Eric the Cerise @nattiegoogie@mstdn.io
Just a geek.
Y'know ... linux, FOSS, privacy, yada.
So, LA Times website is being withheld from EU ('cuz GDPR is too much trouble for them, presumably) ... but when I use VPN thru Iceland, the site is available.
Iceland *is* covered under GDPR. Any ideas why LA Times works there?
You know it's getting late when you're still up and the backups are running...
Hey Hardware Nerds ... if anyone is interested in an awesome, customizable (FOSS) router ... these guys have 6 days left on their Indiegogo campaign ... I've already bought/supported them in a previous campaign. They are reliable, and their routers are pretty awesome.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-mox-modular-open-source-router-security-computers
#fennec which is #fdroidorg's unbranded #Firefox build now updated to v60. Finally bringing all Firefox quantum improvements to android: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/04/firefox-60-now-available-finally-brings-quantum-css-engine-android/
So, I'm living in Sopron (Hungary) now.
Looking for phone service recommendations ... I use a VOIP number and other assorted web-based communication apps, so I need a provider with decent data service, don't care about the phone service.
I also don't want/need a phone, nor any contract. Must be month to month.
Any tech-savvy locals out there? Does what I'm looking for exist here?
Kösszi
tl;dr:
The company owning Adblock Plus makes a lot of money with their "acceptable ads" program, which advertisers need to pay for.
Use uBlock *Origin*
In honor of this great review, we have decided to add the Librem 13 to our already running Librem 15 sale. Cheers!
This week we published the first #TWIF: https://f-droid.org/en/2018/04/27/this-week-in-fdroid.html
Trial run, hope we can continue this on the future! 😃
Another big thing...
We say that Lundgren should not have installed Windows. Perhaps he should have installed Linux....
Many of your devices, you don't own. You "lease." Even the act of wiping the original operating system and installing FOSS OS's is illegal.
Look at John Deer. Look at "rooting" cell phones.
We need FOSSH (Software & Hardware) solutions.
Oh. #Weltpinguintag. Wee! 🐧🐧
There is a tough resistance movement in Berlin against Google and a Google campus project
http://www.dw.com/en/berlin-residents-reject-google-campus/a-38586077
https://fuckoffgoogle.de
I just discovered that I can send reminder toots to myself, and schedule them to be delivered at specific time/day ...
In my mind, Mastodon just expanded into a whole new category of tools.
T-1 hour until Falcon 9 launch of @NASA_TESS. Launch webcast will go live ~15 minutes before liftoff → http://www.spacex.com/webcast source: https://twitter.com/spacex/status/986723955099643905
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
An oldie but a goodie: The Case of the 500-Mile Email:
"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."
"What's the problem?" I asked.
"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.
I choked on my latte. "Come again?"
"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."
So, I'm moving to Hungary in ~ a month. Looking for short-term rental (1-6 months) prospects. Dog-friendly. Probably in Budapest or Debrecen (near-ish the Hungarian language schools in those cities), but potentially anywhere in Hungary.
Anyone have resources, suggestions, advice, etc? Köszi.
So last year, the Smart Car company (part of Daimler) announced that it was switching to all-electric Smart Cars only, in the US. Because of that, 2/3 of US car dealerships that sell Smart Cars, promptly decided to stop selling them.
WTF is wrong with America(ns)?
it's fucked up that you could live in ancient egypt and there'd be ancient egyptian ruins, because ancient egypt just kind of went on for a really, really long time
Here's the thing. If some of the people you encountered today were decoy people-- the equivalent of an anglerfish's lure-- you wouldn't know.
You wouldn't know because if you had triggered those lure-people, you'd be gone. And if you could recognize them for what they were, the species that uses those unsuccessful lures would have died out.
They watched you go by and you never noticed.
Keep looking at your phone.
So, Cloudflare released a (real) new Resolver DNS service on April 1st.
Here's the service —
https://1.1.1.1/
And here's the blog post explaining it —
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
How do we privacy-advocates feel about this?
