forteller @forteller@octodon.social
Huge supporter of federated social networks, FOSS etc. Got some visibility through my blogpost on beating Fb w/federation. Green Party! Hi Identi.can folks!
Jesus Christ! What the actual flying fuck! UK police infiltrated activist groups, living intimately with some for years, even having children with some! And monitored MPs. This is fucked up! https://qz.com/1296395/lush-stands-by-its-controversial-spy-cops-uk-campaign/
Wow! Prey has a really great, and actually useful cookie notification! But holy crap, that's a lot of cookies! https://www.preyproject.com/
Oh, wow, they even let you choose to buy a sligthly damaged book for a little less, instead of just throwing them away! I'm loving this so much!
OMG! Pay-what-you-want feminist bicycle centered sci-fi and apocolayptic stories from a tiny publisher! What's not to love? Only thing missing is a CC license
https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/5739/
https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/6675
Going to bbc.co.uk I see the front page for just haf a second before I get automatically redirected to bbc.com. And there's no visible way to go back. So effing annoying! I can decide what I want to see for myself, thankyouverymuch. And right now I want to see some numbers from the UK local elections, of which there are none on bbc.com
Anyone know where I can find some? Or is it too early still?
#Limesurvey has had a nice upgrade of their website recently. Looks much more professional. But when I log into one of their demos everything is in German, so…
Exactly this! Total surveilance will stop all progress. #privacy #surveilance #dystopia
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3x4wih/congress_creates_a_bill_that_will_give_nasa_a/cy21lyw/
Also this:
Extremely interesting to read Martin Luther King's thoughts on capitalism, socialism, communism, and how to create a more just society in this letter to his future wife, Coretta Scott.
«Let us continue to hope, work, and pray that in the future we will live to see a warless world, a better distribution of wealth, and a brotherhood that transcends race or color. This is the gospel that I will preach to the world.»
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/coretta-scott
"Stop feeding yourself on this virtual reality that systematically cherry-picks things that perpetuates this neurological addiction to anger" https://octodon.social/media/9-WDZEhoAYp0hIdK11w
OMG, my first check from my @Liberapay supporters! Thank you so much, you two anonymous helpers!
Wanna know why you should help me out? Have a look at my profile: https://liberapay.com/forteller/
I'm not sure I should spend time transcribing every tiny appearance Cory Doctorow has on every podcast, but I found his description of the internet on the Imaginary Worlds podcast a very good and succint one, so I transcribed his part; about 3 minuttes :) https://corydoctorow.miraheze.org/wiki/Talking_about_contestable_futures_on_the_Imaginary_Worlds_podcast
Yes, but how is this not just a toilet, though?
Well, I didn't think I'd ever see this again…
On Linux: How would you go about drawing a shape like this, and make sure that its measures is exactly 8,7 x 5?
This is pretty damn cool: "Firefox 59 adds basic support for decentralised internet protocols, specifically DAT, IPFS and Secure Scuttlebutt."
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/firefox-59-changes-download
God forbid that people would get to experience culture noone earns any money off of! No, it's much better to let it get sweapt away and be gone forever. Jesus, these copyright industrialist are just terrible.
Game Companies Oppose DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games https://torrentfreak.com/game-companies-oppose-dmca-exemption-for-abandoned-online-games-180217/?
So, I know the exact name and server of a Mastodon account I want to follow, but I can't find a way to follow it in either #Tusky or #Mastalab. What gives? What do I do? https://octodon.social/media/MfRZ9KuIaOLPni4YD00 https://octodon.social/media/jK6YhONxvtlNHMLmOcg
