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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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@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

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@tw @kmj @rysiek @scroom which is why we rsync.
A LOT
And make backups of backups of backups across servers.

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@gemlog @kmj @rysiek @scroom or we offer to help you fix your clock. Oops that piece wasn't important right?

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@kmj @tw @rysiek @scroom "Non techies are flooded with infos" and also:
If you ask a geek what time it is he tells you how to build a clock...
We are often part of the problem.

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And no cycling effort 🚴 comes without reward 🍻