Cathal Garvey @cathal@octodon.social

If anyone knows #Go and is looking for a project to help out with, Go-based #Signal protocol implementation library and a native #SailfishOS Signal client using it are in dire need of love:
https://github.com/RadicalApp/libsignal-protocol-go
https://github.com/aebruno/whisperfish

Yes, I also prefer truly decentralized protocols, but Signal is where it's at currently with a lot of people, and it's way better than other popular options... So, we need independent clients.

#InfoSec #FreeSoftware

HOLY CATS

It published today!

Perfect if:
-you like the Addams Family
-you like LIRAEL
-you like trad fantasy bad guys
-you like a twist on familiar tropes

List of sellers: https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/

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The family business is raising the dead; Ree has other ambitions. She’s going to resurrect the ancient magic of shapeshifting, but might doom her necromantic hometown in the process.

BOOKS & BONE is a librarians-and-necromancy fantasy with warmth and weirdness.

📬 📘 Got a very nice book in the post from the Institute of Network Cultures:

State Machines; Reflections and actions at the edge of digital citizenship, finance, and Art.

available for free:
http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/state-machines-reflections-and-actions-at-the-edge-of-digital-citizenship-finance-and-art/

wrote a userscript for medium dot com:

window.__defineGetter__('localStorage',()=>"pardon my language but fuck off")

*slaps roof of an office building* this bad boy can fit so many mice in it

As a follow up to Banana Grammar, I found some Burger Grammar:

What I came away with after the carbon tax campaign last fall was basically that people suck at imagining a future without cheap fossil fuels. They need help to imagine how their lives will work beyond "exactly the same but everything costs more and is terrible".

So it's too bad conscious consumers are farting away all their energy on silicone straws instead of high-speed rail and solar water heaters.

🌍 The Extinction Rebellion 19/04/2019 💥 Protesters Block Oxford Circus 🌱 London Street Interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpd6iqxAokU

Video showing right wing people showing trying to do their speil.

Zuckerberg funded FB engineers to make a "personalized learning" platform for Kansas kids. Besides the educational concerns, how much personal data is this program storing indefinitely? Who gets access to it? #privacy https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/technology/silicon-valley-kansas-schools.html

“The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong” by @mmildenberger@twitter.com https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

Calling all radical gamedevs!

Some anarchists have started up a Discord server to discuss the development of a Stardew Valley-esque RPG set in an anarchist commune:

https://discord.gg/d8Rsg9F

I'm late on this, but sharing in case others have also not heard: Emily Dickinson was totes a lesbian, and the proof was censored out of her letters by her lover's husband's mistress. spectrographic technology allowed the censored parts to be revealed! and there's a movie out about it now.
https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/behind-the-new-gloriously-queer-emily-dickinson-movie.html

After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right-2.html

#DRM #EME #Google

*quiet growling*

And this is why I don't trust any environmental movement/'spokesperson'/etc that is in any way claiming that either people have to die or the world's poor can never have better lives because the environment.

It pays to pay close attention and not just assume that all environmental orgs are progressive or good.

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/04/eco-facism-nature-writing-nazi-far-right-nostalgia-england

"Hourly nitrogen dioxide concentrations from sites on the London Air Quality Network (LAQN) were compared for the days when the [#ExtinctionRebellion] protests were taking place, to the concentrations on these days of the week when the protests were not taking place."

"The measurements show some evidence of a reduction in nitrogen dioxide concentrations close to locations where roads are closed. None of the monitoring sites are in locations where traffic is completely blocked and reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations would be likely to be much larger where no traffic is able to pass at all as has been seen during other road closures. There is little evidence of any significant increase in nitrogen dioxide concentrations in areas neighbouring those where the protests are taking place."

https://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/general/news.aspx?newsId=51foyPVtvieVKszzVKLKlX

why would you open this cw?

go outside, take a breath of fresh air, enjoy the world