destroy it. archiveteam.org/index.php?titl

#FreeCulture #Boost #ArmchairActivism