Aris🍻 @abouix@mastodon.cloud

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"We need more than deplatforming – The Mozilla Blog"
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ Mozilla is about to enter shady, dodgy business of #deplatforming a.k.a #censorship like Facebook,Twitter and others.
This move is clearly against their values formulated in their Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Manifesto

What do you think?
Should we start searhing for alternatives ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMXrfmRSprM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690941

Something unusual is happening with Tor @torproject
https://consensus-health.torproject.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/ktv8bw/the_entire_tor_v3_consensus_is_down/

https://www.kaidan.im/2021/01/07/end-to-end-encryption/

Kaidan will receive a grant for end-to-end encryption #xmpp

another thing I don't *get* in Cyberpunk is why the fuck children straight up disappear when you enter photo mode

were the developers afraid that players would do violent/lewd things to them?

(as if there won't be mods for that )

as if the fact that they are not killable is not enough

non-killable children have become the standard for the industry, sadly

maybe i wouldn't mind this that much if not for overall pedohysteria nowadays, and the fact that sometimes nonexistent in-game kids are protected to the completely retarded point

like when Bethesda edited out children from Fallout 2 by making them invisible but just *forgot* to disable them completely I guess, resulting in invisible little bastards stealing quest-essential shit from you without any way to get it back

or like when they added children to This War of Mine which used to be a game about horrors of war, but with this DLC it became happy candyland where no child can be harmed and/or killed, how sickeningly diabetic sweet of them

a free tip from me, if you wanna know about kids during wartime, read The Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich

i read it when i was five

got traumatized

the funniest thing was that i was hiding the fact that i was reading this book from my mom better than any future porn i would have

#cyberpunk2077 #gayming #vidya #gaming

>why do you think volume control is needed?
gnome devs in charge of sane UX

New lawsuit: Why do #Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with #Google via cellular data when they're not even in use?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_allowance/

Is your open source project still using Slack for its community? Consider:

Mozilla has migrated their chat to Matrix: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix

Mattermost now offers hosted service with special pricing for OSS projects: https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/

There are probably even more I'm not aware of.

There are good Free options now. Time to get out of the proprietary SaaS lock-in.

Mastodon does not store passwords in plain text. This is trivial to confirm as Mastodon is an open-source project. We use the bcrypt algorithm for one-way hashing of passwords. I can't believe someone is spreading misinformation about something so trivial to debunk.

I've configured my mail client to only check mails once an hour... and I feel like that not only helps my productivity, but also makes me quite a bit more relaxed sitting in front of my desktop.

Now I wish I could configure other apps to also only spam me with notifications in certain intervals.

For example: don't alert me for every single Mastodon notification, give me a nicely formatted summary twice a day.

"Moxie Marlinspike On Decentralization" by David Rosenthal https://blog.dshr.org/2020/09/moxie-marlinspike-on-decentralization.html

The talk and blog post are both very interesting. I think advocates of decentralization (including myself!) should take these arguments seriously.

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