Rune @rune@mastodon.nzoss.nz

On delisting Startpage, an update from @blacklight447. https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-startpage/

@JoYo @kaikatsu @lain @mewmew @velartrill the only outages pleroma.site has had were caused by another machine in the colo having a faulty VRM that was causing the cabinet breaker to trip. that machine resolved its VRM issues by temporarily catching fire.

By now, people here at #fediverse would be aware of an alternative youtube frontend called invidious

I wrote a Web Extension for #Firefox named Take Diversion to block requests to youtube and redirects to invidious instance to watch the same video there.

The extension is released under GNU GPL v3.0 and here is the source code.

Bugs, new feature requests can be reported here

The current version of the extension is v0.3. This is not the only extension for Firefox that does redirection to invidious, there are few more such extensions in Mozilla Addon store. Do check them out as well.

#Privacy #WebExtensions #Firefox #Youtube #Invidious

Why We Need to Map the #Ocean Floor
"To me, the most exciting reason we map is because we don’t know what’s there. I think I know what I’m going to find, and every time I go out and map with this high resolution, we see new and exciting things—it’s the first step of any kind of exploration."

http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-need-to-map-the-ocean-floor

#science
#climate
#geography

Are you worried about your #privacy after #Google acquired #Fitbit? If you are looking for a privacy respecting alternative I can only recommend to have a look at #Gadgetbridge and chose one of the supported devices as your next wearable. https://gadgetbridge.org

friendly reminder that discord constantly hits /api/v6/science every time you do basically anything in discord with the details of what you did, which is an honestly creepy amount of data collection, and if you're using the browser version of discord you can disable that by pasting the following rule into your ublock:

||discordapp.com/api/v6/science$important,1p

Proof of work is such a dumb way to secure a system.

"You must waste this much compute time to participate."

How about literally anything else? Maybe something that doesn’t waste an enormous amount of energy doing nothing useful?

Ring (the Amazon surveillance device) used video captured on Halloween for PR

https://mashable.com/article/ring-halloween-surveillance/?europe=true

From GitLab:

https://paste.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/23e31a29f427066ef261b2ffa7fd9bf46530d904

- We're adding tracking
- Including third-party tracking
- There will be proprietary scripts
- The website and API will be broken for you until you agree

@rune @Wolf480pl @sir this is true. I try not to get too public about this stuff, but my wife and both my children have an immune deficiency. Some vaccines dont work on them, and they have to get other vaccines regularly that you or I only have to get once. Its really a matter of life and death. I am not going to force anyone to get vaccinated, nor support such a gov initiative, but I will educate to open ears and share our story if it helps protect us.

We've now reached the capitalism won't kill EVERYONE stage

Gooey is a decorator for (and includes a drop-in replacement for) #Python's argparse that lets you offload argument handling to a graphical interface: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

#Medium now fully completed their paywalling efforts. The public page's now completely inaccessible without logging in.

Unsuspecting visitors to Medium's #articles now can't #read them unless they lock themselves into the platform.

The ability to search for new #content written by independent creators? Gone! The goal's to usurp content created by others free of charge to make you pay the centralized platform to access it.

#Plume exists to combat this, using the power of the #fediverse.

This is gonna be a gold mine for memes https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/gmp29343536/trump-meltdown-finland-president-photos/

The first Librem 5 smartphones are shipping https://puri.sm/posts/first-librem-5-smartphones-are-shipping/ “This is a big moment, not just for us as a company, but for everyone concerned about issues of privacy, security, and user freedom. The Librem 5 represents years of work, building the software and hardware required to make this phone a reality.” - Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of #Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen #Linux #LinuxPhone #LinuxMobile #GNOME #FOSS

programming allows you to turn your terrible ideas into terrible programs

So all 50 US states are now on board for the Google antitrust suit. Good.

I've seen things. I've seen what Google does to Mozilla. What they do to Web standards. What they do to their own code to make it work on their platforms and intentionally break competitors.

What they do to adtech that tries to make a business out of *not* being creepy asses.

Using Chrome-only APIs in Maps.

Promoting DRM as a feature in YouTube and paying the W3C to make a closed DRM blob "open standard".

いももち (imomochi) and あげいもは (ageimo), two potato-based Hokkaido fast foods.

websites is easy. you wanna make a checkbox? <input type="checkbox">. bam. you wanna make the text pink? css color: pink;. all it takes. you wanna put the thing in the middle of the box vertically? no you don't

@rune looking for any provider that is not viasat