DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

Activity on the http://matrix.org homeserver has been up 5x over the last few days, and we started to get dangerously close to the ceiling on the Synapse master process again... so we just fixed it with more workers (as per https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-scalability)!

From “Dark Mirror” by Barton #Gellman:

‘In 2011, I shared a stage in Silicon Valley with Google’s Eric Schmidt. He asked, “Wouldn’t you like to be able to say to your Android phone, ‘Where are my car keys?’ ” Good God, no, I told him. Maybe I’m in a casino. Maybe the bartender took my keys and I’m sleeping it off in a room upstairs, never mind whose. I’d be glad to have my phone track my life, but I don’t want you to know. Schmidt observed that my personal life was evidently more interesting than his, which I doubted, and that Android users love the way their phones hand them information before they even ask. The technology, I agreed, is marvelous. It’s like having Batman’s Alfred in my pocket, except that Alfred is not working for me. He is following me, taking notes, and sending them to you. I asked whether Schmidt could foresee a time when I could pay in cash for Google services, rather than agree to be spied on. He disputed the verb, but replied candidly. That’s not our business model, he said.’

#Google

Brilliant.

*1920x1200, the best aspect ratio.

Signal is down. I can't stop laughing.

Hey Moxie! Tell us again why centralization is the best way to deploy internet messaging for the masses.

https://downdetector.com/status/signal/

@jens
HELP!
The situation is out of control, and there's no escape!

https://toot.cat/media/On7GqKIAAppoKPWTNZc

Etwas bizarr, dass die Vorschläge der #ZeroCovid-Initiative als entweder totalitär oder quasireligiös bezeichnet werden, aber der aktuelle Zustand nicht.

More contacts than you might think already use Threema. 👥 Here are some tips on how to get the rest on board: https://threema.ch/bp/more-contacts

RT @GLudger
Eindeutig: Sauerteig!..

@WandelStock
matrix is in my opinion the best compromise between digital souverenity, data security and useability at the moment.

matrix also has bridges, federation and multidevice capability. 😎

@selea

Weil Sonneborn nach unten tritt, tritt Semsrott aus. Finde ich als ehemaliges Mitglied gut. #diepartei
https://nicosemsrott.eu/de/my-work/humorlose-erklarung-warum-ich-aus-die-partei-austrete

#Covid hat hierzulande eine Demokratiekrise ausgelöst, die noch nicht so offenkundig sichtbar ist, aber tief geht. Um zu erklären, was ich meine, muss ich ein wenig ausholen:

https://nitter.net/ennopark/status/1347564032203567109

Immer wieder, wenn ich an einen meiner Lieblings-Action-Filme denke, meine ich, man müsste Sylvester Stallone zum Botschafter für Grundrechte- und Datenschutz machen 😈

This is what I've been waiting for: https://www.zdnet.com/article/private-nextcloud-instances-available-to-european-deutsche-telekom-business-customers/ - EU gov'ts and businesses rejecting the dominance of the #FrightfulFive (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/technology/techs-frightful-five-theyve-got-us.html) in favour of European-led open source NextCloud.