So my son just used our personal #Nextcloud #server to have a video conference with his teacher because #Microsoft #Teams was having technical issues. That's kinda cool. #selfhosted
"Protocols, not Platforms" was @mmasnick's beautifully phrased, crucial contribution to the discussion about accountability, choice and competition in social media. @twitter's Project Blue Sky is trying to make it a reality.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/twitter-and-interoperability-some-thoughts-peanut-gallery
I am proud of myself π
I successfully broke something during login to #Mastodon. Tried few times, received error with something like "error with remote account". I had to close site and wait until cookie-autodelete fix it for me.
Yesterday I read about searching in phones by police in US. Today morning I found this β https://i.redd.it/p98pe8o9e3d61.jpg
and thought it's time to move latest images from my phone to my computer (external storage in phone isn't encrypted)
In Poland it isn't real threat - now - but if it would become a threat it would be too late. And I found many photos and videos from October anti-government protests I participated in.
I think I should remove any "private" data from devices other than my main laptop.
I reinstalled #Signal to fix some things (from APK file on their site). Some things really fixed itself but it created this permanent #notification about working in background. After research I found thread on github with solution.
And finally I could hide annoying permanent notifications from EVERY app βοΈ
(had some of this for several months, now I keep only #Weechat)
Now I should look for solution for this "your network is monitored" which is currently always permanent π€
Stick with #signal, y'all. Yes, they're still dealing with the MASSIVE influx of users, but it's hard to predict that you're going to have growth on the scale Signal has seen, and today's was the biggest influx yet.
Junior IT administrator. Mostly self-trained in chaotic and often destructive ways. Opponent of mainstream social media and nasty digital surveillance, wanna-be cypherpunk. In free time I draw or write stories, first of all for my fun.