Anybody else notices that they can’t add/follow users? For some reason I can’t follow anybody: click the icon, goes blue (+), the turns grey again (-)...

A bit off topic regarding my usual posting, but I’ve been DIY-ing for a few days to get the old leaky radiator cranes out. A few days of full chaos, tool, parts and puddles of water everywhere!
Some old parts needed a little more force then others... forces like saws and stuff...

The 3rd part of ww.thechive.com battle with G00gle & FB as independentlt publishers of their content. TheChive is independent and still ranking in a top10 list of visited site, to the annoyance of G&FB.

Help then out by visiting and supporting!

The collusion squeeze play and the Return of the Chive (10 Photos) : theCHIVE
thechive.com/2019/11/14/the-co

If you are reading this and are from India, welcome. I hope you enjoy the freedom and people here. We are all very nice :)

Some interesting reading, reading government wanting some "backdoors" in encrypted chat apps. Like @Tutanota already earlier posted about; not a good idea at all!

[Dutch]
Minister wil achterdeur in encryptie - Achtergrond - Tweakers
tweakers.net/reviews/7474/mini

The Internet turned 50 today, explains the arthritis we've been seeing recently

medium.com/ucla-magazine/lo-an

At this age it's important to stretch and exercise ( #ActivityPub #Fediverse ), actively supplement ( #EFF #SFConservancy ) and remember to have fun ( #PepperAndCarrot )

#50YearsInternet

@nitox@fosstodon.org Signal is nice too. Give that a try :)

@fatboy what at least I say: time to sell my Fitbit....

@fatboy /e/ is Nice, but still not usable for daily use

How ironic:
- post anything on Instagram;
quite some likes/hearts

- post specific about FOSS;
a few likes/hearts

- post about Edward Snowden and privacy;
Just one (1) single like

Do people not care, or has Instagram some kind of sensorship going one....

@fatboy a very good question indeed. Her in NL it's the main (even only) choice for people to use. Tried to convert some people to use something else, but it's a hard sell (even when they are fearful of FB).

And I have to admit, as one of the organizers of some groups (volunteer thingies) is hard to leave, like some suggested in your earlier comments...

Alternatively: leave a phone with WA at home (and only use there), and use another phone with Signal/Wire/...... on the road.

Just finished Mr. Snowden's book: Permanent Record. Intriguing, freighting and also unbelievably good too read. The sacrifices he made and the risks taken are immense, but for the public wellbeing.
I was already reducing social media, looking into encryption and being more aware on using services on the internet. This book makes me work harder on this..
On a side note: it's ironic that I've read the book on my Amazon Kindle...

@thahajemni@fosstodon.org I've got on of the e_phone of @gael: not my primary phone, but test phone. While I used it for a bit, you noticed how much you use WA... The whole of NL is residing in there.... A bit freighting to be honest

@fatboy let get this started: Replaced my for (with ).... Still dual boot with win10.... Sorry ;)

(Sigh)

I just learned that there are only 500 /e/Phones in the wild. I had assumed there were thousands of 'em.

That means my personal (perceived) share of responsibility to the project — to test, note and report bugs, to promote and support it, etc — just ratcheted waaay up.

(Sigh)

Great phone. Go buy one, maybe two.

Hi @gael.

#foss #opensource #efoundation

So 3 months ago, I bought one of the first /e/Phones, a refurbished S7 Edge with a nice #ungoogled Android OS.

I figured I was among the first few hundred buyers. Now I see they are only up to #500, which means mine must be, like, #8.

People, these are good phones. The camera software sucks. That's my only real complaint; apart from that, it rocks.

How are these things not selling faster?! Support #FOSS / #OpenSource. Buy a damn phone.

Holler out to @gael, who started it all.

Quite funny Mark: blaming the others.... Warning that a Internet shaped by China is a bad idea...

[Dutch article]
Artikel op @NU.nl
Mark Zuckerberg waarschuwt voor door China vormgegeven internet nu.nl/tech/6004848/mark-zucker (via @NUnl)

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