Sam Howell 🔏 @syntax@social.privacytools.io

Amid the chaos, I just want to say how awesome Njal.la is.

We would like to help connect #FOSS projects.

If you are an official[^1] FOSS project account with community spirit, or want to suggest one, please @ us :)

The idea is to feature other awesome FOSS projects on our account. /sh

[^1]: Official as in an account that has rel="me"-verified link to your homepage on your account.

We've just started the @moodlenet content sprint after reaching v1.0 beta.

It's so gratifying, after the team's hard work, to see people coming in and immediately knowing what to do, adding high-quality resources!

https://moodle.com/moodlenet

🎉 Time to update: Tor Browser 9.5 is out now.

This Tor Browser release is focused on helping you understand and use onion services.

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95

There is a transformation of onion services to reach out to more services and more people using it! It is starting with the new features in the Tor Browser 9.5 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95

We found out that local authorities are now using social media monitoring in areas such as council tax payments, children’s services, benefits and monitoring protests.
Is your data fair game?

Read the full report https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Is%20Your%20Local%20Authority%20Looking%20at%20your%20Facebook%20Likes_%20May2020_0.pdf https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1267815137508913153/photo/1

We've come so far, but the first family that kept me safe in Hong Kong is still struggling. If you can help, donations are very welcome. It'll make a world of difference to a mother and her child: https://t.co/4lNLIa0OGg

i built a tool for quickly scrubbing metadata from images and selectively painting / blurring faces and identifiable features. it runs on a phone or computer directly in the browser, and doesn't send info anywhere:

https://everestpipkin.github.io/image-scrubber/

Dogmodog
https://dogmodog.com/

@rysiek I found a video, they actually look like national guard.

The world could use more Linux philosophy.

Tails GitLab is now in production. 🎉

From now on, you'll be able to register and contribute.

announcement, known issues and useful links to get started:
https://lists.autistici.org/message/20200529.160541.cf87071d.en.html

Tails Gitlab instance:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/

From our last questionnaire, 52% from 65 people voted for "I like to contribute, but it is to difficult".
https://fosstodon.org/@tails/104235179068839155
We hope this will make it easier at least for some.

Feel always invited to reach out to us, if there's something you believe we should know

What do Amazon, Apple & Google have in common? As well as being massive, powerful & data hungry. They've all been faced with reports that contractors were able to listen to people using their smart voice assistants. They seem to be jumping into health.

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3843/big-tech-we-trust-apples-and-googles-covid-19-reputation-laundering-enough-make