Stop telling me to use content warnings. I will lose it. If you’re bothered by my politics, then by all means mute me or one of the hashtags that I’m using.
I know you’re trying to protect yourselves and others, but all you’re effectively doing is asking an activist speaking out for their own survival to hide their fight behind curtains.
The planned #chatcontrol makes the world less secure and more authoritarian, as it is directed against private and encrypted communication. Proponents are using disinformation, lies, and sleight of hand to push through the project. But chat control can still be stopped. A commentary.
🇬🇧 It's up to all of us now. Write a mail to you government. Share the call to action. Call your government during the day. Together we are the resistance. Stop #ChatControl!
Bluesky has reply-gating (you can set who can reply to a post, like people you follow or a given list or no one) and is now testing out post-publication reply locking.
I just want to yell for a second about how humane and consent-forward these features are, especially after seeing some people here losing their minds when someone asked for gating recently because they felt (alas, not a paraphrase) entitled to always be able to respond.
Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much McDonald's CEO's $19.2 million salary is driving up the cost? Hello?
“Could not watch it 'til the end” said a surprising number of people about last week’s ride in New York. Too much was happening! To calm you down I have a most uneventful ride for you this week: 13km alongside a canal in ’s-Hertogenbosch! https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/?p=25715
Bezos to the newsroom. Who could have predicted that putting billionaires in control of essential sources of information like Twitter and @washingtonpost would result in a tsunami of right-wing enshittification on the verge of the most fraught election in US history?
Version 0.10.0 of #Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, has been released! Starting with this release, Fedify, previously distributed under AGPL 3.0, is now distributed under the MIT License to encourage wider adoption. Here are the major changes:
• In addition to RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify now supports Ed25519 for signing and verifying the activities.
• FEP-521a: Multiple key pairs can now be registered for an actor.
• FEP-8b32: Implemented Object Integrity Proofs.
• Added Arrive and Question classes.
New in PN: Unpacking Clarence Thomas's disgraceful joke of a bump stock opinion, which "reads like a newspaper comment section after every mass shooting, where gun nuts engage in hyper-technical explanations of how AR-15s aren’t actually assault weapons." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/clarence-thomas-bump-stock-opinion-explained
As an individual, volunteering time often has a MUCH higher impact than donating to a nonprofit.
Consider that an hour of work costs at least €50 for a nonprofit. For someone doing 5h of average volunteer time per week, that’s the equivalent of donating €13k each year!
Not everyone can afford to volunteer, but it's one of the most efficient ways to move a cause forward.