swashberry @swashberry@social.linux.pizza

@swashberry I think that fighting misinformation is a war that cannot be won. The wide range of half-truths and half-lies as well as genuine misunderstandings make it an unwinable adversarial game.

I don't think a vote/majority based system for pruning misinformation is any good.

I think the only way to fight misinformation is to educate people, maybe add 2 more years to the mandatory schooling time.

One more update! @smpl alerted me to a torrent of youtube-dl with all branches and full commit history.

This seems to have been sourced from: https://git.osuv.de/star/youtube-dl

I've mirrored that repository here: https://codeberg.org/polarisfm/youtube-dl

Here's the torrent: https://polarisfm.net/mirrors/youtube-dl.git.7z.torrent

Here's the original Tor Hidden Service that contained the torrent (also has a download for the 7z itself): http://3ednr4mi7zo5fpdghabu74furrr6ir7pgk27o7jz5zfc3lc27npgfbqd.onion/

If anyone wants to make a backup copy of youtube-dl here is an, probably up to date, mirror: https://codeberg.org/polarisfm/youtube-dl

Dear Free Software and Privacy-loving individual,

If you care the slightest bit about freedom of speech, please take 10 seconds of your time to run the following command into your terminal:

git clone https://codeberg.org/polarisfm/youtube-dl

That's it. You're saving a very important piece of internet history that may be necessary later.

Thank you for your attention. Your effort makes the internet a better place.

#censorship #youtubedl

> Google Meddling With URLs In Emails, Causing Security Concerns

STOP USING GMAIL

I hate to ask, but here goes.

I'm looking for a role as a #frontend #developer. #Contracts or #fulltime. Preferably #UK where I have previous #remote work ex from.

I've been looking a while and nothing with the right fit has come along. Work life balance is super important. If UK, happy to work completely in your timezone!

My site is https://rusingh.com and I'm happy to email you my CV/resume. Will start immediately once we're on the same page. 💯

#Boost please?

#noxp

If any of you are making masks, I'd like to purchase one that says "Cover your fucking nose."

People are talking about Android 11.

Here I am using Android 5.1.1.

#android

Someone "popular" on the security community on Twitter said to never host your own mail server...

Actually, do the opposite.

-Host your own mail server

-Host your own matrix homeserver

-Host your own mastodon instance

-Host your own DNS server if you can

Just do it securely and follow the good practices

Fight back on the centralization of the web.

Microblogging was a mistake.

An attractive, candy-colored, addictive mistake.

I will never actually implement it but sometimes I look at what the popularity of Twitter has done to the shapes of our conversations and I want to mandate a *minimum* post length here.

Mastodon's default limit of 500 is a start but not really enough. Every instance that raises the limit into the thousands of characters or beyond is doing a great thing by providing a way to wean people off of short, staccato exchanges and give them the opportunity for thought and nuance in a text box they have been trained to dump thoughts into. It looks short at first but it just keeps on growing and growing as your thought takes shape, and you can actually go back and *edit* the fucking thing.

But really I still miss when goddamn Livejournal was where all my online social shit happened. People could still be dicks on it, don't get me wrong! it wasn't set up to encourage and enforce hot takes, though; it wasn't built to make a ton of money by farming your outrage and stress and turning it into ad views!

(Which is really a problem with ALL modern social sites, everyone wants to become the next Zuckerfuck and there is no way to do that without strip-mining your users' attention. But I've sung that song more than once and don't care to sing it again today; I've got shit to do.)

(This post brought to you by watching a disagreement actually get *resolved* thanks to the power of replies that are long enough to have some fucking nuance, instead of blowing up into a multi-day shitstorm of too-short replies going back and forth.)

Goggle is trying to ban fediverse apps from its app store.

"Google is now deciding which browsers encourage hate speech and which ones don’t."

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/google-is-removing-fediverse-apps-from-the-play-store-because-they-can-be-used-to-access-hate-speech/

Challenge:
I'd like to ask you people to boost this post to see how long it'd take for it to reach someone else from my town (Westervoort, The Netherlands).
Of course, that implies that I'm not the only one here that uses Mastodon, but hey, part of the challenge :)

Starting on the 18th of August 2020 :)

GO!

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WAIT, I AM ABLE TO MAKE
XKCD WITH CUSTOM EMOJI?
ALWAYS HAVE BEEN

LibreWolf: like Firefox, but better! - Linux app pick https://share.tube/videos/watch/a8493008-a9b9-4de6-8e8a-5aac70f6e45a

Source: https://twitter.com/dominotree/status/1289179283634569216?s=21