Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters @dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info

Maybe I’ve not been saying it loudly or frequently enough for the last however-many years…

Privacy is not a luxury.

Same with accessibility. Neither are luxuries, they’re life-sustaining rights. And you’re unusually privileged if you’ve not had to care about either.

anyone need a marketing person? I'm primarily a copywriter but I can do just about anything. I hate writing ads. Rescue me!

Hi, I'm Graeme , from North West England.

I worked in IT for many years, but became tired of the "mainstream" industry and big data companies.

I am a big #privacy advocate, believing in the freedom to control our own data in the cloud and on our devices, supporting people where I can with this. Long term #Linux user, #raspberrypi tinkerer, #retrocomputing enthusiast.

Hoping there's lots of like-minded people here on fosstodon!
#introductions

● NEWS ● #TeleSurEnglish ☞ #Aboriginals Sue Western #Australia State For Cultural Losses https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Aboriginal-Group-Sues-Western-Australia-State-For-Cultural-Losses-20200619-0015.html

@a7
Pleroma developers don't try to obstruct people from changing the maximum post size limit.

In mastodon, it's obfuscated, buried in multiple source code files, and an annoyance -- you need to edit them all again every time there is an updated version out.

This was offered to me as a reason to not changing it -- as it's very labour intensive.

In Glitch-Social, it's in one single line, in one single config file as it should be. But in vanilla mastodon -- it's intentionally difficult to discourage changes.

@ademalsasa @redstarfish

using a phone to unlock a car is not really innovative, more like an invitation to vulnerabilities

#Facebook just bought #Mapillary.

Move your images to a #FOSS *community run* project instead! How? Simple:

1. Download your images: https://github.com/gitouche-sur-osm/mapillary_takeout

2. Upload to #OpenStreetCam:
OpenStreetCam.org

3. Enjoy giving a giant, fat middle finger to #Zuckerberg. 🌻 🌈 🌻

4. Boost and have a nice day!

Hey fediverse!

I'm looking for some motivated computer programmers to learn and collaborate with.

I am the sole developer at my job, and the (mostly) sole developer for all of my side projects; and to be frank, I've been lonely.

My goals are to further study mathematics and computer programming fundamentals in order to become a true professional and not just some "guy who makes webapps". I want to contribute meaningfully to my field and the world.

Feel free to boost, dm, and share links.

@torproject I don't know if it's more perversely foolish that this so-called "#saveinternetfreedom" site is on #CloudFlare, or that #TorProject is pimping a CF site. /cc @uniq @switchingsoftware @ooni @brainwane @drron @CCC @matrix

Russian developer and antifascist activist Viktor Filinkov has used his last word in court to explain the persecutor how #PGP encryption works.

Using email encryption does not make you a terrorist!

Since the 1980s, Aotearoa has been subject to a firestorm of deregulation, privatization, and corporatization, across news, commentary, and entertainment media. The result is centralized ownership of most of the country's media, in a handful of overseas-owned holding companies. As both Mediaworks and Stuff demonstrate, this fails to produce a financially viable media, which can adapt to changes like the rise of the net, or survive disruptions like the current pandemic, without #CorporateWelfare.

if you're new to this encryption stuff, i think 'the code book' by simon singh is an amazing introduction to the topic and very fun to read.

#PSA: #Police are not the main villian. They are the #scapegoat. They are the easy target because they are the interface between the #billionaireClass and #WeThePeople.

The real threat are the #oligarchs. When police are on their knees they'll swoop in to save them, with slightly higher paying jobs as #privateMercenaries, possibly equipped with all the #military items that WeThePeople gave them!

Be careful what you are led to #cryOut for.

Police have a function, even if it's been #perverted.

@xj9
Quick question: Are we the only entity on fediverse who are saying:

1) reduce the ridiculously high #incarcerationRates for minor offenses (and for those awaiting their day in court on trumped up charges),

2) stand down cops who use #steroids and other #drugs that could affect temperament,

3) stop using cops as the street-level #drugDealers. Either drugs are okay or they are not okay - decide *now* (see also...(1/3)