Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 27

This is the last moment to make your voice heard. Together, we’re going to make sure that every MEP knows that the voters of Europe are watching them and taking note of how they vote. https://saveyourinternet.eu https://t.co/PTpYj0Ti7S

The most important Free Software project you never heard about: NTP keeps our computers and the rest of our devices up to date to the second:

https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/DonatingToTheProject

Put your money where your ❤️ is: celebrate "I Love Free Software" day by donating to projects, developers and organisations in need. Every little bit helps. Share #ilovefs.

Some ideas of donation-worthy projects, people and organisations (more coming over the next hours):

Privacy is not a science, it is a human right

https://ar.al/2019/02/14/privacy-is-not-a-science-it-is-a-human-right/

My response to a dangerous turd of an article by Bart van der Sloot (co-founder of Amsterdam Privacy Week – sponsored by Palantir and Google – and docent teaching “Privacy and Big Data” at Tilburg University)

Mr. Sloot attempts to reframe privacy as a “science” and shame those who work to protect it for having a “pro-privacy agenda” & not being “neutral”. He also calls for “new rules” to disallow such biased behaviour.

The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/final-version-eus-copyright-directive-worst-one-yet - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/1uhb6sputq #freepost

Listening to @HackerRadioShow on @nowplaying and loving what they're saying about "Don't leave politics out of it. Politics is in everything. It's not a dirty word."

I really, really am honored to announce what I'm about to announce.

So when I started thinking about what hackers.town:2600 would be, I had a dream for some spoken word shows to be in the mix as well.

We are going to be doing our own podcast soon that will be broadcast as well... but I reached out to some old heroes of mine and asked permission.

Sometimes all you have to do is ask.

@HackerRadioShow has granted permission for us to rebroadcast their show. These guy are awesome and have a weekly show about hackers/hacking/making on WBAI in NYC... and we will be rebroadcasting their shows in our mix soon...

Guys.

Go follow @HackerRadioShow for the love of god, show them numbers to get them excited about the fediverse, because they have a bullhorn.

@Rob_T_Firefly rob is one of their co-hosts, and plugs mastodon regularly on the air.

Let's return the favor.

I love you fediverse.

Now let's get out there and restore the future.

From a personal privacy perspective, what happens if one entity owns most of the devices in your home?

"It can form a very complete profile of you as a person in both the physical and digital world." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazon-acquisition-eero-routers-privacy

Do you know how long your password should be? A strong password should be able to withstand a supercomputer guessing a few hundred billion combinations per second. https://protonmail.com/blog/how-long-should-my-password-be/

Ecosia has reached a milestone of 50 million trees planted in 21 reforestation projects across the world! #reforestation #climatechange #degooglefy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk5erQLu8to&feature=youtu.be

Future Thinking: Alissa Cooper on the Technical Impact of Internet #Consolidation - https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/02/future-thinking-alissa-cooper-technical-impact-internet-consolidation/

Say hello to Plasma 5.15, the newest version of KDE's acclaimed desktop environment.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.15.0.php