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''Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate''
It can operate over wifi and bluetooth, even during an internet blackout, encypts, @torproject integreated, has private chats, forums, blogs and more to come like crisis mapping and collaborative document editing
''Briar 1.0 release candidate'' is out
get it on @fdroidorg
forget about #telegram
Before I have brought up my dislike of finding FOSS projects using Slack as a primary communication channel. I also want to express disdain for projects using Discord as well. But I would like to go one step further.
No FOSS project should make a proprietary service a primary communication channel, ever. It excludes those who do not want to risk their privacy being exposed, excludes those to do not user proprietary software, and does not fit with the principles of something like Mastodon.
This type of federation is quite significant, because it means independence from the DNS and CA systems. It means that even if you don't control your local internet router or don't have money to spend on domain names you can still create a social network. It significantly reduces the complexity barrier to entry for running a home server.
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@neil Maybe have a look at how the Tor Metrics tools do what they do?
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/MetricsTeam
@sungo Maybe have a look at this: http://tangoitalia.com/zapatistas/cafe_distribution_en.htm
@sungo I just looked them up. That's Nestlé. Hurting people, non-humans, and the environment is kind of their core business.
@sungo Actually, I'm much more invested in coffee being traded directly between worker-owned collectives and farmer-owned coops governed via grassroots democracy than I am in anyone's particular choice of coffee maker, but still...
@sungo My personal preference is a stainless steel stovetop espresso maker, and I think a french press is the way to go for non-espresso brews.
@sungo Drip coffee has always been a terrible idea, and it needs to be abolished.
Mike, @torproject, on Google and ReCaptcha:
"This is a company that is basically the primary/only gateway to much of the Internet, and it has decided that certain IP addresses *do not deserve access to that Internet*. Full stop. This is not a problem that gets solved by having our devs talk to their devs to "nerd harder". This should be a PR bloodbath.. We should have made it one months ago."
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-April/001738.html
Oh, and is there a way we could stop hyping #SpaceX on here? Privatised space flight is just history repeating, just a new final frontier for capitalism. SpaceX launches spy satellites for the US government and is not your friend. No matter how beautiful their reentries look, SpaceX is evil. And in the future, they will harvest meteorites and you absolutely won't get your fair share. Stop faving the tyrant of tomorrow!
The last 10 years of development in computers were a mistake. Maybe longer.
Instead of making computers Do More, or making them Feel Faster, we've chased benchmarks, made them more reliant on remote servers, and made them less generally useful. We brought back the digital serfdom of the mainframe.
Hm, some CV-dazzlestyle hat whould be nice.
https://ahprojects.com/projects/cvdazzle/
Also we have to get rid of any messenger that requires your mobile phone number as your unique identifier, even much-lauded #Signal. It locks you inside the conventional, easy-to-track phone infrastructure. Try #Conversations instead, on a WiFi-only device. It uses the decentralized XMPP and works like a charm.
Google And Amazon File Creepy Patents That Can Further “Sniff” Your Conversations
https://fossbytes.com/amazon-google-patents-analyse-conversations/
"Google’s patent outlines how audio and visual signals can be utilized to analyze a user’s mood or medical condition. This could be done by analyzing the voice volume, breathing pattern or actions like sneezing, coughing, or crying."
Not creepy at all!
"In perhaps the creepiest example, Facebook applied for (and received, last year) a patent for a tool called Techniques, for emotion detection and content delivery. It would use the camera in your phone to take pictures of you as you scroll through content. Facebook would then use facial analysis to measure how much you did or did not like the content in question, so as to determine what kind of stuff to send your way."
