Punk AnarchoFuuma @fuuko@mastodon.sdf.org

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

the real problem with discord that makes them truly evil is that they sell their solution as being something that provides self-determination.

when you move your community to discord, you start a what they call a "discord server."

to be clear, there is not really any such thing as a "discord server," this is just marketing terminology for group functionality.

they call it a discord "server" on purpose: they want to communicate the idea that you have full autonomy on your own "discord server," when in reality you are still at the mercy of discord as a service provider. this is truly evil, this goes beyond a lack of transparency to actively lying to potential users. not even Slack does this.

we must build real alternatives to these predatory services.

The task of teachers, those obscure soldiers of civilization, is to give to the people the intellectual means to revolt.
-- Louise Michel

#anarchism #quote #bot

Northrop Grumman is helping DHS build a massive biometric database to track citizens and foreigners with face recognition, DNA samples, and more.

Investors are demanding transparency. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/shareholders-northrop-grumman-demand-know-how-company-will-protect-human-rights

Remember that technology is a tool. Use it to help yourself.

Purism has decided that they will explicitly allow bigoted content on their servers. For that reason I will not lift my ban on them, and I recommend that servers that have not blocked them yet do. I cannot in good conscious support their products if they will allow the spread of content that harms minorities.

Below is the conversation I had in their public Librem One room after they published their CoC.
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@pbandkate Makes sense, when you think about it. Nazis want/need to end free speech. Their strategy seems to be convincing the left that "free speech is for Nazis."

Hey guys, im seeing a lot of dissatisfaction with Purism and the Librem phone in my timeline.

Don't let that turn you off the whole concept of a GNU/Linux phone. The community still has projects like the Pinephone in the pipeline. https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

#ethicalphone

A doctor at my annual appointment: "Ever since you told me about medical software safety last year, I see articles about how bad things are on a regular basis! I don't know how I managed to be oblivious to this before talking to you." #AlwaysAGoodTimeToTalkAboutSoftwareFreedom

ProtonVPN for Windows will automatically warn you if you are connected to a potentially insecure public WiFi network. Learn more about why public WiFi can be unsafe: https://protonvpn.com/blog/public-wifi-safety/ #VPN

Act surprised, everyone! Ancestry lab says it has a moral responsibility to give DNA to the FBI: https://gizmodo.com/ancestry-testing-company-it-s-our-moral-responsibilit-1833774781

Toto - Africa (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli feat. Rabea & Hannah)

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You wanted qcow2! You are getting qcow2. Introducing OpenBSD Amsterdam with even more cow!

#OpenBSD #RUNBSD

To everyone looking at Microsoft releasing "open source", allow me to remind you of FUD cousin: EEE.

Embrace
Extend
Extinguish

Don't be fooled by MS. It is not your "friend", nor a friend of open source. It is a giant faceless corporation only interested in PROFITS, not in privacy, software freedom or consumer choice.

And it has DECADES of experience peddling FUD and EEE. Its history is a long bloody trail of aggressive attacks against competitors.

Linux is MS competition TODAY. That is all.

The massive effort on part of smartphone makers to ditch the headphone jack is one of those moments when the curtain gets pushed aside and it becomes clear that consumer electronics aren't about giving people what they want but what corporations would rather they want.