Signal created targeted ads for Instagram that show the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to.
They were blocked.
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/
World's biggest jeweller, Pandora, to drop mined diamonds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56972562
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Very excited to announce that #NGI DAPSI will be funding user account data export and migration in #Snikket and #XMPP! This project will give people more control over their data and ensure they are never locked into a specific XMPP provider.
Back in November, we learned that Disney had pulled a breathtakingly criminal wage-theft manuever on one of science-fiction's most beloved authors, Allan Dean Foster, an elderly cancer-patient caring for his sick wife.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/disneymustpay/#disneymustpay
Foster is the bestselling author of some of the most successful movie novelizations ever, from the first STAR WARS novel to ALIENS novels and more.
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I like the new #kdenlive 21.04! I just finished the edit of a new video tutorial with it (about 'shading', I'll post it later today) and the new auto-generated subtitle feature with speech recognition saves me 2h of work! (and surprisingly this one recognise my heavy French accent with a high percentage of success). Such a typing burden I did weekly to do less... Thanks again devs! And new keyframe actions are also lovely to use. 💜
More info about the release: https://kdenlive.org/en/2021/04/kdenlive-21-04-released/
The #librem5 becomes so much nicer to use after opening a terminal and "sudo apt install firefox-esr". Nice to have smooth scrolling, ability to long press links to open in new tab, Privacy Badger, and uBlock Origin to make web browsing comfortable again.
Hope it gets improved and vetted enough to be put in the PureOS Store soon.
Also looking forward to the looming upgrade from Amber to Byzantium to get the convergence improvements.
Excited to announce that The Intercept now has a Tor onion service version of its website, giving users a more anonymous option for reading the site
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/28/tor-browser-onion/
https://27m3p2uv7igmj6kvd4ql3cct5h3sdwrsajovkkndeufumzyfhlfev4qd.onion/2021/04/28/tor-browser-onion/
Users should have the right and ability to fix their own stuff—or have a trusted person do it for them. Right to repair legislation will help. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/opinion/iphone-apple-electronics-technology.html
Very cool to see this for the #pinephone . Makes me wish for something similar for the #librem5
The misguided Canadian Senate Bill S-203, AKA the “Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act, would likely force many companies to simply eliminate sexual content instead of carrying the huge risk that an underage user will access it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/canadas-attempt-regulate-sexual-content-online-ignores-technical-and-historical
Interesting to pan around the light pollution map to see how far one would have to go to get a clear night sky:
Solar is now 'cheapest electricity in history', confirms IEA':
https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea
Sneak Peek of the Next PureOS Release on the Librem 5
"With the next release of PureOS, code-named Byzantium, just around the corner, let’s give you a sneak peek of what you can look forward to."
https://puri.sm/posts/sneak-peek-of-the-next-pureos-release-on-the-librem-5/
Wondering if Chrome is leaking more info derived from your browsing history for advertising purposes? Visit [https://amifloced.org].
Is it a pokemon or big data?
http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
Using #Firefox' #HTTPS-only mode for some days (or weeks?) now and I'm surprised how rarely I get… cough… that legacy protocol…
Something good to tell about 2021, I guess! 😊
(You can easily enable it in the settings: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/https-only-prefs)