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Since this account is blocked by @downey (admin of floss.social) on the basis of sexual harrassment and misogyny, and also he has suspended my other account (@azad_on_com@floss.social) for its connection with me I wanted to invite all those who understand English to find a single case of such posts in entire my account.
Are we giving bullies the power to maniplulate administration and rule fediverse? Is this the way we want to build a new way of social media administration?
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@downey
After blocking Azadon account, I got more suspicious that he himself has some involvement in what is happeneing. And yes! He is one of those cancel culture people who made the open letter against #rms. I was on the opposite camp.
The interesting fact is a Cancel Culture advocate has cut me for "criticism of those promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion"!
Really?
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Carola Rackete è stata prosciolta. Non fu “favoreggiamento dell’immigrazione clandestina” ma “dovere di salvataggio” https://www.gayburg.com/2021/12/carola-rackete-e-stata-prosciolta-non.html
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Coming up on 1 year on the fediverse.
I started out self-hosting my services with a nextcloud. It was really great having access to a service like that anywhere I went. It was a shock to realize that when you run your own service you can use it however you like -- there's no admin to complain that you're not using it the way they want.
Shortly after, big tech started their shenanigans in earnest -- Once they've banned the sitting president of the united states, there's no chance of escaping the censorship.
I started out on alt tech, minds and bitchute. They were fine, but you could see that all it would take is someone to change their minds about how to run the site and suddenly we're back to square 1. On supposedly free-speech minds, one of my posts got reported and at that point I just wasn't interested anymore.
Around the same time, Google had been warning they were going to shut down hangouts. Over my life, I've had a lot of services I use shut down or change such that I can't use it anymore, and it's getting annoying.
I started to go about figuring out how to start up my own service.
I tried Friendica at first. There are some things I really liked about friendica. Once I got the interface working the way I liked it was definitely a looker, and I still prefer the way it shows threads by default. Unfortunately, I found that friendica was very heavy on the back-end to the point that I wasn't able to know for sure if my posts were getting out there. If I had a beefier server it probably would have been fine, but I didn't.
Next I moved to pleroma, and it was much more responsive.
Today I'm running pleroma on the back-end with soapbox-fe as my front-end. Along the way I also set up a peertube instance, a searx instance, an invidious instance, a Matrix homeserver, an xmpp homeserver, and a lotide instance.
It's really cool! Essentially, most of the tabs I have open now are from my own services.
There's lots of interesting people on here so content isn't really a problem. Some people have reported my posts, but that's because they're literally stupid. Every report I've seen is "I disagree with this guys politics!" which was summarily ignored.
The only service I still routinely use from big tech is youtube, though now mostly through my invidious instance. I spend a lot of time on my peertube instance, however.
I'm pretty sold on the fediverse ecosystem at this point, and I'm totally sold on self-hosting. Nobody will get rich off of it, but what I envision is someone coming up with a box that you can install in your house that will allow setting up and maintaining self-hosted services automatically, and then everyone would be independently using their own services that communicate with others' self-hosted services.
I grew up on the Free Internet. I don't care to live on the locked down Internet. I like seeing ideas I don't agree with. I like seeing things that make me feel uncomfortable. I like seeing things I think are wrong. I like seeing things that make me think and maybe change my own views. This is the last best bastion of freedom left.
I started out self-hosting my services with a nextcloud. It was really great having access to a service like that anywhere I went. It was a shock to realize that when you run your own service you can use it however you like -- there's no admin to complain that you're not using it the way they want.
Shortly after, big tech started their shenanigans in earnest -- Once they've banned the sitting president of the united states, there's no chance of escaping the censorship.
I started out on alt tech, minds and bitchute. They were fine, but you could see that all it would take is someone to change their minds about how to run the site and suddenly we're back to square 1. On supposedly free-speech minds, one of my posts got reported and at that point I just wasn't interested anymore.
Around the same time, Google had been warning they were going to shut down hangouts. Over my life, I've had a lot of services I use shut down or change such that I can't use it anymore, and it's getting annoying.
I started to go about figuring out how to start up my own service.
I tried Friendica at first. There are some things I really liked about friendica. Once I got the interface working the way I liked it was definitely a looker, and I still prefer the way it shows threads by default. Unfortunately, I found that friendica was very heavy on the back-end to the point that I wasn't able to know for sure if my posts were getting out there. If I had a beefier server it probably would have been fine, but I didn't.
Next I moved to pleroma, and it was much more responsive.
Today I'm running pleroma on the back-end with soapbox-fe as my front-end. Along the way I also set up a peertube instance, a searx instance, an invidious instance, a Matrix homeserver, an xmpp homeserver, and a lotide instance.
It's really cool! Essentially, most of the tabs I have open now are from my own services.
There's lots of interesting people on here so content isn't really a problem. Some people have reported my posts, but that's because they're literally stupid. Every report I've seen is "I disagree with this guys politics!" which was summarily ignored.
The only service I still routinely use from big tech is youtube, though now mostly through my invidious instance. I spend a lot of time on my peertube instance, however.
I'm pretty sold on the fediverse ecosystem at this point, and I'm totally sold on self-hosting. Nobody will get rich off of it, but what I envision is someone coming up with a box that you can install in your house that will allow setting up and maintaining self-hosted services automatically, and then everyone would be independently using their own services that communicate with others' self-hosted services.
