resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
@eff well, it's also not good that they use actblue.com for credit cards, which blocks Tor.
@eff I have to say I'm impressed-- the stopspying.org website does not rely on CloudFlare or AWS & they don't accept #PayPal (a privacy abuse vector that most #privacy projects sell their soul to). They give an address to mail checks, so donors can cut out as many data brokers in the middle as possible.
@ademalsasa @tshrinivasan @libreoffice Are these quite young students? If we're dealing with high school or university students, I'd say #LaTeX is better suited. If these are younger students, then LibreOffice is probably a good idea. In any case, it's good to hear that MS Word is banned.
@ademalsasa @libreoffice @tshrinivasan Seems like an obvious requirement. Who would try to use MS Word for a class where LibreOffice is the topic?
@Mr_Teatime @zeh @jgoerzen It occurs to me that they could theoretically store a hash, and then ask for the ph# again at acct recovery time, then compare the hashes. But I don't give OWS the benefit of the doubt considering how they push users into Google Playstore & claim it's safer than the APK download which they hide. It's hard to trust OWS anytime trust is needed.
@Coffee I wonder if @kensanata is aware of this.. it could be the same bug as this one: https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Post_confirmation_truncated I'm not sure if it's an IRC limit or a limit of the plugin.
@Coffee i didn't know there was an image description feature. Is there a field for that in the GUI web client? The #bitlbee-mastodon plugin does not show the description automatically, but if I use the "info" command to dump all status details, it appears there, but it's truncated because it exceeds IRC line limits & the plugin isn't designed to break one field into multiple lines.
@Coffee one option would be to render the text as a PNG using #ImageMagick and post that (but it would have inconvenienced me since I use a non-GUI client). I think some nodes have bigger limits.
@Coffee i really need to read that book sometime, instead of just living in it
@woozle i've been doing the same.. feeding data into emacs org-mode docs until the data can manifest into a giant bombshell of compelling influence
Consumers are a sleeping giant; an untapped power to demand better from tech giants, if only we had the discipline to boycott unacceptible options. If only we had the constitution to refuse injustices & prioritize the greater good above selfish short-term desires.
@jgoerzen @zeh @Mr_Teatime ..despite the closed nature of their network
@Mr_Teatime @zeh @jgoerzen "Open" Whisper Systems
"When we did our most recent poll, we saw that 82% of consumers are very concerned about their privacy online." --Marta Tellado (Consumer Reports CEO) https://www.thirteen.org/openmind/science/enforcing-big-tech-accountability-for-the-american-people/6808/
Joined Mar 2019
