Ghazi @curiousmind@qoto.org

More than once these last few days ppl in #Amsterdam voiced surprise that Germany doesn't have a central ID (yet) that's used for all services. They clearly felt this to be a bit backwards.

It's a shame the #bombing of Amsterdam civil #registry almost exactly 80 yrs ago is forgotten.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_bombing_of_the_Amsterdam_civil_registry_office

„The 1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office was an attempt by members of the Dutch resistance to destroy the Amsterdam civil registry (bevolkingsregister), ..

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Elle est superbe cette vidéo sur la #Tunisie ❤
Tunis, Chebba, El Jem, Cap Blanc, Dougga, Bizerte, le Sahara, Jendouba, Les canyon de Mides, Sidi Bou Said..
[Montage 🎞 : The Real Tunisia sur Insta ]

Voilà j'y suis #MastoTn

Repub strategy in a nutshell.

I don’t expect end-to-end encryption on extremely large group chats, and I understand that’s how a lot of people use Telegram. But not having it on by default in 2023 for 1:1 and small groups, that just seems malicious.

Telegram having weak/non-default E2E encryption made a little sense five years ago, but at this point it’s a pretty opinionated and purposeful decision.

#تونس - شعبك يحرق في روحو يا سيادة الرئيس - وفاة اللاعب نزار العيساوي
https://www.elhiwarettounsi.com/amp/ar/article/84011/%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8-%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A

I lost all my tabs in Firefox by accidently closing it before restoring the history.

It is both devasting and oddly freeing

Did you know we have a SPA Quiz? (security/privacy/anonymity)

It’s a fun way to track your progress, and an excellent tool to send to friends & family to make privacy fun for them!

Take it now: https://techlore.tech/spa

What are some of your scores? 👀

Coming back from sabbatical, I'm suffering from whiplash due to deterministic rhetoric around AI. I wrote myself some notes: https://zephoria.medium.com/resisting-deterministic-thinking-52ef8d78248c

But I'm also curious... why do you think deterministic rhetoric SOOOOOOO pervasive right now?

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway

😱 Samir Saïed,Min. Eco. répond à @TnPresidency: «On n'a pas d'alternative au prêt FMI,perso je n'ai pas de plan B. Je vous prie,celui qui en a un, qu'il nous le présente car ↗️ impôts, ↘️ l’invest. public & mesures sociales n'est pas un plan viable"
NB: réponse datant de 12/2022

Pour les groupies de Saïed qui souhaitent se mettre sous la coupe de Pékin, voici la position officielle des chinois:
"l’ambassadeur chinois a affirmé que son pays se tient à nos côtés pour obtenir un prêt du FMI permettant de mettre en œuvre les réformes économiques envisagées."

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Oh, this seems pretty cool. Now that Elon has cracked down on the API and made tools like debirdify not work, @scafaria has created Whosum, a browser extension to help make your social graph more portable. It currently "records" your Twitter connections and then highlights those on Mastodon all in your browser (not on some server somewhere). https://whosum.com/