spelk @spelk@linuxrocks.online

Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcrnN-A2c60

#Surveillance #SurveillanceTech #privacy

'Ten years from now you’ll put on a jacket and find a mask in the pocket. “Oh man, what a weird year that was,” you’ll chuckle to yourself. Then you’ll pick up your machete and continue across the wasteland, keeping to the shadows to avoid the roving gangs of cannibal raiders.'

[from https://twitter.com/CasualThursday/status/1341470045004832768 ]

⚠️ WARNING
Do NOT install #NewPipe through the Samsumg Galaxy Store!

A copy of #newpipe is currently distributed through the Samsung Galaxy Store by a third party. The package id of that version is identical to the officiail one (org.schabi.newpipe), but the signing keys differ.
Surprisingly, users running an outdated version recieve a notification to update their installed version with the one uploaded in the Galaxy Store.

"It might be impossible to escape from capitalism entirely, but while the world is crumbling, something is growing from within. And if we cultivate what sustains us instead of what destroys us, one day this something may replace state and capital as the dominant framework in which our lives unfold."

https://roarmag.org/essays/freeing-space-building-worlds-outside-of-state-and-capital/

RT @FanSince09@twitter.com

Doctor friend of mine wrote this on FB. I don’t have anything to add, just read it.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FanSince09/status/1340425525186023425

How and why I stopped buying new laptops
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html

#PIM #enviroment #sustainabilty #Lenovo #thinkpad #Apple #backup

Cyberpunk in the News #cyberpunk https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/12/16/cyberpunk-in-the-news-cyberpunk/ #cyberpunk

Just found out about Nitter as a way to read public #Twitter without going through their JavaScript madness and it's *so much faster*.

Just replace the domain in any twitter.com URL with nitter.net and it'll load it.

Alternatively consider using one of the alternative Nitter instances to reduce load on the main one: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

This seems useful. Someone’s big list of legally free Python books:

https://www.pythonkitchen.com/legally-free-python-books-list/

Chris Grey writes his last #Brexit blog post before Christmas, as usual both forensic and despairing about the cocktail of lies and incompetence which have brought us to this point https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2020/12/brexit-debilitation.html

#ukpol

The British Establishment’s Forever War Against Jeremy Corbyn

Good read

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/jeremy-corbyn-echr-report-antisemitism-labour-party-uk/

Emacs survey results are out! Lots of interesting tidbits: people love magit, ivy and flycheck, and a striking number of respondents are fairly new to Emacs! This seems great for the health of the community.

https://emacssurvey.org/2020/

want to spend $60 on the cyberpunk genre without giving it to a game that will either kill you on the inside or just literally kill you?

some folks over at itch.io put together a cool bundle of games that directly support queer & poc indie devs!

https://itch.io/b/723/be-a-better-cyberpunk

Hello all,
Just joined fosstodon, first time using mastodon and this is my #introduction.

I am an embedded systems developer working in python and c++. I've used linux personally and for work for years.

Interested in security and privacy.

Happy to be here.

A little robot battling roguelike action this afternoon.

Small is Beautiful – It’s elementary, dear Watson

First episode of a weekly live stream that Laura and I are trying out.

With special guest Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS (@elementary)

Date: Thursday, December 10, 2020

Time: 5PM Cork (UTC +0) / 12PM New York (UTC -5) / 9AM San Francisco (UTC -8)

Location: https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-1-its-elementary-dear-watson/

(Have your webcams and headphones ready if you want the chance to ask questions / join the conversation live. We’ll give out instructions during the show.)