Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one

yesss thanks to this article from @aaronpk I managed to set up a little server that lets me put any service I want behind Mastodon's OAuth so that only people with a friend.camp login can see it. It works for web apps that don't know what OAuth is -- you are just kind of "gating" them so that any request to any URL for the app must be authorized first. A little like .htpasswd but for OAuth.

https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/08/28/nginx-auth-request

I'll write this up in detail later but Aaron's post has everything you need.

Your experience of a place on the internet will be vastly improved if you unfollow and/or mute the most negative people who keep crossing your feed, and spend less time talking about all the things you hate.

Yes, any place. It feels nice. Try it.

Our quick scan on ethical digital tools:
https://www.agooodfoundation.org/in-search-of-ethical-technologies/

In English and soon in Spanish

#SurveillanceCapitalism
from a social design perspective

Thanks @aral for the inspiration!

“When we choose to store our data online, we're often ceding our claim to it. Companies can decide what type of data they will hold for us, and can willfully delete any data they object to. Unless we've kept a separate copy on our own machines or drives, this data will be lost to us forever. If any of our data is found to be particulalry objectionable or otherwise in violation of the terms of service, the companies can unilaterally delete our accounts, deny us our own data, and yet retain a copy for their own records, which they can then turn over to the authorities without our knowledge or consent.

Ultimately, the privacy of our data depends on the ownership of our data.

There is no property less protected, and yet no property more private.”

– Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

@rek

Apparently both amnesia games and penumbra have just been open sourced:

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/PenumbraOverture

Announced gmni here:

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/002747.html

Go slow and fix things

@neauoire as a general rule we never open anything in a new tab because it's a bad UX; you can always middle click if you want a new tab but you can't tell if a link is going to force one and there's no way to prevent it from happening if it would

https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview

Hey @Framasoft

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-09-09-peertube-first-batch/