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Free Software Foundation Europe  

Today, the @fsfe@twitter.com's and @OpenForumEurope@twitter.com's Policy Meeting connects #FreeSoftware communities with EU policy makers. Exciting discussions about how we can strengthen software freedom, digital sovereignty, and a better collaboration in Europe together

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I get to write an essay on The Hacker Manifesto for English class. Uni is great.

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It is rather upsetting when people trash JS devs just because of the abuse by some web developers. Please don't do that, JS is not an inherently bad language. It being shoehorned into every website, often by the demand of companies, is the issue.

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What I'm saying is: Please don't make an entire website that just needs to be text in React because it looks prettier. I understand if you're building something that requires user interaction, but if I'm going on the website of a local business and it won't display without JS... It's rather frustrating.

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I would be much more comfortable with some of alternate standard, a standard for webapps where folks could download them similarly to how "Chromium Apps" used to work. But the idea of having the web filled with JS instead of the originally intended hypertext makes me a bit... sad. Espeically because I never really lived to see the web in it's purest form. I started using the internet in the Flash era.

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⚧JⒶNE⚧  

While I have respect for any programmer, regardless of language, the sheer amount of web developers who cram needless JS in their website makes me sad. That's not to say that JS itself is an inherently bad language, but perhaps introducing it as a web standard was a mistake.

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Concept: Famicom Mastodon client using the Famicom Modem and the Family BASIC keyboard.

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Steven  

I finished up the #Gopher server I started writing yesterday.

github.com/yam655/gofor

Now you can "go for" my #GopherHole to see it in action

gopher://yam655.com/

I could probably make it better by rewriting it. At 151 lines, I might at some point.

Also: The source is 5.7K while the README.md file accompanying it is is 9.0K.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber  

"Source available" licenses are more nonfree / dangerous than straight up traditional proprietary no-source-available software/licenses. I am actively afraid of being exposed to code under such a license: that's now information that is difficult for me to use in my work on FOSS.

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Feuerfoxxo 🔥🦊  
RELEASED BLOBFOX EMOJIS v1.4

Changelog: See attachment
Download: https://www.feuerfuchs.dev/projects/blobfox-emojis/

#blobfox

(Pinging interested people: @absturztaube @cdmnky @Miaourt @kitsune @mewmew
probably didn't think of quite a few, sorry :blobfoxheart: )
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tedu  
On the normalization of surveillance.

Just watched a commercial for xfinity wifi in which there's the classic scene, teenage boy climbs through window to visit girlfriend after curfew, but then, wham, dad pops in. Busted. Dad holds up his phone, showing a notification. "Kid's phone has connected to wifi."

This is of course being sold as security feature, but it's kinda creepy, no? Every time you go near someone's house, they get an alert? And there's the angle that we carry tracking devices with us at all times, with the expectation (if not the reality) perhaps that only authorized people will review our records, but our devices are also quite promiscuous about attaching to wifi networks and revealing our movements. And clearly there's a market for watchers, based on the fact there's a whole ad targeting them.
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@swashberry
Public domain is more ideal. I didn't really think the specifics of the license were important so long as the permissive nature remained. My point doesn't change between ISC or Unlicense/CC0.

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The Tor Project  

"By cross-referencing just one hour of video footage from public webcams with Instagram stories taken and shared in Times Square, BuzzFeed News was able to confirm the real names and identities of a half dozen people."
buzzfeednews.com/article/megha
.onion: bfnews3u2ox4m4ty.onion/article

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The Tor Project  

We integrated UX research into digital security trainings. We now proudly have a software development cycle that puts users first and respects privacy.

In 2017-19, we reached ~800 people in person, including #humanrights defenders, journalists, and political activists.
blog.torproject.org/reaching-p

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@swashberry Free Software is not exclusively copyleft, and there is a debate on copyleft licenses in the Free Sofrware community. I personally use copyleft licenses so someone can't take software I've written, make a single change, and hide the source code from everyone, but I understand the argument against copyleft. In an ideal world everyone would use ISC, but we don't live in an ideal world (yet)

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I'm waiting for "Login with Facebook" buttons on healthcare.gov

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⚧JⒶNE⚧  

Appanrently University of Alabama is forcing students to download spyware that tracks their location if they want to attend (American) football games. This is to ensure they don't leave, and if they stay at enough games long enough they get points toward tickets to championshop games.
Source: archive.fo/UvriX
Or archivecaslytosk.onion/UvriX

I live in this god forsaken state, and have friends at that uni. This is beyond Orwellian.

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Queen of Argyll  

Voilà.

#capitalism

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