Notices by 61 (61@en.osm.town)

@WPalant

We can all sit here and criticise all day.

Meanwhile, #GPG has been painstakingly and mostly single-handedly maintained all these years thanks to the efforts of a single person. Mostly using his own money plus whatever little public funding he could get from #German administrations (it was only last year that Google coughed up €100K to help out).

What I say: fix it, pay someone to fix it or stop looking stupid and shut the fuck up.

First They Came for Assange | by Yanis #Varoufakis

Mike #Pompeo, Trump’s first #CIA director and now #US Secretary of State, once described #WikiLeaks as “a non-state hostile intelligence service.” That is exactly right, and it is an equally accurate description of what every self-respecting news outlet ought to be.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/assange-arrest-threat-to-journalism-by-yanis-varoufakis-2019-04

@Gorio @philippemargery @diggity @Purism @maxeddy

One last observation, as it occurred to me that some vendors may seek to exploit consumers very legitimate concerns about mass surveillance: if you are dealing with a loss of trust between people and government
an appropriate response cannot be primarily technological. It must necessarily be social and political.

From @jcbrand 's #blog, I really ❤️ his #idea of an #xmpp #badge:

https://opkode.com/blog/xmpp-chat-badge/

I will deffo be implementing this in upcoming projects!

@TinfoilSubmarine @fdroidorg

If it's on my phone, it came from #FDroid. A small selection:

#OsmAnd
#Nextcloud
#DAVdroid
#AFWall+
#Transportr
#Briar
#StreetComplete
#QKSMS (pinned to older version)
#Fennec
#Klar (default browser)
#NewPipe
#KDEConnect
#K9Mail
#LabCoat
#Markor
#LibreOffice Viewer
#PixArt Messenger (#Conversations fork)
#KISS launcher