Large amounts of data are being requested from migrants, from their fingerprints to their digital data trails. On International Migrants Day, take a look at 10 threats facing migrants and refugees 👇 #MigrantsDay
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4000/10-threats-migrants-and-refugees
RT @jchitchen@twitter.com
Do you work with young people on some aspect of digital or data literacy in #Africa? Then there may be a chance to partner with @Info_Activism@twitter.com - See here for details https://tacticaltech.org/news/youth-partnership-call/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jchitchen/status/1337454386553958402
~ Lisa 🌊 🇺🇸🇮🇹: @RadioFreeTom Near Binghamton, NY here .. nearly 3 ft. and still snowing. My nephew in the road walking to the town garage to plow at 2 am. It's still snowing!
https://twitter.com/FriendsOScience/status/1339639797048958976 #NY
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Sadly, we’re cancelling this as our web host has suffered a distributed denial of service attack and things are still shaky with a couple of hours to go.
We might reschedule or pick things up again next year.
Preventing Fragmentation with the Librem 5
"Fragmentation is a massive problem in computer software development that has only gotten worse with mobile computers."
https://puri.sm/posts/preventing-fragmentation-with-the-librem-5/
NFL to invite COVID-19-vaccinated health care workers to Super Bowl 55 https://abc11.com/sports/vaccinated-health-care-workers-invited-to-super-bowl/8826946/ #sportsvaccineshealthsuperbowlcovid-19vaccinehealthcare
@TonyStark Unfit Presidents do a lot more damage than people think.
In case you missed it, a couple of years ago Mastodon made an animated introduction explaining how it works.
✅ Mastodon's official promo video is available on PeerTube at https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/887e7b95-a6b1-4df1-83fd-d5c47f17ec4c and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE
The same video is also useful for explaining federated networks in general.
Age is not the issue. Competence and character are. You can be 90 and if you're capable, there shouldn't be a problem. There are lots of 30-year-olds who fail the competence test.
Voters elected her. Let's not be the party who wants to overturn our own people.
Most of the progressives who are whining about age would be shimmying like a cat in heat if Bernie Sanders had been elected, or chosen for a Cabinet position, anyway.
Opinion | Dianne Feinstein is the least of our problems:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/16/dianne-feinstein-is-least-our-problems/
We’re currently monitoring the situation and preparing for our Small Is Beautiful live stream with @laura but there’s the chance that we might have to cancel it if the DDOS attack continues and our site is down.
Will update you.
So I don’t use Chrome but I have Ungoogled Chromium (https://codeberg.org/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium) as certain things only work under Chrom(ium) and I only just realised Google requires a Google account to install extensions.
Wow.
Hint: You can bypass this restriction using this the Ungoogled Extension Installer: https://github.com/UnnoTed/Ungoogled-Chromium-Extension-Installer
The lengths we have to go to in order to protect our privacy from basic everyday things is ridiculous. We need fundamental change. Surveillance capitalism needs to die.
Adding duckduckgo to chrome,
https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/duck-duck-go-search
Please check back on the 20th for adding DDG to Firefox Browser
China just delivered moon rocks back to Earth, marking the first time in 44 years that lunar samples have been brought back to our planet. It also lays the foundation for even bigger lunar missions ahead. https://bit.ly/34jeF17 https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1339297562961080325 #Tech #MIT #China #Earth #Planet
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RT Chris Martz 🇺🇸
Snow is really comin’ down here. Was rain all morning, but the snow train has arrived!!!
https://twitter.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1338535510449516549
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