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James Mullarkey

Lucky to talk to Ania Piotrowska from Nym as part of my

Nym promises to be the 'better than ' anonymous network - a bold claim but one she says they don't make lightly.

jamesmullarkey.com/2021/03/the

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James Mullarkey

Here's a new I've started which interviews maverick renegades who are pushing back against monopolies, and and more wedont.stream

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James Mullarkey

What's the one thing every web user can do to fight ?

Replace the Google Chrome browser

I've started a new website to send a message to Google that we prefer the internet without them

notochrome.org/

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James Mullarkey

Lucky to talk to Ania Piotrowska from Nym as part of my

Nym promises to be the 'better than ' anonymous network - a bold claim but one she says they don't make lightly.

jamesmullarkey.com/2021/03/the

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Parade du Grotesque 💀

Take a minute of your time and go read Michael E. Mann interview of the Guardian today. Well worth your time:

theguardian.com/environment/20

Money quotes: "Any time you are told a problem is your fault because you are not behaving responsibly, there is a good chance that you are being deflected from systemic solutions and policies. [...] Doom-mongering has overtaken denial as a threat and as a tactic. [...] if people believe there is nothing you can do, they are led down a path of disengagement."

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Rastal 🔑

According to #Exodus #privacy:

#Spotify has 8 different trackers reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/

#YouTube music has 1 tracker reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/

#Tidal has 9 different trackers reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/

Not to mention unnecessary permissions.

Playing your own .mp3 files has 0 trackers.

#Music streaming services are #spyware.

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briar

Job at #Tor:
Software Developer for Anti-Censorship Team
torproject.org/about/jobs/soft

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FediFollows

CryptPad is a privacy-friendly free open source online office suite, you can follow at:

➡️ @cryptpad

It can be self-hosted, or you can use the official instance. More info available at cryptpad.fr

It's collaborative and anonymous with "zero knowledge" encryption, so no one can access your data except you and those you choose to share with.

#CryptPad #FOSS #GoogleDrive #GoogleDocs #Office365 #OnlineOffice #Alternatives #Activism #Privacy #Productivity #Office #SelfHosting

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theonion.com/facebook-announce

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No to pixels provides a template for complaining to the UK data protection regulator ICO, but could probably be adapted easily enough for a lot of other countries.

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For context I think it was driven by this article which uses data from Hey by Basecamp

'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic'

bbc.co.uk/news/technology-5607

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This was started by Dave Smyth over on the bird site:

Not to Pixels

notospypixels.com/

Protest site for people to push back against tracking in most marketing emails - 99.999% of the time the senders have no consent for and is not permitted under PECR legislation in EU and UK.

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The New Oil

'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic'

bbc.co.uk/news/technology-5607

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☆ Dmitri ☭

Open search wants to make searching the internet open and transparent by providing a wide range of independent and free options for navigating the web.
opensearchfoundation.org/en/op

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Harald Eilertsen
briar wrote the following post Sun, 07 Feb 2021 08:58:24 +0100 Briar is censorship resistant

1. it does not rely on centralized server infrastructure
2. Tor, and bridges to Tor in case Tor is under censorship are implemented by default
3. build with offgrid communication in mind, in case of internet shutdown
4. no Sim card required. (sim card registration can be stopped/on hold by gov)

Don't build proxies serving only a single purpose, support general purpose censorship prevention tools such as @torproject@mastodon.so.cial. Create #Tor nodes and bridges
#Iran #Signal
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Libreture

Did you know you can buy ebooks for your #Kindle, #Kobo, or #Nook from bookshops other than the ones linked to your ereader?

You can buy ebooks from hundreds of bookshops!

Kindle owners: Buy MOBI books
Everyone else: Buy ePub books

Here you go!

libreture.com/bookshops/

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Tactical Tech ✅

Shift Your Settings to Secure Your Data: now available as an audio guide from our #DataDetox Kit! datadetoxkit.org/en/privacy/es

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Ep 8 of I talk to
Safa Ghnaim
from @info_activism
about the Detox toolkit which has clear suggestions and concrete steps to help people harness all aspects of their online lives. jamesmullarkey.com/2021/01/its

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

The Case Against Tablets

As I hunt for new computing hardware, I’m coming to the conclusion that tablets are simply a mistake. And yes, strongly informed by using one as a primary device for 5 years.

An ultra-light laptop has better utility and vastly superior privacy.

The one killer function, reading documents, seems better served by an e-book reader. ...

I'm exploring this question on Diaspora, with some good suggestions. Upshot is that tablets do most things poorly and virtually nothing well. And the landscape fully sucks.

Text reading and possibly notetaking is the major exception. And for that, an e-ink reader is the preferred option.

I'm surveying what uses people have, multi-response, with a goal more of completeness than representation. Please explain "Other".

joindiaspora.com/posts/880e5c4

#Tablets #Devices #Laptops #Desktops #Servers #Embedded #Mobile #Android #iOS #TheCaseAgainstTablets

60 people · Jan 30, 2021, 21:36
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The Tor Project

We're hiring a Software Developer for our Anti-Censorship Team.

This developer will work to improve the user experience and process of finding alternate routes to the Tor network when global censorship events block access. FT & remote.

Please share!
torproject.org/about/jobs/soft

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Edward Snowden [bot]

1) The consensus of the infosec community is that Telegram is significantly less secure than @SignalApp.

2) Signal is an independent non-profit with a $50m endowment—they can't be meaningfully influenced by money for a very long time. Telegram is a standard private company. t.co/d6nskMRxyP

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The New Oil

New #podcast episode

open.audio/library/tracks/1035

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Facebook reverses postelection algorithm changes that boosted news from authoritative sources.

I missed this from December. File under shocking but not suprising behaviour from Zuckerberg.

nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technol

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