Stefano Costa @steko@octodon.social

simply do not use twitter, a bad website

Our Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn, explains how we can restore #copyleft equality and rid ourselves of toxic proprietary relicensing (sometimes imprecisely called dual licensing) with a novel copyleft clause (invented by Richard Fontana for copyleft-next). https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality/ #GPL #FOSS #FOSSLicensing #AGPL

Over the past few years I've noticed myself stopping to do custom tweaks on my own system, and instead working to fix the underlying issue for everyone.

I finally wrote my thoughts about this down in a more coherent form https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/01/17/doing-things-that-scale

i think we could all use a little less of, 'hot takes', and a little more of, 'hot gives'. just my two cents

Je viens de sortir #StickerifyForSignal en version 0.1.0 !
https://framagit.org/luc/stickerify-for-signal/tags/0.1.0

@estoricru I'm making a Mastodon client using GTK and Zig. Even with GTK being somewhat heavyweight, and me being new to it, it uses an order of magnitude less RAM than the web app. Yet corporations with many professional programmers working for them cannot do this, for some reason.

Alphaville (1965), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, came a few years after the book Fahrenheit 451 (1953). It’s probably not as well known, but it’s actually a pretty surreal entry in the #SciFi and arguably #Cyberpunk genres

What’s interesting to me is that there are no overt displays of futurism. Only the story and characters are displaced from the present of the 1965. The plot (and violence) carries the narrative, not necessarily the technology

A great article on Cuba's El Paquete, its formally illegal network of internet data distributed through USB drives. It's a ingenious workaround & I wonder about its applicability in other scenarios: <https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/january-february-2019/the-human-infrastructure-of-el-paquete-cubas-offline-internet> Thanks to @gcupc for hipping to El Paquete's existence!

how do i find a cool #Matrix server to move my account to from matrix.org? because, you know #distributed and stuff.

In general, codes of conduct that include the following are immediately suspect and I'm going to silence without further investigation: "generally unpopular opinions voiced respectfully will be fine."

It is a, uncoincidentally, a common phrase in soapbox instances.

Neenster, yarr.io, gleasonator, qoto......

I think they're copying qoto's CoC, but if anyone can identify a further upstream origin, go for it.

Don't you dare try to pretend that you didn't know what kind of scum Jeffrey Epstein was when you took his filthy money.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/16/dont-island-girls-count/

Great list of additional reasons for why accessibility is important beyond compliance and helping those with official disabilities. #a11y

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051452

If you are looking for a Git server based in Europe, there is @codeberg.

We are hosting our blog content there, providing full transparency of all changes: https://codeberg.org/infosechandbook/blog-content

There is also a mirror of our InfoSec blog on codeberg.org: https://pages.codeberg.org/infosechandbook/index.html

You can support the German Codeberg e.V. by donating our applying for a membership. One of our contributors is an active Codeberg member.

#codeberg #git

Status report and wrap-up up of poll discussion and decision since yesterday:

- Spam attacks continue, fine-grained blocks are circumvented quickly using another anonymous email provider for registration. All attacks come via tor switching IPs every few requests.
- Many expressed sympathy to keep access via tor network open as there are valid use cases (repressive countries etc).

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I REALLY hate FUD like this. “Google” is not “reading” Signal messages. Your Signal notifications are training on-device machine learning because your Android “Smart Replies” notification feature is on, plus you chose to have Signal expose message contents via notifications.

The Iconic Urinal & Work of Art, "Fountain," Wasn’t Created by Marcel Duchamp But by the Pioneering Dada Artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1053616 https://t.co/q9eTswiVMl

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind