Corsin Baumgartner @cba@mastodon.cloud

I can't stress how important it is. Without #GnuPG secure communication would be extremely difficult, and journalists and their sources would be in even more danger.

I #SupportGnuPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DqfWz-KHSI&list=PLjX3x3GHoOWLvnbryh7pqYHcf8FFwdE5q&index=11

cc @OCCRP @fsfe

@BryanLunduke have you seen http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ ? I feel like you would enjoy that

Datenschutz auf dem Mitarbeiterhandy – Die Whatsapp-Falle: "Angestellte, die zum Beispiel ihre Outlook-Kontakte synchronisieren oder auch einzelne Kontakte manuell übertragen, begehen einen massiven Verstoß gegen das Datenschutzgesetz, wenn sie gleichzeitig einen Messenger wie Whatsapp auf ihrem Telefon installiert haben."
http://www.lanline.de/die-whatsapp-falle/ #Datenschutz #Whatsapp

🎶 Well I heard there was a secret chord

That David played and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth

The minor fall and the major lift

The baffled king composing Covfefe

Covfefe

Covfefe

Covfefe

Covfefe
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Without "riots", overwhelming majority (if not all) of the world would still be under absolute monarchies.
They didn't let go because people signed nicely worded petition lists.
The fact that we nominally have basic human rights now is done to prevent rebellion is even listed in the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
To rebel into "riot" is (sometimes) the only response available to an imposed odious situation.

Do any engineers at #Facebook have a conscience? How do you justify working on ad trackers that target vulnerable children?

If you work for Facebook, you're working on the machinery of our enslavement

I won't differentiate between you as a person and your company

I don't care which division you're in. It all cross pollinates and yields a single megalomaniacal goal of owning our identities

Don't be the one to say "I was only following orders"

To The "Leftist" Admirers of Assad's Syria
https://socialistworker.org/2017/01/03/to-the-leftist-admirers-of-assads-syria

Harsh but important

You know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.

Das schöne an neuen Social Media Dingens ist ja immer der locker sitzende follow-click-finger. Remix humanity.

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An Electron-based desktop app for Mastodon that lets you use multiple accounts https://github.com/rhysd/Mstdn

shout out to everyone who hated school and sucked at everything except a few subjects of interest but now is learning voraciously and consuming all earthly knowledge

TIL #mozilla has a dedicated site to their new logo https://mozilla.ninja/our-logo/ HT @elioqoshi #opensource

Since there's no verification on Mastodon, just send me a copy of your passport and your credit card and I'll personally verify your account within 5-7 business days.

#Mastodon v1.2 is released https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v1.2