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When I read Snow Crash for the first time, the most dystopian thing to me weren't the burbclaves, but that all the useful information on the future Internet was behind a paywall. It's odd that this is the part of the metaverse people want to build.

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Each Mastodon instance has its own optional custom emoji. They work across the Fediverse, and you'll sometimes see them on other people's posts.

Custom emoji appear in your instance's emoji picker (😂) just above the standard emoji.

If you have good ideas for custom emoji, try asking your instance admin if they could add them :drake_like:

(You can find your instance admin by clicking on "About this server" at the bottom left of the screen)

#MastoTips #Mastodon #Emoji #FediTips #Fediverse

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To carry a smartphone from big tech is now to carry a passive surveillance device on your person. You are paying a thousand dollars to have your privacy violated. its why you should choose a device from @purism as you dont have to trust purism at all you can trust the code as it should be (i do trust purism by the way but just saying). so stay away from all things google and the all seeing i. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/a

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What is freedom 1? The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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Proprietary control over education is growing and it is affecting student's rights to information. Watch and share "The University of Costumed Heroes" and fight for young people's freedom. u.fsf.org/fsfheroes

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Protect developer freedom. Abolish software patents. Learn why software patents are unjust by checking out the new design of our #endsoftwarepatents initiative. u.fsf.org/3f-

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#Mastodon have released an official statement regarding the #TruthSocial affair: blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/

If you don't already know: Donald Trump has launched a social media service based on Mastodon. However, his team didn't comply with Mastodon's licence which orders licensees to publish their forks' code.

This week, Mastodon have sent a letter to Trump's lawyer demanding the publication of Truth Social's source code. If that doesn't happen within a month, the licence may be revoked.

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You can view a Mastodon user's public posts with a particular hashtag by adding /tagged/(hashtag) on the end of their public URL:

(account's public URL)/tagged/(tag)

For example, @FediFollows posts with the hashtag #Art can be viewed at:

mastodon.online/@FediFollows/t

You can find the public URL of a Mastodon account by going to its profile and clicking on the avatar image.

#MastoTips #Mastodon #Feditips #Hashtags #Fediverse

Using Manuskript to Write a Fiction Novel

gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/d

A decent intro to a free software writing tool. I use this to write fiction, but it could just as well be used to create non-fiction, blog posts, etc.

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This article, on US spy agencies' self-awareness of the legal weakness of their drone-killing program, is the first fresh document I've seen published from the archive in years.

@attackerman is always worth reading: t.co/NRwCr7eBRu

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This looks like it produces a global (hash) database of people's iris scans (for "fairness"), and waves away the implications by saying "we deleted the scans!"

Yeah, but you save the *hashes* produced by the scans. Hashes that match *future* scans.

Don't catalogue eyeballs. t.co/uAk0NYGeZu

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It is crucial to bear in mind that the industry's problem is not data "protection," it is data COLLECTION. Mass surveillance must be recognized as a crime, not a business model. t.co/L7Bu9otMWt

MoonSun - Slain by Silence (Official Video)

youtube.com/watch?v=_OFgFbgmPS

First new MoonSun video I've seen in awhile :)

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Checking if I had "Trump starting a Mastodon server" on my bingo card

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Purism's App Developer, Dorota Czaplejewicz shows how she used PulseAudio to play sounds from the laptop on her 📢
puri.sm/posts/speak-to-me/

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Insightful. We can't repeat often enough that @mobian , @debian , @postmarketOS , @manjarolinux and others would not be where they are now, without @purism adopting a cooperative upstreaming policy. We would wager that everyone purchasing a (true) Linux device now, benefits from your investments. There is plenty to criticize and nag about you 😝, but you are doing the whole FOSS community a service that could not easily be replicated by volunteers.

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