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parismarx, 5 days ago to tech

Germany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist.

#tech #elonmusk #politics

billyjoebowers, 5 days ago to random

"I'm looking for a thing..."

Mastodon: "Have you tried building your own out of a cargo bike, a rasberry pi running linux, and Lego?"

scy, 4 days ago to google

Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?

And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?

And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?

It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

echo_pbreyer, 4 days ago to Freedom

🇬🇧On the outcome of the European elections: Many thanks to our 186.000 #Pirates voters in Germany. Congratulations to @marketkag who will be the last #Pirate to represent us in the new EU Parliament.

The bitter election result (due in part to our own mistakes) is a disaster for us, the progressive parties as a whole and for digital civil liberties. We will live to regret this. The conservatives and far right triumph, which will mean less #transparency and less #freedom – only mentioning #ChatControl and #EUGoingDark. None of this has even been discussed in the runup to this election.

If you are also shocked by this development and want to do something about it, I encourage you to:
💪🏴‍☠️join the Pirate movement today and get involved so that we can do better and organise political countermeasures (including extra-parliamentary ones)! https://european-pirateparty.eu/members/
✊📢🗣🪧join a civil liberty organisation now and get involved in the resistance against a high-tech surveillance state! https://edri.org/about-us/our-network/

J12t, 5 days ago to random

New_ Public is starting a project on hyperlocal online communities -- neighborhoods, towns, that kind
of thing.

I'd be in, if something like this existed in my neighborhood, and is better than Nextdoor!

/cc @wearenew_public

gratefuldread, 5 days ago to LGBTQ

Duolingo removes LGBTQ+ content for Russian users https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/duolingo-removes-lgbtq-content-for-russian-users/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #lgbtq #lgbt

ZachWeinersmith, 6 days ago to random

Suppose you cut Wolverine in half, top to bottom. What happens:

A) Half dies, other half lives
B) Both regenerate into new Wolverine
C) Half dies, other half lives, but the regenerated Wolverine has problems related to having two right or two left hemphispheres
D) Both regenerate, but with the problem described in C.

anubiarts, 5 days ago to pixelart

oldie but goldie:
you've been visited by the rainbow cats, which will make the toot below to be hit with the gay

use this power with your boost responsibly

#MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #Art #Animals #Cats

A Picture featuring a brown cat lying on the floor, who has a rainbow coming out of their belly. The cat is slightly staring at the rainbow, probably in shock of their power. Nature is beautiful.

rysiek, 5 days ago to Bulgaria

More than twelve years ago I was invited by @LaQuadrature to come to the Europarlament to help stop ACTA:
https://rys.io/en/65.html

This was the first time I got a chance to directly talk to MEPs to try change their minds on an issue I cared deeply about. It was not the last.

I've done a lot of activism, on both EU and national level. My experience with the European Parliament remains the best.

It really matters who we send there. And we do have a say on that.

Go vote. 🇪🇺

#EU #EUelections2024

noodlejetski, 5 days ago to random Polish

na wczorajszym Marszu Równości we Wrocławiu szli ludzie z tęczowym bannerem reprezentując Pyszne.pl, więc - pomijając dyskusję o pinkwashingu - jest niezerowa szansa że homofoby zbulwersują się, zbojkotują, i zdechną z głodu

jwz, 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

Before they will let me publish a new release of XScreenSaver on the "Play" [sic] store, Google, the most rapacious privacy violator ever, insists that a screensaver have a privacy policy.

This is where you come in!

I'd like this policy to be a series of bullet points: "Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will not [Thing.] An endless, concise catalog of their sins.

I need both your snark AND a link supporting your snark. It's critical for the joke to land. Include both.

GO!!

https://jwz.org/b/ykUc

rysiek, 7 days ago to CrystalsHashtags

While #Adobe is doing an absolute stupid with their new licensing terms, and (now Canva-owned) #Affinity slashes prices by half in a "flash sale", I am once again asking people to consider supporting #FLOSS tools instead.

Yes, they are far from perfect.

But with a small fraction of what these closed source vendors are raking in, these tools could be made immeasurably better.

And they won't end up bought up and enshittified, as experience with past attempts at doing that to FLOSS tools shows.

thisismissem, 6 days ago to LGBTQ

Get some pride on your Mastodon instance with this small snippet of CSS you can add via the admin panel: https://github.com/vndmtrx/mastodon-pride-button

#lgbtq #pride #PrideMonth

stux, 6 days ago to random

Package is safe with meow meow

evacide, 7 days ago to random

Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

noodlejetski, 6 days ago to wroclaw Polish

#wroclaw #Pride

openstreetmap, 6 days ago to LGBTQ

The main way to store #LGBTQ+ aspect in #OpenStreetMap is with the lgbtq tag. 🏳️‍🌈

lgbtq=primary is for locations which cater to an exclusively or predominantly LGBTQ+ audience, either by the managers running it that way, or by overwhelming convention. Subtags (lgbtq:*=*) can be used for finer details.

Read more on the OSM Wiki 📝 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lgbtq>

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈 and Happy Mapping! 🗺 🙂

#OSM #LGB #LGBT #LGBTQ #PrideMonth #Pride #PrideMonth2024

aral, 6 days ago to random

I have to say I do like the results you get in Icons8 when you search for Mark Zuckerberg.

#icons8 #cancel #markZuckerberg

eniko, 7 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

it's only called copilot+ pc in the redmond, washington region of the USA, otherwise it's just sparkling spyware

lukemgraphy, 6 days ago to photography

(1) Much fuss about ball (2) Much less fuss about ball

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphotography #documentaryphotography

The same place during the second half of the match. Lots of empty tables, only one person sitting at the table and watching the match. A bored waitress standing nearby and looking away.

gamingonlinux, 7 days ago to random

When game devs take a stand against Windows Recall

cyberlyra, 7 days ago to google

Hi friends and followers, the terrific @jhpot wrote a piece for @lifehacker sharing my tips for getting off #google

Please check it out and share with your friends, family, and colleagues on and off the #fedi !

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-quit-google-according-to-a-privacy-expert?ref=jhpMastodon

echo_pbreyer, 7 days ago to random German

🇩🇪 Die #EUGoingDark-Überwachungslawine rollt los - lasst uns sie brechen!
Alle (bekannten) Fakten jetzt auf meiner neuen Themenseite:
https://patrick-breyer.de/beitraege/draft-going-dark-uberwachungsschmiede/

🔜 EU-Rats-Termine:
11.6. COPEN https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/CM-3137-2024-INIT/en/pdf
13.6. Justiz & Inneres https://consilium.europa.eu/de/meetings/jha/2024/06/13-14/

GossiTheDog, 24 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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