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I didn't know this was possible, but apparently you can now use Signal anonymously.
This is enabled by using publicly available phone numbers together with a new "Registration Lock" feature which prevents re-registering such a phone number (since users don't own them) and thereby stealing the account.
https://community.signalusers.org/t/how-to-use-signal-anonymously/2277
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Witches.Town folks: Before you leave/the site shuts down, please remember to go to Settings > Data Export. You can grab lists of the people you're following, blocking, and muting, and request an archive of your toots.
(You can currently import your follow/block/mute lists to another account, but you can't upload your toot archive. But at least you'll /have/ them.)
Folks moving from witches.town to other instances, please remember to post letting us know your new @username@instance or update your profile at /settings/migration so that we can follow you in new places!
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tired: "NB developers"
wired: "enbyneers"
DID YOU KNOW :O
If you put #nsfw in your tweets with images, when they crosspost to Mastodon the images/videos will be marked sensitive and hidden automatically!
This also works on Mastodon posts generally - any toot containing #nsfw will have its media hidden, no matter how it was posted to Mastodon.
(I just found that out!)
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
The getdns API, which 9.9.9.9 uses, supports #DNS over TLS, and will support DNS over HTTPS in the next release coming soon (via @AllisonJMankin@twitter.com)
See also https://dnsprivacy.org/
Here's another #DNS service as alternative to #Google and #Cloudflare: 9.9.9.9
https://www.quad9.net
It is community driven, see list of partners here: https://www.quad9.net/about/
TIL Chrome is scanning your files, including private folders, in the background as an anti-malware measure
https://twitter.com/swagitda_/status/979477998142476289
There’s currently no “off” switch, but apparently the devs reassure that scans are local and not “cloud” based. But this still has consent and privacy implications
We're now the 10th biggest (in users) Mastodon Instance in the world!! And it's only day 4 :D
Xbiz just did a piece on our awesome community!
Sex Workers Fight Back Against SESTA With Switter
https://www.xbiz.com/news/234639/sex-workers-fight-back-against-sesta-with-switter
The main console feature that I miss on my PC is putting games on standby. I can start my PS4 and be right back where I stopped. I can't do that on my PC really, since I use it for so many other things. Which makes jumping back into the game a higher time cost and thus I hardly play my Steam library anymore.
Status: can't deal with all this popular, indirect trans antagonism on birbsite.
Like seriously, I wanna smash something, so many of these fucking cis feminists are such a horrible bunch.
"We decided to look beyond the primary colours to something darker and investigate one specific aspect of this activity: the revolving door between #Google and #public institutions (specifically, European institutions)."
https://exposingtheinvisible.org/resources/revolving-door-google
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