scunning @scunning@metalhead.club

Deleting
Twitter &
Facebook

Google Has Been Letting App Developers Read Users' Gmail, Unsurprisingly
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2018/07/02/google-has-been-letting-app-developers-read-users-gmail-unsurprisingly/#453a83404ddd

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While i (as well as the majority of Americans) didn't vote for him, I'd like to apologise to our northern neighbors for the foolish tariffs our president has instated against Canada. And in the spirit of #ThankCanada, thanks for taking in war resisters during the Vietnam War.

I am pretty sure the #fediverse is actually just a testing ground for new TLDs

Twitter was not bad because "hashtags this" or "trends that". Twitter was bad because:

1. Centralized.
2. They forced you to ID yourself with a phone number.
3. They hand your data to third party companies.
4. Most governments were using it to ID people saying bad things about them.
5. Ads and corporative campaigns.

If there were real alternatives to the big tech giants, users could vote with their feet by leaving a platform or service that isn’t working for them.

That freedom to choose is vital to free speech, privacy, and innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/competition-civil-liberties-and-internet-giants

We are experiencing a DDoS attack and are currently working on mitigating this. Thank you for your patience.

- PeerTube is free (as freedom)
- PeerTube is decentralized
- PeerTube doesn't impose a governance
- PeerTube is federated
- PeerTube can stream in Peer-to-Peer

https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3

PeerTube, it's worth doing.

Help it to grow !
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform/

#Decentralization #Youtube #YoutubeAlternative #Peertube #Framasoft #Privacy #FreeSoftware #GAFAMalternative #SwitchToPeertube #Fediverse #P2P

More info (in French) https://framablog.org/2018/05/31/peertube-vers-la-version-1-et-au-dela/

We got kids in baby prisons but people on Twitter are picking on WeRateDogs for goofing up and whitewashing some dog's name. Priorities, people. Whatever happened to fair and measured responses to things where the punishment actually fits the crime? People, even the most well meaning, are being turned into demons by their addiction to outrage. Simply being outraged doesn't make you a good person.

You can't convince me this isn't the best way to browse Mastodon.

#brutaldon

The packaging of this Fairchild Channel F multicart is really well done. Original cartridge and box for comparison. The plastic shell itself is recycled from a broken cartridge but the labels and box are new and awesome.

"The Commodore 64. Under $300.

You can't buy a better computer at twice the price."

#RetroHardware

How secure is your email service provider? Try the STARTTLS checker at https://starttls-everywhere.org https://t.co/Dv7qQdAYi8

Saw a really cool documentary about #WeirdPaul last night with @scunning. Got Paul to autograph a couple of Atari 2600 cartridges for me, including one of the best and one of the worst.

And here's what's underneath all that sheet metal. Pretty much the entire chipset was made by General Instrument, based around the CP1610 CPU, therefore possibly being one of the first home devices with a 16 bit processor.

This is the main logic board of an Intellivision. The sheet metal you see is there for RF emission compliance and will need to be removed before I can start trying to fix it.

Twitter buys security vendor, immediately pulls plug on current customers. https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/