Leetaur @leetaur@librem.one

What to Not Post or Share on #SocialMedia https://karl-voit.at/2021/10/30/social-media-rules/ including Peter’s Rules of #Twitter.

I'm going to change my posting behavior for #Mastodon and Twitter.

#publicvoit

if 2024 is trump vs biden again you're all getting sent to your room without supper. probably more literally than any of us expect. https://t.co/zrApqKcXRp

In honour of Aaron Swartz Day, here's a link to the award-winning documentary about him, which you can legally watch right here on the Fediverse thanks to its creative commons licence:

https://vidcommons.org/w/9952af68-0b30-4ea0-81ac-a26444541331

...and here's a tip about one of the technologies which Swartz played a major role in developing...

You can follow Mastodon accounts through RSS if you prefer:

1. Go to the profile page of the account you want to follow.

2. Click on the profile picture to open its public profile page.

3. Copy the public profile page's URL and add .rss to the end of it, then add this address to your feed reader.

For example, to follow FediTips via RSS, use the address https://mstdn.social/@feditips.rss in your feed reader.

(Note that this only works for that account's public posts)

#RSS #MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Fediverse #AaronSwartz #AaronSwartzDay

Within a monoculture, there is tremendous pressure to participate in the enforcement of consensus as if it were truth, which alienates members from the possibility that truth can often stand in opposition to consensus.

https://t.co/QjsIQ1PXYn

Tune in to our new episode! @katherined and @dsearls talk to @kyle about the #metaverse of #Facebook and beyond, how it may intersect with Web 3 and #blockchain, as well as #SecondLife and the verses that came before.
Visit the following link for full episode - https://www.reality2cast.com/91

#Privacy #Technology #Podcast #newEpisode

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.

Spies

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

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

#MastoTips #Mastodon #Emoji #FediTips #Fediverse

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. https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

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.

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. https://u.fsf.org/fsfheroes

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

#Mastodon have released an official statement regarding the #TruthSocial affair: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/

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.

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:

https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows/tagged/art

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

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: https://t.co/NRwCr7eBRu

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. https://t.co/uAk0NYGeZu

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. https://t.co/L7Bu9otMWt