Daryl Sun @darylsun@social.privacytools.io

The Future of Online #Identity is #Decentralized

My thoughts on why we need decentralized online identity

https://yarmo.eu/post/future-online-identity-decentralized

This is the reason I started #keyoxide

And I finally made it to add an index page to my "Today I learned…" collection. With this new index page the articles are now discoverable and there is also an RSS feed for those who want to use a feed reader.

https://shivering-isles.com/til/

And for the RSS friends:

https://shivering-isles.com/til/feed.xml

Looking forward to some feedback ^^

#blogging #TIL #jekyll

New Blog Post: Colours for Gitea Issues

https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/colours-for-gitea-issues

"When I used to use Gitea, I created a colourscheme for classifying issues. Even though I'm not using it anymore, I figured others may get some use out of it."

#100DaysToOffload

With #Signal continuing to roll out PINs and making them mandatory despite all the criticism, I decided to finally look at #Matrix that people are recommending. Unfortunately, so far I'm not too impressed. Structural issues haunting most open source projects show here as well.

https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1280242275000475650

#Minetest 5.3.0 has been released!

https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=25044

There's a new F-Droid client release candidate (v1.9). If you want to test this, you can update to it manually from the F-Droid client. (Browse to the app, expand the version list and install the 1.9 version, make sure your repository index is up-to-date beforehand)

Please report any issue you find.

#Minetest ContentDB now supports reviews!

Head to your favourite (or least) content and review it. The better reviews a package receives, the higher it'll appear in the content list.

content.minetest.net

#gamedev #freesoftware #opensource

Mastodon's mute feature is really cool. There are some accounts that post things that contribute to anxiety but I don't want to block them since the posts don't target me and I am perfectly fine with them browsing my posts. I really like how it still allows the person to directly contact you even while muted.

Of course if someone were malicious a block would be appropriate.

These 6 Best Private Search Engines Don’t Track User’s Data

https://technologycatch.com/6-best-private-search-engines/

#Mozilla suspends #FirefoxSend service while it addresses #malware abuse

Mozilla has temporarily suspended the Firefox Send file-sharing service while it adds a Report Abuse mechanism.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200708023323/https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-suspends-firefox-send-service-while-it-addresses-malware-abuse/

Firefox Container tabs are great https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/?utm_source=mac-addon

TIL you can't actually delete a room on Matrix.

As an admin you can kick everyone off a channel, then ask the other admins to leave, then it'll be "queued for deletion"

I'm guessing this bizarre oversight occurred because it's what IRC does 🤷‍♂️

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1882

New Blog: Introducing our PeerTube Instance https://blog.privacytools.io/introducing-our-peertube-instance/ — PeerTube is approaching their 2020 crowdfunding goal, check them out! 😄

Privacy Reviews of Common Apps by Lockdown

https://privacyreview.co/

With Edge, Microsoft’s forced Windows updates just sank to a new low

https://www.theverge.com/21310611/microsoft-edge-browser-forced-update-chromium-editorial

PrivacyTools’s PeerTube instance is online! Create an account, kick back, and enjoy some @techlore content 😆 https://tube.privacytools.io/videos/watch/playlist/f35eaa03-867d-4062-996e-1c812be87f74?videoId=cc0871d9-4e46-42d7-bce1-d13a24b077c9

LinkedIn says iOS clipboard snooping after every key press is a bug, will fix

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linkedin-says-ios-clipboard-snooping-after-every-key-press-is-a-bug-will-fix/

Reminder: The Web isn't universal, or at least as universal as it could easily be. And its open standards don't mean much when only Google has the manpower to implement them all.

Sure it's ethically better than the other mainstream platforms, but that's a low bar! So, sure, target it as a stopgap. If you want something better, build an alternative or promote your favourite Linux distro.

I'll be building a Web that's truly universal, relying on external efforts to obtain feature parity.