Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org

This just blew my mind My respect for the modern tech I use just went up a level

Pixelfed is an Instagram-style photo network on the Fediverse. You can follow Pixelfed accounts from Mastodon and vice versa.

For example, @Iancylkowski is a Pixelfed account, but you can view and interact with it entirely in Mastodon too.

To create a Pixelfed account, find a server at:

➡️ https://pixelfed.org/servers

You can use Pixelfed through the web or apps.

The official apps aren't ready yet, but there are good third party ones such as @vernissage for iPhone/iPad and @PixelDroid for Android

Every so often I have this 'bloody hell technology' moment when I stand in awe of how things work.

I might be passing where the fibre cable goes into my house, or looking at the access point in the ceiling.

This evening my moment was, ‘bloody hell, if you had said to me 20 years ago that I would be running a server on something the size of a deck of cards using a flash card, I wouldn't have believed you’

For data brokers dealing with our personal information, our data can either be useful for their profit-making or truly anonymous, but not both. It is critical that user privacy is not sacrificed in favor of filling the pockets of corporations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data

Few local newspapers employ #science and #health reporters anymore.

But The Conversation has stepped up as a news source that helps fill the gap by helping scientists and researchers share their knowledge in fact-based articles, and giving it away for free.

Our Executive Editor and GM Beth Daley recently spoke to the Reynolds Journalism Institute about our work – and our expansion into investigative #journalism, another area where more journalism is needed.

https://rjionline.org/news/reviving-expertise-that-once-existed-at-many-news-outlets/?xxxxx

Privacy Badger 2023.10.31 has been released for all supported browsers.

The new version blocks embedded Tweets by default, replacing them with click-to-activate placeholders.

This opt-in approach to loading external but potentially desirable widgets protects privacy while giving you control over when the widgets get to load.

To install Privacy Badger, visit https://privacybadger.org/.

One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.

Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866

Remember when browsers used to display an RSS icon in the URL bar when feeds were available on that website?

After the lost decade in social media, can we please bringt that back now?

#Firefox #Browser #IndieWeb #RSS

Big fan of this being a trend in modern USB-C cables.

I could give two shits about the USB-IF's numbering scheme. I can't even remember it and I'm the kind of person who cares about that kind of thing.

Just labeling cables by their capabilities takes a lot of the confusion and pain out of the process for users.

A little coffee shop. Bury.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak UltraMax 400
Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

Openreach Prep Alternative UK Analogue Style Phone Product https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/11/openreach-prep-alternative-uk-analogue-style-phone-product.html

Just made a complaint to BBC to ask them to stop giving Twitter/ X free publicity by constantly printing “X, formerly known as Twitter” in every single article.