How it started... How it's going. #DeleteFacebook
Facebook & Google’s conception of privacy is really security, which are not the same. It’s "we’ll try to make sure hackers can’t get the data on our servers, but we’ll continually mine it for profit ourselves." 🙄
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1364225265992228866
I suggest Bitwarden for those ready to migrate
LastPass’ free tier will become a lot less useful next month
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/16/22285531/lastpass-free-tier-mobile-computer-device-premium-family
I started compiling my list of where to buy DRM-free ebooks in 2013.
Today, it includes 279 bookshops and was last updated on 17th of January, 2021.
Break free from the monopolies, and find your next favourite bookshop, ebook or author today!
"In a recent update, the Raspberry Pi Foundation installed a Microsoft apt repository on all machines running Raspberry Pi OS (previously known as Raspbian) without the administrator’s knowledge."
https://teddit.net/r/linux/comments/lbu0t1/microsoft_repo_installed_on_all_raspberry_pis/
RT @welcomewords@twitter.com
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/welcomewords/status/1356724663452319744
"Growth, where it no longer serves a purpose beyond the accumulation of more growth — in the form of investors’ returns, company coffers and the personal wealth of founders — is worshipped. And the cost is astronomical."
RT @ShaanVP@twitter.com
If you're out of the loop - this is the (hilarious) story of a subreddit (wall street bets) taking down a multi-billion dollar hedge fund... get your popcorn ready 🍿
Can somebody PLEASE stop this asshole #Trump selling pardons to anybody with 2 Million?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html #capitalism #ethics
Rocketeer, my Gemini browser for iOS is now in public beta! (boosts appreciated)
Follow the instructions here to join: https://testflight.apple.com/join/LAs1URxM
If you have any issues or feedback (positive or negative), please let me know! You can message me here, send me an email (me at shadowfacts.net), or open an issue on the project issue tracker: https://git.shadowfacts.net/shadowfacts/Gemini/issues.
USpol free-speech deplatforming
Incendiary title, great reasons. Mozilla makes a good point.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
RT @Schwarzenegger@twitter.com
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240
RT @Cris_Grandi@twitter.com
For those wondering if it’s worth impeaching @realDonaldTrump@twitter.com, it means he:
1) loses his 200k+ pension for the rest of his life
2) loses his 1 million dollar/year travel allowance
3) loses lifetime full secret service detail
4) loses his ability to run in 2024
#TrumpOut
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cris_Grandi/status/1347710560918499329
Possibly an argument for inheritance tax of 95% like in japan. Even coupled with an exemption for everything below 50Mill € would be ok. Also an argument for much more. https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ #wealthdistribution
How and why I stopped buying new laptops
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html
#PIM #enviroment #sustainabilty #Lenovo #thinkpad #Apple #backup
I am sorry that this happens to her. I would not have expected this behaviour from the @fsfe and I am shocked.
I am waiting for a response of them or Matthias @kirschner.
That’s not what I thought the FSFE stands for.
"I took FSFE to court" by malinagalina
https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court
RT @sedyst@twitter.com
You know the European Cloud to enable sovereign data infrastructures is on an incredible path to miss its main objective when a company founded by Peter Thiel and invested into by the CIA is there to build it since Day 1! 🤦♀️ https://twitter.com/PalantirTech/status/1339903435672580098
I'm a Brazilian web developer (mostly Ruby). Used to use Vim, now using Emacs. I care about privacy and keeping ownership of my stuff. Polyamorist, me and my wife have a mutual girlfriend. I like tabletop RPGs.
Plus: Motorcycle, books, video games.