Jonah @jonah@social.privacytools.io

fun how people who talk mainly in internet slang and memes become scholars of the English language when exposed to singular they

holy shit. I did it. It actually works.

I have spun up a Pleroma instance on... my fucking Nintendo Switch. I don't think the Switch was ever intended to be a **webserver**, but hey, it's 2019 and there are lightbulbs with CPUs built into them soooo

It can be accessed at cursed.frinkel.tech. don't sign up if you want a reliable instance, since it'll probably be down 90% of the time, since I'd actually like to use my switch to do what it was intended to do and play games. :P
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> A silo, or web content hosting silo, is a centralized web site (like most social media) typically owned by a for-profit corporation that stakes some claim to content contributed to it and restricts access in some way (has walls).

https://indieweb.org/silo

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

"U.S. attorney general William Barr has said consumers should accept the risks that encryption backdoors pose to their personal cybersecurity to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted communications." 🙄 https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/william-barr-consumers-security-risks-backdoors/

Someone from Cisco went on stage to propose weakening TLS 1.3 for "network-based security solutions" (enterprise spyware).

There was a long line at the mic of people pushing back on it... I almost felt bad for the poor speaker 🙂

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-camwinget-tls-use-cases-05

@jonah Donated. Keep up the good work!

Hey-o! Just want to say if you're enjoying our Mastodon server, our Matrix chat, or anything else we're doing @ privacytools.io, I would really appreciate it if you'd consider donating any amount towards our costs 😄

We're currently spending around $60/month on servers and other infrastructure, and we'd like to be able to pay our team more in the future! We prefer https://liberapay.com/privacytools.io/ but there are many other contribution methods at https://www.privacytools.io/donate/ 😅 Thanks everyone!!

Solve a debate:

This place (this fed) is amazing.

Every time I login here it's what I always hoped Twitter was going to be but wasn't.

Nice people
People that actually talk /reply
No trolls
A fair and respected admin
Community

Thx for making Mastodon and privacytools my new home 🙂

@tek
Does nobody get that the developers also have free speech?

Does nobody get that Google and Apple have their free speech?

Does nobody get that one of the cornerstones of free speech is the right to *not* say things you disagree with?