Mark von Übelgarten @vonubelgarten@mastodon.sdf.org

til 1.1.1.1 actually has a domain name: "one.one.one.one"

Those iPad menu things at airports are so distracting I'm basically using a napkin as a makeshift adblock

Good morning!
I’m a wizard!

A present for the next guest at this hotel. Praise “Bob!"

With the data being held by companies in ways we don't necessarily know and consistent fuck ups with data leaks, along with heading down a pretty terrifying road politically, it's beginning to look a lot less extreme as a measure than it was.
The DWP already search for profiles using this information so I've no doubt other gov departments do too, and will more commonly as time goes on.

I remember back in 1998 when the Free / Libre / Open Source Software movement took over Silicon Valley and everyone switched to Linux so that precisely this kind of nonsense couldn't happen

Freedom 0: the right to run software anywhere and anytime you choose regardless of your political affiliation

Good thing we didn't go the 'subscription software' route, isn't it

https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-productkb/policy-pricing/executive-order-venezuela.html

Why Collabora really added Digital Restrictions Management to Weston

https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/07/HDCP-in-Weston.html

#Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen

the definition of a witch often intersects the definition of a hacker

this should be no surprise, really
they're basically the same thing even in popular culture

(found on Reddit)
A tragedy in four lines.

I just scavenged all the “useful” parts out of a free treadmill. Yes, I already have too many projects, but ... *free motors*!

Friends don’t let #friends get spied on, let’s help them leave #BigTech’s “free” services and save them from tracking, spying, data sharing and #advertising. https://librem.one #privacy #security

**US, allies seek access to Facebook encrypted messaging apps**

"US, UK and Australian officials want Facebook to give authorities a way to read encrypted messages sent by ordinary users. Law enforcement has long sought access despite pushback from tech giants and privacy advocates."

https://www.dw.com/en/us-allies-seek-access-to-facebook-encrypted-messaging-apps/a-50693085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

#news #bot

When you suddenly click that

1) 'Silpheed/Sylpheed' (an email client, and a space shooter videogame series) is just Japanese mangled English for 'sylphid', better known as 'sylph'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silpheed

2) ... which was a word in the popular Romantic mythology of the 1700s-1800s era for 'airy nature spirit'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylph

3) ... but is itself fake Latin made up by the Swiss-German Paracelsus (1493-1541) to describe his theoretical alchemical entities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus

Reader mode is an optimizing compiler for HTML.

🌟PESSOAL QUE TEM INSTAGRAM🌟

Tô sorteando essa Usagi de bruxinha por lá, venham participar ^^

Link do post: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2pYATUFQUj/?igshid=1xg1tqu4ai4w4

At this point, understanding computers isn't even about understanding the difference between GOTO and GOSUB or knowing what TCP/IP stands for - or even *is*. It's about understanding power. If you buy a laptop off Amazon, boot into Windows, log into Facebook, and check your Gmail, you're entering into exploitative power relationships where you - like the workers who made the laptop, sold you the laptop, delivered the laptop, the workers who manually moderate your Facebook feed, like the miners who dug up the copper and cobalt - are at the bottom.

Much like a job where you exchange your time and labor for capital, you are exchanging your personal relationships for convenience.

In order to get out from under this, you *do* need to educate yourself somewhat. You gotta know how certain things work. You don't have to become a programmer or hacker though. It's not the fucking Matrix. You just have to understand things enough to manipulate them and know where you stand.