Michael Chernov @VikingKong@fosstodon.org

If you're Swedish and like Linux, open source and friendly communities, I would highly suggest you checking out the newly started project https://linuxkompis.se.

We currently have a forum, Mastodon instance and an IRC-channel. :)

"Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download"

https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ccndcq/facebook_is_embedding_tracking_data_inside_the/

#Facebook #Privacy

Keyboard humor. #MechanicalKeyboards

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/ccqiy8/which_one_of_you_is_spitting_truth_on_twitter/

The problem with the web is that is so great, so grand – we need a huge monster of a browser to use it as some people would like us to use it. Since other people are simultaneously attacking, distracting, abusing and confusing us, we need an array of defences at the same time.
• Privacy Badger
• uBlock Origin
• uMatrix
• HTTPS Everywhere
• HTTPS by default
• Decentraleyes
More attack surface, more moving parts, more parties to trust. That's why we need a simpler web: we want smaller tools, too!

( https://xkcd.com/838/ )

@matt #sudoers

It seems to be everywhere. Individuals claiming to be different and demanding to be recognised.

What really annoys me are those that demand to be included in things where they have no talent or ability purely on the basis of "being represented".

Are we to have Generals who are afraid of weapons? Or Doctors who are scared of blood? Will our lives be dictated by "Codes of Conduct"?

@kev

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

People keep bringing this up so I'll clarify: how is blacklisting the Nvidia driver different from blacklisting Gab in Tusky?

Well, wlroots doesn't blacklist the Nvidia driver. The day Nvidia releases a compatible driver, wlroots will work - without any changes. We'd have to spend our volunteer time implementing an extra backend to get the Nvidia driver working, which amounts to thousands of lines of highly technical code. We'll then have to maintain it forever.

As for Tusky, they explicitly went to the effort to blacklist a compatible service. Then went out of their way to remove support, whereas wlroots would have to go out of its way to add support.

This doesn't have any bearing on my opinion of the Tusky debacle, which I summarized here and am not keen to re-open:

https://cmpwn.com/@sir/102295056315891368

Friendly reminder to send to the non-believers, in a simple to understand fashion

You can't opt-out of Google tracking your phone - Sen. Josh Hawley owns Google - PeerTube on Mastodon.host https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/f087a756-8500-4246-b863-57d00af45486

#gafam #google #privacy #tracking #surveillancecapitalism #optout #peertube

What do we want?

Lazy evaluation!

When do we want it?

Only when it is needed!!!!

For anyone who doesn't understand why the Tusky change is wrong:

It may not be against the letter of free/open source software*, but it is certainly in the spirit. FOSS does not discriminate against its users and remain FOSS, including the users you don't like. The freedom to use the software as you wish is unalienable, including for gab users.

* both definitions

That, and don't add rickrolls to your project for any reason.

@ConnyDuck yo this shit ain't okay https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/1303

1920s bike races were wild

Reminder that if your Mastodon instance has been updated to 2.9 or higher, you can see the new simpler one-column interface very easily:

1. Go to preferences/settings

2. Untick the box marked "Enable advanced web interface". (To go back to the multicolumn interface, just tick the box again.)

Manyverse is an Android app for the Scuttlebutt social network.

Scuttlebutt is very unusual: it has no servers. All the data people share is stored on their own devices, and on the devices of people they share it with.

It's also unusual because it can work off-the-grid, via bluetooth or local wifi.

Manyverse is available from @fdroidorg and Google Play, and there's an iOS version on the way:

https://www.manyver.se

You can follow Manyverse at:

@manyver_se

#Scuttlebutt #Alternatives

@sir https://blog.latinise.me/How-I-Play-Games.html

I just thought I would share how I use my Linux to play games. If you feel like it is worth the reward, then feel free to donate it to the EFF.