I wrote down some thoughts on community moderation:

"Enablers of abuse in online communities" – piegames.de/dumps/enablers-of-…

The October Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest is out! In it, we have updates on:

* Exchange support 🦀
* QR cross-device support 📱
* Account hub 👥
* Upstream changes and database issues 🛠️
* and more! ✨

#Thunderbird #Development #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/11/t…

Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: October 2024 - The Thunderbird Blog

Exchange support and account hub development continues, cross-device import lands in stable, and the fight against corruption endures.

^{Toby Pilling (The Thunderbird Blog)}

We'd like to hear your feedback!

Brave people asked us to include Brave as a Google Chrome alternative. In the original post, Brave was not included because it is based on Chromium.

What are your thoughts: Should we, or should we not include Brave in this image of Google alternatives? Why?

mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1133…

Tuta

2024-10-27 18:43:13

It's #CyberSecurityMonth! Time to #deGoogle 💪💪💪

What are your favorite privacy-first apps?

Check out our list:
tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo…

How to De-Google your life – The ultimate list of best Google alternatives.

Start DeGoogling today and stop Big G from exploiting your data! In this in-depth guide learn how to quit Google apps for good, and start using Tuta’s privacy expert’s recommended apps instead.

^Tuta

Wild ass day in the Tor node operator world. Got an email from my VPS, forwarding a complaint from WatchDog CyberSecurity saying that my box was scanning SSH ports!

> Oh no, oh no, I knew I should have set up fail2ban, oh god why was I so lackadaisical!

So I remote in to the machine: no unusual network activity, no unusual processes, users, logins, command history, no sign that anything is doing anything I didn't tell it to do.

So what's up? Turns out there's been a widespread campaign where some actor is spoofing IPs to make it look like systems running Tor are scanning port 22: forum.torproject.org/t/tor-rel…

Operators from all over are saying they're getting nastygrams from their VPS providers because WatchDog is fingering their source IPs (which are being spoofed and NOT part of a global portscanning botnet).

@delroth did an amazing writeup of the whole thing here: delroth.net/posts/spoofed-mass…

#tor #infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #privacy

[tor-relays] Tor relays source IPs spoofed to mass-scan port 22?

It would be hard to explain to Verizon I run Tor relays since they technically don't allow servers. I hope I'm not forced onto AT&T Internet Air as my particular co-op rental unit won't let met get Spectrum even when other units can, not that I wante…

^{Tor Project Forum}

Christ all these phishing emails in the past couple of days are crazy.

Thanks @Tutanota for making it easy to mark them, although I wish I could just select them and mark them all at once :(

I've been looking at @Seirdy's /meta/ page and it was so cool I was inspired to follow suite.

In fact, I realized I love reading about people talking about their personal sites themselves and wished more people do it, so I made a post about it which lists some other examples I've found:

"Add a Meta page to your personal website"
home.hedy.dev/posts/meta-pages…

personal sites are really cool, would love to see more meta pages out there -- #BoostsWelcome

Add a Meta page to your personal website

Why we should have more /meta (or similar) pages on our personal sites, and examples in the wild.

^{~hedy's home}

Hi my friends. I have a new gift for you. I wanted to update the Star Trek soundpack for Mona so here it is, version 2! Enjoy.
1drv.ms/f/s!AlLCVRViUqvZhbZhd9…

#Blind, #Mona

Hi everyone! We've just made another bugfix release of #GoToSocial, version 0.17.2 Ridiculously Selective Sloth:

github.com/superseriousbusines…

The update fixes a couple small bugs around media processing and filter expiration, and adds media-image-size-hint and media-video-size-hint values to the config file.

Please read the release notes carefully when updating to this version.

Thanks for reading, and have a nice day! Or not, it's up to you; whatever you prefer!

Release v0.17.2 Ridiculously Selective Sloth · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

Here's bugfix version 0.17.2 of GoToSocial! If updating to this version from 0.16.0 or below, please follow the instructions for v0.17.0, replacing 0.17.0 with 0.17.2 throughout. ⚠️ Be aware that u...

^GitHub

Good morning everyone!

You may be feeling a bit anxious about today (understatement). I'm here to help take your mind off the happenings. I'll be sharing some of my creations and art today as a distraction.

If you notice a colour theme, that's intentional! Sending good vibes to everyone! ❤️❤️❤️🙏

#art #pottery #ceramics #MastoArt #handmade

Thank you for highlighting the voices of Wikimedians on this matter.

scroll.in/article/1075145/a-de…

A Delhi High Court case could end up threatening how Wikipedia works in India

Wikipedia contributers may now self-censor or get disincentivised from growing the world’s largest encyclopaedia.

^{Vineet Bhalla (Scroll.in)}

#PSA: if you have a small business that ships items, consider not using Uline: the owner uses the company's profits to fund right wing anti-democratic causes.

propublica.org/article/uline-u…

And, because you still need to ship your product, here's a good resource to replace them:

refuseuline.com/

#Uline #RefuseUline

Refuse Uline

Uline is a purposely political company aligned with extreme right-wing ideology. Despite their politics, millions of small businesses and artists still use ULINE completely unaware of what their dollars are supporting. This needs to end now.

^{refuseuline.com}

Hello, World! We’re now the Sovereign Tech Agency 🎉

It’s been two years since the Sovereign Tech Fund began investing in open technologies in the public interest, and our mission has grown to be more than the “fund” in our name. The new Sovereign Tech Agency anchors digital infrastructure on the agenda and is a home for the Sovereign Tech Fund and our other programs that strengthen the open source ecosystem.

Read more: sovereign.tech/news/stf-part-o…

Are you interested how to use Apple notes as an #accessible graphing calculator? Check out this post

nunonuno.micro.blog/2024/11/04…
#accessibility #apple #blind #ios #math #education #tech

"Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones. More than 260 million vape batteries are estimated to enter the trash stream every year in the UK alone. Vapers and vape makers are simply leaving an e-waste epidemic to the planet's future residents to sort out."

(Original title: Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste)

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/1…

Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste

It’s not a project for most people, but watching someone ride up to 20 miles, and up to 30 mph, on tossed-out vape batteries is transfixing.

^{Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)}

Nos gobierna la pandilla del bombero torero.

eldiario.es/comunitat-valencia…

Mazón eligió a un experto en "festejos taurinos" como director general de Interior el mismo día de la DANA

Vicente Huet, exalcalde del PP, se incorpora como alto cargo a un puesto clave en la gestión de las emergencias que la consellera Salomé Pradas ha tenido tres meses vacante, desde la salida de Vox del Gobierno valenciano

^{Lucas Marco (elDiario.es)}

Wohooo! Díky @archos za upozornění, pokud používáte Matrix (mxchat) a jste stejně pomalí jako já a nepostřehli jste to, vyšla oficiálně appka Element X a je boží. Vypadá jak z 21 století, je citelně rychlejší a šlape bezchybně

apps.apple.com/gb/app/element-…

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

‎Element X - Secure Chat & Call

‎Element X brings you both sovereign & seamless collaboration built on Matrix. The collaboration capabilities include chat & video calls with the modern set of features such as: • public & private channels • room moderation & access control • replie…

^{App Store}