Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

📰 It's #WorldPressFreedomDay.

🔎 #Politicization, #disinformation, #censorship, #harassment, and #violence toward the #press are greater threats than ever to #democracy.

📣 Democratizing #SocialMedia platforms like #Mastodon can help, so spread the word and do your part to help grow the #Fediverse.

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=25fJTgcFLDc

This is a cool resource for wouldbe Mastodon bot authors seeking inspiration: https://botwiki.org/bot/?networks=fediverse&opensource=true

What do those of us using the open decentralised #Fediverse see as unique opportunities we have that those still on closed centralised social media lack?

I'll start: at https://OERu.org, we provide courses to help people learn to learn in a 'digital age'. That includes learning how social media works. We don't dump them into Twitter or Facebook, we offer a Mastodon instance where they experiment safely. When confident, they can expand their horizons effortlessly.

#AllAcrossTheFediverse

Days ago, I had a strategy session with marketing. She recommended to nourish my #linkedin persona. And recommended to grow a community there.
I told her that the platform gives me headache from the timeline & bad visuals.

This week I learned about yet another data breach:
https://newswwc.com/2021/04/09/linkedin-announces-data-breach-of-over-500-million-users/

I want to keep & grow my professional network. But not this way.

How do I explain them the concept of @flockingbird ?

btw, #ms365 now searches your contacts on #linkedin from #msoutlook (no opt-out)

Framasoft are one of the few no-bullshit, non-Silicon Valley organisations working to protect your freedoms online and they’ve been hugely supportive of us since the very beginning.

Please support them if you can.

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

#freedom #tech #privacy #humanRights

Do you speak Hindi, Romanian, Slovak, Italian, or Dutch? We're looking for additional volunteers to ensure we have continued translation coverage for these languages in SecureDrop.

See this Localization Lab overview to get started:

https://wiki.localizationlab.org/index.php/SecureDrop

2 years ago, we observed Grindr sharing exact location data with 8 data brokers in the 'advertising' space, including MoPub, back then owned by Twitter.

Now the WSJ found that this data has actually been available for sale, via MoPub, since at least 2017:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/grindr-user-data-has-been-for-sale-for-years-11651492800

Victory! Maryland’s legislature passed S.B. 134, which requires police training to recognize stalkerware. The bill is simple, but it will have a big impact. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/victory-maryland-police-must-now-be-trained-recognize-stalkerware

Although listening to Hayden Donnell on Midweek Mediawatch trying to explain the problems with social media as a general problem of under-moderation of the net, rather than one specific to zero-conscience corporate ownership and ad-driven datafarming business models, I can't help but think the journalists will be the last to get it ;)

@lightweight @rysiek

The problem with letting strangers put things into your computer, is, you're letting strangers put things into your computer.

I don't know if we'll ever figure out how to do this in a way that doesn't end in tears.

If you have had trouble to move your account to another instance due to a problem with the alias page, please try again.

A patch has been deployed on top of Mastodon v3.5.1 that should resolve this bug.

PSA: To everyone who is #NewHere, and those who are not.

When you use hashtags it can help those using a #ScreenReader to use #CamelCase. Screen-readers can then find and pronounce the constituent words, rather than trying to pronounce the whole thing.

It's not essential, but it's one way we can make the Fediverse more welcoming.

I don't really understand this or why they don't call it a new battery technology. It sounds amazing, but also like one of those amazing post-carbon technologies you never hear about again after reading the article (which leaves me unsure if it's because of patents, lack of market interest, or the tech was overhyped).

Anyway, perhaps someone else knows.

"Solar energy can now be stored for up to 18 years, say scientists "
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/04/12/solar-energy-can-now-be-stored-for-up-to-18-years-say-scientists

Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads.

The report concludes that #Amazon and third parties (including advertising and #tracking services) collect data from your interactions with #Alexa through #Echo smart speakers and share it with as many as 41 #advertising partners.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23047026/amazon-alexa-voice-data-targeted-ads-research-report

At least you can say you are not alone at home anymore.

41 fu**ing partners.

#privacyMatters #domotics #privacy

🚩 ✊ #Labor #LaborDay #workers #MayDay

TIL that linktr.ee pages, which exist to serve a *list of links,* something websites in 1995 could do, does not load at all without JS enabled.