I grew up on the Free Internet. I don't care to live on the locked down Internet. I like seeing ideas I don't agree with. I like seeing things that make me feel uncomfortable. I like seeing things I think are wrong. I like seeing things that make me think and maybe change my own views. This is the last best bastion of freedom left.
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@minimalprocedure@mastodon.uno La scuola e l'università potrebbero, ma - salvo eccezioni - in Italia sono fra gli enti che aderiscono e favoriscono l'assuefazione agli oligopoli proprietari.
Individualmente tento di farlo https://elearning.sp.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=554 sfruttando l'articolo 33 della costituzione, ma questo significa venir sistematicamente emarginati da coloro che si sono adeguati all'idea che il modello del docente universitario debba essere il ragionier Filini.
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Non è impossibile evitare di sottomettersi a GAFAM https://peertube.devol.it/w/89XNjqjPTXaMVdWsoR3ZzN Ma come trasformare le scelte individuali in scelte collettive, soprattutto per chi lavora in istituzioni e aziende che fanno l'opposto?
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Andrea Lattanzi è il vincitore della quinta edizione del premio giornalistico under 35 Letizia Leviti, la cui cerimonia si è svolta a Palazzo Vecchio alla presenza del sindaco di Firenze Dario Nardella. Lattanzi ha ottenuto il riconoscimento per l’articolo pubblicato su La Stampa dal titolo "Una vita senza Big tech, storie di chi cerca alternative ai giganti del web: non barattiamo i nostri dati per i loro servizi". Nella motivazione si legge che il lavoro di Lattanzi "è un lavoro ‘politico’, nel senso più alto del termine. Un lavoro di visione, di concetto, che ci dimostra come, anche in questi anni che viviamo, ci si possa ’slegare’ dai vincoli della tecnologia.
www.lanazione.it/firenze/crona…
www.lanazione.it/firenze/crona…
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https://vimuser.org/1337box.html
Completely bloat-free, javascript-free lightbox implementations. Insanely optimized, pure CSS. Makes viewing images on web pages more user-friendly.
The optimized version is currently 140 bytes!
I've had this for a while now, and thought I'd publish it.
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Eidas has strict requirements/audit/sanctions for CAs that operate in the EU
Todat they are the issuers of digital signatures, which are the basis of all transactions with legal validity in Europe.
Browsers rigid standards = chosen by Google.
Trust a private monopolist more?
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RT @doctorow
EU's Digital Identity Framework Endangers Browser Security https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/eus-digital-identity-framework-endangers-browser-…
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1471711109593845760
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«Manifest V3 è un dannoso passo indietro per la #privacy su Internet. … Niente che #ManifestV3 introduce nel suo stato attuale può aiutare a proteggere la privacy. Gli sviluppatori e gli utenti di estensioni dovrebbero agire con fermezza contro di essa.»
#Google sta cambiando tutto, rimuovendo le funzionalità nelle API di #Chrome su cui si basano queste estensioni e lo fa in nome della sicurezza, della privacy e delle pprestazioni, ma c'è chi ne dubita
Di Richi #Jennings
https://securityboulevard.com/2021/12/google-nukes-ad-blockers-manifest-v3-is-coming/
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Me: Okay, I'll try this Kickstarter thing.
Kickstarter: We're going blockchain!
Me: dammit. 
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Occhio alle app fasulle!
Subito dopo che il regime iraniano ha bloccato il messenger di #Telegram, sono state implementate e pubblicate alcune app di terze parti che hanno aiutato gli utenti a bypassare il filtro iraniano. La maggior parte di queste app aveva server con sede in Iran ed era sotto il controllo del ministero delle TIC e dell'"Università di #Teheran" e raccoglieva i dati degli utenti.
Di Nariman #Gharib
https://narimangharib.medium.com/iranian-bot-that-endangers-anonymity-of-users-on-twitter-and-telegram-in-favor-of-the-iranian-5344a65807be
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I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. https://scribe.rip/p/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065
On new development machines I always start with:
```
$ git config --global init.defaultBranch master
```
Why?
Not because of what you think.
Simply put, I won't help US people to cope with their long history of #slavery and systemic #racism.
#USA should always be remembered of their shame, not be allowed to remove their sins from history. Not even `git` history.
Also computer are things, not people. They CAN be used as things and people CAN and SHOULD master computers.
Because in a #cybernetic society, if you do not _master_ the automatisms that surround you, you are going to become a gear yourself, a biologic robot also known as slave.
There is no easy way around this: you either master the automatism or you are enslaved through (NOT "by") them.
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“Mr. McCourt’s vision, where individuals own their data and control how it’s sold and used by companies.”
https://inkl.com/a/bGyBaksLNmL
Mr. McCourt can kindly fuck off.
The reason you must own and control your own data (aspects of your self) is so no one else owns and controls it (you), not so some billionaire asshat like Mr. McCourt can create a marketplace for it and take a cut.
Don’t fall for these fauxternatives.
Billionaires will not save you.
We can only save ourselves.
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Come ho dato il benservito a Google senza necessariamente incendiare la mia casa
"Un esperimento di un mese, ispirato da un articolo, si tramuta in un'avventura che mi ha portato a riappropriarmi dei miei dati, rinunciare ai #Google Services sul mio smartphone #Android e a scoprire che esiste un intero ecosistema open pronto a sostituirli."
Ma è davvero possibile vivere senza Google?
Di @penguin86 https://peertube.uno/videos/watch/558b2ad1-2572-44b7-9056-9bd6f7b7a088
- O.S.
- http://jehanne.io
Joined May 2019
