Stefan Klöckner @stefan@octodon.social
Ruby, Rust, Emacs, *BSD, Freenet, P2P, Tor, XMPP, classic menswear, hiking, strengthlifting, bourbon/rye, cocktails, psychology, lucid dreaming, medievalism
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.
Started installing #Redox yesterday on MacOS. I downloaded libc and started setup.sh before bed. This morning I found the setup failed with some automake failure.
It’s the small things that make software / products delightful
Moxie Marlinspike, in his 2016 propaganda piece ignorantly bashing #XMPP, had one valid point: Enabling end-to-end encryption in a homogeneous environment is easier than introducing it in a heterogeneous #Jabber. Nobody is denying that. However, if something is hard to achieve, either try your best and don’t give up, or put your head in the sand and create yet another walled garden that is no different from other proprietary solutions.
The rocky road to #OMEMO by default
https://gultsch.de/omemo_by_default.html
just discovered #HookTube https://hooktube.com/ "Share YouTube videos without giving them views. Bypass country blocks and age restrictions. Download #YouTube #videos and music. Keep your data private from the G." #privacy
I encourage you all to use hashtags. It's not a big deal to put a # in front of some words and it really helps to make content discoverable for idiots like me
Parents-in-law handed an old not working #WindowsXP laptop to me for inspection. The whole windows world seems so strange to me, I consider installing a #Lubuntu to get the machine running again.
s/\([Pp]a\)t{2}\(y.?s\)/\1dd\2/g
The Onion: Facebook Announces Plan To Combat Fake News Stories By Making Them Actually Happen 😂
https://www.theonion.com/facebook-announces-plan-to-combat-fake-news-stories-by-1823836038
"Are we forfeiting control over our digital lives?"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201611/are-we-forfeiting-control-over-our-digital-lives
ProtonMail has been blocked by Vodafone in Turkey. Here’s how to bypass Turkey’s online censorship - https://protonmail.com/blog/turkey-online-censorship-bypass/
> Turkey’s second-largest mobile internet provider has apparently blocked ProtonMail, as user reports from across Turkey have confirmed this week. Here’s what we know so far and some ways to bypass the block.
