keverets @keverets@librem.one

@meena Vigilante https://f-droid.org/packages/com.crazylegend.vigilante notifies you when something accesses a camera or mic

Okay there's something really cool I've just learned. If you are continuously recording air pressure e.g. as part of your home automation setup or a weather station then you should really check the data of the last 24h.
You should be able to spot the pressure wave from the volcanic explosion in Tonga earlier today.

It reached my setup in Kaiserslautern at about 20:30.

Sun Microsystems: Write once, run everywhere!

Log4j: hello

Programmers: No, not like that

To bump this thread: The Swiss state has been taxing the carbon in fossil fuels since 2008 ⛽

The tax started very low, and increases every year. It is currently 120 CHF (~130 USD) per tonne CO2 💰

2/3 goes to each citizen, evenly divided, as a reduction of their health insurance! 🏥 1/3 of the tax goes into green spending.

Every country can do this, without losing economic 'competitiveness' if a tariff is applied 🗺️

Verb Tenses for Internet Searching

1. I google; I am googling; I googled
2. I bing; I am binging; I bung
3. I duckduckgo; I am duckduckgoing; I duckduckwent

#Nitter is an AGPLv3 licensed #Twitter frontend with all the features of the default site -- but more importantly -- it returns all of the freedom that Twitter's nonfree JavaScript takes away from you. Try it out! https://nitter.net

Please make sure to read this carefully before ordering a #PinePhonePro:

The #PinePhone Pro is still very much in development, and thus just won't be your daily driver smartphone upon receiving the device.

Read https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_Pro_(pine64-pinephonepro) to get an idea.

I don't want to hamper your excitement, but I also don't want to see you start a rant YouTube channel because you're upset due to not reading this properly. The PPP is really cool, but it's not your new "privacy smartphone" at this point.

@ScottMortimer There is also this excellent blog post in response: https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html :)

One of the main reasons we don’t have a truly decentralised internet is actually really simple: it’s the fact that providers globally don’t give us symmetric upload/download speeds and fixed IP addresses at home. Kills decentralisation at the root. 1/2

omg

Anyone who thinks decentralization is an unmitigated good never heard of cars in comparison to public transport

Good luck #BlackBerry users... you have been mobile security pioneers!

"The shutdown means the phones will no longer reliably function for "data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality"

#mydataisMYdata
#smartphones #privacy

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/classic-blackberry-devices-stop-working-normally-jan-4-rcna10616

Spotted in the wild


#CashFriday

Before you buy that e-book from Amazon, do yourself a favor and see if the publisher has a website with direct sales.

I've found a number of books that I was interested in DRM-free, in EPUB format, and sometimes at a discounted price, just by poking around a little.

You can connect WordPress blogs to the Fediverse by using the ActivityPub plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

The plugin lets people on Mastodon etc. follow your blog as well as share and comment on your blog posts.

The author of the plugin is @pfefferle

#FediTips #Fediverse #WordPress #MastoTips #Mastodon

James Webb Space Telescope over Earth

Image Credit: Arianespace, ESA, NASA, CSA, CNES

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211226.html #APoD