@scottnesbitt I read the book about missing out, when it came out in Denmark. An excellently written piece with both psychology and philosophy. Simple but compelling.
#Briar is an unusual kind of messenger for Android devices: there are no servers, messages are stored on your phone and sent directly to your contact's phone through TOR, wi-fi or bluetooth.
It's designed for journalists, activists, people working in disaster zones and anyone interested in "off the grid" communication.
The European Parliament all “yeah, she’s definitely going to read a Privacy Policy in order to make informed browsing decisions” while I’m over here agreeing to send Vodafone scans of my brain while watching advertisements just so I can get 30 free minutes of public wi-fi access
I see that OpenBSD has some Gstreamer codecs in the packages that others deemed questionable. I guess they are less worried about patent issues as long as the source is available?
"The ritual was a success, but in the process all the cultists died. After thousands of years, I still have no idea why they made me immortal." #writingprompts#writing
After the defeat of every Predator that came to earth, they decide to get their revenge by coming to earth. Little did they know that Skynet has risen and humans are destroyed by terminators. The predators never anticipated their enemies would be this indestructible. #writingprompts#writing
I'm trying to get more into Mastodon. I've been neglecting it. Can anyone tell me if there is much of a contemporary classical music community here? #newmusic#composering
@wftl First that comes to mind: Dragora, which is FaiF and built _almost_ like Slackware - enough alike to make you think you know what you are doing and still break it totally... Source-based Lunar Linux took some getting into, but once it was set, it was very good and solid. Paldo, which had a Mono-based package manager, just left me puzzled.
ICO issues maximum £500,000 fine to Facebook for failing to protect users’ personal information - https://ico.org.uk/facebook-fine-20181025 - still money, but an interesting signal.