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New blog post!

Surveillance Capitalism and the Climate Crisis

njoseph.me/blog/posts/surveill

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Freedom in a Box

My talk about privacy, decentralization, self-hosting, freedom of speech and FreedomBox.

It's a non-technical talk meant to spread awareness about the dangers of mass surveillance and the alternatives that exist to centralized systems.

peertube.mastodon.host/videos/

Links to slides are in the video description.

Delivered at ThoughtWorks Hyderabad for the 46th edition of GeekNight on 2nd Jan, 2019.

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Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox.

Sudhamsh Kandukuri and I presented yesterday at XConf India 2018.

An inspiring story of a grassroots movement where people rejected Facebook's Free Basics and installed low-cost community Wi-Fi networks instead.
A FreedomBox on the network provides most of the essential digital services required, offline.

Slides:
njoseph.me/~joseph/Digital%20E

Video recording: coming soon!

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Welcome to this little corner of the Fediverse. This instance is one among hundreds running Mastodon.

You are seeing this because I'm the administrator of this account and I'm the first person you follow when joining this instance.

Please read the rules before posting.
social.masto.host/about/more

This site is funded by individuals and doesn't make money with your data. You can use your real name or an alias.

You can find other instances like this one at instances.social/

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All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.

We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?

This is one of the worst deals in history.

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Kyle Rankin  

"Rankin warned that tech giants were now "redefining the word "privacy" in their own marketing." While they may claim to protect it, what they really want is to protect privacy from their competitors, he added. "They add security measures to their software and services so only they can capture, view and sell all of your data and others can't.""

dw.com/en/smartphone-startups-

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Somehow stumbled upon RedHat's "The State of Enterprise Open Source" report.

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕  

Imagine a world without thought experiments.

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ajz  

Cloud Firewall for #Firefox is gone from the FF add-ons but there is this brand new one, #GAFAM Firewall - I am curious to try it : addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

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Marcus  

TIL you can search the mozilla.org, gnome.org and kde.org #matrix room directories from #riot by typing trhose urls into the server dropdown menu.

That's pretty cool. And very not-obvious.

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FM Radio

I just rediscovered that my Android phone running LineageOS has an FM Radio app. It needs headphones plugged which acts as an FM antenna.

I wonder if people using iPhones ever realized that they lost access to FM Radio on their phones altogether with the loss of the 3.5mm jack. Maybe there's yet another adapter?

When I was a teenager, FM Radio was quite popular as most people used feature phones. These days, people mostly play it in their cars.

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Paul Lammers  

Some Google employees made a website. I would summarize their three objections as follows:

1) helping out border patrol and immigration with data
2) helping the fossil fuel industry with machine learning
3) doing (and publicly asking for more) mercenary work

I think these are also valid reasons to leave Google as a customer.

alphabetworkers.org/resignatio

#google #deletegoogle

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silwol  

Lots of interesting #Debian-related video content can be found on the #Debtube #PeerTube instance. debtube.debian.net/

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wolliw  

Electric scooter in the 1920s

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freepo.st  

Reevaluating the DMCA 22 Years Later at eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/reev - discuss at freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/ss #freepost

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Amolith  

Proprietary email clients scraping your inbox and selling the collected data to third-parties? Who would have thought :blobcatsurprised:
vice.com/en_ca/article/pkekmb/

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snow, sweaters, and hot cocoa  

If you're new to Mastodon, please visit -

or if you'd like to invite new people to Mastodon, please ask them to visit -

my Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon, which (in addition to being a Hitchhiker's Guide reference) will tell you many things that are useful to know about Mastodon, and also some other things:

github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide

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🏳️‍🌈 Robin Hood 🏳️‍🌈  

“Imagine you could keep your lawnmower idling in your driveway, and every once and a while a Beanie Baby popped of the tailpipe”

Me, explaining bitcoin

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freepo.st  

OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android at f-droid.org/en/2020/02/03/open - discuss at freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/5b #freepost

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Trying out RiotX, a native Matrix mobile client for Android written in Kotlin.

It is still in Beta but has most of the important features implemented already.

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lorenzo  
♲ @sylviaj@joindiaspora.com:

Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize


defend.wikileaks.org/2020/02/0…

Ahem! #2020 #nobel #peace #prize #nominees #wikileaks #julianassange #assange #xychelsea #manning #edwardsnowden #snowden all nominated! (People keep asking where all the #heroes have gone, they’re right here!)

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Looks like the UX of Weblate has improved a lot over the course of the last year.

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The same goes for Pleroma instances but uploading emoji is not yet supported in the web interface.
docs.pleroma.social/custom_emo

Apparently, it was Pleroma that first created federated emoji.
medium.com/we-distribute/blush

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that one of the advantages of self-hosting a Mastodon instance is that you can create custom emoji.

laurakalbag.com/custom-emoji-o

@laura

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Danny  

Just blogged: CO2 emissions on the web.

dannyvankooten.com/website-car

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