ar.al🌻 @aral@mastodon.ar.al

The battles we’re fighting for our privacy aren’t just to make our phones and computers private places today. They’re to keep our homes, cars, and minds private places in the future. They’re to protect our personhood and stave off autocracy.

#privacy #humanRights

Someday I too would like to shred an acoustic guitar solo at a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra concert while wearing a Megadeath tshirt. #LifeGoals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIVV-pwphPM

Old-school blogging, retro computers, and decentralisation https://andregarzia.com/2022/05/Old-school-blogging-retro-computers-and-decentralisation.html | https://lobste.rs/s/m5d4xo #web

🇬🇧 Today is #WorldRefugeeDay
Using unreliable AI lie-detectors at EU borders such as #iBorderCtrl is unacceptable, it violates the fundamental rights also of refugees! Let’s stop these incrimination machines!

More information here: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/press-briefing-transparency-complaint-against-secret-eu-surveillance-research-iborderctrl/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/echo_pbreyer/status/1538842832508706816

Because the Fediverse uses chronological timelines, and because it has a worldwide audience, it is totally fine to boost your own post later so it can reach people in different time zones.

There's no algorithm deciding what people see in their main Fediverse timeline, so they just see whatever happens to be there when they are online.

#FediTips #Fediverse

here's the SVG if anyone else wants it - you'll need Liberation Sans, and of course replace "YOURPHONEHERE" and "Researcher INITIAL" https://unascribed.com/f/e06a01ee/intelligent-malicious.svg

yess this looks awesome

I wired the brick up as a very small external monitor, so you can, for instance, play Doom on it.

None of the policies this "far left" wants to enact are extreme, unless you consider guaranteeing a decent standard of living for every citizen "extreme".

It's only extreme if you think our current system works and needs to be even more liberal and capitalist.

Farhad A wrote the following post Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:35:46 +0200 1982 - “Tell them.”
- “I did. They laughed.”

1992 - Tell them again."
- “I did. They laughed.”

2002 - You must keep telling them."
- “I do tell them, everyday I tell them few will listen”

“They must listen or it will be too late”

- “It is too late.”

2022 - “Is it really still too late?”
- “It’s way past too late. Fewer people are laughing.”

2033 “Why did no one tell us?”
- “Oh we did, many times, many ways. But we have made progress. No one is laughing anymore.”

#GlobalWarming #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #Environment

You should totally consider presenting at #SummerSchool @SummerSchool

Why?

1. It is awesome. I missed it last year and was so sad about it. New job was busy, but SummerSchool would have given me lots of ideas to help.
2. You experience deeply multidisciplinary work, from different points of view.
3. Dialogic, with comments, questions, etc in real time, or near.
4. Support. This isn't your supervisor and their nemesis in a duel.
5. Anyone (except assholes) can sign up:

https://summerschool.scholar.social/2022/

#Humouroupas
#profits #capitalism #editorialcartoons #dessinsdepresse

Less than 10 days left to collect signatures for the European Citizen's Initiative on Universal Basic Income
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home/allcountries

Germany is getting very close to the threshold! Come on!

Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining

Link: https://finbold.com/bitcoin-mining-becomes-unprofitable-as-btc-price-falls-to-the-average-cost-of-mining/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796239

If you're using Mastodon through the website, you can stop new posts appearing automatically by using "slow mode".

To switch it on, go to Preferences > Slow Mode, tick the box and click "Save Changes". (To switch it off, untick and save.)

This will make timelines (including Home, Local and Federated) as well as notifications no longer scroll automatically when you are reading them. Instead, new posts will be hidden behind a clickable link at the top of each column.

(Thanks to @aral for suggesting tip!)

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #SlowMode