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The internet has turned into a surveillance machine. 👀

🕵️ TikTok = China can track you
🕵️ Telegram = Russia can track you
🕵️ Google = USA can track you

Only with encryption, we can make sure that our data stays safe. 🤫

Get a secure mailbox now: tutanota.com/big-tech-alternat… 🔒

Picture saying 'Google is watching you'

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Tutanota is the secure email service, built in Germany. Use encrypted emails on all devices with our open source email client, mobile apps & desktop clients.
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In Praise of Those Who Leak

crimethinc.com/StealfromWork20…

For Steal Something from Work Day 2023, we focus on a particular kind of workplace theft: the leak.

In the information age, knowledge is power. The circulation of classified information is integral to the repressive institutions that maintain the prevailing order.

The less that these institutions can trust each other and their own employees, the harder it becomes for them to respond rapidly and coordinate. If information is the blood in the bloodstream of the security state, persistent leaks coagulate that blood.

So here is our challenge to you, begrudging employee. The same capitalist economy that keeps you chained to your work station runs on the information that passes before your eyes every day.

At some point, something may cross your field of vision that could be useful to someone engaged in the struggle for a better world. If you see something—say something.

🏴

A political cartoon reading "Play with a full deck," showing a capitalist and a worker facing off across a card table. The capitalist has many cards to play—"banks," "courts," "army," and more. The worker only has "solidarity" and "strike."

Steal Something from Work Day 2023

There are many things you can reclaim from work: money, time, goods, raw materials. Here, we discuss the advantages of taking and leaking information.
CrimethInc.

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US trans politics, missouri trans healthcare recommendation :boosts_ok_gay:

Any missourians about to lose trans healthcare in the KC metro area, the University of Kansas hospital is right across the border and I can personally vouch that their trans healthcare team is amazing, they've had some ups and downs, but I was a patient with them from 2017 when they started the clinic all the way to 2022 when I left the state.

They do require a letter for HRT, BUT If you're already on hormones they'll help you stay on them while the letter gets sorted out. I hope this helps someone here :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

kansashealthsystem.com/care/sp…

#TransHealthcare
#Trans
#USPol

Gender-Affirming and Transgender Medicine In Kansas City | The University Of Kansas Health System

We aim to assist people who identify as transgender, transsexual, gender variant, gender nonconforming and gender questioning.
www.kansashealthsystem.com
#trans #uspol #transhealthcare
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A fascinating view of Martian moon Phobos crossing the face of the Sun captured from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover on April 2, 2022.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI
Further reading: nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-pe…

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Video of Solar Eclipse on Mars

The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the Red Planet’s two moons, to study how its orbit is changing over time.
Naomi Hartono (NASA)

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The week in tweets and memes is up! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-w…

The Week in Tweets and Memes

This week was all over the place, with some substantial news and some true banality. Before we get into it, if you’re a free subscriber but you’ve been meaning to take out a paid subscription, you can buy me a coffee drink a month by upgrading your a…
Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)

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Wissenschaftlicher Dienst des #EU-Parlaments bestätigt, dass die geplante #Chatkontrolle gegen Artikel 7 und 8 der Grundrechtecharta verstößt.

Niemand hilft Kindern mit einer Verordnung, die unweigerlich durch Grundrechtsverstöße, vor dem Gerichtshof scheitern wird. #piraten

„Was wir anstelle totalitärer Chatkontrolle und Ausweispflichten wirklich
brauchen, ist eine längst überfällige Verpflichtung der
Strafverfolgungsbehörden, bekanntes Missbrauchsmaterial im Internet zu
löschen, sowie europaweite Standards für wirksame Präventionsmaßnahmen,
Opferhilfe und -beratung und zeitnahe strafrechtliche Ermittlungen.“ so unser EU-Abgeordneter Dr. Patrick Breyer.

#piraten #Chatkontrolle #EU-Parlaments

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We've added a new variable in `azuracast.env` called `INSTALL_PACKAGES_ON_STARTUP`, where you can specify any custom packages installable using "apt-get install" to install when your AzuraCast container spins up.

