We all need a free alternative to YouTube!
PeerTube is a decentralized video hosting network, based on free/libre software.
PeerTube is currently in beta version, that's why @Framasoft needs your help to pave the road to version 1.0!
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
(Framasoft is a small french non-profit, so do not hesitate to Boost this Toot to non-french user and invite them to help us fund PeerTube v1)
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
Hey #InfoSec, anybody can suggest a good #BlueTeamer, some #RedTeam experience welcome, good sysadmin skills very welcome, preferably somewhere in the American timezones, interested in remote work?
Awesome. SciHub has a public listing of torrents of the scientific publications they've been pirating:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/repository_torrent/
Anyone have 55 TB to spare for backing this up? :-D (About 690 80GB torrents.)
Yesterday, Slovakia’s National Crime Agency seized a mobile phone belonging to @OCCRP 's partner, investigative reporter Pavla Holcova.
Slovak police invited Pavla for an interview for what we believed was a friendly meeting to aid the investigation into the murder of Jan Kuciak.
Instead, Pavla was interrogated for over eight hours. (...) Police made comments during the interrogation suggesting the Holcova’s professional history was “always against the system.”
Internet, 2002; claiming that you're over 18 so that websites will let you in.
Internet, 2018: claiming that you're under 16 and in the EU so that websites cannot track your data
Wow, this person has made some AMAZING #opensource / #programming art:
https://github.com/jstpcs/lnxpcs
My favorites are attached.
Some Random Mastodon use questions...
1. What is the 'best' iOS app for Mastodon?
2. For 2FA is Google Authenticator the only game in town or is there another App people would recommend?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Locking my account?
4. What are some best practices for maintaining privacy while still being able to meet new people and explore?
Thank You for your Patience, I'm a total newbe here
"WeWork is promoting a mythology for those in the brave new gig economy: You, precarious worker who will never have a pension, are not a simple cog in a machine. Your work is not merely labour, for which you deserve decent pay and security, but an extension of your personality. You’re doing what you love and paying $500 per month for the desk from which to do it."
Let's hatch a #cooperative alternative!
https://thewalrus.ca/why-its-so-hard-to-actually-work-in-shared-offices/
*~`EMERGENCY ART SALE`~*
I'm lowering the price of originals from $45 to $35, includes shipping, US Only, no frames included, PayPal only
GUYS I NEED TO SELL THESE. I'm without a job and I'm trying to help my friend Nancy with her five month old daughter Luna until she's able to land a job.
This is as low as I can afford to go. If you can't help please spread.
Hey, kids/young adults who love standing in front of their amps & PA systems during performances:
PLEASE pay attention to the killjoys who tell you to get decent hardwearing earplugs / disposable classic foam plugs while playing.
Because living with tinnitus will start to ruin your life in a big way, and if tinnitus gets beyond tinnitus...well...yeah it's awful.
At the end of the day, you don't wanna be like me with 30% hearing in their left ear in my mid-20s just cuz teen me was ignorant af.
Co-founder of EFF, John Perry Barlow, dead at 70
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/co-founder-of-eff-john-perry-barlow-dead-at-70/
Thanks for everything, John. You made the world better and we're grateful for it.
Speaking of gold standards, if you do take the Chromebook route and want it to remain secure (I.E. easy to wipe and restore easily while traveling And security token enabled), this is a handy guide that’s easy enough for most users
https://blog.lessonslearned.org/building-a-more-secure-development-chromebook/
It goes into the details of setting up a dev computer with YubiKey and 2FA with your mobile which takes care of most threat models (except nation states. But if a nation state is after you, you’ve got bigger problems)
Thinking about social institutions that do and don't support coops, universities are missing.
At the moment we are obsessively developing entrepreneurship as a curriculum focus, and chanting "start ups, start ups, start ups", despite all that we know about what's broken in this model.
What if universities gave equal attention to how and why to form coops? What if that was a thing students learned?
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
There are a whole lot of alarming indications that Elon Musk is trying to become Cave Johnson.
