Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

It's #FOSSFriday y'all, time to launch a new #foss side project!

You will all be the judge of how useful this is gonna be. And if it will survive 😅

https://smdl.io

It's called "Social Media Disclaimer Links". When in an increasingly-heated online discussion (that never happens…), just link to a disclaimer instead of wasting characters to explain it's just your opinion, you respect the other's view, that sort of stuff… repo on @codeberg

https://smdl.io/b1

What the actual fuck, microsoft.

We love linux but can't be bothered to play by the rules.

https://medium.com/@probonopd/microsoft-loves-linux-a-little-too-much-cff91023e4b8

Ditto, Brave: they may not see what you’re browsing but they make money by allowing insight of your behaviour to be used to manipulate you.

Privacy exists to protect the weak from manipulation by the powerful. Manipulation by proxy is still manipulation.

https://basicattentiontoken.org/

The Ad-industry is the "sugar daddy" of the internet. It sponsors a ton of stuff which you wouldn't buy or be able to afford otherwise while exploiting you and ruin everyone's life.

This is really cool to see: in addition to SimpleLogin, another email cloaking provider, AnonAddy, now has detailed self-hosting instructions.

SimpleLogin:
- Instructions: https://github.com/simple-login/app#self-hosting
- More: https://simplelogin.io

AnonAddy:
- Instructions: https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy/blob/master/SELF-HOSTING.md
- More: https://anonaddy.com

#Privacy

@sir I don't think most users would agree, but if you made something like "open source portal" that required all of its projects to use OSI approved licenses, then yes.

also, would be interesting if you shared the most popular licenses used by projects in sr.ht

@sir The FSF and the OSI have good intentions, but I'm extremely wary of organizations taking it upon themselves to assert what is or is not a "free" or "open-source" work. In reality, people choose a variety of ways to make their software free, and peoples' choices shouldn't be restricted by arbitrary authorities.

You might agree that copyright law has gotten out of hand in recent years, but the FSF & OSI take advantage of copyright law just the same to assert their interpretation of FLOSS.

❓ Poll: Have you ever had to report content in your feed to a fediverse mod?

Followup: how fast was the response time?

Boosts requested; I'm writing an article about the moderation of decentralized networks.

Well it took over a year but we managed to get Google Fonts removed from the Mozilla Rust project. Thanks to everyone who helped out and supported this.

https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1188

Devs don’t let devs add surveillance to their tools.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Google is partnering with the Department of Defense to fight cybercrime

https://www.businessinsider.nl/google-department-of-defense-deal-to-fight-cybercrime-2020-5

buying a terabyte of RAM so i can run three electron apps at once

"Imagine if every WP site came with its own Matrix community? Imagine an excellent Matrix client available as a WordPress plugin for embedding realtime chat into your site?"

Love this partnership!

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/welcoming-automattic-to-matrix

Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

did you fall from heaven? because holy shit you have like 20 eyes and 3 sets of wings Are You Okay

Remember when mobile sites weren't hostile user experiences designed to harass you into downloading an app??