I just donated 3 coffees (US$9) and I encourage you to do the same.
US Politics: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid Scandals
I'm glad that Pruitt is out of the EPA, but I'm not hopeful for the next appointee. Keep in mind that Pruitt was the administration's first choice, their best man for the job, and any subsequent choice will probably be worse. And by worse I mean that they will have the same awful policies, but be more respectable on the outside, like they lucked out with Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and finally got with Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House Press Secretary. 
#politics #uspol #usa
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigns
The embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator resigned Thursday afternoonwww.cbsnews.com
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Thanks @Readdle for your work on Spark, I’d like to request an additional setting for the app badge count: New messages in a specific group (in my case, Personal)


Proxy activism
Is there already a defense fund for #TheresePatriciaOkoumou who climbed the Statue of Liberty in New York on July 4th to protest ICE and immigration policies?
It's regrettable that individuals from the most vulnerable population (specifically black women) systematically have to step up to promote civil rights when more comfortable privileged people like me get to stand back, so the least I can do is send some material help their way.
#protest #AbolishICE
It's regrettable that individuals from the most vulnerable population (specifically black women) systematically have to step up to promote civil rights when more comfortable privileged people like me get to stand back, so the least I can do is send some material help their way.
#protest #AbolishICE
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Gmail to @ProtonMail transition: I loved Google's Inbox grouping feature, where emails automatically labeled wouldn't trigger a notifications. So far I have been receiving a notification for every single email in ProtonMail, and I haven't found a mute feature?
Filter that sorts to folders and then disable notifications for folders? Not sure about proton mail, but I have IMAP server with server side filtering/sorting and android app k9 mail has options for that.
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I can only use filters to archive/trash, apply labels and mark as read...
Yeah I get notified of everything on Android even though I've set rules to move things into folders. Per folder notifications is probably a feature they're working on. Gmail did have quite a head start!
I’m now looking into getting an account at FastMail and use the Spark iOS app that claims to have the same feature.
Even if no charges are eventually brought up against the people whose homes and offices were raided, the message is clear, anonymity online is de facto illegal, at least in Germany. 
German police raid homes of Tor-linked group's board members | ZDNet
One board member described the police's justification for the raids as a "tenuous" link between the privacy group, a blog, and its email address.www.zdnet.com
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anonymity online is de facto illegal, at least in Germany
Let's wait and see. I'm sure the CCC and Zwiebelfreunde are going to take legal action. I don't think this is gonna go away quietly.
I'm not sure if they are successful or even if this will have any impact. Nowadays the police seems to do what they like and the justice seems to sleep.
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I'd say it's too late already. The interviewed Zwiebelfreunde board member did a good job at guessing the consequences: no more law office representation, no more tax office friendliness, less donations, etc...
And even if their lawsuit were successful, they would only get personal compensation from the state, not for their lost business and certainly not from the people who ordered the raids and are unaccountable for.
And even if their lawsuit were successful, they would only get personal compensation from the state, not for their lost business and certainly not from the people who ordered the raids and are unaccountable for.
In this case I'd say compensation is secondary. It's a lot more important for the police actions to be declared illegal. They crossed a line, and they need to be told.
@Michael Vogel I refuse to see things that pessimistically. I'll wait for the outcome before I make up my mind. I have to believe that democracy still works, otherwise I'll go crazy.
@Michael Vogel I refuse to see things that pessimistically. I'll wait for the outcome before I make up my mind. I have to believe that democracy still works, otherwise I'll go crazy.
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I'm in the politics for many years (pirate party) and I'm a disillusioned. Although I still believe in people's power like some referendum or things like this.
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I just donated US$9 (3 coffees) and I encourage you to do the same.
Me trying to change my Twitter email address provider from http://www.google.com/ to https://protonmail.com/ #privacy




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Switching to ProtonMail is suspicious. What are you trying to hide?
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the "encoding" for that is very simple .. the number you dial is the number of "pulses"
("pulses" being just the contacts in the dial mechanism interupting the current flow)
in case any millenials are wondering how that could possibly work
in the early days of those what did the switching at exchanges would have had moving parts too
("pulses" being just the contacts in the dial mechanism interupting the current flow)
in case any millenials are wondering how that could possibly work

in the early days of those what did the switching at exchanges would have had moving parts too

This article finally tipped me to switch to @ProtonMail. In the same spirit, I'm also looking for an alternative to Google Authenticator on iOS, any safe recommendation? 

