Posts by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
(DIR) Post #9pzwFtDQPFwpdMYz7g by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2019-12-15T18:58:58Z
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#Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking - ProPublicahttps://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking"The practical result of the change is that the DoubleClick ads that follow people around on the web may now be customized to them based on your name and other information Google knows about you. It also means that Google could now, if it wished to, build a complete portrait of a user by name, based on everything they write in email, every website they visit and the searches they conduct."#FuckGoogle #DropGoogle #infosec #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism
(DIR) Post #9q2KrKr58PRKkSU1Ue by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2019-12-16T22:16:21Z
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If I was a youtuber I'd end every video with a setup where you think I'm about to talk about one of the 5 companies that sponsors youtube videos but instead it's an alternative that's just as good but freeLike I start talking about privacy online and you think "oh it's NordVPN" but I'm talking about Tor. Or I talk about learning new skills but instead of Brilliant or CuriosityStream or SkillShare it's your local public library, or makerspace, or arXiv/libgen/archive.org/etcI talk about struggling to remember different passwords but when you think I'm gonna say "try dashlane!" I just go "use your browser's built-in password manager. did you seriously forget about that? really? every single browser offers to remember your passwords for you, why are you paying money for this shit"
(DIR) Post #9q2tFGR4BKB5lDk4i8 by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2019-12-16T23:16:50Z
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@GreenandBlack Hbomberguy had one fakeout where he started talking about learning how to do things while the skillshare logo faded in but at the last second it changed to "youtube tutorials!" I think that was the climate denial video?
(DIR) Post #9qNYetbQ3OiUopZmSW by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2019-12-26T22:50:28Z
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I genuinely have no clue what the deal with flushing the toilet while someone in the shower is. I only knew it from cartoons but never in my life, in any circumstances, has it been the slightest concernIs that even a real thing or does it only exist in cultural memory
(DIR) Post #9qT8yxKA9FozgFXEK8 by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2019-12-29T20:08:13Z
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Bi Hard with a Vengeance
(DIR) Post #9qTEqsM5L2tng4xrLk by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2019-12-29T20:09:50Z
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Bi Another Day
(DIR) Post #9qkB6Nv3B2AecKgBJA by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-06T18:50:37Z
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Really enjoying this new BitTorrent-exclusive original series, the Mandalorian
(DIR) Post #9qlu5AhlVnzqRKDlYG by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-07T22:19:08Z
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https://invidio.us/watch?v=Os7dREQ00l4#PreciousPlastic version 4 has launched! #OpenSource tools for you to start your own #plastic #recycling project, and cooperate with similar projects across your area and the globeThese designs have already powered several awesome initiatives such as https://www.seamonkeyproject.com , which gathers and recycles ocean plastic#solarpunk #CircularEconomy
(DIR) Post #9qnYGF8Y2f5JPwNkLg by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-04T20:11:59Z
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Projection Bombinghttps://www.instructables.com/id/PROJECTION-BOMBING/An incredibly effective way to get your message out to a huge number of people in a spectacular, memorable way. Also completely legal, in most places. The option detailed in the instructable to plug your projector into free power from a streetlamp is definitely *not* legal, though, and also potentially dangerous - but damn if isn't punk as hellhttps://itsgoingdown.org/milwaukee-wi-anarchists-light-up-the-city-with-anti-ice-and-anti-prison-messages/Alternatively, you could use an even simpler setup with just a spotlight and some #DIY gobos, as in the above example#StealThisTag #anarchism
(DIR) Post #9qrhFW3k5mRDOfvWCG by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-10T16:58:30Z
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Honestly, I think the toppling crown might be my favorite anarchist symbol, even though it's so so rarely usedIt's just so packed with symbolism that the black flag and Ⓐ don't really have, while being just as simple. It's elegant. We should use it more
(DIR) Post #9r6zwzKsGLcPbAaAym by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-18T01:06:01Z
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Youtubers, and any other content creators that receive adshare from their platform, are also workers in the gig economy and should organize for their rights
(DIR) Post #9rF3GoyoKTXkOo5g9o by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-21T01:38:15Z
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(DIR) Post #9rGBZDRL7SMKGTg1Z2 by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-22T12:05:59Z
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@DissidentKitty @TwoVealCutlets @wmd I mean, you don't even have to go there. The Dispossessed (and much of the rest of the Hainish Cycle) centers around a society of self-described and narrator-described anarchistsAnd if you want to talk about Taoism, she wrote another book that is much more Taoist-inspired than Earthsea - her English translation of the Tao Te Ching
(DIR) Post #9rM4nRFV2aemPrjW76 by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-24T21:55:59Z
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Remember when technology people made Standards instead of PlatformsEmail. IRC. SMS. HTML and shit. The fucking internet itselfThose things would never ever be made today. Instead they'd be shitty proprietary apps that probably only work on shitty proprietary hardware and can't be used by anyone without permission from the company that patented themThat's still kinda happening today? With stuff like dat and SSB and ActivityPub. But all of that is super super niche and technical and not at all accessible to the average user (with the exception of AP as of pretty recently). And it just sucks man, web 2.0 is bullshit
(DIR) Post #9rQe5h4hDJFdjtxZ9E by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-21T15:21:28Z
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white nationalist: hey fellow white nationalists, what if we started using this symbol to represent white nationalism and told everyone it's a symbol of white nationalism. then all those antifa cucks will think it's a symbol of white nationalism LMAO. they're so gullible!!!
(DIR) Post #9rVBYcdVyBcnUc35LE by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-28T20:23:49Z
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Going back to tumblr has really highlighted how much better the culture on Mastodon is. To everyone who fought and is fighting to make and keep this space the way it is, thank you. Let's keep improving
(DIR) Post #9rVC4VrigAgblAtqSW by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-29T18:41:59Z
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(DIR) Post #9u9lwmD2bLs4rzN3IW by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-30T00:29:42Z
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#Piracy streaming sites are so ubiquitous at this point and a lot of young people seem to think it's the only way to pirate media, and sometimes I wonder whether that's been planned somehow. It definitely benefits media companies to give piracy the image of being super shady and filled with intrusive ads and malware. And when you ask people how to do it safely the advice is "make sure you have an ad blocker and a script blocker and a flash blocker and a java blocker and put the site in a container tab in an incognito window and for fuck's sake do *not* go to any sites without a paid VPN service that costs more than a netflix subscription"I mean it could just be web 2.0, an expectation for convenience and one-click solutions and an aversion to downloading anything that you could just run through your browser. It does seem a little too convenient though, considering how widespread this stuff is even among pirate communitiesAnyway uTorrent is free and easy and safe y'all
(DIR) Post #9u9lyn0yZtUdwlggLY by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2020-01-30T00:42:05Z
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@matt By safe I meant "malware-free" rather than "private" but yeah that's a good point. After a quick search though I did find Vuze, a BitTorrent client that can be used through either Tor or I2P
(DIR) Post #9wciSaOpmV9oemGqB6 by socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city
2019-12-17T04:06:48Z
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my evil scheme is to steal all the sleep in the world so's i can sleep all of it myself