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Japanese capsule lands on Earth bringing eagerly awaited asteroid samples after space trip of more than 5 billion kilometres https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/3112741/japanese-capsule-lands-earth-bringing-eagerly-awaited-asteroid-samples

Software News: Debian publishes updated 10.7 media https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=12125

Military planes to fly vaccines in to Britain to avoid ports hit by Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/05/military-planes-to-fly-vaccines-in-to-britain-to-avoid-ports-hit-by-brexit #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Medicalresearch #EuropeanUnion #Foreignpolicy #BorisJohnson #Coronavirus #Worldnews #Military #Politics #Brexit #UKnews #Health

Health officials have placed California’s San Joaquin Valley under a new lockdown in an attempt to slow the rapid rise of virus cases that have caused hospital bed shortages. The rules ban eat-in restaurant dining and close many other businesses. http://apne.ws/v9YFPYS https://twitter.com/AP/status/1335321604902023168 #News #AP #California #virus

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The Briar Project is an encrypted FOSS peer-to-peer messenger app which can be used online through @torproject or offline locally through wifi or bluetooth. The "not yet official" Fediverse account for Briar is at:

➡️ @briar

Its offline mode means it can be used locally even if the internet is shut down (for example due to disasters or other reasons).

Briar's website is at https://briarproject.org

#Briar #BriarProject #Activism #Apps #FOSS #OffTheGrid #Privacy #p2p #PeerToPeer #e2ee #e2e

Subscribing to a PeerTube account from Mastodon is really easy!

✅ You can follow a PeerTube account from Mastodon by searching for their username and clicking the follow icon. Here's how:

1️⃣ On PeerTube, go to the account's page and click on the clipboard icon next to the user's name.

2️⃣ On Mastodon, paste the username into the search box and press enter. In the search results, click the follow button next to the username you want to follow.

#MastoTips #FediTips #PeerTube #Mastodon #Fediverse

WhatsApp Will Start Showing Ads
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/360971

(submitted by nixass)

Alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy (source hosted on @codeberg) https://teddit.net

If you are looking for a great GTK music player, please have a look at the great Lollypop

Also works well with Librem 5 and pinephone

information here
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop

Don't forget to donate to it's creator
https://liberapay.com/cedric.bellegarde

Ocasio-Cortez hits back at critics who pounced on $58 'Tax the Rich' sweatshirt https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tax-the-rich-sweatshirt-critics #AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez #Worldnews #Democrats #USnews

The Trump administration has suspended all federal student loan payments through the end of January and kept interest rates at 0%, extending a moratorium that started early in the pandemic but was set to expire at the end of this month. http://apne.ws/PeGPUnX https://twitter.com/AP/status/1335017159165140992 #News #AP #Trump

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California certifies Joe Biden's victory in the state, giving the Democrat more than the 270 electors needed to win the White House. http://apne.ws/kr42q1v https://twitter.com/AP/status/1335021969432072192 #News #AP #Biden #California #WhiteHouse

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‘2021 going to be catastrophic,’ UN officials warn as organization faces worst year in history since inception after WWII

The executive director of the World Food Program made a dire forecast about the months to come, slating “catastrophic” humanitarian crises for 2021, in what could be the worst year seen in the better part of a century. Read Full Article at RT.com

https://www.rt.com/news/508748-un-2021-crises-famine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

Teddit: a free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy
https://teddit.net/

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Even though it’s only 26 words long, Section 230 doesn’t say what many think it does.

Join Thursday's live Q&A on 230 and the future of free speech online featuring Sen. Ron Wyden and EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry #EFF30 https://eff.org/fireside

Vaccines End the Pandemic’s Political Harmony https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/canada/vaccines-end-the-pandemics-political-harmony.html #VaccinationandImmunization #Coronavirus(2019-nCoV)

Distrowatch News: Distribution Release: Manjaro Linux 20.2 Philip Müller has announced the release of Manjaro Linux 20.2, the latest update of the project's rolling-release distribution with a choice of Xfce, KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops: "We are happy to announce our latest release of Manjaro we call 'Nibia'. The GNOME edition is the epicenter of.... http://distrowatch.com/11100

Privacy Cookbook Ch 5.9.3 Cellphone Security - #CalyxOS or #GrapheneOS?
https://dt.gl/calyxos-or-grapheneos/ #ungoogle #degoogle #android #privacy

Biden to ask Americans to wear masks for 100 days https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55182309

‘Christ is king!’: Youths chanting ‘America First’ DESTROY California monolith, replace it with a cross (VIDEO)

The latest mystery monolith to appear in the US, this one in California, has been destroyed and replaced with a wooden cross. Chanting “America First” and “Christ is King,” the young group responsible live streamed their stunt. Read Full Article at RT.com...
https://www.rt.com/usa/508626-monolith-california-destroyed-cross/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS