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PSA: If you live where abortion's illegal or inaccessible? this organization will mail you abortion pills internationally and walk you through the process of usage for a donation amount of your choice, no minimum required.

https://aidaccess.org/

Gitlab also makes you solve Google's captcha if you edited snippet couple of times.
Ugh.
One of the first things to purge Google from the internet is to replace reCaptcha.

Given upload filter stuff, it might be that the safest way to host a decentralized network going into the future is plausible deniability, which makes me think the stuff I'm working on with Spritely (eg the Golem demo) is quite timely?

@mxmehl

I'm choosing neither.

@jz is right on this one. There's already enough free software being abused for purposes of oppression. Just look at what the big-data stuff coming out of apache is being used for at facebook and NSA, for example.

We don't need @fsfe to ask for more software to be built for such purposes. People who don't care about your ideals will already be more than happy to build it. Instead, encourage the community to build tools that clog and/or circumvent the filters!

Just straight up, we shouldn't make paper out of trees. Trees are too important of a resource to make something intended for a single use. We're probably not going to be able to avoid building with wood, but we need to transfer our paper production to something that doesn't take 20 years to grow (like hemp).

Apparently, "ZRTP End-to-End Encryption cannot Protect VBR Streams. When using ZRTP + SRTP for encryption in any stretch that goes on the clearnet, be sure to never select a VBR (variable bitrate) codec as the pauses in a conversations produce fingerprints in the encrypted stream that allow the adversary to infer what words are being said." I assume all #WebRTC based solutions (#matrix, #signal, #jitsimeet) suffer the same.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Voip
#privacy #fingerprinting #voip

'Privacy’s not an abstraction'
https://www.fastcompany.com/90323529/privacy-is-not-an-abstraction

Anyone any experience with a Dragino DT01 analog telephone adapter?

Please share any information you have!

#Dragino #DT01 #ATA #VOIP #Telephony #Asterisk #PBX

At #LibrePlanet, the Freedombox Foundation announced some exciting news: you can soon buy #FreedomBox kits!

This has been years in the making. We're very proud to partner with @olimex, a company which makes open source hardware.

Sales launch soon. Order: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/

In the Vegan cheese front, I was completely amazed by vegan cheese made by Polish cyberpunk ravers. Serotonina cheese has a deep, complex taste and a smooth texture. The Brie-like one was great.

This was the first time I ever enjoyed a fermented nut cheese and now I see so many flavor possibilities in the future.

'NYPD unveils controversial algorithm to track crime patterns'
https://www.fastcompany.com/90321778/nypd-unveils-controversial-algorithm-to-track-crime-patterns

the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration is automating any sorts of decision-making about immigrants with what look like the worst kind of corporate partnerships (Azure, Google etc.). they have developed a 'robot' called Ada to deal with the process of immigrants' applications and they claim it's super effective.

I would be REALLY interested into looking into this more, like have the algorithms being audited? who is developing them? how do they work?

https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/jus/afin/FINF4011/h18/koldaas-forvaltningsinformatikk-01.11.2018.pdf

I feel like a lot of the time "there is no such thing as ethical consumerism under capitalism" is thrown around as an excuse to not show solidarity with people in exploited regions (in terms of work or resource extraction). It might be more accurately described as "there is only damage-control under capitalism" for sure, but there are certainly things you shouldn't be doing to prevent things from getting worse with working conditions and the climate. The message that should be taken away is that you can mitigate damage through your consumption habits, but through consumption habits alone you cannot change anything significant and other tactics are needed. It calls back to the myth of knowledgeable consumers and the illusion of full choice in the market.

In other words, you shouldn't use the phrase to excuse being a wasteful, lifestylist, scab when there are clear choices available.

biodegradable disposable cups made from gourds grown in 3d printed molds. sustainable, cheap, eco-friendly. fantastic idea. purpose-grown plants are the future of common household items. why use a semi-permanent petroleum product for something that can be done with what pretty much is elf magic?

#sustainability #solarpunk #botany #biodegradable #3dprinting
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20190318-biodegradable-hyo-cups-are-dried-gourds-grown-inside-3d-printed-molds.html

@GIbiz Maybe they just try to play it safe while organizing, but the language in their statements sounds very "yellow union" to me, unfortunately.

I have written a short post with the details of my setup:

https://write.as/mprv/my-zotero-setup

let me know if it need clarification or improvement! 😄