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Of course I would prefer no cars at all, but this is certainly an improvement…

Two photos, one above the other. The first shows a man on an industrial mower cutting the grass on the median of a four-lane divided highway. The second photo shows wildflowers blooming in a similar median, instead of grass.

@GrapheneOS @brave Thanks for the info. I tried another Chromium browser. It doesn't appear to be a Brave specific issue.

Am I the only one getting "fatal allocator error: invalid uninitialized allocator usage" when trying to open @brave in conjunction with @GrapheneOS's hardened_malloc on Fedora? This setup was working fine prior to Brave version 1.77.95 - Chromium 135.0.7049.52

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One piece of misinfo we need to address is the claim that there are ‘vulnerabilities’ in Signal. This isn’t accurate. Reporting on a Pentagon advisory memo appears to be at the heart of the misunderstanding: https://npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability. The memo used the term ‘vulnerability’ in relation to Signal—but it had nothing to do with Signal’s core tech. It was warning against phishing scams targeting Signal users. 2/

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Signal has long said it'd "rather shut down or leave a market" than add a backdoor or weaken its encryption.

Apple also had this option when it was ordered by the UK government to build an iCloud backdoor. Apple could have said — without violating secrecy laws — why it was leaving the UK, rather than weaken the security of all of its UK customers.

Instead, Apple capitulated to the demand to keep operating, and prioritized its profits over its customers' security.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/apple-pulls-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-feature-for-uk-users-after-government-demanded-backdoor/

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Sometimes people think #curl is a simple little HTTP tool, while in reality there's a whole internet transfer machine in there supporting 28 protocols.

A libcurl backends visualization showing lots of different backends and 28 supported protocols/URL schemes

@zak Yeah. Syncthing was my last synocommunity package. I have everything on docker now.

@zak Noticed the same the other day. I knew it wasn't updated as frequently, but imagine my surprise. Backed up config.xml ( just had to edit folder locations), cert.pem and key.pem and rebuilt with docker. Smooth sailing.

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Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

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This is why #Mastodon is so important:

"#NTSB forces reporters to get #planecrash updates on #X"

https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/

#Bluesky is owned by #crypto bros, it's not going to save you. The #plutocracy will call in their favors at the opportune time, and it's going to fall the same as #Twitter did. The manipulation you can't see is probably already underway

The #plutocrat strangulation of all #media is upon us

The #Fediverse is our #refuge, #sanctuary, and, grimly, perhaps our last hold out

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Today is Data Privacy Day! :awesome: 🔒🎉

Don't forget that👇

Privacy is a Human Right
Encryption Protects Everyone

Do not give up.
Do not surrender.

Fight for your rights ✊🔒

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Privacy_Day

#DataPrivacyDay #Privacy #RootForE2EE #Encryption #E2EE #HumanRights #DigitalRights

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You are here. That makes you unique. You have made a good choice to take a step away from Big Tech. Now, get more people to join us. Help them with the initial process of setting things up.

If you have not done so already, download an alternative browser, such as Vivaldi as well. Consider whether you can move away from other Big Tech services. At Vivaldi, for example, we use Whereby for video conferences. Many of us have moved to Linux. Many of us use LibreOffice, instead of Microsoft office. There are options if you look for them. It is easy to go with Big Tech, but if you think the world would be better without them or if they had less power, know that you can make a difference.

#Vivaldi #fediverse #Mastodon #Windows #Microsoft #BigTech #Apple #Linux #Macos #Software #Regulation