Stephen L.B. @StephenLB@mstdn.io

Coolest christmas thing to do in the Netherlands: visit the Church in The Hague that is entering its 9th week of holding uninterrupted 24/7 church services to prevent the police from entering the building and deporting a refugee family.
The church always needs at least one visitor to legally be in service so a time like 5 AM is the very best moment to come show your solidarity.
https://betheldenhaag.nl/

https://dutchreview.com/dutch-news/dutch-church-protects-refugee-family-by-conducting-religious-services/

This is a note to people moving their repositories blindly to Gitlab.org: do you know Google is actually a huge investor in Gitlab?

The issue is not about Microsoft buying Github. The issue is about centralization and silos.

You do not solve that by moving your data from one silo to another.

You solve that by relying on small providers you can trust, or by becoming a provider yourself.

facebook splitting up the word “sponsored” to sneak past adblockers

Google pays "gig economy" workers $1 per hour to train its killer drones for Project Maven

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/04/google-ai-project-maven-figure-eight/

The upload filters are coming!

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/

#article13

Apple just endorsed AT&T’s fake 5G E network https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/4/18211044/apple-att-5g-e-network-icon-iphones-misleading-ios-software-update-beta

quey.org is not owned and operated by a large corporation! Instead it is run as a passion project by a few people.

Due to the fact that we run completely free of ads, we have to rely on your help to keep the lights on around here.

If you are willing to support us, you can become one of our Patrons or donate through PayPal or Liberapay!

https://www.patreon.com/quey
https://www.paypal.me/ocloud
https://liberapay.com/quey/

Patreon is still a holy mess. I'm very behind on money I need this month even when it does show up, including needing another asthma inhaler, cat vet bills, and maybe also every bill ever.

Any bit helps. Thank you so much. 🙇‍♀️

http://Pay.Ginny.Today

In 2019 the European Union's #Copyright Directive is getting close to the final straight. Help the @fsfe@twitter.com to #SaveCodeShare, sign the open letter and talk to us at the booth:
https://savecodeshare.eu/

#FOSDEM

Despite the search engine improvements over the past 15 years, I feel like it's gotten harder to find things rather than easier, at least when it comes to niche things. Brands and (stolen) images are easier to find than ever.

Search seems to focus more on metadata than content, many sites lock their content behind memberships or make it non-static (=harder to index and even to view).

It feels like to find more niche or technical information, you have to know what/where it is to begin with :/

@spacekookie licensing all the content you're uploading there to discord, what could possibly go wrong :'D (the ToS screenshot is older since I tried to bringing up that topic to artists I'm friend with who started using discord after that Tumblr thingy)

Discord is valued at 1.65 _billion_ dollars.

What kind of person can look at that and go "ah, yes, this free chat service is totally not gonna screw us out of private data for profit"?

Hi everybody, this is what pizza hut dot com looked like in January of 1997 http://oldweb.today/nsmac3/19970121013215/http://www.pizzahut.com

PS. While we’re at it, let’s entrust all our freedom of speech to Google also.

megacorporporations are good and right

https://www.retaildetail.eu/en/news/general/amazon-destroys-millions-unsold-products

Right, have now set custom CSS to make my instance more accessible.

To copy the theme in my screenshot, first set Mastodon (Light) theme in user & site settings.

Then in Settings > Admin > Site Settings > Custom CSS you add:

a{text-decoration:underline !important; color:darkblue !important;}

You can select the colour value you want from here if you're still using the default dark theme: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors.asp

Sometimes low-tech is a cooler solution than high-tech.

This sensor device detects if your package was handled roughly during transport: no electronics, just clever engineering.