Along with this, we're removing some optional packages that we don't use out of the box to make the main image smaller for everyone, namely several extra LADSPA processing plugins. You can easily get them back using this new environment variable: github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast…


AzuraCast/CHANGELOG.md at main · AzuraCast/AzuraCast

A self-hosted web radio management suite, including turnkey installer tools for the full radio software stack and a modern, easy-to-use web app to manage your stations. - AzuraCast/CHANGELOG.md at ...
GitHub

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Aah, I do love me some #longform #AtomicShrimp #ScamBating #Youtube #Videos. Yes I do. Better than an audiobook.

youtube.com/watch?v=4_PtsA7DUQ…


All Together Now - Scambaiting En Masse

I get a lot of scam emails and trying to converse with them all individually can becumbersome. So how about a bit of group chat - let's go scambaiting!Intro...
YouTube
#youtube #Videos #longform #atomicshrimp #scambating

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There's a new #Thunderbird idea on Mozilla Connect:

"Dismiss New Email Notifications When Email is Clicked [LINUX]"

Discuss it or vote on it here: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/d…

Dismiss [New Email] Notifications When Email is Clicked

I'm not sure if this functionality is already implemented on other platforms, but this relates to GNU/Linux. I've used Thunderbird on both GNOME and Sway and the experience is the same. When a new email is received, I will get a notification for it.
connect.mozilla.org
#thunderbird

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Way back in 2021, I called out #Substack as a scam because it was masquerading as a service provider when it fact it was paying certain writers (often secretly) to create content for them. (buttondown.email/thehypothesis…) They had an editorial mission and a paid writing staff, but claimed to be a neutral service provider like Etsy for authors. Here's how that story is going ...

Here's why Substack's scam worked so well

I think of myself as having decent critical faculties, but somehow I got suckered again by a bog-standard publishing venture masquerading as a useful...
buttondown.email
#substack

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Coming up live at 01:00 UTC (9:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 Pacific in the Americas) on The Global Voice Internet Radio: an hour of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listening music on Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/smooth. Tune in at theglobalvoice.info and click on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio

Smooth and Easy

If you need to take it easy after a busy day, but don’t want to fall asleep, then Smooth and Easy is the show for you. This program features an hour of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listeni…
Kelly Sapergia's Home Page
#audio #tgvradio

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🚂.🚃.HYPE.🚃.TRAIN.🚃

Fedora Linux 38 will release on Tuesday, April 18!

We've hit the early target dates for our beta and stable releases, so props to the Fedora community. And thanks to all who helped with testing!
#Fedora #Linux

More updates on Friday's Fedora Facts: communityblog.fedoraproject.or…


Friday's Fedora Facts: 2023-15 – Fedora Community Blog

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! Fedora Linux 38 will be released on Tuesday — the early target date! I have weekly office hours most Wednes…
Ben Cotton (Fedora Project)
#linux #fedora

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Mastodon, seis meses después de la invasión tuitera: “Ha mostrado ser una alternativa”

Recibió cuatro millones de nuevos usuarios que huyeron de Twitter tras la llegada de Elon Musk; ha conseguido que la mitad se queden: así ha sido su adaptación eldiario.es/tecnologia/mastodo…

Mastodon, seis meses después de la invasión tuitera: "Ha mostrado ser una alternativa"

La pequeña red social autogestionada Mastodon estaba acostumbrada a los desembarcos de tuiteros. Era su principal método de crecimiento: una polémica sobre las normas de Twitter, algún bloqueo de cuenta más mediático de lo normal o un aumento de la t…
Carlos del Castillo (elDiario.es)
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Ondřej Caletka

Oh, and someone just discovered that there are single use payment cards and they can be abused to game the system. Not a good idea - the fraudster can always be identified and held liable.

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RT @RTLnieuws
Voor conducteurs lijkt het alsof reizigers gewoon betalen. rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/…
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Gratis reizen met ov heel eenvoudig: betaling met OVpay te omzeilen

Het is kinderlijk eenvoudig om gratis met het openbaar vervoer te reizen via OVpay, het nieuwe systeem om ook met een smartphone in- en uit te checken. Door in een app een tijdelijke betaalpas te maken, kun je reizen zonder saldo.
RTL Nieuws

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Yet more Press that gets Mastodon wrong!

