While we're all focused on the Corona crisis the US government is quietly pushing an internet #surveillance bill that is aimed at abolishing message encryption:

We should probably pay attention to this and spread awareness even if we are not American: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online

**Paul Sutton** · Mar 15, 2020, 13:04

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**Ubuntu News & Updates** @ubuntunews@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2020, 13:04

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mate-power-manager 1.24.1

Changes since the last release: https://t.co/zJwwXrvi1n

mate-power-manager 1.24.1

Translations update

glib-genmarshal: replace deprecated tokens NONE and BOOL

Read authors (updated) from mate-power-manager.about

Use gtksh… https://t.co/UlIJe2ecrX tweeted by @ubuntu_mate

**Paul Sutton** · Mar 15, 2020, 13:03

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**Scotch-Irish** @desperados@gab.com · Mar 15, 2020, 13:03

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Premiered on 14 Mar 2020

Trudeau's plan to "phase out the oil sands" is working

It turns out when Justin Trudeau said, "I want to phase out the oil sands," it wasn't a gaffe or misspeak - it was the plan all along.

Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail reported that Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers were working behind the scenes working against the Teck Frontier oil sands project.

This project would've brought thousands of much-needed jobs to Alberta.

[embed] https://youtu.be/2Wz_MJ1yhQg [embed]

~ True North

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 15, 2020, 12:56

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 15, 2020, 12:56

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@Mastodon So to reply to my own question, in settings users can hide the feed updates behind a click, this works.

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**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 15, 2020, 12:31

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 15, 2020, 12:31

Mar 15, 2020, 12:31

Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@Mastodon on my federated feed, there seems to be several posts of a sexual nature, if I click on the 3 dots, and try and mute the account, the feed scrolls up so quickly it interferes with the menu displaying and being able to click the mute button.

Is there a way to slow down the feed a little please, This may help others.

Thanks

Paul

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 15, 2020, 12:00

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 15, 2020, 12:00

Mar 15, 2020, 12:00

Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

hi @disroot is the disroot service up and running ?

thanks

Paul

**Paul Sutton** · Mar 15, 2020, 08:39

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**Paul Sutton** @paulsutton@personaljournal.ca · Mar 15, 2020, 08:39

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Big Tech and Human Rights https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/big-tech-and-human-rights

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 14, 2020, 19:27

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 14, 2020, 19:27

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Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

This is a quick test toot, testing cli client.

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 14, 2020, 07:31

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 14, 2020, 07:31

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Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo Not to mention general health through not breathing in
exhaust gasses.

**Paul Sutton** · Mar 13, 2020, 23:50

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**🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱** @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org · Mar 13, 2020, 23:50

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I wonder what the impact on world wide fossil fuel consumption the corona virus has had.. i know it made a huge difference in china.. Is it possible this might have a noticeable positive effect on Global Warming I wonder?