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@aral pretty ironic how the article presented me with two Amazon Alexa ads 😅

@aral I love Scott! Looking forward to the read.

Just gave 10 shiny US-of-A dollars to @ToSDR 's crowdfunding campaign on CrowdRise. Would recommend. They do great valuable work! Send some spare bucks their way and/or hit that big red boost button, I reckon. -> https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/tosdr/terms-of-servicedidnt-read

Just gave 10 shiny US-of-A dollars to @ToSDR 's crowdfunding campaign on CrowdRise. Would recommend. They do great valuable work! Send some spare bucks their way and/or hit that big red boost button, I reckon.

Hey, it's #dareToShareSomethingBluddy-WonderfulFriday already! Can you believe it??

Here's mine for today: I think #Qtractor is bluddy wonderful work and I am very thankful for all the hard work the main dev has been been putting into this piece of #FLOSS for years. -> http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/

Dare to share something bluddy wonderful too? ❤ 🤘

Our childcare centre uses an app to keep in touch. It's lovely to get updates about my daughter's day, especially since the new centre she's at is a community-run not-for-profit that really pays attention to each kid's personality and identity.

The other day, an update was about how they played French music: she instantly lit up and pointed at the speaker saying "Papa!", showed it to other kids and danced. Of course I cried. Of course I'm crying again.

#smallstories

Hey, it's #dare-to-share-something-bluddy-wonderful-Friday already! Can you believe it??

Here's mine for today: I think #Qtractor is bluddy wonderful work and I am very thankful for all the hard work the main dev has been been putting into this piece of #FLOSS for years. -> http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/

Dare to share something bluddy wonderful? ❤ 🤘

@maique Welcome here! I hope you have a wonderful time on the Fediverse! :)

BMO in this gif with "Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke - Mirror" playing. Looks in sync for a few seconds. A few seconds of bliss. https://mastodon.indie.host/media/kvPDTPZdCN7iLvbI4K8

@sanspoint I first tried to get people to use Signal but they were frustrated by its clumsiness and lack of features back then (a few years ago), so we settled for Telegram. You'd hope Telegram would fight back with something like p2p encryption in groups or something... Surely they have the means to not bow and further their bad reputation?

@kara @fla I definitely think it's worth a try. I have been a happy user for years. Slightly different use to Mastodon, as you can use it as a blog if you want to (i.e. long markdowned posts). What's an edgelord?

@sanspoint uh what no.... I knew I was taking a risk by finding a middle-ground with my contacts, who now mainly use Telegram. It sure is easy tu use and feature-full, but the lack of p2p encryption by default and the fact that they never released the server code even though they promised they would should have been enough of a warning.
I guess there is still the option of p2p private chats which the gov won't get access to, but that doesn't work for groups.

@dasidaria beautiful one!