swiley @swiley@social.cleverlibre.org

The Czech Pirate Party general assembly is backed by Jitsi and runs absolutely flawlessly. Kudos to our technicians who have been doing a great job and long live Free and #OpenSource Software! :-) https://cf2021.pirati.cz

#Tusky has been removed from the PlayStore by Google

@ConnyDuck lets all mass report google chrome with screen shots showing inapropriate content...

In the last year Google has banned: the Element app, the LBRY app, and several Fediverse apps. If you get all of your apps from a single corporation, be it Google or Apple, you should make an effort to change that.

If you have an Android phone F-Droid is an alternative app repository, and it’s very easy to install! All of the previously mentioned apps have been available from F-Droid throughout being dropped from the Play Store.

If you have an iPhone, please consider other options for your next device. Apple does not respect you enough as a user to consider you possibly more capable of deciding what you should install on your phone than they are. That is absurd; please stop rewarding this behavior with your money.

Without sound but still...!

POV you are watching a pentest in action

Megi, renowned #PinePhone kernel developer, has posted his first update in 2021, detailing progress and plans: https://xnux.eu/log/#031

> .io domain
> cloudflare
> "we care about your data" pop-up
> "please disable your adblocker"
> heavy use of js-libraries to show flashy animations nobody asked for
> lots of tech buzzwords saying nothing

certified modern website

@datenschutzratgeber I'm also reminded of this Webshit Weekly entry from February
> A chat app based on a protocol that supports federation wants to borrow your computer instead of allowing federation.
http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2021/02/07/0/

RFC 2410 - The NULL Encryption Algorithm is a block cipher the origins of which appear to be lost in antiquity. Despite rumors that the National Security Agency suppressed publication of this algorithm, there is no evidence of such action on their part. Rather, recent archaeological evidence suggests that the NULL algorithm was developed in Roman times, as an exportable alternative to Ceaser ciphers. However, because Roman numerals lack a symbol for zero, written records of the algorithm's development were lost to historians for over two millennia. 🤣 #cryptography https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2410

@funny

A classic but a goodie.

#chatcontrol is an EU plan to spy in real time on *all* your communication, including encrypted messengers like Signal. Let me put it bluntly: If the state doesn't trust me, I will never trust the state. This is unacceptable. Period.

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[ . . . ]‌ So TH1 was developed as a cut-down version of Tcl that would facilitate running the SQLite test scripts on SymbianOS.

Fossil was first being designed at about the same time that TH1 was being developed for testing SQLite on SymbianOS. Early prototypes of Fossil were written in pure Tcl. But as the development shifted toward the use of C-code, the need arose to have a Tcl-like scripting language to help with code generation. TH1 was small and light-weight and used minimal resources and seemed ideally suited for the task.

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fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/…

Why Librem Tunnel is Leaving iOS

"Recently we’ve been forced to remove Librem Tunnel from iOS due to their unfair policies and in this post we’ll explain why."

https://puri.sm/posts/why-librem-tunnel-is-leaving-ios/

#freedom #ios #purism

@ianmacd We put a lot of effort into being respectful well behaved members of the wider community. So I'm glad that can be seen.

We actually had a rather unique history with our stance as free speech. Early on when GAB came ont he scene is when instances started to push other instances to defederate with anyone they didnt like. As such you get a few instances with massive block lists of pretty much any instance that federates with any instance they block, and then any instance that federates with them, ad nauseum. At the time we were stuck to make a decision, get cut off from short sighted but well intentioned instances, or start censoring our users view of the fediverse. So it entered a debate here in our very early days as an instance.

It turned out that the LGBT community were actually the ones that convinced me of a free speech stance, which is ironic as many of the LGBT instances are the ones that ultimately took a block-first mentality. What had happened is LGBT servers were very heavily blocking instances that exhibited anything remotely resembling intolerance. This left very few LGBT friendly instances that were free speech and as a result we had a sort of exodus of LGBT scholars joining QOTO (and boosting our early numbers).

It turns out the LGBT community had a strong voice when we opened the discussion up to the community. Many of them explained to use that they came here because they monitored hate-speech accounts on GAB and other places to identify doxing within their community and other threats and warn the members of their community. So they felt their safety was at risk on other servers, they also didnt feel safe on other free speech instances since hate was common on those servers and didnt want to be on a hate speech instance. So they urged us to not block other instances, and ultimately the community agreed and we remain free-speech.

It is also why we implemented features like subscriptions, specifically for the LGBT communities safety and others in a similar position as them. This way they can get alerts of the public posts from threatening accounts they monitor without actually needing to follow the account and alerting the account that they are following them.

Its just really sad how some in the LGBT community have ultimately used that against us, that we went out of our way to take the heat for the LGBT community at the time only to see a small number of people use our decision as a weapon against us. Thankfully its a small minority of servers today, but still it was sad to see.

For what its worth QOTO is one of the most heavily connected servers in the fediverse. Last I checked we were in the top 10 of english speaking servers.

March Blog Update!

- Manufacturing status report

- #SOEdge & #Quartz64 available for devs in April

- e-ink works with Q64

- #PinebookPro pre-orders this month for $220

- #PinePhone Beta Edition preorders soon & keyboard update

- #PineTime software progress and more!

https://www.pine64.org/2021/03/15/march-update/

After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it.

Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. We would know (our app is both in one).

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1371509053613084679

@freemo Oh, didn't you hear?! Because of coronavirus you should have already switched all web activity from TCP to UDP!

It's to avoid the handshakes...