@kestral I watched it for the first time ever this past week.

Banger film.

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

They will never have enough data about you.
They will always ask for more.
That's how they feed the billionaires.

Leave and delete corporate social media.
Before they eat you whole.

#Facebook #X #Instagram #Reddit #Threads #Bluesky #LinkedIn #Slack #Discord #YouTube #TikTok #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy

Trump told Springsteen to shut up. He didn’t.
His new album includes his Manchester, UK intro to “My City in Ruins,” telling the audience that in the United States the authorities were “persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent.” He said that the nation was cutting aid to the poor, abandoning allies, rolling back civil rights protections, defunding universities and deporting people without due process. #Springsteen #resist #music https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-e-street-band-ep-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Admin of todon.nl suggests, and rightly so, that the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany:

“Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.

The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge.

Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34747

Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.”

And this (see screenshot) is what that “choice” looks like.

This decentralisation anti-pattern – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers (as I advised Eugen to do back in the day) – is why there is a flagship instance to begin with when it’s an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.

#fediverse #mastoson #mastodonSocial #todonNL #Germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza

SteamOS releases for the ROG devices is sick. Good on em for letting consumers have the Steam Deck Experience ™️ on different hardware.

I'm willing to bet SteamOS having a Desktop release would change the OS market share a lot more than the 3% it's been hovering at for the past few years.

@happygeek most of these are years, it's not like people openly share the year they're born!

... Right?

I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works

@Em0nM4stodon productivity hack right there

@zeyus I'm in the same pocketless boat

@alex02 I think it's getting bought and now I'm seeing people upset or something.

@alex02 I thought it was just an annoying add on Mozilla added. What's wrong with bookmarks

I got an out of date Linux+ study guide and I WILL use it

People used Pocket?

First we outsourced information to the web and became dumber.

Then we outsourced conversations to social media and hated more.

Now we are outsourcing thinking to AI.

This won’t end well.

#ai #tech #artificialintelligence #technology

@fraser Borg cube

There's a reason I tend to think long contracts with #VPN provider are a bad idea and the current machinations in #Switzerland are a perfect illustration.

In a nutshell, #vpns can't promise what they base countries governments will do in the future and that's a big problem when you have atwo year contract.

#privacy #data #internet #law

https://cybernews.com/security/proton-considers-relocation-from-switzerland/

Consistently reminded that hackers both good and bad are often sh*t at patching their own computers

@GossiTheDog don't give me ideas

Call from the Virtual Power Plant people. Apparently they need to audit a random 10% sample of the people who applied for the government grant for a battery (NSW scheme not the new Federal one).

The survey started with being asked to confirm my name and address. Pause. She's evidently waiting for me, so I say "sure I can confirm it". Pause.

She says, "okay you can tell me it now".

"No, I don't just give out my personal information to people who phone me. You can say it and I'll confirm."

"I'm sorry we can't do that."

"Okay, well I guess we're at an impasse."

It's 2025 and companies, indirectly hired by the government, are still training people to do terrible telephone opsec with their #privacy. 🤦‍♂️