Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Thierry Henry quits social media and calls for platforms to act against racist online attacks https://advox.globalvoices.org/2021/04/16/thierry-henry-quits-social-media-and-calls-for-platforms-to-act-against-racist-online-attacks/

Google is now tracking your visitors for advertising purposes even when you’re not using Google Analytics or Google Ads.

I took a closer look at Google’s FLoC initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer

https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc

Privacy International is a charity that has campaigned for the right to privacy since 1990. You can follow their official Fediverse account at:

➡️ @privacyint

They also have an official video account on their own PeerTube instance at:

➡️ @privacyint

Their website is at https://privacyinternational.org

#PrivacyInternational #PI #Privacy #Rights #HumanRights #NGO #NGOs #Charity #Charities #OnlinePrivacy #Videos #Activism #PeerTube #PeerTubers

Twitter is a website. Fediverse is an ecosystem

Site.js ❤️ Owncast: 30 second production installs

site enable --owncast

https://github.com/owncast/owncast/discussions/935

(In Site.js version 16.3.2 released moments ago.)

More: https://sitejs.org

CC @owncast #Owncast #SiteJS #SmallTech #SmallWeb

Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.

A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."

People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.

Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.

i had an income of €4800/mo in 2019 working as a programmer.

now my income is €1600/mo.

i don't want to work as a programmer anymore. i hated it. i thought i'd love it, for 15 years i convinced myself i just needed to find the right workplace, but it was just me.

so i live on 1/3 the income because i don't wanna do that. very steep price to pay, but it's worth it.

I really should get back into drawing. I enjoy it far more than programming, but it doesn't pay the bills. I actually learned to draw long before I got into computer science or anything related to technology. I did this drawing of Richard Stallman 2 years ago.

Trouble is, I only get the inspiration to do art once every blue moon. It's really hard to get motivated. My time is otherwise consumed writing code and wielding a soldering iron.

Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-loophole-state-backed-manipulation

@fla @r3pek @PINE64 @chiraag I've initialized a repository called Flare on @kde's GitLab server for a native mobile Linux Signal client with Qt Quick. Please contribute and boost!
https://invent.kde.org/being/flare

Is anyone interested in starting a new adaptive GTK Rust client for Signal for Linux smartphones and desktops? I wrote a post on the @PINE64 forum about my reasoning for this technical approach:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13610

Please boost.

*Do not respond to this with criticism of Signal*. If you're annoying about that, I'll block you.