DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

Who remembers this classic article in The Independent from December 1993?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anti-soviet-warrior-puts-his-army-on-the-road-to-peace-the-saudi-businessman-who-recruited-mujahedin-1465715.html

True story-Was pissed I lost access to a number instances being on librem.one. With wholesale blocks by a bunch of pussies with zero backbone. For a moment I was like fuck this give me my $ back.

Then I read one post after another of hate and intolerance against a team who did absolutely nothing but try to bring ethical services to the masses. Making stuff as simple as possible for the layman. Only to be treated like shit. Wrong move, I renewed the year for the family. We stay, rest u fuck off

After shutting off the angry notifications for a bit and having a private think, I retract my criticism of Tusky. So, some clarifications:

1. Obviously, I am against nazis. Fuck's sake, people can have complex opinions without being nazis

2. If Tusky had put an anti-nazi clause into their license, their software would be nonfree. Putting anti-nazi features into free software does not, however, make the software nonfree. Despite being usable by nazis I think free software is a good thing and nonfree software is a bad thing.

3. I would not have personally added such a change to my software, because I think it's immature and doesn't really solve the problem of nazis. In fact, it may exacerbate it. I maintain that there are much better ways to address these issues.

4. Anyway, Tusky is fine. It's dumb but it's fine.

The #librem5 devkit taking it's first #selfie.

I wish everyone continued free speech and privacy in their online communications. 👍

"Instead of an internet where sites link to each other, creating a vast global #network of information, #Google is vacuuming up more and more of the web onto its turf.

it has the potential to suck the life out of the #internet, which was supposed to be a place where a thousand flowers could #bloom.

When Google discourages people from visiting other websites, we’re not only losing a more diverse internet experience, we’re losing #context."

https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/google-genius-rap-lyrics-antitrust.html

Slimbook, the Spanish Linux computer company, just unveiled a brand-new all-in-one Linux PC called the "Apollo". It has a 23.6 inch IPS LED display with a 1920x1080 resolution. #Linux #Hardware #desktop

https://slimbook.es/en/apollo-aio-en

LibHandy 0.0.10, a library that helps with developing UI for mobile devices
using GTK/GNOME, has been released!

Details (including screenshots and videos) of adaptive layouts included in LibHandy 0.0.10:
https://puri.sm/posts/the-new-libhandy-0-0-10/

Full release notes:
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy/tags/v0.0.10

@switchingsocial

@masterofthetiger

Why? I will just block fools like these so I don't see it. Blocking people from talking is not in the spirit of federation, and the architecture doesn't support it. You realize that you encourage switching? A big reason for people to switch is because of attitudes like this.

What was a bad idea in 1993 and didn't get any better? backdoors in encryption!
We signed a public letter, joing over 100 organizations and individuals urging the German goverment to drop this idea.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/a-bad-idea-nextcloud-signs-public-letter-opposing-german-plan-to-force-decryption-of-chat/

https://unwalled.garden

Love this. Very much in the spirit of what we’re working on.

RT @nicosemsrott@twitter.com

D hat ein großes, strukturell toleriertes (#grüßeangauck) Problem mit Rechtsextremismus. Und obwohl auch CDU-Politiker immer wieder Anschlagsopfer sind, verharmlosen ihre Unionskollegen die Gefahr.

Wer CDU-Innenpolitiker als Parteifreunde hat, braucht keine Feinde mehr.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nicosemsrott/status/1140631330885185536

Erste Schritte zu mehr Datensicherheit: Der DJV Hessen hat in seinem Newsletter (PDF) einige Tipps für Journalisten/-innen, die im beruflichen Alltag oder beim Informantenschutz sicherer werden wollen https://www.djv-hessen.de/fileadmin/PDF/Newsletter/02_2019_Newsletter_RZ__2_.pdf

Am 5. Juni 2013, also vor nunmehr 6 Jahren, veröffentlichte der #Guardian einen Artikel über PRISM - der Anfang der #Snowden-Enthüllungen.

Krass, dass das schon 6 Jahre her ist.
Der Mann ist weiterhin Verstoßener im russischen Asyl.😐

#KI und #ML sind doch irgendwie wie Kleinkinder. Es ist Wahnsinn, wie schnell sie lernen und wir freuen uns total, wenn sie etwas neues können. Aber so richtig weiter bringt es auch niemanden. www.heise.de/newsticker/meldun…

♲ @JRehborn@twitter.com: Anstand verdient Respekt. Franziska Schubert und Jana Lübeck haben Anstand bewiesen. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer hingegen nicht.

I just wanna put it out there that the word for “being polite on mastodon” should be fediquette

A few months ago, Microsoft decided to collaborate with Google and drop its web engine in favor of Google's.

Earlier this week, Google blocked all ad blockers, and now Microsoft has de-listed UBlock Origin (a powerful ad-blocker). Without real choice, monopolies will dictate what you see and do on the Internet.

Real choice comes with Free/Open Source Software.

KDE has adopted non-proprietary and decentralized instant messaging services and is now running its own community-managed instance of Matrix

KDE is now officially using Matrix for collaboration within KDE! Matrix is an open protocol and network for decentralised communication (which means you can follow and comment from a different instance of Matrix where you already have a presence), backed by an open standard and open source reference implementations for servers, clients, client SDKs, bridges, bots and more. It provides all the features you’d expect from a modern chat system: infinite scrollback, file transfer, typing notifications, read receipts, presence, search, push notifications, stickers, VoIP calling and conferencing, etc. It even provides end-to-end encryption (based on Signal’s double ratchet algorithm) for when you want some privacy. https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10e38e7cf4ed8190091da003199908b4b6

Black Hat drama this week shows the risks in creating a machine/process w/ the power to censor a group for personal views. Always starts w/ dangerous/unsympathetic views, inevitably expands to censor other groups based on shakier grounds. #slipperyslope