Google reportedly allows outside app developers to read people's Gmails
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that hundreds of outside software developers were scanning the inboxes of millions of Gmail users. Google "does little to police those developers," the paper reported.www.businessinsider.fr
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Yes. You can read Andrew Manning article about
https://medium.com/@tamanning/nomadic-identity-brought-to-you-by-hubzilla-67eadce13c3b
https://medium.com/@tamanning/nomadic-identity-brought-to-you-by-hubzilla-67eadce13c3b
@hypolite
Been using protonmail exclusively for over a year now.
Great email service and I love pm.me address!
Been using protonmail exclusively for over a year now.
Great email service and I love pm.me address!
Inconsequential iOS app time management gripe
Many mobile games use timers and rely on the underlying phone OS to give them a sense of how much time passed between two app uses.
Unfortunately on iOS sometimes apps are woken up in the exact state they were left off, without having any clue actual time has passed.
This is extremely irritating when picking up a game in the morning since mobile games are designed with sleep time in mind, with 8+ hours timers.
I’m guessing this is an intended behavior to provide a seamless app experience but in this specific case it backfires.
#ios #mobile #videogame
Unfortunately on iOS sometimes apps are woken up in the exact state they were left off, without having any clue actual time has passed.
This is extremely irritating when picking up a game in the morning since mobile games are designed with sleep time in mind, with 8+ hours timers.
I’m guessing this is an intended behavior to provide a seamless app experience but in this specific case it backfires.
#ios #mobile #videogame
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last thing anyone needs
time bullies
done't EVER allow other people's time preferences to ruin your life
time bullies
done't EVER allow other people's time preferences to ruin your life
anyway wouldn't getting the time on ios be similar to aything else?
... eg a system call .. guessing probably similar to what you'd call on bsd
on freebsd there are man pages for what those are in c
those just get the current system clock time, not time elapsed or anything like that
for time elapsed the app probably just compares that with a time it stored earlier.
... eg a system call .. guessing probably similar to what you'd call on bsd
on freebsd there are man pages for what those are in c
those just get the current system clock time, not time elapsed or anything like that
for time elapsed the app probably just compares that with a time it stored earlier.
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@dansup Is federation live yet?
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@hypolite Nope, its a few days away from being ready. I've been finishing other stuff and fixing bugs.
Thanks for answering, my message was partly joking on the fact that Gargron sent you the exact same one 6 hours ago.
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From https://uxplanet.org/7-inexcusable-yet-common-ux-gaffes-that-make-you-look-like-a-total-amateur-cb504a74b917 via @SkyNebula
When you hold the knife, why would you give yourself a smaller cake slice?
#politics #capitalism
Besides the fact that it represents an attempt to sublimate our economic system directly from capitalism to Soviet socialism, forcing internet connections on offline products is the bane of user experience.On the contrary, making people dependent on private companies profiting of a public good is the most capitalistic thing i can think of. But I have to admit capitalism is also very good at making its worse aspects look like it isn't part of itself. Ultimately, no actual large scale government system will tend towards a greater individual empowerment because it would mean relinquishing some of this intoxicating power.
When you hold the knife, why would you give yourself a smaller cake slice?
#politics #capitalism
Yesterday was my daughter's last day at the daycare she went to for 2 years and her teacher sent a medley of pictures of her and... I'm not crying, you're crying!
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Turns out the Capital Gazette shooting wasn't specifically against journalism, but rather against women (again). And Trump, like many others with him, have been vocal against both.
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Hate produces hate - and hate kills. This is so sad. It's especially sad because mankind hasn't learned from the past. I'm unsure if the conservatives politicians really hate that much or if they use the hate as some wagon to unite their people. In the first case it is really sad that people think that way - in the second case it is a very dangerous game.
Here in Germany It's bad as well. All statistics (criminal statistics, economic statistics, ...) clearly are telling that Germany is in a really good shape - but some conservatives politicians are trying to persuade the people that we have got some "refugee crisis". And the media is supporting it.
I can only hope that times will be better some day.
Here in Germany It's bad as well. All statistics (criminal statistics, economic statistics, ...) clearly are telling that Germany is in a really good shape - but some conservatives politicians are trying to persuade the people that we have got some "refugee crisis". And the media is supporting it.
I can only hope that times will be better some day.
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Unfortunately there are both. The opportunists are seeing stirring fears as a mean to achieve power. The truly conservatives are longing for glorified times they will never be able to bring about, no matter how many corpses they lay down in the process.
And I believe times will be better again some day. What terrifies me is what additional horrors we'll witness before it happens. The last time it happened, we had millions of people marched to their death based on their religion and two nuclear bombs. I'm pretty sure we'll outdo it.
Tendency shows that current wars aren't so much between different states, but between different groups of people. Nearly all current wars are civil wars. I don't know what I would do, if violence would break out here. I had been in the army and had sworn to protect my country against enemies. So when violence breaks out, I should do something against it - but I'm also some coward and have a huge survival instinct.
And I really hate it to even think about something like this, because it shows that I really can imagine that things will go so bad.
And I really hate it to even think about something like this, because it shows that I really can imagine that things will go so bad.
I had been in the army and had sworn to protect my country against enemies.What does this even mean?
What does it mean to you?
I had been in the basic military service for twelve months. I had got the choice to either serve in the military or to do reject this and to serve in some alternative non military service. I chose the military one, because I like the country I was born into. And when there had been enemies who wanted to destroy it, I had felt the urge to protect my country. In the former days the danger came from the east. Now the danger comes from within.
I'm totally unsure how I will react when these time would come. But I guess I would regret it at the end of my life when I would have to admit that I hadn't done everything to make things good again.
I'm totally unsure how I will react when these time would come. But I guess I would regret it at the end of my life when I would have to admit that I hadn't done everything to make things good again.
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*squinting eyes*
Not sure if no one from #Mastodon reacts to my posts because #federation with #Friendica is broken or because they are uninteresting/irrelevant.
Not sure if no one from #Mastodon reacts to my posts because #federation with #Friendica is broken or because they are uninteresting/irrelevant.
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I've now received enough #Mastodon reactions that I have to face the facts about my posts 😅
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Sometimes people don't have anything to say. But it doesn't mean they're not following ;)
I'm still following Martin Molin from @wintergatan building his new marble machine through weekly videos, and this is why I enjoy them so much:
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This is cool!
Have you seen rednic79's channel? He doesn't post on weekly basis but has some fancy engineering stuff, building machines for fun.
Have you seen rednic79's channel? He doesn't post on weekly basis but has some fancy engineering stuff, building machines for fun.
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The mystery and melancholy of this sticker whose corner started to peel and nothing can make it pristine again.
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