Mastodon’s growth has not slowed down. We just added 1 million users in less than a month—for a total of 11 million!

There was a momentary spike in November that resulted in Mastodon hitting 2.5 million MAUs, most generated from sign-ups.

But since then, the rate of growth has been consistent. In fact, compared year-over-year, sign-ups have more than tripled.

And that’s just looking at sign-ups!

pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/t…

@fediversenews

Mastodon Mastodon received a lot of attention and a spurt of new users in October and November after Musk’s initial takeover of Twitter. The platform has now reached about 11 million users, although its growth has slowed down.

The platforms lining up as Twitter alternatives - Press Gazette

Could platforms like Substack, Post, Mastodon and Legitimate provide some kind of alternative to Twitter for journalists?
Charlotte Tobitt (Press Gazette)
@Fediverse News
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Chris Trottier

Reading about that Press Gazette article, it seems they have an axe to grind against Mastodon.

Sure, Alphaville closed their Mastodon server. But why?

Because they allowed open sign-ups, which enabled anyone to join their server, and Alphaville didn’t have the resources to moderate it. Yet the Press Gazette don’t mention that.

Meanwhile, @TexasObserver runs their Mastodon server quite well, and even used it for crowdfunding—which has helped their publication survive!

@Texas Observer
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Chris Trottier

I often wonder why Press gets the reporting of Mastodon and the Fediverse so wrong.

And it’s because they’re not actually doing reporting. They just want to repeat the current narrative.

Wow! Mastodon is growing fast!

Wait! It’s dying!

Well, actually, it’s growing but its growth is slowing even though I’m offering no stats to back up that assertion! And I’ve cited another inaccurate media report to back me up!

This entire narrative arc occurred within the past 6 months.

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For my latest release entitled 'a Moment of Solitude', I decided to build down towards a state of calm. Starting out with up-beat grooves and rhythmic elements, by the last few tracks it's relaxed, drum-free and hopefully puts you in a place of contemplation and thoughtfulness. Check it out via one of the links below:

On #Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5oORtTK…

On #AppleMusic: music.apple.com/gb/album/a-mom…

The #Youtube playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK…

The #Distrokid #Hyperfollow page: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/andr…


A Moment of Solitude by Andre Louis

Album · 2023 · 20 Songs
Apple Music
#youtube #spotify #applemusic #distrokid #hyperfollow
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Chris Trottier

LOL! Meta exists to track people. That's their whole game. If they can't track people, why do they even exist?

If they create a decentralized social network that uses ActivityPub and is compatible with Mastodon, how are they going to monetize?

Will they convince every owner of an instance to install a tracker so Meta can feed people ads?

😆

Not if I can run my own instance for $5/month.

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Accessibility vs emojis — 6 great guidelines for usage: uxdesign.cc/accessibility-vs-e… #emoji #a11y #accessibility

Accessibility vs emojis - UX Collective

Emojis are in every corner of the internet. Everyone I know uses emojis, all the way from my grandparents to my friend’s 5 year old brother. Personally, I use emojis daily. I’ll throw a couple of…
Camryn Manker (UX Collective)
#a11y #Accessibility #emoji

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Me, behave? Seriously?

As a child I saw Tarzan almost naked, Cinderella arrived home after midnight, Pinocchio told lies, Aladdin was a thief, Batman drove over 200 miles an hour, Snow White lived in a house with 7 men, Popeye smoked a pipe and had tattoos, Pac Man ran around to digital music while eating pills that enhanced his performance, and Shaggy and Scooby were mystery solving hippies that always had the munchies.

The fault is not mine!

#FlashbackFriday #Childhood #Tarzan #Batman

#Flashbackfriday #childhood #tarzan #batman

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Today on #HKCRadio…

✔️ 🕑 PM EDT: The Digital Domain! @nick and Bob talk about Bob's Springsteen concert experience...and why are they making fun of Ray? Audio included, plus your calls and messages.
✔️ 🕓 has “That Party Show” with @hannah_renee_11! Bring your own beverage as Hannah brings the music and atmosphere, and perhaps a drink mix recipe.
✔️ 🕖 has the Country Bar and Grill with @chris, health permitting. Country Music and a fun loving atmosphere.

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