Maltimore @maltimore@social.tchncs.de

People who moan about "No real action is organized on your secure tools, foss nerds"

Wait for the moment where govt will start politely asking to start throwing sticks into your wheels form likes of Twitter and Facebook and we'll see from there.

I'm talking from actual experience where our social networks claimed to protect our rights and activism was enthusiastically organized on vk and ok.

Now both resources strangely delete groups, disclose chat contents and etc.

Oh, LGTM.com was bought by Microsoft without me noticing.

Seems like the big tool sale is coming with Microsoft either buying all sorts of development tools or draining the tools money influx by providing a tool with same or similar functionality for free.

"Get all the free candy kids, I'm just a nice uncle Microsoft."

#OpenSourceBuyOut

gay chicken

So a work colleague sent out an invite over Google Calendar to a videoconference hosted on our company Jitsi server yesterday, and because Google is "smart" they decided to add prominent links to *its own service* to the invite...as in more prominent than the actual link to our Jitsi server that we were using. It did so without asking permission or prior warning.

After the customer sat in an empty Google meeting for 10 minutes we phoned directly to direct him to the proper meeting...

Siberia dries out as #forests #burn and #climate #heats

Residents of the small #Arctic town of #Khatanga have never experienced anything like it: their home is changing at a gallop as #Siberia dries out.
Khatanga – population around 3,500 – is well north of the #ArcticCircle, with usual daytime temp. at this time of year hovering round a chilly 0°C.

On 22 May the temp. in the town reached 25°C – more than DOUBLE the record to date.

https://climatenewsnetwork.net/siberia-dries-out-as-forests-burn-and-climate-heats/

#ClimateCrisis @climatejustice

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Hundreds of people have assembled at Taipei’s Liberty Square to remember the victims of the June 4th massacre, including a sizeable coterie of Hongkongers and their supporters.
nitter.net/rhokilpatrick/statu…

Hamburg planning to become "“a model in digital sovereignty” by migrating to open source: https://news.softpedia.com/news/another-german-city-wants-to-replace-microsoft-with-open-source-software-530156.shtml

"A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey" by Iain Ireland
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/06/a-new-regexp-engine-in-spidermonkey/

Interesting post. I knew Firefox used the same regex engine as Chrome, but it's neat to see the details.

Blender 2.83 LTS - Features Showcase https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/97b04642-4d8a-449c-b7bc-c01f927ced00

31 years ago, hope blossomed in Europe. In China, it was crushed.

For a while it looked like China was coming around. The 90s were a decade full of optimism for the future. China had been step by step liberalizing ever since 1978 after all. When Hong Kong was handed over to China, people were cautious, many people left. But as things seemed to stay normal, people and business returned.

Today, as strong and unified as China is, politically, economically and militarily, it's still too weak to speak openly about the past. Mention Tiananmen Square or 6/4 on Chinese networks today and nobody will see it. Many people born after 1989 haven't heard of it.

Freedom in Hong Kong has been continually eroded. Today for the first time in 30 years, the authorities won't approve a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park for the victims of 6/4, citing health risks even though businesses, swimming pools and schools are now opening up.

It doesn't look good. Not good at all.

#六四31周年 #hongkong #junefour #tiananmen

I hate GNOME calling Videos to video player and Files to filesystem browser and all that because their real binary name is not that and I don't know which program should I code from the terminal.

At least I'm a clever guy and use `xdg-open` but... this is not good.

Also, time saver:
alias open="xdg-open"

Adorably annoying job

I wrote about two new user focused features in the latest Tor Browser update from @torproject https://kushaldas.in/posts/onion-location-and-onion-names-in-tor-browser-9-5.html #privacy #security

If you want to migrate from #adobe After Effect for something that respect (not insult) your freedom, have a look on #natron project.

Natron is a Free and #OpenSource Compositing Software For #VFX and Motion Graphics. It is available for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS.

https://natrongithub.github.io/
#FreeSoftware #FOSS #floss