Jonah @jonah@social.privacytools.io

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

More than 15 years ago, Onion Service (at the time named Hidden Service) saw the light of day. From today (July 2nd), the Internet has around 16 months to migrate from onion services v2 to v3 once and for all. ⏰

Read more:
https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline

We’re over 1,000-strong and the privacy guides are now federated on PeerTube https://peertube.sunknudsen.com/videos/watch/9391fff2-8659-4cea-8363-9b27a0108769

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

your regular reminder that censoring words l*ke th*s is actively counterproductive because it bypasses the filters that people set up for themselves

to take an innocuous example, if i use filters to block the word "orange", and you write "or*nge", you have now ensured that i will see a post that i have explicitly tried to get out of my timeline

Massive shoutout to Techlore (of https://techlore.tech and YouTube fame) for sponsoring PrivacyTools 🎉 😄

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Conservatives: police are useless which is why I own a gun
People: ok, let's defund the police then
Conservatives: but then how will we be protected?

via reddit:

> Do you think people will understand the value of privacy due to the 'cancel' culture now?

I mean, sure, throw your money into privacy-preserving tech AND shut up in public? Sounds like a win-win to me.

Y'know what sucks?

The BLM protests are still happening with less media attention.

The Portland police are rioting and it's not being reported by media at large as people are being assaulted in the streets.

Another Black trans girl, Brayla Stone, was murdered in Little Rock, AR and she's being misgendered in the news while her alleged killer is bragging about making a 5K hit.

Elevator.js - Finally, a "back to top" button that behaves like a real elevator. http://tholman.com/elevator.js/

If you haven't been following it, the transparency collective DDoSecrets published 270gb of hacked police data called #BlueLeaks.

In response, yesterday,Twitter permanently banned their account and started blocking all links to https://ddosecrets.com/