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downey

@downey@floss.social

Software freedom and digital rights activist. Open Source Programs at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). FLOSS.social founder. Boards: https://floss.social/@librehealth, https://floss.social/@fdroidorg, @gnome, https://fosstodon.org/@osuosl.

Formerly: #OpenSource programs at #UnitedNations Foundation, #Community at OpenMRS.

Quality toots since 2017.

#FreeSoftware #HumanRights #DigitalAutonomy #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #UN #fedi22

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downey, to fediverse
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:boost_love: Hey folks - please boost for visibility!

:mastodon: The brilliant & hard-working 16-year old Lucas @moshidon is doing a great job building a fun and innovative fork of the client.

💡 Take a moment to download and try it out, and if you can, toss him a little money to support & encourage his work!

https://github.com/LucasGGamerM/moshidon

downey, to opensource
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:opensource: :flag_un: Pleased to be able to announce my day job: The exciting new Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE), a collaboration between between the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Read more about the initiative:

https://www.undp.org/digital/osee

downey, to infosec
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:google: BREAKING: to start deleting unused accounts so other people can use them, because of course impersonation is not a thing.

🤔 What could possibly go wrong?

🤦‍♂️ Techbros are (still) idiots.

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/

downey, to random
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"By gracing a platform like X with your presence, you're actively hurting society."

downey, to random
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If anyone at is looking to relocate their Fediverse home, the FLOSS.social community welcomes you.

We are a small instance (capped at 1000) of people & projects who care deeply about free & open source software. We have a strong code of conduct (modeled on Outreachy); allow advocacy; embrace humor, friendship, and hobbies; and let people post content in their native languages.

https://floss.social

downey, to opensource
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:opensource: 👂🏽Do any geeks know of tools for (especially) and/or that can set separate equalization for each ear?

:covid19: Because of , I have in my left ear and I would like to boost higher frequencies to get it somewhat equal.

:boost_love: Thanks for any ideas. Please boost if you have audio-smart followers that might have ideas for me, and please wear a mask so this doesn't happen to you.

downey, to fediverse
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:fediverse: I'm a few days late to the party, but really digg-ing the look of , the newly-announced enabled bookmarking system. Have you seen it yet?

https://motd.co/2023/09/postmarks-launch/

downey, to random
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:fediverse: Re-centralization is never the answer.

downey, to random
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👋🏽 Hi folks. Forgive my intrusion into your hashtag. I'm hoping to find creative folks who might be interested in a commission to do a few digital illustrations for an installation of the Mastodon web UI software.

🎨 Does anyone know of some leads? Would be great if they use open source tools like Krita or Inkscape. Thanks in advance!

downey, to beeper
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:matrix: TIL that the based unified chat utility, has been acquired by .

https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-joining-automattic/

downey, to opensource
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Just a reminder that it's been 2,314 days since promised to .

This week: "All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts, an authentication service powered by Mozilla."

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/pocket/signing-in-to-pocket-just-got-even-more-secure/

downey, to fediverse
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:android: :fediverse: Dear : Are there any clients that allow multiple columns in landscape mode? (Particularly when using a larger tablet-based UI.) Basically similar to the web "advanced" view.

:boost_love:

downey, to random
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Important perennial and universal reminder from @torproject:

downey, to GNOME
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:gnome: It was so great to visit with old and new friends in the community this past week at . So many folks doing outstanding work and with excellent ideas. Eager to serve & support you all as a board member for this term!

downey, to infosec
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Does anyone in the Fediverse have any real-world experience yet with the and associated software from @bunnie et al.?

https://betrusted.io

downey, to Quotes
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"Shouting 'self-care' at people who actually need 'community care' is how we fail people."

— Nakita Valerio

https://fashionmagazine.com/flare/self-care-new-zealand-muslim-attack/

downey, to random
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Dream big:
Idealists are the real realists.

Watch 3 minutes of from one of my dad's colleagues and mentors:

https://vid.priv.au/watch?v=loay2imHq5E&local=true

downey, to China
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🕵️ 🇨🇳 In , social media platforms , , , , , and now require users to reveal their real names to the public. People are quitting as a result.

https://restofworld.org/2023/weibo-legal-display-name-influencers/

downey, to email
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📧 🐖 ☣️ Happy to all who celebrate!

downey, to random
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🇺🇸 The US job market is really mind-blowing in that it was easier to find tech industry jobs that were remote before the pandemic, than it is now.

Even though so many people learned how to do it well.

🤑 Real estate investors are so desperate for their sweet passive income that they're more than happy to harm the rest of the economy to get it.

downey, to random
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Great to see as a member of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance to balance the voices of big tech. Have been tracking the hard work of @thegibson and others for quite a while now, and its P2P approach is one of the most inspiring developments on the horizon.

downey, to Facebook
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🤔 Isn't it funny how you never hear the wannabe-influencer "let's wait and see" apologists on here ever deal with the countless cases like this?

☣️ "Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with and for years, congressional probe finds"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/tech/tax-prep-companies-taxpayer-data-google-meta

downey, to threads
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:fediverse: 🤔 Is it just me, or is there pretty much a 1:1 overlap between the most hardcore apologists and those same people who had been fighting hard for centralized moderation services?

downey, to meta
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eloquence, to threads
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@renchap @Gargron

It would be good to know if this behavior of "Limit" at the server-level is considered a bug by the project:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26301

That'll probably factor into whether servers want to limit or suspend .

downey,
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:mastodon_oops: FYI, setting or any server to "Limit" will not keep its posts out of the feeds of your non-consenting users:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26301#issuecomment-1868240966

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