moondoggy @moondoggy@mastodon.sdf.org

Understanding lunar cycles

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https://xkcd.com/2172/

**"What to the Slave Is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech**

"In a Fourth of July holiday special, we hear the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Neg…"

http://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/4/what_to_the_american_slave_is

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EFF warns people of the dangers of using Slack
https://www.businessinsider.com/slack-eff-data-retention-encryption-2019-7

(submitted by whalabi)

15 years ago, EFF's @doctorow told Microsoft:

1. That DRM systems don't work

2. That DRM systems are bad for society

3. That DRM systems are bad for business

4. That DRM systems are bad for artists

5. That DRM is a bad business-move

He was right.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3wkk/microsoft-ebooks-will-stop-working-because-its-shutting-down-a-drm-server

[en] #Diffu is a Free Software allowing authors to publish all kinds of texts or articles and to aggregate the reactions they generate on social networks, especially through #ActivityPub such as #Mastodon, #PeerTube, #Pleroma, #PixelFed, #Funkwhale, #Hubzilla, #GNUSocial ...

Diffu is a kind of free and federated alternative to #Medium or other applications that are not always easy to install.

To develop it, we launch a crowdfunding campaign

https://www.ulule.com/diffu/?lang=en

ReToot are welcome 😉 !

**Trump Pulls Back from Iran Attack as Bolton & Pompeo Continue to Push for War**

"After threatening to strike Iran in retaliation for shooting down an unmanned U.S. drone, President Trump reportedly approved, and then abruptly called off, military strikes. The move came after the operation was already underway in its initial stages, with warships and planes already being put in…"

http://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/21/trump_cancels_iran_strikes_after_drone

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RT @vanessa_vash
A Major Strike in Uganda this July. The Kids have a message! Uganda will be having a Children's Climate March. I will be there. Be sure to join us. Let us push the message @gretathunberg @FirstArai @PedazoUG @ugawoman01 @nemaug @tracy_noelyn @LilGreenHandsUg @howey_ou @observerug

The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmp8gy/the-forgotten-operating-system-that-keeps-the-nyc-subway-system-alive Metrocard runs on OS/2! 💳

Our users rely on bridges if their ISPs or governments block access to the Tor network. The difficulty lies in handing out bridges to censored users but not to censors. We tackle this problem with the tool BridgeDB.

Version 0.7.1 is out now: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-bridgedb-071 #censorship #surveillance

Today we're announcing a new website: What can I do for LibreOffice! This helps newcomers to our project and community get involved – learn more about how and why we made it here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/06/07/announcing-a-new-website-what-can-i-do-for-libreoffice/

Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary confinement in U.S. detention centers
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/thousands-immigrants-suffer-solitary-confinement-u-s-detention-centers-n1007881

Amazing. America is living a live version of Idiocracy, because why not, there's money to be made from that. https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/06/05/tucker-carlson-almost-every-nation-earth-has-fallen-under-yoke-tyranny-metric-system/223874

**Scott Warren Provided Food & Water to Migrants in Arizona; He Now Faces Up to 20 Years in Prison**

"An Arizona humanitarian aid volunteer goes to trial today for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. If convicted, Scott Warren could spend up to 20 years in prison. Warren, an activist with the Tu…"

http://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/29/scott_warren_provided_food_water_to

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Thought I'd show how to turn geotagging on and off in the LineageOS camera app.

I don't know how it is with regular Android or iOS, but at least in #LineageOS you can turn #geotagging on and off directly in the default camera app settings. So if you're worried about your location data getting out that way, leaking it, or accidentally doxxing yourself, you can set it so that geolocation isn't even added to the #EXIF ("metadata").

In case anyone was not aware.

#privacy

Great question on HN today: "What can a coder do to help combat climate change?"

The responses are all pretty lame, though. What ideas do you have? What groups are doing something tangible where volunteer coding could help?

From the NYT:
"Before it leaked, EternalBlue was one of the most useful exploits in the NSA’s cyberarsenal. [...], analysts spent almost a year finding a flaw in Microsoft’s software [...] it went on to become a reliable tool used in countless [...] missions.

EternalBlue was so valuable, former NSA employees said, that the agency never seriously considered alerting Microsoft about the vulnerabilities".

A. Use Microsoft? Get hacked.
B. Why do anyone trust the NSA?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-baltimore.html

Hello, Internet!

I am still alive! LOL

I'm sorry I have been off the radar for more than a week. The "move" is almost over! I finally got real Internet yesterday... thanks to screw ups by Bell Canada... but the Bell technician was really nice. Unfortunately my DJ set up is not in order yet 😥 but I shld be able to complete it by tomorrow afternoon.. and hoping to do my aNONradio show Intergalactic Wasabi Mix again... miss you all ppl of the Internet!

Pls don't forget my existence 🤣

TTYL 👋