Aristide🍻 @[email protected]

Australia being itself again :)

Australia Becomes First Western Nation to Ban Secure Encryption - https://redd.it/afu3fm

Read this if you’ve got ‘nothing to hide’ - https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/11/20/read-this-if-youve-got-nothing-to-hide/

#privacy

"Being a dissident is hard enough... anonymized communication is a godsend."

You can help us keep Tor strong for activists in 2019 by making a donation.

Tomorrow is the last day for your donation to count twice: https://torproject.org/donate/donate-lc-sin-md #TorStories #privacy #internetfreedom #activism

I have applied for API access from the Mastodon Twitter account, waiting for it to be reviewed. Honestly, if I were Twitter, I would not allow API use for a platform that aims to replace it, but we'll see.

Ah fuck, I realize that this is irresponsible but turns out bridge.joinmastodon.org is broken because I deleted my Twitter account a good while ago. Ugh.

This is pretty cool. Privacy Badger Rolls Out New Ways to Fight Facebook Tracking https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/privacy-badger-rolls-out-new-ways-fight-facebook-tracking

Nieuwe copyright-onderhandelingsdocumenten: meer woorden, maar niet meer oplossingen

Blog van Europarlementariër Julia Reda | Oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd op 26 november 2018 | Vertaling door Wietze Brandsma | #SaveYourInternet

https://piratenpartij.nl/nieuwe-copyright-onderhandelingsdocumenten-meer-woorden-maar-niet-meer-oplossingen/

MIT Tech Review: Technologists are trying to fix the filter bubble problem that tech helped create

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611826/technologists-are-trying-to-fix-the-filter-bubble-problem-that-tech-helped-create/

#HeyFeedFox

I've released an HTML5 version of Crashlanded as well. If you don't have a Windows PC now you can finally play the game.

Reminder: If you're constructing databases for the technically inept and they have access to it, do not bow to their requests.

In so doing, I managed to break a SQL resource so thoroughly that I have to scrap the entire thing I spent weeks working on and start from scratch.

@Gargron whenever people use the argument that mastodon is somehow "too complicated" I like to encourage them to do a web search for "how to use facebook." there's like a gazillion tutorials, videos, online classes, training seminars, etc. the alternatives aren't inherently less complicated—it's just that tech folks have come to accept the way they work as the "default" and so that complication is invisible to them.

Chats that are better than Facebook messenger:

+ IRC
+ XMPP
+ Riot
+ Literally everything else.