Alice Kile @alicekile@toot.thoughtworks.com

Panel discussion on Personal Data Protection Bill with @swecha

Speakers: Jochai-Ben-Avie, Head of International Public Policy & Amba Kaka, Public Policy Advisor at Mozilla

#pirvacy #swecha #mozilla #india #dataprotection
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wtf weyback machine?

@debugninja
I created the elephants for the Tusky App!

Aaaand it's official 🎉 🎉
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/7731E125924324B7405BA20E2759EE16780237E2

I'm going to set up a redirect on ports 80 and 443 on the exit that points to the page below.
https://nixnet.xyz/tor-nodes/

(If you can't tell by reading it, I plan to run more than one exit and a few relays)

"Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as the Internet’s permanent overlords and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future."
@doctorow
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/interoperability-fix-internet-not-tech-companies

"Doing Science and Building career in Science", both are different!

#ScienceForCommonProgressive

me: excuse me sir, mastodon is a decentralized and federated social network and most of the major instances have blocked gab

VICE editor: * exhales massive blast of lound * what

yea or nay

The sleepiest boy in the whole world

this pre-commit hook has saved my butt so many times

I grew up on dialup. 1200bps, max. I remember what it was like to get anything done at that speed, and now that it's no longer a thing I wouldn't inflict it upon anyone. That's why I try to keep my stuff as lightweight as possible, with as few deps as possible.

Treat others as you'd want to be treated, right?

A couple of years back I went to an HTML5 meetup and hung out with a bunch of web developers. I suck at web design (so much so that I didn't bother to try to write a new theme for my website, I used one that someone else made and tweaked it a little). One of the webdevs noticed that I use a couple of adblockers and yelled at me for taking money out of his mouth. That one cannot eat money, and that he gets paid a (much larger) salary (than I do) is beside the point.

So I put my laptop on the local network (Windbringer had been tethered to my mobile - OPSEC, ya' know) and asked him for the URL of the website he works on. He gave it to me. I opened it in a bare Firefox profile (no addons, no config tweaks, new right out of the box). His precious website loaded fully after just under three minutes.

Then, to make things fair, I rebooted Windbringer, got back on the local wireless, and opened it in my usual Firefox profile, with all the adblockers turned on. His website loaded in about five seconds.

"Your website loads so much tracking garbage up front that your page won't load in less than three minutes. I don't have time for that." And I left.

Unsurprisingly, I haven't been invited back, but my point stands - too much crap means your page won't load in a reasonable period of time.

hey just because gab shits up fediverse.network with fake metrics doesn't mean the rest of you all should

@AugierLe42e @jaywink @DashEquals@linuxrocks.online

With all due respect, you're missing the greatest danger here:

People recruited by neo-Nazis do not want to block Gab.

It's this recruitment that is the biggest danger of federating with neo-Nazi instances.

It is tempting to believe that non-Nazis would not fall for neo-Nazis lies and propaganda, but a large number do. And when people fall for such propaganda, the real life consequences are devastating for the innocent groups used as scapegoats.

@switchingsocial @DashEquals @jaywink

if your mind is so weak that one thread of misinformation can turn you into a raving gablin, maybe you shouldn't be on the internet. the only people who join "gab cause" are idiots who believe whoever is force feeding them information. it doesn't matter which side they chose because they aren't making a real decision.

Past #cyborg resident Moon Ribas has had her seismic sense implants removed from her feet! After seven years of sensing earthquake activity, she's looking forward to exploring movement through new forms. And we're excited to see where those explorations go!
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RT @moonribas@twitter.com
I just had my seismic sense implants removed.
I’ve been sensing earthquakes for the last 7 years, and now I want to continue exploring movement through …
https://twitter.com/moonribas/status/1141372904438980609

They have special book shop at this NA Away Day. And it's full of good stuff. Was intrigued by "Marx and the Arcade". So bought it. #twDallas

Periodic reminder to read this again.

Software Disenchantment
https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

Mobilizon: let’s finance a software to free our events from Facebook!
https://framablog.org/2019/05/14/mobilizon-lets-finance-a-software-to-free-our-events-from-facebook/
#framasoft #federation